Richard Tarnas is the founding director of the Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness (PCC) graduate program at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco, CA, offering both M.A. and Ph.D. degrees. His fellow faculty in the PCC program include Brian Swimme, Stanislav Grof, Joanna Macy, Robert McDermott, Sean Kelly, Elizabeth Allison, and Jacob Sherman.
A growing consensus of scientists, scholars, and visionaries now recognizes that the Earth Community is facing an unprecedented evolutionary challenge. The ecological, political, and spiritual crisis of late modernity calls for a fundamental reorientation of our civilization, including a transformation of our institutions and of our own consciousness. PCC attracts intellectually engaged individuals who are in varying degrees dismayed by what they see happening in industrial societies and who are striving to find meaningful ways to develop their gifts to serve the future of the world.