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Please join us to celebrate A New Gnosis: Comic Books, Comparative Mythology, and Depth Psychology, a new book edited by David M. Odorisio, PhD, Co-Chair of the Mythological Studies program at Pacifica Graduate Institute. This book explores the Superhero phenomena as it exploded into 20th- and 21st-century popular culture by way of the visual medium of comic books. In an increasingly secular (yet spiritual) culture that has largely renounced “the gods” (and even religion), what does the return of the superhero through our own pop cultural mythologies say to us―or even about us? 

The event will be moderated by essay contributor, Amy Slonaker PhDc, and the volume's editor Dr. David Odorisio, and feature a conversation with two of the book’s contributors: Dr. Jeffrey J. Kripal, PhD, Chair in Philosophy and Religious Thought at Rice University; and Yvonne Chireau, PhD, Peggy Chan Professor of Black Studies at Swarthmore College.