Free Online Talk · Stage 4 Cancer and My Night Sea Journey To Wellness with Myth & Religion Scholar Amy Slonaker, JD, PhD
Monday, June 30, 2025
7pm ET
PLEASE NOTE: A link to a recording of this talk will be sent out to ticket holders after its conclusion. It will also be archived for our Patreon members. Become a Member HERE.
Ticketholders: A Zoom invite is sent out two hours before the event to the email used at checkout. Please check your spam folder and if not received, email hello@morbidanayomy.org . A temporary streaming link will be emailed after the event concludes.
This talk is an expanded version of an original iteration delivered at Morbid Anatomy’s 2024 Memento Mori Festival.
Lecturer Amy Slonaker was given two years to live in 2017 after a Stage 4, metastatic cancer diagnosis from her doctors at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Her story of ongoing healing from cancer was retold in Joanna Ebenstein's book Memento Mori (2024) where it provided an example of how confrontation with death can lead to a better life. In this lecture, Slonaker explains how her doctoral study of mythology and archetypes—along with her deep engagement with Jungian analysis—allowed her to heal long-term wounds at the soul-level which allowed her body to fight back against cancer.
This illustrated lecture uses art and myth across cultures to explore how archetypal narratives, themes, and images can provide us a pathway for understanding and metabolizing serious illness. Focusing on the archetypal theme of the descent to the underworld, Slonaker explores the archetypal narrative of "The Night Sea Journey" through a variety of world myths in order to demonstrate how a serious confrontation with death can be the beginning of a better life.
Amy Slonaker, JD, PhD, is an independent scholar of myth and religion. She received her undergraduate degree in Religious Studies snd Political Science from UC Santa Barbara, and her Juris Doctorate from Seattle University School of Law. After more than 20 years, she left the practice of law to pursue a PhD in Mythological Studies with an Emphasis in Depth Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara, CA. She now writes, lectures, and teaches on topics related to myth, religion, and comparative mysticism. Her 2024 dissertation was titled: The Varieties of Comic Book Experience: Reading Comic Books as Mystico-Visionary Texts.
Monday, June 30, 2025
7pm ET
PLEASE NOTE: A link to a recording of this talk will be sent out to ticket holders after its conclusion. It will also be archived for our Patreon members. Become a Member HERE.
Ticketholders: A Zoom invite is sent out two hours before the event to the email used at checkout. Please check your spam folder and if not received, email hello@morbidanayomy.org . A temporary streaming link will be emailed after the event concludes.
This talk is an expanded version of an original iteration delivered at Morbid Anatomy’s 2024 Memento Mori Festival.
Lecturer Amy Slonaker was given two years to live in 2017 after a Stage 4, metastatic cancer diagnosis from her doctors at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Her story of ongoing healing from cancer was retold in Joanna Ebenstein's book Memento Mori (2024) where it provided an example of how confrontation with death can lead to a better life. In this lecture, Slonaker explains how her doctoral study of mythology and archetypes—along with her deep engagement with Jungian analysis—allowed her to heal long-term wounds at the soul-level which allowed her body to fight back against cancer.
This illustrated lecture uses art and myth across cultures to explore how archetypal narratives, themes, and images can provide us a pathway for understanding and metabolizing serious illness. Focusing on the archetypal theme of the descent to the underworld, Slonaker explores the archetypal narrative of "The Night Sea Journey" through a variety of world myths in order to demonstrate how a serious confrontation with death can be the beginning of a better life.
Amy Slonaker, JD, PhD, is an independent scholar of myth and religion. She received her undergraduate degree in Religious Studies snd Political Science from UC Santa Barbara, and her Juris Doctorate from Seattle University School of Law. After more than 20 years, she left the practice of law to pursue a PhD in Mythological Studies with an Emphasis in Depth Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara, CA. She now writes, lectures, and teaches on topics related to myth, religion, and comparative mysticism. Her 2024 dissertation was titled: The Varieties of Comic Book Experience: Reading Comic Books as Mystico-Visionary Texts.
Monday, June 30, 2025
7pm ET
PLEASE NOTE: A link to a recording of this talk will be sent out to ticket holders after its conclusion. It will also be archived for our Patreon members. Become a Member HERE.
Ticketholders: A Zoom invite is sent out two hours before the event to the email used at checkout. Please check your spam folder and if not received, email hello@morbidanayomy.org . A temporary streaming link will be emailed after the event concludes.
This talk is an expanded version of an original iteration delivered at Morbid Anatomy’s 2024 Memento Mori Festival.
Lecturer Amy Slonaker was given two years to live in 2017 after a Stage 4, metastatic cancer diagnosis from her doctors at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Her story of ongoing healing from cancer was retold in Joanna Ebenstein's book Memento Mori (2024) where it provided an example of how confrontation with death can lead to a better life. In this lecture, Slonaker explains how her doctoral study of mythology and archetypes—along with her deep engagement with Jungian analysis—allowed her to heal long-term wounds at the soul-level which allowed her body to fight back against cancer.
This illustrated lecture uses art and myth across cultures to explore how archetypal narratives, themes, and images can provide us a pathway for understanding and metabolizing serious illness. Focusing on the archetypal theme of the descent to the underworld, Slonaker explores the archetypal narrative of "The Night Sea Journey" through a variety of world myths in order to demonstrate how a serious confrontation with death can be the beginning of a better life.
Amy Slonaker, JD, PhD, is an independent scholar of myth and religion. She received her undergraduate degree in Religious Studies snd Political Science from UC Santa Barbara, and her Juris Doctorate from Seattle University School of Law. After more than 20 years, she left the practice of law to pursue a PhD in Mythological Studies with an Emphasis in Depth Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara, CA. She now writes, lectures, and teaches on topics related to myth, religion, and comparative mysticism. Her 2024 dissertation was titled: The Varieties of Comic Book Experience: Reading Comic Books as Mystico-Visionary Texts.