Essays and Articles by Scarlet Kinney

A Feminist Shamanic Perspective on the Demeter/Persephone Myth
Revised & Retitled Master's Paper: Pacifica Graduate Institute. 2002-2009
This paper explores the nature of patriarchal interference in the myth, and offers an alternative feminist shamanic interpretation of the Demeter/Persephone tale, which is based upon feminist shamanic understandings of
Women's Rights, or "The Laws of the Mothers".

Shamanistic Elements in The Tibetan Book of the Dead
Revised Master's Paper: Pacifica Graduate Institute. 2002-2009
This paper compares some of the similarities and differences in the Tibetan Buddhist
and the feminist shamanic mandalas.

Personal Experience of the Numinosum
Revised Master's Essay: Pacifica Graduate Institute. 2002-2009
This brief essay describes my experience of the numinous nature or meaning of
intensely shattering and disorienting physical events.

Liminal Space: In Search of the In-Between
Revised Master's Paper: Pacifica Graduate Institute. 2002-2009
This paper is a feminist shamanic critique of Platonic, Socratic and Christian concepts of the whereabouts of,
and ways to interact with Psyche, and offers comparisons between Jungian
and feminist shamanic methods for doing so as alternatives.

Entering, Exploring and Understanding the Enchantment
Revised Master's Paper: Pacifica Graduate Institute. 2001-2009
This paper is an argument in favor of the experiential in academic work.

A Feminist Shamanic Perspective on the Relationship between Psyche and Nature in Patriarchal Culture
Revised & Retitled Master's Paper: Pacifica Graduate Institute. 2001-2009
This paper is a feminist shamanic critique of what I consider to be the pathology of patriarchal culture's view
of the relationship between psyche and nature.

Shamanic Consciousness in Toni Cade Bambara's The Salt Eaters
Revised Master's Paper: Pacifica Graduate Institute. 2001-2009
This paper is a review of the book, in which its shamanistic undertones are explored.

The Divine Feminine in the Sacred Narratives of Christian and Native American Goddess Archetypes
Revised Master's Paper: Pacifica Graduate Institute. 2001-2009
This paper is a feminist shamanic critique of patriarchy's visioning of the Divine Feminine,
and puts forth an alternative feminist shamanic way of re-visioning it.

MobyDick: A Prophetic Portrait of Patriarchal Culture's Alignment with Death
Revised Master's Paper: Pacifica Graduate Institute. 1998-2009
This paper is a feminist shamanic critique of Melville's Moby Dick.

Mythoshamanic Performance Art and the Transformation of the Psyche
Revised Master's Paper: Pacifica Graduate Institute. 1997-2009
The paper explores personal and cultural benefits of mythoshamanic performance art.


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