Humanities Program Faculty

 Program Chair

Jennifer Leigh Selig, Ph.D., joined Pacifica's faculty in 2005, and has served in multiple capacities: as core faculty, Research Coordinator, and Chair of the Depth Psychology program, as teaching faculty in the Clinical, Depth Psychotherapy, and Engaged Humanities programs, and most currently as Academic Director of Hybrid Programs, which includes Jungian and Archetypal Studies and Engaged Humanities & the Creative Life. In addition to her vocation of teaching, her avocation includes photography and writing (non-fiction and screenplays). Her screenplay Mary placed in the prestigious Nicholl Fellowship, sponsored by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and her screenplay One Good Man won first place in the Broad Humor Film Festival for Best Ensemble Comedy. Her books include Thinking Outside the Church: 110 Ways to Connect With Your Spiritual Nature and Reimagining Education: Essays on Retrieving the Soul of Learning which she co-edited with Dr. Dennis Slattery, a Mythological Studies professor at Pacifica.

"One privilege of directing this program is that I'm surrounded by students and faculty who honor creativity in all of its many manifestations, and who understand that the creative impulse is the primal force in the universe--indeed there would be no field called "the humanities" without it. What's more, we know we are constantly co-creating with the anima mundi, the soul of the world. Depth psychology gives us valuable insight into the generative process, and deepens our relationship with the dynamic psyche, the source of all acts of creativity." - Dr. Jennifer Leigh Selig, teacher, writer, photographer

Course She'll Co-Teach: The Complex Nature of Inspiration

 Faculty

Wendy Phillips, MS, Ph.D is a psychologist, an ethnographic researcher, and a visual artist. For the past ten years she has been working in communities of African and North American indigenous descent in coastal Mexico interviewing women about their traditional healing practices, conceptualizations of physical and psychological illness, and metaphysical beliefs. This work with the women informs her conceptual work. Wendy incorporates black and white photography as an element of her research. Wendy enjoys using traditional and alternative photographic processes and loves to work in the alchemical space that is the darkroom. Wendy enjoys working with other artists individually and in the form of the artists' collective. She has participated and collaborated in projects with artists in Cuba, Spain, and Mexico. She has presented a workshop on identity and individuation using photo portraiture and collage in the Women's Penitentiary in Brieva, Spain, and a workshop on the psychological aspects of photography at the Universidad Veracruzana, Departamento de Artes Plasticos, in Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico. Wendy's work has been recently exhibited at the Hammonds House Museum in Atlanta, Georgia, The Galeria del Jardin de las Esculpturas in Xalapa, Mexico, The Museum of the African Diaspora, in San Francisco, The Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and at Umbrella Arts Gallery in New York. At Pacifica, Wendy also teaches in the Clinical Psychology and MA in Counseling Programs.

Wendy shares, "I look forward to the beginning of the new Engaged Humanities Program, a place where I will be able to meld my interests in Depth and Archetypal Psychology, inquiries into the creative process and aesthetics, and the making of art. I look forward to being engaged with students who are visual and performing artists, writers, teachers, and others as we explore theory, engage in discourse, and actively participate in our own creative practices. I also look forward to working in cyberspace as we dialogue with each other and sample from its rich and inspiring artistic offerings." 

Course She'll Teach: Creativity and Aesthetic Sensibility

Maren Tonder Hansen, M. Div., Ph.D, earned her doctorate in psychology from Saybrook Graduate School, and her Masters in Divinity from Starr King School for the Ministry. Hansen is an ordained Unitarian Universalist minister, and a licensed Marriage, Family Therapist. Her research interests include: the psychological dimension of myth; female psychology and spirituality; and depth psychological models of leadership. She is author of MotherMysteries, Teachers of Myth, and a public policy book on organic agriculture, for which she received an award from the Center for Science in the Public Interest. Hansen researched, designed and tested a myth curriculum for adolescents, designed to stimulate psychological development. Hansen is a ex officio member of the Board of Trustees for Pacifica Graduate Institute, and is a founding member of the Joseph Campbell Archives and Library. Her creative pursuits include improvisational singing in an ensemble, and songwriting.

Maren shares, "The interdisciplinary threads that we weave in the Humanities courses elicit rich understandings of our human and planetary condition. These multidimensional perceptions become the deep field out of which our vivified work and being emerges."

Course She'll Teach: Joseph Campbell and the Mythmaker's Path.

