Dane Rudhyar (1895-1985) was a unique figure in twentiethcentury American culture: a composer, painter, poet, astrologer, and new age philosopher. His life and works characterize crucial twentieth-century American themes about migrants’ society, history of deterritorialization, univocal identity of multitude of culture, race, religion and language. In this paper, I examine auto/biographical research on Rudhyar’s life as an artist as well as his distinction between transpersonal and humanistic astrology. His definition of transpersonal process of transformation is also explored.
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