The Journal
Welcome to Archai, an academic journal that explores significant correlations between cyclical alignments of the planets and the archetypal patterns of human experience.
Combining rigorous astrological methodology with the archetypal perspective emerging from modern depth psychology, archetypal cosmology is
concerned with the analysis of the
shifting patterns and cycles of world
history, culture, art, and individual
biography. Beyond this, archetypal
cosmology examines the theoretical basis
for these correlations and their
implications for the wider world view.
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Each issue of the Archai journal is available to purchase through this website. Two articles from the current issue are available for free download:
- Introduction: Disenchantment and Integrative Postmodernism by Keiron Le Grice
- Archetype and Eternal Object: Jung, Whitehead, and the Return of Formal Causation by Grant Maxwell
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The Birth of a New Discipline, the premier issue of Archai, is now available in book format.
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Current Issue: Winter 2011
Beyond a Disenchanted Cosmology
This issue of Archai is concerned with the rise of the disenchanted world view in the modern era, and the possible significance of archetypal cosmology for moving beyond it. The articles featured here approach the topic of disenchantment and its transcendence from two overlapping perspectives: conceptual, exploring archetypal astrology's relationship to modern philosophical and scientific thought; and as historical narrative, focusing on the psychospiritual, existential, cultural, and cosmological dimensions of Western civilization's journey from the Christian world view through nihilism and disenchantment to the unfolding spiritual transformation at the turn of the twentieth century and on, finally, to consider the life experience of a prominent modern physicist.
The contributors to this issue—including Sean Kelly, Keiron Le Grice, and Rod O'Neal—consider topics such as spiritual awakenings, nihilism, cosmology, individuation, the relationship of spirit and nature, alchemy, causality, synchronicity, and the evolution of consciousness, through an exploration of the experiences and ideas of G. W. F. Hegel, Friedrich Nietzsche, C. G. Jung, Alfred North Whitehead, Richard Feynman, and others.