Events come at us now like trucks on a freeway. What do they mean? How do they connect? Lorecast examines the symbols, images, and metaphors behind events of our time to help us navigate them with understanding, grace, and hope: not the passive "hope" of waiting for change, but the active hope of making our reenchanted way through a world in need of inspiration and vision. The Lorecast is available in Spotify, Apple Podcasts, iHeartRadio, Amazon Music, TuneIn + Alexa, Podcast Index, Podcast ...
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Let's hear about a kind of experience-based spirituality unique to the United States starting far back and long ago, long before the founding of the nation. It is a spirituality of unlimited vision and yet practical concern, of utopian goals and pragmatic methods, of aspiration blended with a yearning for freedom and justice. Chalquist.com…
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"Lamplighting" is my term for a new kind of change-making in the world by visionaries, dreamers, intuitives, and depth workers gathering in service to deep cultural (and personal) transformation. Those of us who work on ourselves have the privilege of a large and effective toolbox. Perhaps it's time to bring it more fully out into the world, and to…
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There is no shortage of examples of ring-kissing, selling out, and being a moral windsock as entire companies, departments, and branches of government kiss up to authoritarian bullies. Isn't this when the heroes emerge? Some are. But the figure of the junzi, the exemplary person from Chinese folklore and philosophy, has something to offer as a mode…
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How many times must we be fooled by unscrupulous and event violent leaders until we wake up and get conscious? Persephone and Innana might be good examples of how to obtain the "night vision" of recognizing when we are being mistreated and refusing to put up with it. Chalquist.comBy Craig Chalquist, PhD
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