The Joseph Campbell Foundation Mythological RoundTable® Group of OPUS
at Pacifica Graduate Institute, Santa Barbara presents
Date: Sunday, October 22, 2017
Time: 5:30pm to 7:30pm
Location: 801 Ladera Lane, Santa Barbara, CA
Free and Open to the Public
Joseph Campbell was intensely proud of his Irish cultural heritage. Many of Ireland’s deeply rooted traditions, mythic motifs, symbols, and rituals have survived across centuries to compose its unique imaginal inheritance. Join Dr. Colette Kavanagh to explore the Irish mythic imagination and learn how, at a time when we are increasingly disconnected from ancestral thought, soul, nature, and the richness of community life, the Irish, despite modernity, have managed to keep their ancient traditions alive.
Dr. Colette Kavanagh was born and reared in Ireland. She worked for several years with Irish television and traveled the world making film documentary programs about people and their cultures. In 2003, she completed her doctorate in Mythological Studies at Pacifica Graduate Institute. She now works in Europe as a Cultural Psychologist and lectures internationally.
The Joseph Campbell Foundation Mythological RoundTable® Group of OPUS
at Pacifica Graduate Institute, Santa Barbara presents
Date: Sunday, July 16, 2017
Time: 5:30pm to 7:30pm
Location: 801 Ladera Lane, Santa Barbara, CA
Free and Open to the Public
Both Ugaritic and Tibetan visionary texts offer a rich field of exploration in archetypal studies, specifically for those interested in the alchemical practice of conjuring Deities — living presences who carry the catalytic power to engender profound transformations.
We will explore two ritual passages: the Cosmic Revelation Formula from the Semitic ‘Baal and Anat’ cycle, and the Mountain Smoke Offering Ritual from the Tibetan tantric ‘Life-Force of the Wisdom Holders’ cycle.
Steven D. Goodman, PhD is Program Director and Core Faculty in Asian Philosophies and Cultures at the California Institute of Integral Studies (San Francisco). He co-edited Tibetan Buddhism: Reason and Revelation (SUNY Press, 1992), and authored The Buddhist Psychology of Awakening (Shambhala, forthcoming).
Heidi Gustafson is an independent artist and translator who lives and works Bellingham, WA. Currently she collaborates with research scientists to study symbolic, alchemical and ritual use of mineral pigments. More about her work can be found online at earlyfutures.com.
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The Joseph Campbell Foundation Mythological RoundTable® Group of OPUS
at Pacifica Graduate Institute, Santa Barbara presents
Date: Sunday, April 2, 2017
Time: 5:30pm to 7:30pm
Location: 801 Ladera Lane, Santa Barbara, CA
Free and Open to the Public
James Hillman’s volume 5 of The Uniform Edition of the Works of James Hillman offers a brilliant reassessment of the alchemical tradition. Of particular interest to Dr. Slattery is the image of the vessel, an object of containment in alchemy. It both contains and disperses. It can be a garden bed or a poem; of particular interest is the vessel as a container whose heat can emanate affection. What contains each of us vessels us and may, under the right temperature application, melt and dissolve those hardened aspects of ourselves in need of dissolution and coagulation. This presentation will entertain the rich image of the vessel in the alchemical process.
Dennis Patrick Slattery, PhD currently core faculty in the Mythological Studies program, has been teaching for 45 years, from elementary through secondary school, to undergraduate and graduate programs. He is the author, co-author, editor or co-editor of 24 volumes, including 6 volumes of poetry and one novel. He has also authored over 200 articles in magazines, newspapers, journals and on-line publications. He has for the past 15 years offered riting personal myth retreats in the United States, Canada, Europe and Ireland.