Dr. Barbara Mossberg, President Emerita of Goddard College, is a prize-winning author, poet, professor, and scholar who works internationally to promote leadership education for "common genius," vital creativity and conscience for war and peace, civil and human rights, and environmental policy. She brings to Pacifica enthusiasm for its mission from her background as a public intellectual and humanities scholar weaving cultural history, social sciences, and sciences. Dr. Mossberg's activism as a scholar, board member, and leader in institutional, national, and international arenas is informed by her experience as actor and performance artist, radio host, dramatist, and poet. As an academic, Mossberg was tenured at the University of Oregon, including co-founding its interdisciplinary American Studies program. She has served the USIA (U.S. State Department) as U.S. Scholar in Residence, and American Council on Education as Senior Fellow. She has promoted interdisciplinary teaching and research as dean (University of Oregon, National University, California State University Monterey Bay), and president of Goddard College, among other roles. She directs the Integrated Studies Program at CSU Monterey Bay and teaches for the Osher Institute for Lifelong Learning, as well as the Interdisciplinary Ph.D. at Union Institute and University. She lectures and consults worldwide for organizational and individual development. As scholar in residence and keynote speaker on leadership and learning for organizations including the American Council on Education, Miami University, Union Institute and University, the Couchiching Conference, the Lilly Conference on College and University Teaching, Fulbright, and Phi Beta Kappa, and as Senior Fulbright Distinguished Lecturer, University of Helsinki, she interweaves emergent and ancient wisdom for 21st century mandates, opportunities, and challenges. Wishing to promote humanities in civil culture, Mossberg is Poet in Residence of Pacific Grove, California, and hosts a weekly hour radio show, The Poetry Slow Down.

Barbara writes, in an email to program director Jennifer Selig, "Have I told you that I am in love with this curriculum? The epigraphs, the way it is framed philosophically, and the courses described, are immensely appealing, with the benefit that they incorporate practical dimensions so that people can extrapolate how this learning can serve both their deep career, what I think of as work which expresses and develops the soul, and professional needs to generate increased creativity and productivity. To every course I am cheering you on, and considering it a dream job to be teaching these courses which express my own work and commitments, in research, teaching, and my own poetry and lectures promoting humanities. So count me in, and I am honored to join you."

Course She'll Teach: Creative Influence Across the Humanities.

Ana Mozol, Ph. D., received her MA in counseling psychology and her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute. She is trained in the fields of Jungian, Psychoanalytic and Archetypal psychology including mythological studies. Ana is adjunct faculty with Pacifica Graduate Institute where she has taught courses on dreamwork and depth psychology since 2006. She is also a professor with the Adler School of Professional Psychology in Vancouver, BC where she teaches and guides many students in pursuing creative thesis projects. She has extensive training in Trauma and Recovery and focused her doctoral research on the connection between ancient goddess mythology, women's contemporary dreams, and trauma as it relates to the individuation process in women personally and collectively. Ana has a private practice in Vancouver. Her main areas of interest and experience include: Dreams; Depth Psychology; Archetypal Theory; Human Sexuality; Sacred Feminine; Shamanism and Creativity. She is continually engaged in many creative pursuits included acting, dance, singing, painting and writing.

Ana writes, "I am passionate about this program; I believe that it tends the Anima Mundi by providing students with an academic and archetypal container strong enough to withstand the psychic force required to produce truly inspired works of art."

Course She'll Co-Teach: The Complex Nature of Inspiration.

Darrell Dobson received his Ph.D. from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto (Canada). His academic work focuses on the educational implications of analytical psychology, especially in the areas of teacher education and development, teaching methodologies, and course content. He is the president of Jungian Society for Scholarly Studies and the founding editor of the Journal of Jungian Scholarly Studies. Dr. Dobson's publications include the book Transformative Teaching: Promoting Transformation through Literature, the Arts, and Jungian Psychology (Sense 2007) and chapters in Education and Imagination: Post-Jungian Perspectives (Routledge), and Perpetual Adolescence: Jungian Analysis of American Media, Literature, and Pop Culture (SUNY). He has published numerous articles in peer-reviewed academic journals. Dobson is particularly interested in the roles that creativity, literature, and the arts can and do play in the individuation process.

