The Lorecast

According to Thomas Berry and many voices before his, we are between big stories that make sense of who we are and our place in the world.  Perhaps what we need rather than one big story is a cycle of stories that show a way forward and give us realistic hope. What might such a cycle include? How might it help us reinterpret the lore and traditional teachings we still find valuable?

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Ever wonder why committees, task forces, regulations, procedures, and endless meetings never seem to bring lasting change? The missing ingredient is informal relationships. Hear some examples of how they bring about new results. 

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Vibrations. Energies. Vortexes. Quantum yoga, consciousness, everything. How might we move beyond this sciency-sounding but vague language and come up with some that adequately expresses the subtlety of our direct experience? 

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What would you make of an online space that is partly hopeful social media network, hub of creative community, source of uplifting news, and field for growing dreams? Enchantvale is based on the philosophy and practice of enchantivism: telling tales to move us out of exclusivity and division into hopeful new possibilities.  Visit the landing page.

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Many of us are familiar with Jung's 8 psychological types (including the introvert and extravert orientations) and the Myers-Briggs. But where does imagination go? It can't belong mainly to the intuitive types. We all have it. But some of us focus it on the here and now ("heredreamers") and some focus on possibilities and patterns ("theredreamers"). A new axis of imagination added to typologies would help account for this. 

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According to the conflict theory of fiction, as enforced by literary agents, publishers, and Hollywood, your story must feature a Hero or Heroine who runs into or is filled with conflict. In Hollywood, this usually means images of someone tough and earnest holding a gun or sword. Do good stories really require this, or, at least for psychological adults, should they rely instead on complex characters in tension and suspense? 

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Why is it that so many of us are open to the most flagrantly deceitful, impossible, and downright ludicrous conspiracy theories, especially those full of paranoia and hatred? The answer might surprise you. What can we do to diminish the risk of this kind of collective regression to irrationality? 

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It has become a canard of the psychospiritual circuit: Meaning, value, purpose, etc. reside within you, not in the outer world. All you need is inside you. But is that really true? Let's explore this. 

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Can fiction serve as a path of meaning, wisdom, and even spirituality? Especially for those of us uninterested in the dogmatic divisiveness of traditional religion? This podcast questions the "truth OR reality" distinction while giving examples of authors (the majority according to one study) whose characters advise us on what to write. They are imaginal, which means different from imaginary (made up). What is behind what they suggest to us? 

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The dead: family, friends, lovers, ancestors. Are they really gone? What if we can't come to terms with them before they depart the earth? We still can. In this podcast I give examples of how to continue the conversation with those who have passed on until we feel more at peace with them. 

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