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Much of Dane
Rudhyar's lifelong work is made freely
available worldwide at the Rudhyar
Archival Project including an
extensive biography.
To learn more
about Rudhyar's books in print
visit Aurora
Press.
To gain an understanding
of Rudhyar's approach to cycles,
read the article on this site, A
Brief Overview of Dane Rudhyar's
Approach to Cycles.
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Provided
to participants
as a study guide to the 1983
RITA Conference, this well honed
book The
Essential Rudhyar, An Outline
and an Evocation,
presents a well organized and
comprehensive overview of Rudhyar's
entire body of work. Written
by Leyla Rael, who has the talent
of taking Rudhyar's rather complex
concepts and making them simple
to comprehend. This
book is freely available to read
online.
Beyond
Individualism, The Psychology
of Transformation "is
not a book which will come
to rest within psychology.
It is a book that redefines psychology—stretches
it far beyond its narrow,
conventional, academic and
complacent limits. It is
about understanding humanity
and its relation to the earth...Read
it to give yourself a larger
set of windows to view life
from."
Dr.
James Fadiman, Ph.D., Stanford
University Order
this book online.
Culture,
Crisis, and Creativity (1976)
is an extraordinary vision of existence
that explodes the popular myth of our cultural
omniscience, omnipotence and permanence.
There comes a time, suggests Rudhyar, when
for the sake of our spiritual heritage,
we should consider breaking away from established
patterns and values that have been imposed
upon us through our culture because "Spirit
creates, culture reproduces." The
resulting crises appear to be necessary
to the creative process. Order
this book online.
This
pioneering classic provides
a new dimension in the use
of Astrology as a powerful
tool in understanding life
patterns. The
Lunation Cycle is
a unique technical breakthrough
revealing the significance
of the cyclic relationship
of the Sun and Moon as phases
of a larger process. Rudhyar
formulates and describes
the eight Soli-Lunar personality
types. Also discussed is
the
Progressed
Lunation Cycle, a
technique developed and
applied by Rudhyar, revealing
the underlying structure
of each individual's unique
pattern of lifetime unfoldment. Read
more and order online
This
volume originally published in 1936 is as relevant
today as it was then. It was in this book that
Rudhyar first coined the term humanistic
astrology. In The
Astrology of Personality Rudhyar
tells us that the immediate purpose of astrology
is not to predict events, but rather to bring
a message of order, of form, revealing
the meaning of individual life struggles—transforming
chaos into cosmos. Presenting astrology as
a symbolic system, Rudhyar uses many concepts
expressed in Eastern philosophy (particularly
the concept of opposites embodied in the I
Ching) combined with modern psychological theories
to transform how astrology is applied today. Read
more and purchase this book online.
An
Astrological Triptych:
The Illumined Road elegantly,
succinctly, and poetically,
Rudhyar redefines the
12 fold path of the astrological
signs and houses as well
as the planetary functions.
It is an inspirational
book that offers spiritual
insights into our human
struggles on the Path
to wholeness.
Read
more and order
this book online.
Rhythms
of Wholeness (1983) has
been called "Dane Rudhyar's great
opus—his masterwork—formulating
and integrating his philosophical/metaphysical
world view." This book is the culmination
of decades of intense research into, and
creative thought about, the basic questions
concerning creation and evolution
This
book is available to read freely
online.
In Astrological
Timing: The Transition to the New Age,
Rudhyar discusses the shift from the Age
of Pisces to the Age of Aquarius from an
original and challenging perspective. Rudhyar
correlates changes in societies and cultures
throughout the ages with the long planetary
cycles. Starting with the 20 year Jupiter/Saturn
cycle, all the way to the 500 year Neptune/Pluto
cycle, they are all understood within the
context of the great precessional cycle
lasting over 26,000 years. Read
Astrological Timing: The Transition to
the New Age free online.
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Conference 1983
Dane Rudhyar Audio Archives
Rudhyar
Institute for Transpersonal Activity
Conference 1983
"The idea occurred
to me shortly after the inception
of RITA, that a
conference honoring Rudhyar's
lifetime body of work would be a
very special and meaningful event for
all of us whose lives Rudhyar's writings
and music had touched. I suggested
the idea to my friend and Rudhyar's
wife, Leyla Rael, who encouraged
me to discuss the possibility
with Rudhyar. I did so and, with
Rudhyar's support and input, the 1983
RITA Conference took place in September
of that year.
It was held at Vallombrosa,a beautiful
and peaceful Catholic retreat center
near Rudhyar's home in Palo Alto, CA,
and included presentations by Rudhyar
himself, his wife Leyla, Alexander
Ruperti, myself and others deeply involved
in some aspect of Rudhyar's work. Over
100 people came from all over the country
and the world. It was a very special
gathering of those who resonated deeply
with Rudhyar's message and who were
nourished by the intimate setting,
the presentations, and the timeless
message of Rudhyar's creativity in
its many forms of expression. By the
end of the weekend everyone felt uplifted
and inspired, including Rudhyar himself."
