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This event is part of the free Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month Celebration.
The celebration of Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage month is a wonderful opportunity to acknowledge and celebrate the cultural diversity of the Pacific Islands and the contributions of Pacific Islander mythology to the emerging models of more diverse and globally representative narratives that shape not only our w…
A Pacifica Online Author Interview with Stefano Carpani and Monica Luci
In their soon-to-be-released book, Lockdown Therapy, analysts and authors, Stefano Carpani and Monica Luci, offer Jungian perspectives from world recognized analysts and their patients regarding how the Covid-19 pandemic profoundly changed the way psychoanalysis not only is practiced, but the ways in which psychoanalysts think about how and why they practice. Based on a se…
Join Stefano Carpani in conversation with Joseph Cambray, Susan Rowland, Fanny Brewster, Mary Watkins, Patricia Berry, and Lionel Corbett as they discuss some of the themes included in this newly released anthology edited by Stefano.
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This 2 volume anthology of contemporary classics in Analytical Psychology brings together academic, scholarly and clinical writings by contributors who constitute the ‘Post-Jungian’ generation. Carpani brings t…
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Join us for this author spotlight with Nancy Furlotti as we discuss her book: Eternal Echoes: Erich Neumann’s Timeless Relevance to Consciousness, Creativity, and Evil, which explores the profundity of human nature and psychological development through the lens of Erich Neumann’s (1905-1960) expansive research. Prevalent themes explored encompass the issue of evil, the nature of consciousness, creativity, and the mystical experience…
History of Psychology Through Symbols Author Spotlight with Jim Broderick
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Through symbols and active engagement, Volume One provides the Historic Roots of modern Psychology through the Axial Age (800 BCE -200 BCE) which includes Greek thought, Zoroastrianism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Daoism, and Judaism. The Volume explores the influence of the Christian and Islamic eras which resulted in the Renaissance, Scientific Revolution and Enlightenme…
The astounding omnipresence of the virtual in contemporary consciousness is radically restructuring our psychology, changing our societies and culture, and having profound effects on who we are, how we behave with one another, and on the kind of world we are inhabiting. The speed and instantaneousness of digital communication radically unsettles both time and space. “Real time” and “virtual space” are new categories in our existence that introduce dramatic transfor…
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Glen Slater’s recent publication Jung vs Borg: Finding the Deeply Human in a Posthuman Age contends that the industrial disruption of the outer world is being followed by a post-industrial disruption of the inner world. The shadow side of the online world as well as the impact of algorithms and AI on the society and culture exemplify this disruption. Prominent plans to merge humans and machines, focused on the joining of minds and computers, are shown to …
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Susan Rowland’s fictional detective Mary Wandwalker is back. Murder on Family Grounds: A Mary Wandwalker Mystery, goes back to the origin story of the triple goddess detective. ‘She’ arises in a mystery that examines the element of earth, which C. G. believed means family ground in the deep psyche. Indeed the novel not only digs into the traumatized earth of Mary, Caroline and Anna, it also mines the complex architecture of their families. Families are …
Superhero phenomena exploded into 20th- and 21st-century popular culture by way of the visual medium of comic books. In an increasingly secular (yet spiritual) culture that has largely renounced “the gods” (and even religion), what does the return of the superhero through our own pop cultural mythologies say to us—or even about us? This collection of essays from leading and up-and-coming scholars in the fields of comparative mythology and depth psychology considers th…
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The Epigenetic Impact of Marianismo: Unburdening Myself and My Lineage
“My mother wounds are my mother’s wounds” –Cynthia Perez, LCSW
If you have done inner child healing, it may have led you down another stone unturned… mother wounds! This talk centers on the intersections of mother wounds that come from ancestral attachment wounds due to separation, colonization, and assimilation.
Marianismo is a term coined in Xicanx psychology as an ofte…
Join us for this Pacifica Online Author Spotlight with Dr. Susan Rowland as we talk about her newest JABR detective novel, The Alchemy Fire Murder (Chiron, 15th Feb 2023). In this novel, her newest addition in a series, Susan situates the psychological impact of the climate emergency within the framework of a murder mystery featuring a feminine hero.
Jungian arts-based research places creativity at the heart of knowing and being. In so doing it promotes a soci…
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Previously unpublished material from world-renowned Trappist monk and author, Thomas Merton, featuring the final conference talks given in the United States before his untimely death.
In May and October of 1968, Thomas Merton offered two extended conferences at Our Lady of the Redwoods Abbey, a Cistercian women’s community in Northern California. Comprising over twenty-six hours of previously unpublished material, Thomas Merton in Californi…