To All Pacifica Alumna and Alumni

Dear concerned Pacifica alumna and alumni,

Thank you for your postings. Our previous post informed you that there are serious administrative problems affecting faculty, students, and staff at Pacifica and the future of the Pacifica Graduate Institute. A letter was posted to the PGI Board of Trustees this past Tuesday giving them one week for action.

PGIAA is requesting that the PGI Board of Trustees ask for the immediate resignation of the current president with further action on the part of the board if this is not done.

It was decided not to disclose further information to the PGIAA alumni community in the hopes that this would be a sufficient call to action by the Board of Trustees to act ethically, morally, and responsibly. As of today, this has not happened. As indicated in our email and certified letters to the PGI Board of Trustees, if action is not taken by July 1, 2024, the factual information supporting our request will be sent to over 6000 alumni on July 3, 2024. In the email which you may receive on that date, PGIAA will ask all alumni who care, to join us in a very strong CALL TO ACTION in support of the faculty, students, and staff as well as the future of Pacifica Graduate Institute.

We have been notified by the PGIAA domain provider that since our letter was posted, attempts have been made by unknown parties to breach the security of our domain, to no avail. The provider is investigating the source/s of this attempted breach. We also want to inform you that Pacifica has shut down one of their Instagram accounts to hide the postings by students regarding what is happening at Pacifica Graduate Institute, deliberately limiting their voice and free speech.

WE ask for your patience until July 3, 2024, as we await appropriate action by the PGI Board of Trustees.

Lupe Zuniga, Ph.D
2024 President and Founding Member
Pacifica Graduate Institute Alumni Association
Class of ’94, Clinical Psychology

———————–  Posted 6/26/2024  ———————–

To All Pacifica Alumna and Alumni,

The faculty and students at Pacifica are under siege from a new administration intent on destroying the very fabric of the institute. We have heard their lament.

Rest assured that the Pacifica Graduate Institute Alumni Association is taking steps to remedy the situation.

We will keep you informed as all continues to unfold.

Voicing words of our elder, mentor, teacher, and friend, James Hillman (which can be read below), WE, a united consortium of concerned alumni, are notifying you of the “moral insults”, and “aesthetic injuries” taking place at Pacifica and WE “roar in protest.”

 

Desire, rage, fear and shame are echoes of the world’s soul, presentations of qualities in the world informing our bodies and spirits how to be, what stand to take, what to have and what to hate, which way to turn on the path . . .

Rage in particular is important here. Remember: Zeus and his brothers and sisters overcame the Titans and Giants in battle! Under the sign of Mars/Ares, the God of battle rage, intensity, fury . . . Let us recognize that outrage has a social intention. It leads us into the fray, into community engagement with our sisters and brothers. It notices moral insults and aesthetic injuries. It roars in protest.

FROM: JAMES HILLMAN, “THE YELLOWING OF THE WORK,” ALCHEMICAL PSYCHOLOGY: THE UNIFORM EDITION OF JAMES HILLMAN, V. 5, PUTNAM, CONN: SPRING PUBLICATIONS, 2010.