WHO WE ARE
 
 
 

The OPUS Archives and Research Center on the Campus of Pacifica Graduate Institute is an active site for wonder and participation in the great questions of our time. We sponsor interdisciplinary dialogues, community networks, internet forums, and creative conversation among researchers, scholars, students, and faculty on a broad series of related topics.

As a dynamic center for the appreciation of the functions of Depth Psychology, Mythology and the Humanities, and their place on the world platform, the OPUS Archives and Research Center will form a nucleus for the exploration of psyche and myth in the world. It is a center that, in

 
  Joseph Campbell's words, provides a "secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human cultural manifestation."

We serve as a repository for rare and significant collections in the fields of mythology, archetypal psychology, and world culture extending the availability of these collections to students, alumni and scholars who express a keen desire to utilize them in contemporary research. We also facilitate grants that further research in these fields and the dissemination of scholarly work into the culture-at-large.