About his course, Darrell shares, "I am very excited to be a part of this innovative and important program at Pacifica. My career has been focused on investigating and promoting the transformative potential of literature and the arts, and it was this interest that led me to Jungian psychology. Creating and responding to the arts can deepen experience, promote authenticity, and facilitate healing for individuals and societies. Whitman describes,

A noiseless patient spider, I mark'd where on a little promontory it stood isolated. Mark'd how to explore the vacant vast surrounding, It launch'd forth filament, filament, filament, out of itself Ever unreeling them, ever tirelessly speeding them.

And you O my soul where you stand, Surrounded, detached, in measureless oceans of space, Ceaselessly musing, venturing, throwing, seeking the spheres to connect them. Till the bridge you will need be form'd, till the ductile anchor hold, Till the gossamer thread you fling catch somewhere, O my soul.

Creativity, arts practice, and aesthetic response are the soul's gossamer threads, filaments launching forth to seek connections within and without. The course will be an inquiry into archetypal aspects of creativity and artistic practice and will serve to make our arts practices and individuation processes more fertile and rich.

Course He'll Teach: The Expressive Power of Archetypes

Susan Rowland, Ph.D., has degrees from the Universities of Oxford, London and Newcastle, UK, and was the first Chair of the International Association of Jungian Studies (IAJS). She is author of many studies of Jung, literary theory and gender including C.G. Jung and Literary Theory (1999), Jung: A Feminist Revision (2002), Jung as a Writer (2005) and also edited Psyche and the Arts (2008). Her most recent book is C.G. Jung and the Humanities (2010), showing how Jung's work is a response to the creative, psychological, spiritual, philosophical and ecological crises of our age. Susan's work is not so much "about" Jung as an attempt to develop his special insights into myth, technology, the feminine, nature and the numinous for today's wounded world.

Susan shares, "This is one of my favorite quotations by Jung.

'For its reach is cosmic and earthy; it is down in the dirt as well as reaching for the stars. Even the loneliest meteor circles round some distant sun, or hesitantly draws near to a cluster of brother meteors. Everything hangs together with everything else... This is undoubtedly the same as the idea of an absolute God... But which of us can pull himself out of the bog by his own pigtail?' [CW9ii para. 221]

I call this Jung's "wild writing" because it is art about that founding epistemological division in western consciousness: between form and matter. Indeed in finding that very division to be a deep wound in the psyche, in arguing that we need to forge a connection between complex textual matter and abstract thought, between tacit and conceptual knowledge, Jung's wild writing is in the service of re-making an embodied and creative life."

Course She'll Teach: C. G. Jung, Individuation, and the Symbolic Life

Kim Hermanson, Ph.D., teaches creative process and psychology courses at Meridian University, the Sophia Center at Holy Names University and the Esalen Institute. She is the author of Getting Messy: A Guide to Taking Risks and Opening the Imagination for Teachers, Trainers, Coaches and Mentors (2009) and Sky's the Limit: The Art of Nancy Dunlop Cawdrey, which received an Independent Publisher Book Award in 2006. After receiving her Ph.D. in Adult Learning from the University of Chicago, she taught in the teacher credentialing program at the University of California Berkeley, and at the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology. In addition to her own publications, she has co-authored articles on adult learning with Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, author of Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, and Tony Bryk, the current president of the Carnegie Foundation.

Kim writes, "I feel honored to be part of this program, which takes us on a journey from words to image and into the beauty of a dimension where scholars don't normally tread. My quest has always been to try to understand how adults learn—not just intellectually, but in the more growthful, developmental way that facilitates social change. In my view, learning and social change are creative processes that happen on a metaphoric level, a place that's often referred to as the 'imaginal' realm. I'm delighted to be teaching this particular class—it was as if the imaginal dimension that has been guiding me all along was whispering, 'this is the next door.'"

Course She'll Teach: The Purpose and Power of Image

Eizabeth Fergus-Jean, MFA, Ph.D., is a nationally recognized interdisciplinary artist, author and lecturer on visual thinking, creativity and archetypes in media. She received her Ph.D. in the Mythological Studies Program at Pacifica and her M.F.A. from the University of Washington. Her artwork is widely exhibited and is held in numerous public and private collections. It has also appeared on the covers of several international myth and depth psychology journals and books, including all eight issues of Mythosphere. Her recent publications include Illuminating Letters: Paintings and Essays on the Kabbalah (Art & Psyche), and several articles on image and psyche. Fergus-Jean has been a community arts advocate for over 30 years focusing on the expanding role of the arts in education, and serving as the Chair for grants, artist-in-schools, and technology integration committees. She currently teaches in the Media Studies and English/Philosophy departments at Columbus College of Art and Design, has a creativity consulting practice, and is working on two art installations, Memory Stories: Community Reflections and Memory: Land, Water, and Ecology. Elizabeth was one of our founding faculty members of the Humanities Program at Pacifica.