Nicki Michaels
Conference Coordinator
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The
Complete Recordings of the 1983 RITA
Conference
Astrology & Transpersonal
Living
This
was the opening presentation of the
conference on the evening of Friday,
September 23,1983. Leyla Rael briefly
discusses the origins of RITA and then
introduces Rudhyar. Rudhyar inspires
participants to view astrology as a
means to understanding one's dharma
or path. At the end of the talk Rudhyar
answers questions from conference participants—you
feel like you're in the room. Up
Part 1 - 46 minutes
- Click
here to download mp3
Understanding
Rudhyar
Leyla
Rael is by far the most
adept interpreter of Rudhyar, and
in this talk she presents a lively
and fascinating overview of Rudhyar's
philosophy. Using her book The
Essential Rudhyar as the study
guide to both the conference and
to this talk, Leyla masterfully provides
insight and understanding into the
entirety of Rudhyar's large body
of work. She reveals
how his philosophy consistently
permeates everything from his approach
to astrology to his poetry and music.
This was the
morning presentation on Saturday,
September 24, 1983. Up
Part 1 - 32 minutes - Click
here to download mp3
Rudhyar's Multileveled Approach to
Psychology
Rudhyar
approached astrology as the study of
a complex web of processes, and he
applied the same philosophical orientation
to art, music, philosophy,
literature and psychology. In this in-depth
presentation, Dan Johnson focuses
mainly on how this
approach is reflected in Rudhyar's most
explicitly psychological book, Beyond
Individualism where he discusses
the four levels of
humanity's potential psycho-spiritual
evolution. This was the first presentation
on the afternoon of Saturday, September
24, 1983.
Up
Part 1 - 47 minutes
- Click
here to download mp3
Progressed
Lunation Cycle in Astrology
Nicki
Michaels presents an explanation
of the Progressed Lunation Cycle,
Rudhyar's groundbreaking technique
revealing the context and meaning of
events within an individual's unique
life structure. This 8 phase,
30 year cycle emphasizes the importance
of how
we meet life, rather than on
the particular events that
happen to us, the normal focus
of traditional astrology. For a more
in-depth understanding, read Leyla Rael's The
Lunation Process In Astrological Guidance,
a section of the Aurora Press edition
of Rudhyar's
The
Lunation Cycle. Also listen to the
free online audio of Rudhyar's talk titled
The
Lunation Cycle.
Up
Part 1 - 33 minutes
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here to download mp3
My
Work with Rudhyar's Approach to Astrology
 In
this
biographical talk, Alexander
Ruperti
shares remembrances of his long relationship to astrology.
Beginning with his studies of traditional astrology
as a young man in England, leading to his encounter
with Alice Bailey who suggested that he read Rudhyar's
newly published first book
The
Astrology of Personality in 1936. Ruperti says
that book "opened
me up to myself." He discusses his long career
as an osteopath, using the birth charts of his patients
to understand the psychological issues behind their
physical problems, and to the profound influence
of Rudhyar's work on himself
personally, and on the world of astrology. This was
the closing presentation on the afternoon of September
24, 1983. Up
40 minutes - Click
here to download mp3
A
Musical and Artistic Interlude
This
was the evening presentation on Saturday,
September 24, 1983. After a full day
of talks by Rudhyar's students,
Rudhyar presented a
powerful evening which included a
discussion of his approach to music
along with moving readings of his own
poetry. Rudhyar discusses the
place of music in various cultures
and the use of sound to communicate
a state of being. Pianist Edmund Correia,
a talented interpreter of Rudhyar's
compositions, played several potent
renditions of Rudhyar's pieces. Up
Collective
Myths and Individual Development
Once
again, Leyla Rael captivates
conference attendees with an intelligent,
insightful and sometimes humorous
look at the relationship between
the individual and the culture. Describing
culture as "the womb of mind" whose
collective symbols are language,
she begins with an eye-opening
discussion of how we quite literally
see what our culture conditions us
to see; how this shapes our perceptions,
and how those perceptions determine
our reality. Leyla quotes
Rudhyar that "only a naive
and unhistorical mind can think that
facts are more powerful than myths"
because facts change from culture
to culture and from time to time.
It's culture that determines
what constitutes a healthy person
what constitutes success.
Money, the symbol of social power,
serves as the hormones of society.
And Leyla goes on to discuss how
the heritage
of collective psychism develops
from the
geography out of which a particular
culture was born. Based on Rudhyar's
book Culture,
Crisis, and Creativity. This
was the morning presentation on Sunday,
September 25, 1983. Up
Part 1 - 33 minutes - Click
here to download mp3
Where
Does Humanity Stand? The Path as Rite
of Passage
In
this, the closing presentation of the
conference, Rudhyar describes the part
that each of us can play in the unfolding
evolution of humanity. Beginning at
the end of World War I, the "war-to-end-all-wars",
Rudhyar correlates developments of
the twentieth century with significant
astrological cycles such as the precessional
cycle and the 500 year Neptune/Pluto
cycle, focusing especially on the
90 year Neptune/Pluto sextile that
lasted for most of the twentieth century.
At the end of the presentation, Rudhyar,
in his late 80's, passes the torch
to younger generations. This talk was
given Sunday afternoon, September 25,
1983. Up
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