According to Dr. Jan Collins and Dr. Marc Hamer, “the phenomenology of romantic love involves the full spectrum of human behavioral determinants, incorporating our biological endowment; the inner world of psyche, spirit, soul, and Self; as well as the outer world of our society, others, and the sociocultural chronicles of romantic love that are expressed in myth, art, literature, philosophy, and religion.”
Please join the authors as they discuss their article:…
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…
Please join us as Dr Keiron Le Grice, co-chair of Pacifica’s Jungian and Archetypal Studies program, discusses his new multi-volume book publication: The Way of the Archetypes.
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A defining contribution to the fields of archetypal astrology and depth psychology, The Way of the Archetypes is Keiron Le Grice’s extensive, four-volume study of the place of archetypes—universal principles and powers—in our lives.
The Way of the Arche…
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Previously unpublished material from world-renowned Trappist monk and author, Thomas Merton, featuring the final conference talks given in the United States before his untimely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…
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Join us for this Author Spotlight with Matthew Bennett, Psy. D., Towards an Integrated Analytical Psychology: Return to Freedom and Dignity . This book undertakes a forceful and scholarly deconstruction of behavioral and so-called evidence-based models of applied psychology that privilege empirical inquiry and epistemological certainty while marginalizing the ambiguous, irrational, creative, complex, affective, and relational values re…