Ocean Seminary College

Faculty Member, Department of Neopagan Studies

Other Affiliations: Institute for Thealogy and Deasophy, Department of Thealogy and Deasophy
University of Glasgow, Theology and Religious Studies

Postgraduate PhD Research Student

Centre for the Study of Literature, Theology and the Arts

Thesis Title: Depth Thealogy: A Psychodynamic Study in Women's Spiritual Memoirs

About

My primary research interest area is religious experience.  At present, my work is currently focused on the Western shift towards Goddess-centred spiritualities/faith traditions. These traditions offer personal religious authority with an emphasis in unmediated experiences of the Divine Feminine (often in tandem with a Consort or God).  I am  also fascinated by the use of literature as a tool for psychological, social and theological change -- specifically how literature effects and can even create thea/theology.  I am conducting a phenomenological, psychodynamic study of five contemporary women's spiritual memoirs (written by Jean Shinoda Bolen, Sue Monk Kidd, Phyllis Curott, Christine Downing, and Margaret Starbird), analyzing from the perspective of the adherents the memoirs' psycho-religious significance, potential for creating a paradigmatic shift towards the Sacred Feminine, and emerging thealogy.

As an Adjunct Professor at Ocean Seminary College, I teach in the Department of Neopagan Studies specialising in Goddess Thealogy and Jungian Depth Thealogy.

I am also honoured to be a co-founder of the Institute of Thealogy and Deasophy with Angela Hope.  The Institute is a research centre dedicated to furthering and developing thealogical contemplation and Goddess-centred praxis.  The Institute seeks to provide a bridge between scholars and practitioners and provide a location supportive to thealogical and deasophical contemplation. I have recently been appointed Director of the Institute and Editor-in-Chief for the Institute's "Goddess Thealogy: An International Journal for the Study of the Divine Feminine". 

My work and research are highly interdisciplinary and include: thealogy, literature, Analytical Psychology (including Jung's models of the Archetypes, the Collective Unconscious, Dreams, the Anima/Animus relationship and the path of Individuation), sociology, philosophy, holism, post-feminist theory, women's studies, pagan theology, depth psychology, psychology of religion, religious syncretism, inter-faith relations and religious pluralism.

I hold a MA (Hons) in Humanities from California State University Dominguez Hills where I presented my dissertation 'Sacred Feminine Literature: Reemergence of the Goddess.'  This work was later published by VDM Verlag, Germany in November 2009 under the title 'Literature of the Sacred Feminine: Great Mother Archetypes and the Reemergence of the Goddess in Western Traditions.'

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