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Fleshing Out a Life Story
On Sunday, November 17, 2024 Dennis Patrick Slattery offered reflections on aging to The Unitarian Universalists of New Braunfels, Texas. His presentation included a series of questions that parishioners of any age could pose to themselves in order to raise their consciousness of what resists and promotes their life journey toward a full and vibrant self-identity.
Soul Transformation
In this episode of the podcast, Soul Transformation, hosted by Dr. Selina Matthews, Dennis responds to questions posed by Selina on the topic of "Aging: Service to the Soul." In it they challenge some of the assumptions about aging from both personal and cultural perspectives. As Dennis has recently turned 80, he considers what the soul calls him to at this moment in his eldering life.
The Mythopoetic Journey of Dennis Patrick Slattery
On the occasion of Dennis’ 80th trip around the sun, a group of Pacifica Graduate Institute alumni created an online celebration. This interview by Will Linn for Fates & Graces’ Re-Membering at 80: Celebrating Dennis Patrick Slattery accompanied the tribute.
Dennis Patrick Slattery on CG Jung, Mandalas, and the Field
Dennis Patrick Slattery, in an interview with Clay Boykin, explores the power of mandalas as well as Jung's use of them in both psyche and creativity. They also explore the richness of creating one's own mandala and the meanings that emerge from them to help one's individuation journey.
Searching for Serenity
Dennis Patrick Slattery engages in conversation with Dennis Tardon and Clay Boykin, co creators and directors of the podcast, "Search for the Compassionate Male." The conversation centers on a second installment of his spiritual memoir, A Pilgrimage Beyond Belief, where he discusses his yearning to retrieve a spiritual sense of living within a life that is too busy to allow it in.
Dennis Slattery on Eros, Intimacy and Truth
Dennis Patrick Slattery in an interview with Clay Boykin, explores the archetypal nature of Eros, Intimacy and Truth. The mythic narrative of Eros and Psyche symbolizes personal growth and intimacy with self and others. Trust and vulnerability are hallmarks of such psychic growth.
Dennis Patrick Slattery on The Green Knight, Moby Dick and More...
Dennis Patrick Slattery in an interview with Clay Boykin relates the significance of the film, The Green Knight and its relation to Herman Melville's Moby-Dick and the mythological narratives of Chaco Canyon. Emphasis is on both inner and outer journeys of the soul. They also discuss Slattery's new book, The Way of Myth: Stories' Subtle Wisdom, emphasizing the enduring relevance of mythological stories in understanding contemporary culture.
Myth Lit Webinar with Dr. Dennis Patrick Slattery on His Spiritual Memoir, A Pilgrimage Beyond Belief
Dennis Patrick Slattery in an interview with Fates and Graces Founders, Joanna Gardner and Stephanie Zajchowski, outlines how writing his spiritual memoir, A Pilgrimage Beyond Belief: Spiritual Journeys Through Christian and Buddhist Monasteries of the American West, helped him reclaim a spiritual vitality in his life. In his 3.5-month pilgrimage he reflected on where his spiritual life had become dormant and stale. His pilgrimage reclaimed this essential quality of his identity.
How I Stumbled Across Jung with Dennis Patrick Slattery Ph.D.
In an interview with Jon Wilson, host of "Jung and the World," Dennis Patrick Slattery relates his history of falling into careers of teaching and writing. In his graduate work at Kent State University, he befriends another graduate student in the Literature Department who gifts Dennis a copy of Jung's Modern Man in Search of a Soul. The year was 1969. Dennis relates how much Jungian thought has influenced and inspired his teaching and writing over many decades.
How I Stumbled Across Jung with Dennis Patrick Slattery Ph.D. Part 2
In his continuing conversation with Jon Wilson, host of “Jung and the World,” Dennis Patrick Slattery describes his writing career, his years teaching poetry and mythology at Pacifica Graduate Institute in Carpinteria, California as well as his creative life a life of painting and writing poetry. They emphasized the creative imagination as an essential element of the soul’s continual unfolding.
