The Mythology of Belief: Individual and Collective Beliefs Under Pressure in a Global Pandemic Presented by Dr. Dennis Patrick Slattery (Saturday Workshop)

There exists a deep correlation or accord between what we believe and the myth we live by. Beliefs are what shape and contours our habits of thought, attitudes, and feelings. When any of these human responses are allowed to bake into our daily life, they become immensely difficult to dislodge. At times we live out beliefs and the myth that contains them well past their expiration date on the shelf. Beliefs, like myths, are metaphors for the way we negotiate the external world to create coherence between it and our interior lives.

Dennis Patrick Slattery, Ph.D., has for the past twenty-seven years been a Core Faculty member in the Mythological Studies Program at Pacifica Graduate Institute in Carpinteria, CA, where he holds the rank of Distinguished Professor Emeritus. He has taught for the past fifty-two years at the elementary, secondary, undergraduate, and graduate levels.