Rebecca Tarnas

Rebecca Tarnas, PhD, is Assistant Professor in the Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness Program at the California Institute of Integral Studies.

Her doctoral dissertation was titled The Back of Beyond: The Red Books of C.G. Jung and J.R.R. Tolkien, and her research interests include depth psychology, archetypal studies, literature, philosophy, and the ecological imagination. 

Becca is an editor of Archai: The Journal of Archetypal Cosmology and author of the book Journey to the Imaginal Realm: A Reader’s Guide to J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings.

She is currently researching and writing a biography of Stanislav Grof, a co-founder of transpersonal psychology.