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Dr. Betty J. Kovács' Bio:
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Betty J. Kovács received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Irvine, in Comparative Literature and Theory of Symbolic Language. She has studied and taught in Europe and the United States. She is Professor Emerita, Pasadena City College, Pasadena, California, where she taught literature, writing, mythology and symbolic language for over twenty-five years. She has studied the spiritual traditions of prehistory and indigenous cultures and has worked with shamans from the Amazon and the Andes in Peru. Dr. Kovács has also served many years on the Board of Directors of the Jung Society of Claremont in California. She has been interviewed on radio, local cable TV, in newspapers and magazines.
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Betty Kovács' Article Index - Click on the article title you want to read -
Books by Dr. Betty Kovács
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Dr. Kovács can provide commentary, background, story ideas, and articles about the Mystery of Death, non-ordinary experiences, symbolic-mythic language (our first language), the repression of the feminine dimension of the divine, and the shamanic roots of Western culture.
Topics include:
The Mystery of Death
- Ancient initiations into Life
- Experiencing Deeper Orders of Reality
- Igniting ordinarily buried dimensions of existence and experience
- Coping with the death of a child or loved one
- Experiencing the survival of consciousness after physical death
- A KEY to inner healing
- Western culture's addiction to Death
- The planetary shift in consciousness
Symbolic, Mythic Language
- The nature and function of myths, fairy tales, dreams and visions and why they are essential to our survival in the 21st century
- Why our health and well-being require us to value our life stories as much as we value our ability to think about ideas
- The creative role of the Imagination
The Story of Western Culture
- Our shamanic experience of Deeper Orders of Reality
- Western culture's denial and rejection of its shamanic experience
- The perennial return of Deeper Orders of Reality in the form of myths, dreams, fairy tales, and current unexplained phenomena
- The denial and repression of the symbolism of the feminine as divine and its catastrophic consequences for Western culture
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BOOK REVIEW COPIES
To obtain a review copy of The Miracle of Death
by Betty J. Kovács, Ph.D.
contact Kimberly Saavedra
at: (909) 447-2711
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Contact Information:
Website:
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Email:
Kimberly Saavedra, Director: ksaavedra@kamlak.com
Betty J. Kovács, Ph.D.: bjkovacs@earthlink.net
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112 Harvard Avenue #23
Claremont, CA 91711-4716
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