New Gnosis

David M. Odorisio, is Associate Core Faculty and Co-Chair of the Mythological Studies program at Pacifica Graduate Institute, USA. He is editor of Merton and Hinduism: The Yoga of the Heart (2021), and co-editor of Depth Psychology and Mysticism (2018). David teaches in the areas of psychology and religion, and comparative mysticism, and has published in numerous journals in the fields of Jungian and transpersonal psychology.

• A New Gnosis: The Comic Book as Mythical Text.- Part I A New Gnosis: Comic Books as Modern Mythology.- Dreaming the Myth Onward: Comic Books as Contemporary Mythologies.- From Horror to Heroes: Mythologies of Graphic Voodoo in Comics.- Mystico-Erotics of the “Next Age Superhero”: Christian Hippie Comics of the 1970s.- The Flying Eyeball: The Mythopoetics of Rick Griffin.- Graphic Mythologies.- Part II Archetypal Amplifications: Comic Books, Comparative Mythology, and Depth Psychology.- Archetypal Dimensions of Comic Books.- All-Female Teams: In Quest of the Missing Archetype.- Infirm Relatives and Boy Kings: The Green Man Archetype in Alan Moore’s The Saga of The Swamp Thing.- The Shadow of the Bat: Batman as Archetypal Shaman.- “To Survive and Still Dream”: Ritual and Reclamation in Little Bird.- Graffiti in the Grass: Worldbuilding and Soul Survival Through Image, Immersive Myth, and the Metaxis.- Afterword: Comics and Gnostics.