Research Interests

Divination, Ancient Greek Religion, Divine Feminine

Biography

Vivien Gibbons holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy and Religion with a concentration in Women’s Spirituality from the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS), where she currently serves as adjunct faculty in the Women’s Spirituality department. Her scholarly work explores feminist theology, mythic studies, and divination as a spiritual technology, with particular attention to the ontological implications of oracular traditions. Her dissertation, Decoding Delphi: Reconstructing the Technology of Divination, investigates the spiritual technologies of the Delphic Oracle by drawing from feminist theory, archaeomythology, and comparative analysis with living West African divination systems, offering a reconstruction of how one of antiquity’s most accurate oracles may have functioned.

Dr. Gibbons has presented at national conferences, including the Association for the Study of Women and Mythology and the American Academy of Religion. She is a contributing author to an anthology and served as a peer reviewer for S/HE: An International Journal of Goddess Studies. A passionate educator and spiritual mentor, she is a frequent speaker on divine feminine archetypes, transformational pedagogy, and intuitive empowerment. Her work bridges academic scholarship with lived spiritual practice to reclaim the sacred feminine as a source of wisdom, agency, and collective transformation.

Education

B.A., University of California Irvine

M.A., Institute of Transpersonal Psychology

Ph.D., California Institute of Integral Studies

Publications

2012 “Lilith” in Unto Herself: A Devotional Anthology for Independent Goddesses, Edited by Ashley Horn