Essays & Poems

Let’s Meet at the Crossroads Commencement Keynote Address to Pacifica Graduate Institute, Class of 2021 by Dr. Bayo Akomolafe May 29, 2021 (Featured painting: “Los Ayala: Ayala family dance troup [...]

Replacing the Myth of Growth Dennis Patrick Slattery, Ph.D. is Distinguished Professor Emeritus in The Mythological Studies Program at Pacifica Graduate Institute in Carpinteria, California. [...]

Letter from the President of Pacifica Dear Pacifica Alumni, Let me begin with warm wishes for 2021; may it bring peace and prosperity to all of you. We have just come through a year like none [...]

The Dream: A Forgotten Call to Action? By Marvin Richards Growing up like many children in my generation, I was taught about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and his “Dream.” I wanted to follow in Dr. [...]

Our Historic Moment by Fanny Brewster, Ph.D., MFA, LP, Jungian Analyst (From the Philadelphia Association of Jungian Analysts Blog) We are beginning a historic new time in our American [...]

The Decent Society: A Way Forward Published in New Braunfels’ Herald-Zeitung’s Opinion Page, 23 Januray 2021, p. 4-A Dennis Patrick Slattery In the wake of the moving and heart-stirring [...]

Through the Thicket: Distance Learning by Shannon McCabe   At the start of the 2019-2020, I was an ordinary English Language Arts teacher having the best year since early in my teaching [...]

A Poem and Q&A with Diane Coffey   Heart to Heart   I believe in people People with dreams and without dreams People offering everything and offering nothing   I believe in [...]

What Does a Virus Love? Another Virus. The Curative in a Cultural Civil War:  Unity is Our National Immunity By Leslie Shore Ph.D, Mythological Studies (2013) Note: This essay uses extended [...]

Hold On . . . The Veils are thinning between the realms of Psyche By Andrea Slominski, Ph.D. I’m hearing from my clients, friends, and colleagues that the baseline energy running under our [...]