In Memoriam

Pacifica Graduate Institute Mythological Studies Students Establish Memorial Scholarship to Honor Dr. V. Walter Odajnyk (May 18, 2015 – Santa Barbara, CA) — Pacifica Graduate Institute [...]

Wendy Phelps West Brenninkmeijer (1959 – 2015) May 8, 1959 – May 1, 2015 Wendy was born on May 8, 1959 in New Jersey. After prolonged complications with bone cancer, she passed away [...]

Jamie Elizabeth Bormann Jamie Elizabeth Bormann, 28, of Normal, IL, passed away on Sunday, May 10, 2015 in Lafayette at her parents’ home. Born May 21, 1986 in Lafayette, she was the [...]

Of Nightmares, Beasts, and Borders ≥ no transcript available  ≈  please listen @ https://soundcloud.com/pacificaalumni photo  •  Kathee Miller A Ph.D. in Mythological Studies (2009) from Pacifica [...]

For the Sake of the Soul “I remember Dr. Hillman’s visit to our first-year class. Not yet familiar with his work, I was bold (or ignorant) enough to ask him ‘where’ he [...]

A Tribute to James Hillman “Now, the genius of Hillman’s work in my appreciation is his differentiation of imagining: image, personifying, aesthetic response, notitia, pausing, [...]

A Tribute to James Hillman “My loss when James died was like losing a great mentor. I imagine it to be the same for a lover of poetry, brought to tears when thinking of the death of a great [...]

• IN MEMORIAM • Formerly titled “Passages” for the original PGIAA site, our  • IN MEMORIAM •  section remembers, honors, and celebrates our departed Pacifica colleagues and their [...]

• In Memoriam • Remembering Walter Odajnyk Chris Downing, Ph.D. | Core Faculty, Pacifica Graduate Institute | originally posted 26 July 2013 Chris Downing offered these comments about Walter at [...]

Peace, my heart, let the time for the parting be sweet. Let it not be a death but completeness. Let love melt into memory and pain into songs. Let the flight through the sky end in the folding of [...]