The Archetypal Review of Culture is an online magazine and journal which highlights and comments upon cultural events from the archetypal, existential, humanistic and transpersonal depth perspective of the Living Institute, so that how people see the world, and the actions they take in the world, may be illuminated, and shaded, by these traditions. An outline for the cultural context of the ARC is given in the lead article in the Journal The Evolutionary Challenge in Western Culture: An Archetypal, Existential, Ecological Perspective.
The publication includes opinion pieces, scholarly articles, book, movie and periodicals reviews, poetry, art, photos, video, music, current events news and reviews, reports of conferences, network activities. Because it will be published online (www.archetypalreviewofculture.org) through an email link it can include direct links to other online activities.
The range of topics draws from the broad field of cultural evolution as outlined in the lead piece for this edition, The Evolutionary Challenge in Western Culture: An Archetypal, Existential, Ecological Perspective. It gives a sense of the scope of topics and perspectives that will be covered, and traditions drawn on, without, necessarily, exhausting them.
The Harvard affiliated Center for Psychology and Social Change (now the John E. Mack Institute) Cross Roads at the Centre online "roundup of news and opinions that shape our world" (www.johnemackinstitute.org) is a model for this, though it is no longer published. So also is Marilyn Ferguson’s Brain Mind Bulletin, published in the 1980’s and early 1990’s in hard copy. The Metanexus Institute’s The Global Spiral (www.metanexus.net) monthly online magazine is a currently active example. The Utne Reader is a successful newstand magazine that began in this manner. The Association for Humanistic Psychology publishes a monthly online newsletter, AHP Perspective (www.ahpweb.org), which is also a model.
I invite you to make a contribution in any of the areas listed above, or in some other area of interest to you in this field of cultural evolution.