The Lorecast

What is time? How come it either drags or we can't find enough of it? We will consider how to align the quantitative-linear and qualitative-flow aspects of time in our lives, looking to transform the presence of time from an enemy or obstacle to a companion and guide along the way.

ps Check out my 5-video course on time management for busy people. 

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Carl Jung, psychiatrist....but also mystic? Rebel? Racist? In this edition of The Lorecast we glance over Jung's life, discuss his celebrated confrontation with himself in search of his soul, note the transformations he underwent, look into some of his character flaws, and appreciate the richness and depth of what he left us in his search not only for himself, but for a depth psychology of how the world shows up within us. 

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How do you act as a teacher or mentor to people who want to go deep? Deep into life, into experience, into themselves, into the great questions of who we are and why we are here, and how to be with each other.  This podcast draws on my own experience and learning to offer some suggestions on teaching and mentoring people on a search for transformation. 

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What if we fashioned our life path out of stories, inspirations, and reconnective practices? No absolute truths, no hard beliefs, no authorities, creeds, or elaborate arguments. Instead, a chance to see what we can make of the best of what we can imagine and learn and celebrate together. This podcast includes examples of worldreading: entering the conversation of a world not of dead objects, but of presences always addressing us. 

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Absolute belief divides. We know that. So why do we feel so tempted to overemphasize it? And not only in religion: in science, in philosophy, "the search for truth" tends toward a demand for some fixed, certain, absolute Truth. Why do we think we need it? What might be an inspiring alternative that eschews inevitable conflict for attainable collaboration and dreaming together? 

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Why are we so fascinated with royalty? And celebrity? Are kings and queens archetypal, as Jungians tend to think, or is something else afoot--archetypal or not--with how we tend to idealize, follow, and envy such figures? How might we discover our own internal nobility?

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Plenty of people stand by to sell us programs, courses, and degrees for the supposed sake of kinship, healing, enlightenment, and soul, charging us astronomical fees for minimal content and zero community support. What are some of the possibilities for an Earth-loving, just, fair, and fun spiritual path? One based not on authoritative belief, but on inspiring fiction? Not on eternal judgment, but on reenchantment? 

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"Ten Lamps" is the name of a philosophy of doing, being, and aspiring created by Simeon, a fictional character in Tales of Terrania Rising, a free collection of speculative fiction stories available at Chalquist.com on how humanity struggles to mature and come of age. What can a fictional philosophy do to enrich how we live? How might it serve deeper purposes than supposed absolute truths to believe?

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It's easy to read the news and despair. The sheer wave of daily nonsense, stupidity, and violence can wash over the burliest spirit. But what about our higher possibilities? What about the people who overcome adversity or their own limitations to shine as inspirations to the rest of us? What if being optimistic about the capacity for change and excellence is actually the new realism? 

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Many of us have heard about the Hero's Journey of Joseph Campbell, and in some cultures the Hero or Heroine is a revered figure. But what kind of pattern does that offer to non-heroes? What is left for the rest of us who want to leave the world better than we found it? What is the shadow side of the Hero's Journey, and what might a Post-Heroic Journey be like?

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