Articles
Book Review: The Politics of Ritual. By Molly Farneth. Princeton University Press, 2023. Published in Nova Religio (2024) 28 (1): 108-110. https://doi.org/10.1353/nvr.2024.a935568
Book Review: The Thing About Religion. By David Morgan. University of North Carolina Press, 2021. Published in Nova Religio (2022) 26 (2): 93-94. https://doi.org/10.1525/nr.2022.26.2.93
Book Review: The Archaeology of Burning Man: The Rise and Fall of Black Rock City. By Carolyn L. White. University of New Mexico Press, 2020. Published in Nova Religio (2021) 25 (2): 114–115. https://doi.org/10.1525/nr.2021.25.2.114
Myth Journal 2011 Publication: Mandalas of Fast-Fish and Loose-Fish: Generic Geometric Soul-Images in Melville’s Moby-Dick
Myth Journal 2010 Publication: Infinite Space and Self-Similar Form in Alchemy and Fractal Geometry
Blogs
Laura Strudwick Educational Services LLC Blog: Tips and tricks to improve your academic skills, articles about learning and ideas.
Archetypal Entries Cultural Mythologies Blog: Blog entries examining current cultural events and phenomena from an archetypal perspective
Archetypal Entries Soul Work Blog: Blog posts about soul work, meditation, vision quests, and other types of inner journeys
Archetypal Entries YouTube Channel: YouTube essays and short videos that view the world and art through a mythological, archetypal perspective
Laura Strudwick Educational Services LLC Dog Training YouTube Channel: Videos with puppies!
Laura Strudwick’s Pacifica Graduate Institute Papers 2008-2010
2014 Published Dissertation: Prismatic Perception: An Emerging Mythology of the Millennial Mind
Greek and Roman Mythologies I: The Psyches of Orestes and Electra: Cups of Light and Shadow
Hindu Traditions: The Grand Tormenter; Śākti Laughs: How Mahādevī Reveals Herself and Interacts through Līlā and Khelnā
Dreams, Visions, Myths: River Canyon Dream Symbol
Approaches to the Study of Myth: The Star Woman of the Tarot: Psychopomp for the Celestial Ascent
Joseph Campbell: Metaphor, Myth, and Culture: The Moment of Arrest; The Centerless Web: A Mesocosmic Symbol for Our Time
Ritual: Moving Toward the Center in a Sacred Manner; Circle of Pieces: A Comparative Study of Archaic Shamanic Initiation Rituals and Contemporary Addiction Cycles
European Sacred Traditions (Arthurian Legends): Rigid Armor and Elastic Names: Emblems of Identity Status in Arthurian Knights
Jungian Depth Psychology: The Face in the Doorway: The Quality and Function of the Numinous
Myth and Philosophy: Hans-Georg Gadamer’s Language Games; The Trickster Philosopher: Heraclitus as Hermes
Post-Jungian Archetypal Psychology: Through the Lady’s Bright Eyes: America Personified
Greek and Roman Mythologies II: Hacked Open by the Double Axe: The Play of Dionysiac Wounding and Epiphany in the Human Psyche
African and African Diaspora Which God Lives in Your Head? Psychological Identity through Santeria and Voudon Symbolism; Papa Laba Carves a Space at the Crossroads: Signifyin’ on African Traditions to Invent New Orleans-Style Jazz and Mardi Gras
Native Mythologies of the Americas: Life Inside the Rock
Buddhist Traditions: The Tibetan Book of Fractal Reality; Seeing Through the Web’s Translucent Strands: Dependent Co-Arising and Emptiness in the Buddhist View of Reality
Mythic Motifs in Cinema: Forged by Fire: V for Vulcan
Psyche and Nature: The Mountain Man Archetype: The Role of Frontier Wilderness in the American Psyche
Epic Imagination: Mandalas of Fast-Fish and Loose-Fish: Generic Geometric Soul-Images in Three Epics
Folklore and Fairy Tales: A Visible Sacrifice
Myth Journal 2010 Publication: Infinite Space and Self-Similar Form in Alchemy and Fractal Geometry
Myth and the Underworld: The Echoic Necrotype
Master of Arts Comprehensive Exams: Mythology as Imaginis Divi; Grendel the Shaper; The Cylon Inside You
Hebrew and Jewish Mythologies: The Use of Literary Devices in Ecclesiastes to Reflect an Antinomic God
Religious Studies Approaches to Mythology: Modern Romantic Scholar Appropriates Postmodern Paradigm to Prove Gnostic Monomyth, or Abstract Random v. Concrete Sequential; Balancing the Inner and Outer
Islamic Traditions: Spiral Flight to Flame to Dust: The Moth into the Flame
Mythopoetic Images (Dante’s Divine Comedy): Dante’s Terza Rima Spiral Dancel; Behold the Criss-Cross Beast!
Christian Traditions: A Bridge between the Monad and the Dyad: 2—>1 via 3
Egyptian Mythology: Ptah, Early Creator God of Memphis; Inside the Double-Dark Snake of Reversals in the Twelfth Hour of the Amduat
The God Complex: Cutting God (and Ourselves) in Half; Slow Attention Dissolves Two Monkeys, Reveals Web
Dissertation Formulation Paper: Mediated Dialogue Hermeneutics Dissertation Concept Paper
Memoir: Cheetah; 60 Colony Park Circle