The Poetic Basis of Mind with Jon Wilson and Dennis Patrick Slattery
Dennis Patrick Slattery Interview with Jon Wilson in his Jung and the World podcast. In this interview, "The Poetic Basis of Mind,' Dennis and Jon explore James Hillman's understanding of a form of consciousness that is based on imagining as a way of valuing the particulars of the world, of seeing into them their essential nature rather than imposing one's own ego-generated views, assumptions and prejudices on them. Their conversation includes mythic themes and figures, literary works, and phenomenology.
Interview with Sandi Sedgbeer on Dennis’ Ten Most Spiritual Books
Dennis Patrick Slattery, in an interview with Sandi Dedgbeer on his "Ten Most Spiritual Books," relates what texts shaped his imagination over decades. Most dramatic was his coming to the works of mythologist Joseph Campbell's mythic frame to understand how myths are analogical; they reveal the many ways in which the soul seeks itself in one's interior life in and through the external world. Dennis found in Campbell's writings a deep accord between psyche, spirit and embodiment that were universal across world mythologies.
Soul Transformation with Dr. Selina Matthews PhD. and Dennis Patrick Slattery
Dennis Patrick Slattery, in an interview with Spiritual Psychologist Dr. Selina Matthews, discusses "the Myth of Belief" by raising some basic questions: why do we have to believe in anything? How are belief and myth related? What is this growing malady world-wide between fabricating beliefs based on bogus facts and disinformation? The beliefs we hold and cherish comprise the infrastructures of the myths we live by.
Soul Transformation with Dr. Selina Matthews PhD. and Dennis Patrick Slattery
Dennis Patrick Slattery, in an interview with Spiritual Psychologist, Dr. Selina Matthews, addresses the topic of "Hauntings: The Interface of the Visible and Invisible Worlds." He asks how traumas and hauntings pervade our consciousness? How do ghosts find footholds in various political, social and psychological pockets of our individual and collective lives? W.B. Yeats' haunting poem, "The Second Coming," provides an image of the "rough beasts" that can "slouch" into our lives as hauntings.
Dennis Patrick Slattery in On the Path: Meditation, Spirituality, and the Dark Night of the Soul
In this interview, Dennis speaks about his dissatisfaction with the homilies and low wattage of catholic sermons and what made him spend 3.5 months years ago pilgrimaging from one monastery to another in the American Southwest, out of which grew a memoir: A Pilgrimage Beyond Belief: Spiritual Journeys Through Christian and Buddhist Monasteries of the American West.
Dennis Patrick Slattery on A Pilgrimage Beyond Belief
Here Dennis talks about his book, A Pilgrimage Beyond Belief as well as the vital importance of meditation practices to allow for a deepening of one’s spiritual and creative life that nurtures compassion.
The Beauty Between Words poetry by Dennis Patrick Slattery and Chris Paris
In introducing "The Beauty Between Words," a co-authored volume of poetry by two friends and poets, Dennis Patrick Slattery and Chris Paris, both reveal their distinct mythopoetic voices to create a field of insights that are universal and particular at once. The volume's creation was a joy for both writers as they supported one another's poetic gifts.
The Power and Poetry of Love
Dennis Patrick Slattery speaks in the public library auditorium of Salt Lake City as guest of Machiel Klerk, founder of The Jung Platform. Dennis focuses on the reality of the psyche and the aesthetics of beauty. He reveals his own insight that he did not have to choose either the path of depth psychology or the creative imagination but could blend them to create a third thing: the mythopoetic imagination shared by writers and artists through the centuries.
M.A./Ph.D. Mythological Studies program at Pacifica Graduate Institute
In this video for the Mythological Studies Program at Pacifica Graduate Institute, Dennis Patrick Slattery and other faculty of the program describe the unique qualities of this field of study as a broadly-based series of Humanities courses that encourages students to explore, for example, the same psychic phenomena from multiple disciplines to arrive at unique and original perspectives that such scholarship creates. A prospective student can easily discern the love of the faculty for one another and for their individual contributions.