Myth Lit Webinar
🗓️ May 18, 2024
đź•™ 10:00 am Pacific Time
đź“™ The book: A Pilgrimage Beyond Belief, by Dennis Patrick Slattery
A Pilgrimage Beyond Belief: Spiritual Journeys through Christian and Buddhist Monasteries of the American West tells the story of Dennis’s soul sabbatical, during which he visited a series of spiritual retreat centers. This page-turner of a memoir and travelogue truly takes us along as readers for a depth experience with Dennis.
Join us on May 18 to discuss A Pilgrimage Beyond Belief!
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“I was not retreating from as much as retreating to a source greater than I, which offered secure direction and serenity if I could bring myself to yield to it.”
– Dennis Patrick Slattery, A Pilgrimage Beyond Belief
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About DENNIS
Dennis Patrick Slattery Ph.D., has been teaching for more than 57 years, the last 27 of which have been in the Mythological Studies Program at Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara, California, where he is currently Distinguished Professor Emeritus. He is also a Core Faculty Member at Jung Platform since 2017.
He is the author, co-author, editor or co-editor of 33 volumes, including seven volumes of poetry and one novel co-authored with Charles Asher. His recent titles include the award-winning Deep Creativity: Seven Ways to Spark Your Creative Spirit, co-authored with Deborah Ann Quibell and Jennifer Leigh Selig, and The Way of Myth: Stories’ Subtle Wisdom. His most current book is The Fictions in Our Convictions: Essays on the Cultural Imagination. In addition, he has written over 200 articles, book reviews and Op-Ed pieces.
Dennis offers writing retreats on C.G. Jung’s Red Book as well as on “Writing One’s Personal Myth” through the works of Joseph Campbell and other mythologists. For three years he taught student inmates by mail in a California prison using Campbell’s The Hero with a Thousand Faces. He has been taking painting classes in watercolor, gouache and acrylics for the past twelve years. He and his wife Sandy have been married for fifty-six years and enjoy their three sweet grandchildren. For more about Dennis’s work, visit his website at dennispatrickslattery.com.