The Sophia Institute is proud to bring you a very special Fall Summit with
Jude Currivan, Pam Gregory, and Richard Tarnas
Making Meaning and Advancing Consciousness In These Times: Understanding Cosmology and Astrology
October 4, 2025
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“Cosmology, and Astrology: Advancing Consciousness”
with Jude Currivan, Ph.D. and Pam Gregory
Sessions 1 & 2:
A transformational and evidence-based understanding of our Universe is emerging, revealing that it meaningfully exists and purposefully evolves as a wholly unified entity. Vitally it shows that mind and consciousness aren’t what we have–but what we and the whole world fundamentally are. Its leading-edge science is converging with universal wisdom teachings to offer in these pivotal times a unitive perspective and narrative to underpin and empower our conscious evolution and potential metamorphosis.
Dr. Jude Currivan will share this foundational cosmological and evolutionary perspective and invite a perception of the astrological influences that are supporting and guiding this great transition.
In the second session in dialogue with astrologer Pam Gregory, Jude and Pam will then focus on the unique and momentous astrological configuration from 2025–2027 that mark the beginning of a new era for humanity; ushering in an increasing perception of multidimensional realities and emergent realization of our interdependent relationships with the vast communities of Universal life.
Session 3:
“Communion and Communication with the Cosmos: The Deeper Implications of Astrology in Our Time” with Richard Tarnas
“Our psyche is set up in accord with the structure of the universe, and what happens in the macrocosm likewise happens in the infinitesimal and most subjective reaches of the psyche.” – C. G. Jung
“So it comes to pass that, when we pursue an inquiry beyond a certain depth, we step out of the field of psychological categories and enter the sphere of the ultimate mysteries of life. The floorboards of the soul, to which we try to penetrate, fan open and reveal the starry firmament.” – Bruno Schulz
Astrology occupies a unique role in contemporary culture. It is at once the gold standard of superstition in the eyes of mainstream academic and scientific authorities, and yet also an enduring, culturally ubiquitous perspective and practice widely studied by increasing numbers of intelligent, well-educated individuals who have the conviction that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in our disenchanted modern philosophy.
As many conscientious researchers have discovered, the astonishingly consistent correlation between the cyclical alignments of the planets and the archetypal patterns of human experience, combined with the equally astonishing capacity of astrological symbolism to reflect the complex dynamics of the human psyche, has opened up new horizons for understanding both the cosmos and the human being. The current body of data makes it difficult to sustain the modern assumption that the universe is best understood as a blind, mechanistic phenomenon of ultimately random processes with which human consciousness is fundamentally incoherent, and in which the Earth and human beings are ultimately peripheral and insignificant.
The evidence suggests instead that the cosmos is intrinsically meaningful to and coherent with human consciousness; that the Earth is a significant focal point of this meaning, a moving center of cosmic meaning in an evolving universe, as is each individual human being; that time is not only quantitative but qualitative in character, and that different periods of time are informed by tangibly different archetypal dynamics. And, finally, it suggests that the cosmos as a living whole appears to be ensouled and informed by some kind of pervasive creative intelligence—an intelligence, judging by the data, of scarcely conceivable power, complexity, and aesthetic subtlety, yet one with which human intelligence is intimately connected, and in which it can consciously participate. In his presentation today, Richard Tarnas will explore these implications and the crucial role astrology could play in the positive unfolding of our collective future.
Meet Jude Currivan, Ph.D.
Dr Jude Currivan is a cosmologist, planetary healer, futurist, author, film maker, co-founder of WholeWorld-View, Evolutionary Leaders Circle council member, Associate Member of the Club of Rome and previously a senior UK-based international business woman. Having travelled to over 80 countries and worked with traditional wisdom keepers she is a life-long researcher into the unitive nature of reality. Since 1998 she has been in service to collective and planetary healing and conscious evolution and in 2017 co-founded WholeWorld-View aiming to empower transformational change in the world.
Meet Pam Gregory
Pam has been involved with astrology for many decades and is the author of two bestselling books, You Don’t Really Believe in Astrology, Do You? and How to Co-Create Using the Secret Language of the Universe. She has an extremely active YouTube channel at Pam Gregory Official.
Pam’s interest is increasingly in how astrology can help with the understanding of how we build our reality, and the expansion of our consciousness.
Meet Richard Tarnas, Ph.D.
Richard Tarnas, PhD, is Professor Emeritus at the California Institute of Integral Studies, where he was the founding director of the Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness department. During his thirty years there he taught courses in the history of ideas, depth psychology, archetypal cosmology, cultural history, and the evolution of consciousness. He has also frequently lectured on archetypal studies and depth psychology at Pacifica Graduate Institute, and was formerly the director of programs and education at Esalen Institute. He is the author of The Passion of the Western Mind, a narrative history of the Western world view from the ancient Greek to the postmodern that is widely used in universities. His second book, Cosmos and Psyche, received the Book of the Year Prize from the Scientific and Medical Network. He is a past president of the International Transpersonal Association and was a long-time member of the Board of Governors for the C. G. Jung Institute of San Francisco.