Betty Kovacs
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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. She has also served many years on the Board of Directors of the Jung Society of Claremont in California. She is author of The Miracle of Death and The Journey of the Mothers in Earthwalking Sky Dancers. Her recent seminar series include "Deeper Orders of Reality: Creating Our Future" and "The Feminine Dimension of the Divine."
