In Memoriam

A Statement from the Board of Pacifica Graduate Institute Alumni Association    We as a cultural group of Africanist people have been in an intergenerational struggle for our lives that does not [...]

The Pain I’m exhausted from the pain. The pain of injustice, the pain of racism, the pain of America’s history toward men and women of color, the pain of violence. I’m exhausted from the pain of [...]

PGIAA President Harry Grammer – George Floyd Statement “The death of George Floyd in the wake of the murder of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, Botham Jean and hundreds of recent others is [...]

Alicia Keys performing Beethoven’s “Moonlight Sonata” Dear Students: Please accept this offering as a feeble expression of the grief I feel for all of us in the Myth Program [...]

In Remembrance of Nan Savage Healy (Pacifica ‘10) and to celebrate her groundbreaking book: Toni Wolff & C.G. Jung: A Collaboration(2017) Written by: Kathryn & Wil Savage, her children [...]

MADISON—Deborah C. Thomas of Madison, Wis. passed away peacefully on Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2019, at UnityPoint Meriter Hospital after suffering a brief illness. She was born on Feb. 12, 1928, in [...]

August 8, 1932 – August 22, 2019 In the world of PhD. recipients, Lois West Bristow stands out. In August 2009, at the age of 80, she received her PhD. in depth psychology from the Pacifica [...]

May 24, 1970 – July 8, 2019 As the song “You Are My Sunshine” played on the little portable speaker in his hospital room, Darren slipped away peacefully, surrounded by his [...]

Heather Noone, 48, of Palo Alto, drowned while hiking with her family in the Feather River Canyon in Plumas County on July 17. Photo courtesy Life and Learning Counseling. A Palo Alto woman [...]

The death of the father: for Forgiveness Sunday by Justin Tse original article: https://www.patheos.com/blogs/ecperson/2019/03/11/the-death-of-the-father-for-forgiveness-sunday/ I was just [...]

Marion Woodman August 15, 1928 – July 9, 2018 – Beloved mentor, elder and friend . . . Dear Pacifica Community, Our beloved mentor, elder, and friend Marion Woodman died this morning. She lived [...]

Mark Christopher Trechter 2011 MA Counseling Alum Mark Christopher Trechter, of Manhattan, Kansas, born on July 16, 1959 in Topeka, Kansas, to the late Virginia Trechter and Henry Trechter, [...]

Robert A. Johnson (Psychotherapist) Johnson was born in Portland, Oregon. He studied at the University of Oregon and Stanford University. In 1945, he went to Ojai, California, as a student of [...]

Carol Winters, 77, known for her openness, laughter and love of people, passed unexpectedly Monday, May 14, 2018. As a seeker, she hungered for life’s mysteries. We bless her journey into [...]

Remembering  Our Beloved Friend, Marsha Bentley Hale, 2012 PhD Mythology Studies Writer, Lecturer, Film Historian, Mannequin Historian Beth Anne Boardman Remembers Marsha Bentley Hale ~ tender [...]

DR. SALLYE JEANNETTE SHEPPEARD December 07, 1942, November 21, 2017 Dr. Sallye Jeannette Sheppeard of Beaumont died on Tuesday, November 21, 2017. She was born on December 7, 1942 in Galveston to [...]

Professor remembered for his compassion and instructional talents By Ross Brenneman Greg Henderson, an adjunct professor at the USC Rossier School of Education, has died, his family announced [...]

January 3, 1961 – January 7, 2016 MELVERN—Richard (Jesse) Masterson was born Jan. 3, 196, and passed away Jan. 7, 2016, after a short battle with pancreatic cancer. Richard was a resident of [...]

April 15, 1955 – July 6, 2015 Amanda passed peacefully in her home on July 6th, 2015 after a long difficult battle with cancer. She was the daughter of Charles E. Heming and Olga Landeck [...]

Helene Heinz Helene Heinz, aged 61, passed away on July 6, 2015, in the arms of her loving husand Erel, after more than a 12-year battle with breast cancer. Helene was born in Northern California [...]

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 [...]

Hillman As Image “He has been father to my thought and psychopomp to my soul — and for that I have the most profound gratitude.” photo  •  Kathee Miller As a Ph.D. candidate in the [...]

Dr. Stephen Aizenstat serves as Chancellor of  Pacifica Graduate Institute, which he served as Founding President. Reflections from the Chancellor collects Steve’s posts to Pacifica’s [...]

Blue Eagle James’ song for Pacifica  |  Kathryn Evans, Three Eagles  |  3 Mar 2012 Blue Eagle, calling back to find us, back in time into this Dream. Ancestors call us back in time, to [...]

A Gathering to Offer Tribute and Celebrate the Life and Work of James Hillman convened at the Ladera campus of Pacifica Graduate Institute over the weekend of 2-4 March 2012. •|•|•|• •|  2 March [...]