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.  To invite  Dr. Kovács to speak with your group or organization, please contact Kimberly Saavedra (909.282.2455).

Dr. Kovács is author of The Miracle of Death and "Journey of the Mothers" in Earthwalking Sky Dancers.
In August 2009 she presented Experiencing the Mystery of Death--and Life at the 8th Annual Scientific & Medical Network "Beyond the Brain" Conference, University of Kent, Canterbury, England. Recent seminar series: Deeper Orders of Reality: Creating Our Future and The Feminine Dimension of the Divine.  Visit our EVENTS page.