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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
Dec 420 min read
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,...
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Craig Chalquist
Nov 1430 min read
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...
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Craig Chalquist
Nov 1110 min read
Toward Pronoian Wisdom
Craig Chalquist, PhD, PhD Chalquist.com December 2, 2024 See also "Depth Philosophy: Coming Alive to a Reimagined World." The great...
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Craig Chalquist
Oct 1721 min read
Maslow Revisited
Craig Chalquist, PhD, PhD Chalquist.com Who was Abraham Maslow psychologically? Is his Hierarchy of Needs still relevant? If not, what in...
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Craig Chalquist
Oct 174 min read
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...
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Craig Chalquist
Sep 169 min read
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...
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Craig Chalquist
Apr 125 min read
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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Craig Chalquist
Mar 252 min read
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 125 min read
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
Oct 31, 20235 min read
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, 202372 min read
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, 202323 min read
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, 20235 min read
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, 20235 min read
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, 20231 min read
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, 20228 min read
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, 202216 min read
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, 20224 min read
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, 20214 min read
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, 202119 min read
“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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