Essays & Poems

Who Gets Left Out of the ‘Great Outdoors’ Story? You’ve heard of Davy Crockett. Now meet Lancelot Jones, Sylvia Stark and other Black outdoors pioneers who can redefine our notion of the natural [...]

The Space Conundrum: Sacred or Profane? How has the narrative around space changed, and what political relevance does this have? By Cerena Ceaser It’s been twenty years since I lied. My [...]

Dark Times – A Response Using Tarot Cards By Chris Miller I read the essay “Dark Times” (posted in these pages on September 10, 2021) and immediately saw in it my own experience of “powerlessness [...]

Dark Times by Beth Anne Boardman Well, it’s been quite a five years. Quite a six years. Quite a year. Two years. However long you trace your suffering back, I hope you have found some rays of [...]

Spectacle Over Substance in the New Myth The Op-Ed was published in the San Antonio Express-News on July 14, 2021. Dennis Patrick Slattery, Ph.D. When we take a well-earned break from the [...]

Showing Up for Life: The Artist-Intellectual by Peter M. Rojcewicz, PhD Pacifica Graduate Institute Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs The core requirement for private and [...]

Racism and the Unconscious: Why Higher Education Needs Freud by Adam Schneider and Dan Skinner Sigmund Freud visited the United States in 1909 to detail a basic but provocative idea: people’s [...]

Lying and Violence: A Nobel Lecture by Alexander Solzhenitsyn by Dennis Patrick Slattery, Ph.D. (Published in New Braunfels, Texas newspaper, the Herald-Zeitung’s Opinion page, June 12-13, 2021.) [...]

Existential Intimacy of Learning: A Noetic Turn from STEM by Peter M. Rojcewicz, PhD Pacifica Graduate Institute Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs STEM Education Science, technology, [...]