@drchalquist.bsky.social
Depth psychology, philosophy, mythology, storytelling, terrapsychology, imagination: let’s blend them. Author the Lamplighter Trilogy of hopeful, near-future SF. Chalquist.com.
Leaving behind aptly named Microsoft
08.02.2026 15:21 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I think the pope should conduct the next several key ceremonies indoors by sitting on different kinds of couches.
07.02.2026 17:28 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Fiction and comedy can help push us out of our denial.
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Winter serenade / by the cricket behind the / fridge near the window.
03.02.2026 21:51 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Difficult times can engage the imagination
01.02.2026 15:47 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0What an old story can tell us about projection.
30.01.2026 16:04 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0My students strive to become better people in a dark time. 
26.01.2026 19:47 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0An old story shows us that heroic resistance to injustice, which is often necessary, is not the only mode of action available.
25.01.2026 18:12 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A friendly grasshopper helping me water the plants.
18.01.2026 03:47 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Strangely some of my favorite topics are death & grief. I think it’s because they’re such powerful human experience that changed me in the deepest ways.
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As we grieve everything that we are losing right now, let us also consider that times of difficult transition are also openings.
12.01.2026 18:15 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Is your tv named Heracles? ; )
11.01.2026 15:17 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0And a purgative.
10.01.2026 13:06 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0A suggestion for people wanting to become effective during a time of chaos and injustice.
09.01.2026 16:01 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1A suggestion for people wanting to become effective during a time of chaos and injustice.
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Is there a term for the soulless wait to talk to bureaucrats (just spent an hour and a half) to get them to fix a problem they created? And that has huge consequences? How about “Sisyphrustration”? (My first thought was “sublimated rage.”)
07.01.2026 00:21 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Happy New Year!
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Let’s make 2026 make the 1960s look like the 1950s
31.12.2025 17:26 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0We need new guiding stories.
27.12.2025 16:18 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Donate like mad to anti-trafficking orgs.
22.12.2025 19:16 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0“Explain it to me like I’m five.” Okay.
22.12.2025 19:15 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Http://www.pronoia.org/your-mythic-life
20.12.2025 15:30 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Mañana we gather, shed, and spark.
19.12.2025 20:56 — 👍 10 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0My mother is 91 and can’t get by without my support. She worked hard all her life. I hate this broken system.
19.12.2025 17:00 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
“Your Mythic Life” starts 1/31. Pronoia.org/your-mythical-life
19.12.2025 12:26 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0Sorry, but I can’t tell on this app what this refers to.
18.12.2025 18:07 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0No. Just no.
18.12.2025 18:07 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0What if?
17.12.2025 20:19 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0All part of continuing to change the upper world into the Underworld. The images, some of them, are creepy and nightmarish.
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