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Our theme for 2020, The Stories We Tell, welcomes participants to share in the magic of cultural, personal, and mythic storytelling. Through story we celebrate diversity, lift up humanity, promote intercultural respect.

Join us for a One-Day Introduction to Pacifica’s graduate degree programs in Depth Psychology, Humanities and Mythological Studies. The event offers prospective graduate students a comprehensive introduction and orientation to the distinctive educational features of the Institute.

As our devices merge with our bodies and minds, technology is becoming an extension of ourselves. Artificial intelligence has started to think and see for us, cyberspace is turning into our preferred habitation, and the virtual and the real are trading places.

An Online 6-Week Course with Craig Chalquist, Kelly Carlin, Kwame Scruggs, Erik Davis, and Mary Wood

A 9-Month Certificate with Maureen Murdock, Jennifer Selig, and Daphne Dodson

Trauma does not just happen to a few unlucky people, it happens to everyone. If we are not suffering from a post-traumatic stress disorder, we suffer from a pre-traumatic one. Death, illness and loss eventually impact us all, but even the everyday sufferings of loneliness and fear are difficult to face.

For the ILLUMINED series, artist David Orr photographs a mystical, sacred, or philosophical text—often a one-of-a-kind hand-printed and illuminated manuscript—then digitally recombines the results into an abstract form which alludes to each worldview and beyond.

Who is the Navajo Deity Changing Woman and why is her mythology obscured? In this presentation, Odette Springer, PhD, will explore the many mysteries of Changing Woman and Na’ach’aanhi, the Navajo term for an artist, or “maker of things.”

The Flip is Kripal’s ambitious, visionary program for unifying the sciences and the humanities to expand our minds, open our hearts, and negotiate a peaceful resolution to the culture wars.

An online 8-week Course with Craig Chalquist