Keiron Le Grice - The Archetypal Cosmos. Rediscovering the Gods in Myth, Science and Astrology

Rediscovering the Gods in Myth, Science and Astrology

Keiron Le Grice

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Over the course of this eleven-year project, I have benefited from the assistance and insight of many learned friends, teachers, and colleagues. In particular, since 2004 I have been fortunate to study and teach in the unique multidisciplinary research environment provided by the Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness programme at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) in San Francisco. I am especially grateful to Richard Tarnas for his encouragement and support during my time at CIIS, and for his pioneering contribution to the field of archetypal studies, which has done much to illuminate my understanding of archetypal astrology and its wider theoretical context and implications. I would like also to express my gratitude to Sean Kelly and Paul Marshall for their editorial suggestions and astute comments on several chapters in Part 2 of this book. My thanks, too, to Brian Swimme for his helpful feedback on Chapter 9. For providing financial assistance to help me complete my studies, I am grateful to CIIS for multiple awards of its International Student Scholarship between 2004 and 2008, and to the Joseph Campbell Foundation (in association with Pacifica Graduate Institute, Santa Barbara) for the award of the Joseph Campbell Research Grant in 2006.

I give special thanks to Rod ONeal, co-editor of the Archai journal, for his insightful editing and careful proof reading of the manuscript in its entirety, and to my other friends and colleagues at Archai including Bill Streett, Grant Maxwell, and Chad Harris whose creative work behind the scenes has helped launch the field of archetypal cosmology over the last couple of years. For reading and commenting on the manuscript in its later stages, I give thanks to Jonah Saifer and Nicola Sayers; for feedback on early drafts, my thanks to Doris Broekema, David Randal Davies, Pamela Russell, and Erin Sullivan. A warm thank you, too, to Christopher Moore at Floris Books whose enthusiasm for my work and helpful editorial suggestions turned my working manuscript into a publishable book.

I wish to express my deep gratitude to David and Margaret Davies for their generous support over many years, to my family, and to the following friends for aiding my transition from Britain to San Francisco and for providing a helping hand during my time at CIIS: Georgia Bailey, Deborah Bursnell, Adrian and Nicola Cook, Joseph Kearns, Jessica Kostosky, Jennifer Martin, Clare Meeuwsen, Kimberly Hoard Nasrul, Jody OConnor, Steven Swanson, Bernard Voon, and the late Kelleen Nicholson. I am particularly grateful to my good friend Richard Wormstall for his insight, encouragement, and generosity. Our many discussions over the years have been a continual source of renewal and stimulation.

Finally, I would like to pay tribute to my father, Barry Le Grice, who passed away in 2007, and who was deeply influential on my own spiritual journey; and my son, Lukas Rafael, born as I was completing the final sections of writing. Most of all, my deepest appreciation and gratitude goes to my wife, Kathryn, for her love and support over many years, for her unwavering faith in my work, and for her insightful and meticulous editorial input to the text. This book is dedicated to her.

KLG

June 2010, San Francisco

The honour of the gods has been
Too long, too long invisible

Friedrich Hlderlin