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Once a course has been delivered live and all lectures, resources, and Q&A sessions are uploaded to the course homepage, we offer it as an "evergreen" course. This allows students who missed the live sessions or who find the material particularly compelling to purchase and complete the course at their own pace. Like all of our offerings, you’ll receive lifetime access upon purchase. Our goal is to create a diverse and carefully curated collection of graduate-level courses designed to educate and inspire scholars and learners, both now and for generations to come.
Practical Archetypal Astrology Part I: A Deep Dive For Beginners
Dr. Laurence Hillman
Dr. Hillman's focus in these courses is to equip all levels of astrologers with the practical tools needed to understand the meaning and purpose of universal archetypal forces—principles whose active influence in our lives is represented in astrology through the placement, movement, and interaction between the planets, the houses, the signs, and the aspects. Dr. Hillman is particularly adept at encouraging students to move past their inherited assumptions and judgments to penetrate further into the rich symbolism of astrological events.
This first course of Dr. Hillman’s annual astrology curriculum at Kosmos Institute is especially suitable for beginners but is suggested for all levels since mastering the foundational basics is a core requirement for advancing on the path of astrological education. In this course, students will learn about the primary building blocks of natal chart reading: planets and their glyphs, the houses and their meanings, the zodiacal signs and their meanings, and the archetypal symbolism associated with each of these primary areas. Students will also learn about various software to choose from to cast charts, and basic initial chart-reading techniques will be covered featuring Dr. Hillman's unique approach.
Psychedelic Gnosis: Historical and Archetypal Perspectives
Dr. Hereward Tilton
Before the current "Renaissance," the psychedelic counterculture of the 50s and 60s instigated a "revolution" with far-reaching social and political consequences. Moving beyond the narrowly scientific research, we will explore thematic continuities in the literature, music, and art of both psychedelic eras. Our reading list will include emerging voices in the contemporary scene, as well as classic works by authors including Huxley, Leary, McKenna and others.
Widening our historical perspective still further to consider the employment of natural and synthetic entheogens in European alchemical, magical, and gnostic settings, we will find that a number of common themes in 20th and 21st century psychedelic literature have surprisingly archaic roots in the West, including the quest for a transmuting elixir, the awakening of the divine feminine, the discovery of an archetypal language, and more.
What can this wider perspective tell us about our current psychedelic Renaissance? Conversely, can contemporary psychedelic neuroscience shine an edifying light upon these archetypal dimensions of psychedelic experience? And what is their relationship with the indigenous shamanic traditions which have exercised such a decisive influence upon Western psychedelic culture? As we explore these questions, we will discover a new relevance for the age-old quest for gnosis, a form of self-knowledge which is simultaneously a knowledge of the foundations of the awe-inspiring cosmos around us.
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The following courses are still live but they will become available as Evergreen offerings in early March, 2025. Please check back then to purchase.