The Lorecast

Nov 14 2024 65 ep. 26 mins 17
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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.

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Airlines and a Story of Giantism

Nov 14 2024 20 mins  
Giantism, or Titanism, is an inflated psychology involved with building and taking over gigantic structures, organizations, and industries. In this episode we look at how deregulation and giantism have contributed to a worsening of quality in the airline industry. What might be some alternatives?Chalquist.com

Toward an Updated American Mythology

Oct 31 2024 20 mins  
If myths are wisdom stories and cultural dreamings rather than superstitions, what might an updated American mythology be like? One that helps us heal the crack in the Liberty Bell of the national heart? That stories how we can be together here while protecting and renewing the land itself? That helps us reach higher psychological maturity and responsibility? Blog: "Let's Repair th

Psychology Beyond the Self

Oct 14 2024 20 mins  
Mainstream Western psychology concentrates mainly on the self: an entity separate from other selves and from the world outside. But Jung observed that our dreams and symptoms often reflect events going on around us as well as in other people. What does this look like? How does it change our view of our struggles and stresses when we can trace at least some of them to outer happenin

Encountering Covert Narcissism

Sep 30 2024 20 mins  
It's not hard to spot a grandiose narcissist. The flagrant bragging, exaggerating, and fishing for compliments (for mirroring) is fairly obvious. But can you spot the quieter profile of the covert narcissist, the kind smart enough to hide their drive to exploit, gaslight, and retaliate? Chalquist.com

Transformative Learnings Beyond Higher Ed

Sep 14 2024 20 mins  
Why are so many transformative schools and programs failing? Is it possible that learnings about consciousness, depth, archetype, dream, and deep relations with nature, place, and Earth belong outside higher ed at this time? What might such a school be like? After I posted this podcast I wrote a blog, "Human Potential Movement 2.0: Educating the Full-Spectrum Human Being."Chalquist

Organizations that Punish Wise Leadership

Sep 05 2024 20 mins  
We've all seen them: organizations not only led by narcissists or other incompetent "leaders," but determined to stop any attempt at leading with wisdom, care, and intelligence. How do we know we are in such an organization? If so, what can we do about it? Chalquist.com

Burn Your Nest

Jul 31 2024 20 mins  
"Because it's familiar." This explanation for why we stay in burdensome or painful situations is no explanation at all. Why do we fight deep change? What does the figure of the Phoenix have to say to us about how to go about radical transfiguration?Chalquist.com

Archetypal Possession

Jul 14 2024 20 mins  
Are we possessed by the gods? Even when we don't believe in them? How would we know? Why would it matter, and what could we do about it? Chalquist.com

"Because I Choose To": The Power of Choice

Jun 30 2024 20 mins  
The debate of determinism vs. free will has played wearily out down the centuries through religion, philosophy, and science. In the end, though, it's only by making the assumption that our choices count that we move forward in life, heal from adversity, and make a difference to our time. Chalquist.com

Stories for a Planetary Mythology Part 2

Jun 14 2024 20 mins  
For a planetary mythology, a cycle of engaging and inspiring stories grown from the ground up, how might we hold such stories so they retain their vitality and viability? How might we set aside literalism, judgmentalism, and absolute belief? Part 2 of 2. Chalquist.com