The Lorecast

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?

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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 the Liberty Bell."

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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 happenings?

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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? 

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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."

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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? 

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"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?

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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? 

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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. 

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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. 

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