Bio

Patrick Horn is an interfaith actor and public scholar. He is an initiated disciple in the Vedanta Society and lived with monastics in Hollywood, Orange County, and San Francisco.  He is an Emerging Leader of the Parliament of World’s Religions and member of the United Religions Initiative, Religion Communicators Council, and Religion News Association. He is also a contributor to Reading Religion, a publication of the American Academy of Religion. He was schooled in Liberal Arts and Science at Los Angeles Valley College, Literary Theory and Criticism at California State University Northridge, Mythological Studies at Pacifica Graduate Institute, and launched a Capstone Action Project at Claremont Lincoln University. He is also a performing songwriter and hobby farmer.

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Claremont Lincoln University: M.A. Interfaith Action
President’s Leadership Scholarship; “Interfaith Understanding” Certificate 2017.

Coursework: Power and Privilege in Self and Society, Mindfulness, Dialogue, Approaching Religion, Introduction to Interfaith, Religions Around the World, Cultural Awareness & Self-Efficacy. View the Capstone Action Project Report.

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Pacifica Graduate Institute:
M.A./PhD Mythological Studies – Literature, Religion, and Psychology
3.0 GPA; ABCD; Peer-Review Editor, Mythological Studies Journal (2011-12); Study of Myth Symposium 2012.

Coursework: Hindu Traditions, Buddhist Traditions, Greek and Roman Myth I & II, Dreams/Visions/Myths, Approaches to Myth, The Grail Quest, Ritual Studies, Jungian Depth Psychology, Myth and Philosophy, Metaphor/Myth/Culture I & II, Archetypal Theories, African Diaspora, Native Myths, Mythic Motifs in Cinema, Folk and Fairy Tales, Epic Imagination, Psyche and Nature, Colloquium, Integrative Studies I – III.

Panel Presentations

• “Encouragement for a Time of Troubles: The Legend of the White Buffalo.”
• “Bodhisattva Maitreya: From Fameseeker to the Tenth Incarnation of Vishnu.”
• “Hermes: The Patron Saint of Diplomats and Sophists.”
• “Possession Trance and Jungian Psychology: The Anthropologist is ‘Mounted,’ or the Doctor is In.”
• “The All-Seeing Eye: American Masonry and Village Enlightenment.”
• “Joseph Campbell: On the Buffalo-Demon and Mithraic Rites.”
• “The Torch of Columbia: The 1932 and 1984 Olympics in Masonic Los Angeles.”
• “Christianity and the Sacred Word: AUM in the Western Tradition.”

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California State University – Northridge:
B.A. Honors in English (2008)
Cum Laude, 3.52 GPA; Dean’s List, GRE: 620 (90%).

Honors Thesis:
“The Secret of Eternal Life: A Jungian Reading of the Christian Gospel” (~17,000 words)

Coursework (+ graduate credits): Methods and Bibliography*, Critical Theories, Literary Theory*, Rhetorical Theory*, Language and Linguistics*, Pop Culture Semiotics*, Theories of Fiction, Theories of Poetry, Shakespeare I & II, Milton*, Victorian Age, American Lit 1607-1860, Afro-American Lit, Contemporary Poetry*, World Drama, Dramatic Lit*, Medieval Textuality, Epic Hero, Arabian Nights, Literary Realism, Religion and Literature, Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam.

Seminar Leader

• “Rhetorical Sovereignty: What Do American Indians Want From Writing?”

Panel Presentations

• “Post-Structuralist Identity Studies: In the Shadow of Feminisms.”
• “Father Abraham’s Many Children: The Gospel of Obama and the People of the Future.”
• “Medieval Textuality: The Exeter Book and the St. Albans Psalter.”
• “Alf Layla wa-Layla:1,001 Arabian Nights from Oral Tradition to Written Text.”
• “Moses: The Epic Hero Archetype in the Book of Exodus.”

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Los Angeles Valley College:
A.A. English (2005); A.A. Liberal Arts and Science (2007)
Cum Laude; 3.6 GPA; Phi Theta Kappa, Dean’s Honors List.

Coursework: College Reading and Composition I & II, Critical Thinking, Oral Communication, Political Science: U.S. Government, Intro to Sociology, Sociology of Human Sexuality, Intro to Philosophy, Modern European Philosophy, Intro to Biology, Environmental Science, General Psychology, Elementary Statistics, Intro to the Humanities, Music Appreciation, Anthropology of Religion, World’s Great Religions, World Literature, British Literature I & II, American Lit I & II, The Bible as Literature, Western Civilization I & II, American History I & II, Mesoamerican History, Intro to Chinese Civilization.

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First Tuesday Real Estate School:
California Real Estate Broker (2001-2005)

Coursework: Principles, Practice, Legal Aspects, Finance, Economics, Appraisal, Property Management