Elizabeth shares, "I am both thrilled and honored to be a part of the Humanities program that shares my passions of exploring and celebrating the creative spirit, giving voice to personal and cultural images, and working in a creative, artistic and collaborative environment. I look forward to learning about each students' unique story, and guiding them as they deepen and enrich their own creative voice."

Course She'll Teach: Project Workshop I: Creative Dialogue and Design

Maureen Foley, MFA, is a writer, artist, and Zen practitioner who grew up on an avocado ranch in Southern California. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, Wired, Santa Barbara Magazine, Carpinteria Magazine, Caesura, Skanky Possum and elsewhere. She received her Masters of Fine Art in Prose from Naropa University. Over the last ten years, she taught English, writing and literature at Louisiana State University and various creative writing and art workshops in Baton Rouge, Santa Barbara and Boulder. Her art has been exhibited in many juried shows and galleries throughout Louisiana and California. Her writing and art convey the Zen Buddhist notions of "nothing special" and "living in the present moment" into physical form. Currently, she lives in Carpinteria with her cattle dog, Rua, and husband, the writer James Claffey.

Maureen shares, "Creativity is a subversive, revolutionary act. Start now. Make your own reality, mark by mark, line by line. I watch my students struggle against the void, against the nullifying, deafening, dulling emptiness of mass culture. They are constantly told what to think and feel. The increase in information has, ironically, made it harder to be original. I encourage students to find their own words and ideas. I give them permission to experience joy."

Course She'll Teach: Project Workshop I: Creative Dialogue and Design

Kathryn LaFevers Evans, M.A., is a practitioner and researcher of esoteric, Neoshamanic techniques and rituals since 1972, referring to her path as "reading the book of nature." She is a native Californian and Native American of the Chickasaw Nation, as well as of French heritage. Kathryn received her M.A. in Literature & Writing Studies from California State University San Marcos, and her B.A. in Comparative Literature & Research in Consciousness from Maharishi International University, which included practice of Patanjali's yoga sutras/siddhis. She is a lifelong writer of nature and devotional poetry, and has performed in 12 cities. Her academic papers are also performative, applying the Literary critical theories of Archetype-Myth and Phenomenology-Hermeneutics. Kathryn's work—combining theory and practice within contemporary secular spirituality—compares Depth & Archetypal Psychology with Renaissance Neoplatonism & Natural Magic, claiming C. G. Jung's The Red Book: Liber Novus as Jungian Natural Magic.

Kathryn shares, "I am truly honored to teach in the Engaged Humanities program. The Red Book, our central focus in HMC200, embodies humankind's archetypal, wholly-interpenetrating wisdom that can be traced through esoteric lineages such as: Shamanism & Indigenous-Aboriginal spirituality; Yoga-Sutras & Mandala in Hinduism & Buddhism; Neoplatonism & Natural Magic; Neoshamanism & Paganism; Jungian Depth & Archetypal Psychology. Pacifica's Engaged Humanities program carries forward into the new millennium this deepest study and experience of humankind."

Course She'll Teach: Active Imagination, Dreams, and Psychic Creativity

Geoffrey Jacques, Ph.D. is a poet, essayist, editor, and critic whose essays on literature, the visual arts, and other subjects have appeared in the Killens Review of Arts and Letters, ArtForum, American Literature, Cineaste, NKA Journal of Contemporary African Art, and elsewhere. His research explores poetics, modernist literature, African Americans and the visual arts, and the nuts and bolts of creativity. His own poetry has appeared, most recently, in Ping-Pong and Black Renaissance/Renaissance Noire. His books include a literary-critical study, A Change in the Weather: Modernist Imagination, African American Imaginary, and Just For a Thrill, a book of poems. Jacques has taught writing, English, American Literature, African American Literature, and American Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston, York College, CUNY, John Jay College, CUNY, and in the Liberal Studies program at New York University.

