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...
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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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Craig Chalquist
- Mar 25
- 2 min
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,...
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Craig Chalquist
- Mar 12
- 5 min
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...
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Craig Chalquist
- Dec 27, 2023
- 3 min
My Work in Enchantivism
Craig Chalquist, PhD Enchantivism describes the many ways we make lasting change by telling inspiring stories about our relations with...
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Craig Chalquist
- Oct 31, 2023
- 5 min
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...
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Craig Chalquist
- Oct 26, 2023
- 72 min
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...
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Craig Chalquist
- Oct 15, 2023
- 23 min
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...
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Craig Chalquist
- Jul 18, 2023
- 5 min
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...
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Craig Chalquist
- Jul 18, 2023
- 5 min
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...
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Craig Chalquist
- Jun 7, 2023
- 1 min
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...
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Craig Chalquist
- Jul 2, 2022
- 8 min
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,...
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Craig Chalquist
- Mar 8, 2022
- 16 min
It’s Not Eco-Anxiety – It’s Eco-Fear!
A Survey of the Eco-Emotions Linda Buzzell and Craig Chalquist 8/30/19 INTRODUCTION The New Normal As environmental conditions around the...
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Craig Chalquist
- Jan 2, 2022
- 4 min
What Is a Loreologist?
Craig Chalquist, PhD Have you noticed how a lot of what matters to us involves some kind of story? What is your name, who gave it to you,...
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Craig Chalquist
- Nov 16, 2021
- 4 min
Eve Reconsidered: A Gnostic View
What makes us free is the gnosis of who we were of what we have become of where we were of wherein we have been cast of whereto we are...
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Craig Chalquist
- Nov 16, 2021
- 19 min
“Heaven in the World”: Can a Lost Tradition of Nature Reverence Reenchant Our Worldview?
Note: Some of this has been expanded on and updated in my dissertation Restorying Our Lore. Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth...
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Craig Chalquist
- Nov 16, 2021
- 4 min
Why Tell Stories?
The telling of stories, the desire to share our experiences, is what made us develop into a species with a spoken language. I think...
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Craig Chalquist
- Nov 16, 2021
- 28 min
A Folklore of Hope: Storytelling for a Reenchanted World
Expanded from a keynote presentation to The Anthropocene and Beyond conference at Hong Kong Shue Yan University, May 29th, 2018. My...
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Craig Chalquist
- Nov 16, 2021
- 42 min
The Black Books of C. G. Jung: Hermeticism Dreamed Onward
The long-awaited self-exploratory notebooks of C. G. Jung have finally been published thanks to the Philemon Foundation and scholars Sonu...
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