NOSTOS

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

The Nostos Institute was founded 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 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.

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