"Some people make a distinction between aesthetic pleasure, leisure, and work," says Jacques. "I am interested in how we each can make a life that fuses these interests together. I grew up admiring the way musicians, painters, and poets lived their lives as a fusion of work, creation, and play. My interest in the creative process has not just been limited to writing criticism and the problems involved in writing poetry. I've also learned a great deal from studying and thinking about what creative people can teach us about how to live our lives. The Creative Influence Across the Humanities course at Pacifica is a place where we'll be able to bring together and explore with others an integrated approach to understanding the relationships between the arts, aesthetics, and other aspects of the creative life." Course participants, he adds, "will explore how artists and other creative people use influence as an interactive instructional process that helps them achieve that synthesis we call the creative act."

Course He'll Teach: Creative Influence Across the Humanities

Priscilla Taylor, MFT, Ph.D. is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who has worked in community mental health agencies and in private practice for twenty years. She has a Ph.D in Mythological Studies with Emphasis in Depth Psychology. Priscilla has taught in Masters level Psychology and Humanities programs at Phillips Graduate Institute in Los Angeles, Meridian University in Petaluma, and CIIS in San Francisco. At  Pacifica  she has blended interests in psychology, mythology, and theater to teach a variety of courses including Psychopathology, Foundations of Mythology, Psyche and Landscape, and Mythodrama. Her early academic studies in theater and drama experiences were driven by the sense that deep personal transformation can occur when we engage our minds, emotions, bodies and spirits in the exploration of archetypal themes through character development and telling stories. In her therapy work in private practice and hospital group settings Priscilla incorporates expressive arts through sandplay, guided imagery, drawing, writing, and role-playing. A fascination with the interplay between ritual, theater and personal healing inspires her to utilize Playback Theater and Psychodrama exercises in many of her Psychology classes and intern trainings. She sees creative expression as an avenue that gives voice to the marginalized in society, offering  individual healing and ultimately leading to greater vitality for the collective. 

Priscilla shares, "This Engaged Humanities and the Creative Life program is incredibly unusual and I am thrilled to be a part of it. I believe the creative urge to express ourselves is innate, but for most of us very fragile—you might even say it is shy—and thrives best in an environment of psychological safety. But once it is given freedom to actualize it is very powerful: the process of healing that occurs in the individual resonates out in ripples and connects us to the wider world. Graduates of this program will have a significant healing impact in the myriad ways they choose to express their creative selves out in the community."

Course She'll Teach: The Healing Power of Creativity

Thomas Lane, Ph.D. received his doctorate in Comparative Literature at Yale University after graduating from Dartmouth College with a degree in the same subject. He then worked for an extended period in the Los Angeles-based film industry, where he did production and project development at Disney, HBO, Tri-Star and Interscope, among other studios and production companies. During this time, he also taught film courses at UCLA. In the late '90s, he began also doing program development and production in interactive and new media, where his focus has been media-rich human development and behavior change systems and programs. He has been teaching courses in mythology, literature, philosophy, and psychology in the Pacifica Engaged Humanities program since 2009. He has also been authorized to teach Buddhist meditation by the Spirit Rock Meditation Center, and he and his wife Tina Chappel own and operate Yoga Jones, a hatha yoga studio in Ventura, California. They live in the Ojai Valley.

Tom shares, "I am fascinated by and deeply involved in the interaction between technology and creativity, and especially by the impact, for better and worse, of the web and related media. I greatly enjoy teaching in Pacifica's Humanities program because it allows me to integrate my literary, academic background with my vocation in the arts and the creative interests of my students."

Course He'll Teach: Technology and the Psyche

Contributing Faculty Lecturers

Stephen Aizenstat, Ph.D., earned his doctorate in Clinical Psychology and is the founding president of Pacifica Graduate Institute. He is also a Marriage Family Therapist, and a credentialed public schools teacher and counselor. Dr. Aizenstat's Dream Tending methodologies extend traditional dream work to the vision of an animated world where the living images in dream are experienced as embodied and originating in the psyche of Nature as well as that of persons. His work opens creativity and the generative processes. Aizenstat's book, Dream Tending, describes multiple new applications of dreamwork in relation to health and healing, nightmares, the World's Dream, relationships, and the creative process. His other recent publications include: Imagination & Medicine: The future of Healing in an Age of Neuroscience (co-editor with Robert Bosnak), "Dream Tending and Tending the World," in Ecotherapy: Healing with Nature in Mind; and "Soul-Centered Education: An Interview with Stephen Aizenstat" (with Nancy Treadway Galindo) in Reimagining Education: Essays on Reviving the Soul of Learning.

