Becca Tarnas
Adjunct Lecturer
Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness
School of Consciousness and Transformation
PhD, California Institute of Integral Studies
BA, Mount Holyoke College
Becca Tarnas, PhD, is a scholar, artist, and editor of Archai: The Journal of Archetypal Cosmology. She received her doctorate in Philosophy and Religion from the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS), with her dissertation titled The Back of Beyond: The Red Books of C. G. Jung and J. R. R. Tolkien. Her research interests include depth psychology, archetypal studies, literature, philosophy, and the ecological imagination. She teaches at both Pacifica Graduate Institute and CIIS, and is the author of the book Journey to the Imaginal Realm: A Reader’s Guide to J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings. Her website is www.BeccaTarnas.com.
Presentation for the 2017 International Transpersonal Conference: The Back of Beyond: The Red Books of C.G. Jung and J.R.R. Tolkien
Selected Essays:
“Iridescent Infinity: Participatory Theory and Archetypal Cosmology.” Saturn and the Theoretical Foundations of an Emerging Discipline. Archai: The Journal of Archetypal Cosmology 5 (2016): 87-104.
“Everlasting Concrescence: A Process-Relational Cosmology.” Cultural Awakenings. Archai: The Journal of Archetypal Cosmology 6 (2017): 7-15.
“Towards An Imaginal Ecology.” Re-Imagining Magazine 1 (Spring 2016).
