CHAPTER ONE BEGINS LIKE THIS: On October 25, 1999, two F-16 fighter planes from the Oklahoma Air National Guard's 138th Fighter Wing scrambled to intercept a Learjet headed into America's heartland. The plane they were ordered to intercept was not an enemy aircraft. It had not been hijacked. It was not carrying criminals, terrorists, drug smugglers, or anyone else who was harboring ill will toward the United States or its people. I first read about the intercept of the jet on the internet ...

Cole Clay, raised a cowboy on California’s Central Coast, is on the cusp of a new life. A rich wife and a rewarding new job promise an escape from being “land rich and cash poor.” When the death of a young cowboy implicates his family, Cole is immersed in a hot cauldron of family conflict and forced to make a choice that will alter the course of his life. Santa Ynez is a modern western saga but, at a deeper level, it’s a meditation on what divides us as a people and whether tradit...

Mythologists work as cultural animateurs, tracking patterns and trends, identifying archetypal and symbolic wounds and remedies. Reading cultural and environmental events via texts and patterns from such a perspective enables dynamic dialogue and action. Regenerating the Feminine: Psyche, Culture, and Nature examines the history of the lost and degraded archetypal feminine of Western cultures, whose resurgence in scholarship, the arts, and social justice practices is now on the ri...

Selected letters capturing ongoing conversations between famed mythologist Joseph Campbell and a remarkable group of artists, seekers, filmmakers, novelists, and scholarsThis brand-new collection of letters features illuminating conversations between Joseph Campbell and a fascinating cast of correspondents, ranging from friends and cowriters to renegade scholars and fellow visionaries. Including letters from both Campbell and his correspondents, and spanning the co...

The Crown of Happenstance tells the story of a search for something which might not even exist but is wanted badly by various people on Earth and by the people of Shonak. It is rumored to confer god-like powers on whoever wears it. This story details two serious efforts to find and exploit the Crown. The Shonakian named Bon, who is that planet's senior representative on Earth, is after the Crown in order to reach ever higher vibrations of existence. They think that's where thought-creation...

With a wit as sharp as a vodka stinger and a heart as free as her spirit, Auntie Mame burst onto the literary scene in 1955--and today remains one of the most unforgettable characters in contemporary fiction.Wildly successful when it was first published in 1955, Patrick Dennis’ Auntie Mame sold over two million copies and stayed put on the New York Times bestseller list for 112 weeks. It was made into a play, a Broadway and a Hollywood musical, an...

As Dennis Patrick Slattery's writing shows, the very stuff of the great traditions is life itself, and the hurly-burly of current culture is the ground in which tradition thrives. Slattery's analyses are keen and thoughtful, often scholarly, and always deeply spiritual. But they are better for being a bit pugnacious and intimate and virile. They give evidence of a life lived in earnest, one in which nothing is walled off into a category but all enters into the whole that is the mysterious ...

"A glance at these 30 essays reveals Professor Slattery's astoundingly vast and varied range of scholarly interests....These disciplines function for Dennis as modes of knowing, modes of imagining."--Peter C. Phan, Ignacio Ellacuria Chair of Catholic Social Thought, Georgetown University.Elizabeth Fergus-Jean, Ph.D., is an artist and professor at Columbus College of Art and Design in Ohio and faculty in the Humanities Program, Pacifica Graduate Institute. Her artwork appear...

Dante has it right: we are on more than a journey; we are on a pilgrimage. Author Dennis Patrick Slattery, who has been teaching Dantes works for more than twenty years, believes that our life stories are embedded in the journey of this pilgrim. In Day-to-Day Dante, Slattery presents passages from Dante Alighieris fourteenth-century poem The Divine Comedy to assist you in searching for the core elements of your personal myth. Day-to-Day Dante is divided into 365 ...

Enter the biblically historic world of Simon of Cyrene, where a world of grief, revenge, and Dennis Patrick Slattery and tender devotion awaits. There, families are torn apart, marauding soldiers enact their violent ways, and random events suddenly disrupt life. Along this journey there will be encounters with Pontius Pilate, Veronica, Mary, and the sons of Simon, Rufus and Alexander, as they seek to grasp the mystery of a compassionate Nazarene, serenely putting into practice the kingdom ...

Baltimore is key to understanding the trajectory of civil rights in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuryIn A Brotherhood of Liberty, Dennis Patrick Halpin shifts the focus of the black freedom struggle from the Deep South to argue that Baltimore is key to understanding the trajectory of civil rights in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In the 1870s and early 1880s, a dynamic group of black political leaders migrated to Baltimore...

Baltimore is key to understanding the trajectory of civil rights in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuryIn A Brotherhood of Liberty, Dennis Patrick Halpin shifts the focus of the black freedom struggle from the Deep South to argue that Baltimore is key to understanding the trajectory of civil rights in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In the 1870s and early 1880s, a dynamic group of black political leaders migrated to Baltimore...