Robert D. Romanyshyn, is a Core Faculty Member at Pacifica Graduate Institute. He is the author of six books, including The Soul In Grief: Love, Death, and Transformation, Ways of the Heart: Essays Toward an Imaginal Psychology, and numerous other publications. He is currently finishing a book of poems and taking acting lessons. He writes, "Mind and soul meet in the dream, and while we might forget our dreams they do not forget us. The art of memoir is one way of re-collecting those aspects of 'our' dream life that have been left by the side of the road. But 'who' writes the memoir? In the lecture I want to explore memoir as an archetypal document and how its creation requires one to surrender to being re-membered by the multiple voices of the psyche. I will also illustrate this theme with an example drawn from a journey I took in Nov. 2009 to the Antarctic, a journey that began more than 30 years ago with a dream."

Allen Bishop, Ph.D., is a psychoanalyst, teacher, and pianist living in Montecito, California, with his wife Dena. Allen is the immediate president of the Santa Barbara Music Club, and is the founding Director of the Santa Barbara Beethovenfest.

In addition, he serves on the Board of Directors of the American Beethoven Society. While Allen has had a life-long interest in the piano and the music of Beethoven, it is only in the last 10 years that he has had the opportunity to study seriously with teachers including Peter Yazbeck, Betty Oberacker, and Glory Fisher. He has performed frequently in the Music Club Concert Series and the Beethovenfest. As co-founder of the Montecito Chamber Players, he has performed at numerous retirement venues in and around Santa Barbara.

Allen continues to teach in the Clinical Psychology Department at Pacifica Graduate Institute.

Carol S. Pearson, Ph.D., is the Executive Vice President and Provost of Pacifica Graduate Institute and the author of The Hero Within: Six Archetypes We Live By; Educating the Majority: Women Challenge Tradition in Higher Education, co-edited by Donna L. Shavlik and Judith G. Touchton; Awakening the Heroes Within: Twelve Archetypes That Help Us Find Ourselves and Transform our World; Magic At Work: Camelot, Creative Leadership and Everyday Miracles; The Hero and the Outlaw: Building Extraordinary Brands Through The Power of Archetypes, co-authored by Margaret Mark; Mapping the Organization Psyche: A Jungian Theory of Organizational Dynamics and Change, co-authored by John Corlett; What Story Are You Living? co-authored with Hugh Marr; and Maturing the American Dream. Many of her publications are available in a growing number of foreign languages.

Evans Lansing Smith, Ph.D., traveled with Joseph Campbell on study tours of Northern France, Egypt, and Kenya, with a focus on the Arthurian Romances of the Middle Ages and the Mythologies of the Ancient World. He is the author of eight books, including The Hero Journey in Literature, Sacred Journeys: Sacred Couples in Quest, and The Complete Idiot's Guide to World Mythology, and numerous articles on comparative literature and mythology, and has taught at colleges in Switzerland, Maryland, Texas, and California, where he is currently Co-Chair of the Mythological Studies Program at the Pacifica Graduate Institute.

Jerry Wennstrom, is an artist, author of The Inspired Heart: An Artist's Journey of Transformation (book and audiobook) and subject of Parabola and Sentient Publications documentary videos, "In the Hands of Alchemy" and "Studio Dialogue." He lectures and offers film presentations internationally and has written monthly articles for Inferential Focus, a New York City think tank and consulting firm. Many of his articles are featured in "Mythic Journeys" Magazine. And Jerry's art is featured in the film Mythic Journeys. There is feature film based on Jerry's life currently in production by Danish filmmaker Hans Fabian Wullenweber. The tower that he built on his Whidbey Island, Washington property and his life's story is featured in the book, Holy Personal by Laura Chester.

At age 29, he set out to discover the rock-bottom truth of his life. For years he questioned the limits of his creative life as a studio painter. After destroying all of his art and giving away everything he owned, Jerry began a life of unconditional trust, allowing life to provide all that was needed. He lived this way for 15 years and then moved to the state of Washington, where he married Marilyn Strong and produced a large new body of art. Marilyn and Jerry's charming Whidbey Island home is now filled with his unique sculptures and paintings. Jerry has presented at the Birmingham Art Museum, the Seattle Art Museum, Kauai Museum, the EMP (Experience Music Project,) Pacifica Graduate Institute, Glen Arbor Art Association, UCS-NAROPA (Wisdom University,) the Vancouver Public Library, Western New Mexico University, California Institute of the Arts and New York University. He has done over 60 media interviews and art features.