NOSTOS

'The task is to give birth to the old in a new time.'
~ Carl Jung, The Red Book

At a time when many feel spiritually unanchored, the Nostos Institute provides something rare: a rooted, intellectually rigorous and deeply imaginative path to personal and collective re-enchantment. We’ve developed a unique and alchemical blend of philosophy and depth psychology – story, archetypal languages and the mythic imagination – to deepen our spiritual intelligence, introduce us to wider patterns of meaning – and above all, to ground and firmly root us in this beautiful animate earth to which we belong. 

Our mission is to raise awareness of the oldest spiritual traditions of the West – beautiful ideas and practices steeped in philosophy, myth, creativity and the embodied imagination – which have been a defining thread in the complex weave of our Western lineage for more than two and a half millennia. We're lifting these traditions out of the academic and theoretical spheres in which they've largely been confined, and combining them with cutting-edge ideas and practices from contemporary (primarily Jungian and post-Jungian) depth psychology and related mythopoetic disciplines. Our aim here is twofold: first, to offer a groundbreaking curriculum for cultivating the mythic imagination; and second, to trace a living, spiritual desire path that responds to the challenges and opportunities of today’s world: an exploratory path that passes through and beyond personal transformation, opening into a dancing, animate cosmos saturated in the divine.

We’re gathering a community of the curious: learners and seekers who would like to explore these ideas with us – and who'd like to help us develop them.

We’re planning a program of online events that’ll be open to all, as well as live retreats at Broughton Sanctuary in North Yorkshire.