Craig Chalquist

Champing, not chomping.

Bye PP

Must be strange to transition from a country whose president writes poetry to—this.

Actual quotation: “But what experience and history teach is that nations and governments have never learned anything from history and have never acted in accordance with the lessons that could have been drawn from it.”

In 1953, in “Concerning Stories Never Told,” Robert Heinlein discussed the possibility of a theocratic takeover of the United States as depicted in his fiction. The conditions he mentioned frighteningly resemble current ones. But science fiction also shows how to grapple with them.

A lesson in community from the tale of the Round Table and from activists of the global south. 

A suggestion for people wondering what to do that’s effective during a perilous time. See my YouTube channel for more suggestions. YouTube.com/@drchalquist

#hope #resilience

Safety lecture time. But then: happy travels!!

And pre-heating.

Mine isn’t until July 14th, so I am not yet liminal. Pre-liminal maybe. Like imagining the flight while not packed yet.

Oldsters vs elders

You’ll love the folks there. Friendly, funny, inquisitive, down to earth, frank, and full of stories. I miss them and beautiful Ireland. The land itself is a goddess.

Time to train a new kind of storyteller change agent.

#lamplighter #pronoia #inspiration #visionary 

Says it on equipment created by science.

Writing ideas, synchronicities, and an upcoming writing workshop at Commonweal. Tns.commonweal.org

An update for edge people who are spiritual but not religious. We now have a free online community. Link at pronoia.org/community. 

#lampcove #nones #spiritualbutnotreligious #lamplighter

Learn to listen to the lands around us. Donation-based visiting scholar event on May 29th, 1 pm Pacific time. tns.commonweal.org/events.

#terrapsychology #ecopsychology #commonweal #worldview #bolinas

Learn to listen to the lands around us. Donation-based visiting scholar event on May 29th, 1 pm Pacific time. tns.commonweal.org/events.

#terrapsychology #ecopsychology #commonweal #worldview #bolinas

Need Starbucks, I do not.

#haiku

You see his humor especially in the Gnostic texts.

People and Land - The New School at Commonweal As a founder of terrapsychology—the study of how the things of the world live in us—The New School’s Visiting Scholar Craig Chalquist is interested in how imagination, story, and creativity let us tun...

On June 9th, I begin a scholarly residency at Commonweal. The organizing theme is: “Everything Converses.” Join us for online conversations and in-person walks and talks about how the sense of place and nature, imagination, story, etc can feed a new worldview.
tns.commonweal.org/event-series...

My work points to the need for a vision that can inspire us to collaborate on new directions. It’s not enough to know what we are against. We need to recover the ability to dream together.

One with the Wind

It’s a Wonderful Lie

How about if we stop the “Gen This” and “Gen That” bickering and raise our voices against the real oppressors.