Wonderful lectures! Many people no doubt prefer speakers who learn by heart their talks and deliver them like accomplished actors, every word and every pause and every joke carefully rehearsed, but I feel that the effort of listening to somebody who is endeavouring to communicate their deep personal insights in real time provides a much more profound and powerful experience. It recquires an active attitude of engaged attention from the listener, which is much more enriching also. Thank you Professor Tarnas!

Thank you for uploading these. We've certainly overthrown much of the "Patriarchal Prism" of cultural standards in the Post-Modern era, but let's hope folks can begin to nurture their inner Patriarch, so we can develop personal standards again. Otherwise I fear we'll drown in chaotic relativity, with no unifying principles organizing our efforts into anything transcendental. This risk is evidenced in Western youth today, who have grown up in such a broken Patriarchal Prism that they have been presented no alternative to nihilism, and just see all guiding forces as inherently evil (and all providing forces as inherently good).

Inspired beautiful prose: The arc of the moral universe tends toward justice. The numinous is moving us...