

Carol Danvers/Captain Marvel: Biological God(dess)
This past summer, religious studies scholar Jeffrey Kripal offered the annual symposium in the Mythological Studies program at Pacifica Graduate Institute where I teach. The symposium is an all day seminar that features current topics and research of the invited presenters. One of the themes that Kripal dove into was his idea of "Biological Gods" - an emergent "post human" mythology, or discourse around the "future human," an evolutionary mysticism reminiscent of Michael Mu