The Joseph Campbell Foundation Mythological RoundTable® Group of OPUS
at Pacifica Graduate Institute, Santa Barbara presents
Date: Sunday, March 12, 2017
Time: 5:30pm to 7:30pm
Location: 801 Ladera Lane, Santa Barbara, CA
Free and Open to the Public
Kore, from the Greek word for Virgin or Maiden, is a most mysterious figure. Youthful, elusive and paradoxical, the Kore is unto-herself, sovereign, yet deeply related. In Jung’s essay “The Psychological Aspects of the Kore” (1951), he makes the astonishing statement that the Kore is a self-figure for women, and has a power that is equivalent to that of the archetypal Mother. These two rarely discussed ideas have significance for women’s psychology, and have direct bearing upon the development of feminine consciousness in both women and men. Who is this figure that is accorded such psychological power and significance? In Greek mythology the Moirai (Fates), Erinyes (Furies) and Horai (Hours), among other triad goddesses, exemplify the Kore archetype. This lecture will explore what this archetype is, the mythology of Korai triad goddesses, and their importance to both the study of the archetypal feminine and women’s psychology.
Safron Rossi, PhD has spent her life steeped in literature, religion and mythology, fields in which she holds her degrees. She is Associate Core Faculty at Pacifica Graduate Institute in the Jungian and Archetypal Studies MA/PhD program, teaching courses on mythology, archetypal symbolism, and scholarly praxis. For many years she was Curator at Opus Archives, home of the Joseph Campbell, James Hillman and Marja Gimbutas collections. Her work focuses on Greek mythology, archetypal psychology, astrology, goddess traditions, and feminist studies. Safron is editor of Joseph Campbell’s Goddesses: Mysteries of the Feminine Divine (2013). She is also co-editor with Keiron LeGrice of the forthcoming Jung on Astrology (2017). She is currently writing a book on the Kore archetype and triad goddesses from which the lecture material is drawn. You can read more about her work on her website, www.thearchetypaleye.com.
The Joseph Campbell Foundation Mythological RoundTable® Group of OPUS
at Pacifica Graduate Institute, Santa Barbara presents
Date: Sunday, January 8, 2017
Time: 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Location: 801 Ladera Lane, Santa Barbara, CA, Classroom G
Free and Open to the Public
In traditional cultures, people come together to listen to the old stories and consider their wisdom and meaning for the present moment. This practice is one of our oldest medicines and teaching forms, one that we still need and can use today to gain insight into cultural and personal concerns. Join Catherine Svehla, Ph.D. for the telling and exploration of the story that we need right now. We’ll use a simple divination method to guide us to the story that needs to be told to the group that gathers.
Dr. Catherine Svehla is an independent scholar, educator, and artist with a PhD in Mythological Studies and Depth Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute. She creates story-based classes and programs geared toward a popular adult audience that demonstrate the relevance of mythology to contemporary life. Dr. Svehla is the founder of Mythic Mojo and the host of Myth in the Mojave, a bi-weekly podcast with an international audience. She founded and led the High Desert Mythological Roundtable from 2009-2015. In 2010, Dr. Svehla received a New Mythos grant from OPUS Archives for “Blisters On the Way to Bliss: Toward a New Understanding of Heroism,” a project in the Joseph Campbell archives.
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The Joseph Campbell Foundation Mythological RoundTable® Group of OPUS
at Pacifica Graduate Institute, Santa Barbara presents
Date: Thursday, September 8, 2016
Time: 7:00pm to 9:00pm
Location: 801 Ladera Lane, Santa Barbara, CA, Classroom G
Free and Open to the Public
The first event of this revived RoundTable will feature Dr. Evans Lansing Smith with a presentation on the famous Red Chamber at the Villa of Mysteries in Pompeii. Pacifica Graduate Institute Mythological Studies doctoral candidate and RoundTable leader Devon Deimler, will be giving an introduction on the importance of the Villa as the most notorious visual source of the Dionysian.
Dr. Evans Lansing Smith has degrees from Williams College, Antioch International, and The Claremont Graduate School. He is the author of ten books and numerous articles on comparative literature and mythology, and has taught at colleges in Switzerland, Maryland, Texas, and California, and at the C.G. Jung Institute in Kusnacht. In the late 1970s, he traveled with Joseph Campbell on study tours of Northern France, Egypt, and Kenya, with a focus on the Arthurian Romances of the Middle Ages and the Mythologies of the Ancient World.
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