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Opus Archives and Research Center Awarded Prestigious Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services Thanks to a grant from the federal Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), Opus, located on the campuses of Pacifica Graduate Institute, has been able to transfer the
Read MoreJane Hollister Wheelwright Lecture Series
Reminding you to celebrate Jane’s birthday by attending the next in the Jane Hollister Wheelwright Lecture Series on Thursday, September 9th, from 6:00 – 8:00 PM on the Ladera campus of Pacifica Graduate Institute! Come listen in to Lou Ann Wallner’s fascinating lect
Read MoreVoice of the Ancestor: Jane’s Storm
“Listening to the storm gave me time to reminisce about our seacoast. The breakers, whatever their intensity, are indicators of the state of things. They also convey messages from distant lands–taking up the pressures from foreign storms thousands of miles away to spend th
Read MoreMyth 101: The Animal-Rumblings of Earthquake
In many cultures, it is not only the gods and goddesses to cause earthquakes. Animals too, with restlessness, anger, fatigue, or just plain curiosity, cavort and roll about, instigating the great ruckus of earthquakes felt by we who live above. For instance: In Japan, the monstrous
Read MoreJoe within his “mansion of dance”
“I had my first rock and roll experience at a performance of the Grateful Dead…. Rock music had always seemed a bore to me, but I can tell you, at that concert, I found eight thousand people standing in mild rapture for five hours. The place was just a mansion of dance. And I th
Read MoreMyth 101: A Moveable Place
Bri Leith, Co. Longford (and others), Land of Eire Bri Leith is a paradoxical place of movement and stasis. Some place it in County Longford, some in Westmeath, and some in a variety of other locales upon the green isle. It appears that Bri Leith desires, for the most part, to locate
Read MoreQuote from the Archive: The Ancestors Speak
“Money is a psychic reality… devilishly divine.… To find the soul of modern man or woman, begin by searching into those irreducible embarrassing facts of the money complex, that crazy crab scuttling across the floors of silent seas.” James Hillman, City and Sou
Read MoreJane Hollister Wheelwright Lecture Series
Please join us for the second lecture titled Beyond the Ranch Papers: The Dream of the Tepitates. Presented by Lou Ann Wallner Come join us on Jane’s birthday! Friday, September 9th, 2011, 6:00 to 8:00 PM. (Pacifica Graduate Institute, 801 Ladera Lane, Santa Barbara, CA) Please
Read MoreChristine Downing’s Serpent Goddess
This Serpent Goddess has been a figure that has sat on Chris’ desk, symbolizing the goddess energy that has inspired her writing. It is on display in our exhibit titled “Little Treasures”.
Read MoreIn Professor Joe’s words…
“The whole problem of mythology is how to contact immortal forces with our mortal forms. What is mortal will be transformed.” Joseph Campbell, L130 “Cosmogonic and Hero Cycles” 11/30/65, Sarah Lawrence
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