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CATCHING THE WORLD BY THE TALE:
Blog of Craig Chalquist, PhD
How can we dream together, reimagine, restory, and redesign our relations with ourselves, each other, nature, Earth, and Cosmos?
The writings here will cover a broad range of topics and ideas in search of answering these questions.
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Lamplighters: A New Kind of Change Agent
Craig Chalquist, PhD, PhD The world needs revolutionaries of the heart and soul: visionaries, healers, mentors, and leaders who can...
Craig Chalquist
Mar 912 min read
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For Creatives: Consulting Your Imaginal Guides
Craig Chalquist, PhD, PHD Of my twenty nonfiction books, three novels (the Lamplight Trilogy), and two story collections, none of it was...
Craig Chalquist
Feb 104 min read
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Why I Wrote the Lamplighter Trilogy
Available at Amazon.com Craig Chalquist, PhD, PhD A writer, professor, adoptee, and enchantivist from Southern California, I am...
Craig Chalquist
Jan 193 min read
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Carrying Light in Dark Times: Resources for Lamplighters
Posted by Craig Chalquist, PhD, PhD Chalquist.com This blog contains resources for people who want to bring light to the world by...
Craig Chalquist
Jan 22 min read
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Religion Doesn’t Speak to You. Now What?
Craig Chalquist, PhD, PhD Chalquist.com December 4th, 2024 “Nones” are religiously nonaffiliated people whose numbers are rising,...
Craig Chalquist
Dec 4, 202420 min read
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Depth Philosophy: Coming Alive to a Reimagined World
Craig Chalquist, PhD, PhD Chalquist.com Noember 14, 2024 This article describes Depth Philosophy, the latest evolution of my ongoing work...
Craig Chalquist
Nov 14, 202430 min read
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Toward Pronoian Wisdom
Craig Chalquist, PhD, PhD Chalquist.com December 2, 2024 See also "Depth Philosophy: Coming Alive to a Reimagined World." The great...
Craig Chalquist
Nov 11, 202410 min read
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Maslow Revisited
Craig Chalquist, PhD, PhD Chalquist.com Who was Abraham Maslow psychologically? Is his Hierarchy of Needs still relevant? If not, what in...
Craig Chalquist
Oct 17, 202421 min read
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Restorying Tomorrow Today
Craig Chalquist, PhD, PhD Chalquist.com October 16th, 2024 Those whose hope is weak settle down for comfort or for violence; those...
Craig Chalquist
Oct 17, 20244 min read
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Human Potential 2.0: Educating the Full-Spectrum Earthly Human
Craig Chalquist, PhD, PhD September 16th, 2024 (and updated since) Chalquist.com What might it take to revitalize the Human Potential...
Craig Chalquist
Sep 16, 20249 min read
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The Dream Sky Is Weeping Crosses: The Fall of Monocreedism
Craig Chalquist, PhD I stand just outside my family’s house looking up at the sky in wonder. It is daytime, around noon. Uncounted...
Craig Chalquist
Apr 12, 20245 min read
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From Confining to Spacious: Monocreedism vs. Lamplight
Craig Chalquist Monocreedism is my term for a worldview in which monolithic unity dominates difference and diversity: one God, one dogma,...
Craig Chalquist
Mar 25, 20242 min read
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Spirituality Beyond Belief
Craig Chalquist, PhD When the Berlin Wall came down, a global wave of euphoria convinced some of us that a just and happy world society...
Craig Chalquist
Mar 12, 20245 min read
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An FAQ for Soulmapper
Craig Chalquist With the e-book publication of my novel Soulmapper, it seemed a good time to answer a few initial questions. I also put...
Craig Chalquist
Oct 31, 20235 min read
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Let's Repair the Liberty Bell
Craig Chalquist The American war is over; but this far from being the case with the American revolution. On the contrary, nothing but the...
Craig Chalquist
Oct 26, 202372 min read
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The Occult Shadow of Hermeticism
Craig Chalquist The unscrupulous have always been drawn to spiritual paths and institutions. Not to be transformed by them, but to...
Craig Chalquist
Oct 15, 202323 min read
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Enchanting Change
Craig Chalquist, PhD Here's a paradox about making lasting, beneficial change in the world: The harder we try to do it, the more...
Craig Chalquist
Jul 18, 20235 min read
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Heartsteading: Cooking Up the New
Craig Chalquist, Phd In 2007, I introduced the word “heartsteading” to mean “dwelling deeply in places through knowledge and love that...
Craig Chalquist
Jul 18, 202317 min read
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Are You a World Conjurer?
Craig Chalquist, PhD There are two kinds of visionaries or dreamers: those who keep quiet about it, and those who do it openly. Which...
Craig Chalquist
Jun 7, 20231 min read
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Loreologizing Jungian Theory into Story
Craig Chalquist, PhD When all is said and done, we are never proof against fantasy. It is true that there are worthless, inadequate,...
Craig Chalquist
Jul 2, 20228 min read
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