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Writing a paper for the James Hillman Symposium in October on the topic of Hillman's failure to tell genuine hope from false. He saw it only through an underworld perspective, as illusory and self-deceiving, whereas it is held very differently by Hawthorne, Fromm, Solnit, and others. If my paper is accepted, I will present it while wearing a necktie displaying the same words as the title: DON'T LOSE HOPE.
This morning I conducted an online interview with Dr. Joe Coppin and Dr. Elizabeth Nelson, authors of THE ART OF INQUIRY: A DEPTH-PSYCHOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE. The new third edition is about to come out. We went in many interesting directions: What is research with soul? Where do archetype and myth come in? What makes research deep and relational, and fun? Such an honor to converse with my two former teachers. Will post the interview link when ready.
Dreaming about rabbits: lots and lots of rabbits. Terrapsychologically, there was something about living up north (I now realize) that was psychosomatically inhibiting for me. Not because of the Bay Area itself, which I continue to miss, but because I left it about a year after I should have, by the inner calendar. Moving south has awakened a powerful surge of creative yearning and sensory aliveness. It's so necessary to be where one needs to be.
"How can you put a full stop after every sentence? We should talk with three dots . . . at the end of every sentence, leave a door open, a door open to the stranger, to the foreigner, to the one I have not met yet because that person can challenge my truth, my reality. I adore and respect fluidity in both writing and being."
~ Elif Shafak
Craig Chalquist, PhD compartilhou o vídeo de Plastic Change International.
On a mythic note...
Every year 10 million tons of plastic end up in the ocean. If we don't change our behaviour we might end up with more plastic than fish in the ocean.
The Anim...ation Workshop has produced this fantastic video. You should see this man as a symbol of consumers as well as industry, makers and politicians
Help us fighting plastic pollution; http://plasticchange.org/signup-pages/signup-overview/
A point I will underline in the upcoming Enchantivism series is that efforts to persuade stuck in disenchanting and doomful rhetoric cannot motivate lasting change. We need to be realistic about what's going wrong, but the numbing Saturnian language of shoulds and musts won't take us in a better direction. For that we need actualizable visions that inspire.
For me, spring was a series of high points ending with a miracle. It feels strange to be so happy when the news is full of such deadly disaster. For me it underlines the need to serve: "From everyone to whom much has been given, much will be required; and to whom they entrusted much, of them they will ask all the more."
Chuckling to come once again across Joseph Campbell's take on threshold guardians in myth: “They are there to keep out the ‘spoilsports,’ the advocates of Aristotelian logic, for whom A can never be B; for whom the actor is never to be lost in the part; for whom the mask, the image, the consecrated host or tree or animal, cannot become God, but only a reference. Such heavy thinkers are to remain without.”
I posted this recently in the Archetypal Activism group here on Facebook. I don't have sign-up details yet, but I'll post them as soon as I do. The series is free, but we suggest making donations to the immigrant advocacy organization CAUSE (causenow.org).
ENCHANTIVISM: A 6-SESSION WORKSHOP ON CHANGING THE WORLD WITH STORY, MYTH, AND INSPIRATION
Starts August 11th at 6 pm PST - online and at Pacifica Graduate Institute [will post the room, platform, etc. as soon as we know]
...You long to make a lasting difference in the world, but politics and protests aren’t for you. The shouting for change sounds so judgmental and hopeless. Where is the inspiration? Imagination? Dream?
For more than thirty years now I have collected resources for bridging reflection and action through the medium of reenchantment, hope, imagination, and story. Change the story and you change the system. I call this approach enchantivism.
Quiet people can do it. Burned-out activists can do it. You can do it, and it’s fun. Unleashed, enchantivism can also help communities find renewal and creative ways of affecting positive change for a future we can all thrive in.
To get inspired, attend our free training series online or in person. Participants will be invited to join, online or in person, on first and third Friday evenings at 6 pm at Pacifica Graduate Institute, which is hosting these events. Each session will go for 1.5 - 2 hours.
What you will get from this free training:
1. Inspiration to bring your voice into the world
2. Tools for exploring your fantasies for their deeper story
3. Strategies for finding common ground through shared stories and dreams.
4. Learnings for how to form reflection-discussion-action circles (“heartsteads”)
5. A free digital copy of the Transrevolutionary's Handbook
6. Lively discussion with like-minded peers.
I want this training to be personal and to invite dialog, so seats are limited. To sign up please go to [link forthcoming]. Don’t fret if you can’t make this round: we will have other trainings in the future.
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
— Alice Walker
For fantasy is true, of course. It isn't factual, but it is true…. It is by such statements as, "Once upon a time there was a dragon," or "In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit" - it is by such beautiful non-facts that we fantastic human beings may arrive, in our peculiar fashion, at the truth.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
Most of us know what we’re against. Let’s explore what we’re for.
Warmly,
Dr. Craig Chalquist
Hoping to publish my myth book by end of summer. Title is MYTHS AMONG US: HOW TIMELESS TALES RETURN TO LIFE. Paperback, 662 pages. How to work with myth, why myth matters, theories of myth, modern myth, personal myth, and the stories themselves: 90 retellings of myths from many lands plus study questions. Cover art by Kurt Wenner.
I live in a town whose basic terrapsychological theme is Launch. My home has a large living room good for post-event gatherings. I've dropped 12 lbs since coming here, and I have a Red Book necktie and a cavalier hat with a feather. I must be getting ready for some Friday night enchantivism...
A haiku for a cloudy late spring day:
Red roses have crossed
Over the fence and taken
Root by my driveway.
Craig Chalquist, PhD compartilhou um link.
Preparing to announce a series of free presentations, in person and online, on enchantivism: my word for the craft of fostering deep cultural change through storytelling, dream, fantasy, and visions of what we value and where we want to go. This is not meant to replace traditional confrontational activism, but to offer quiet people an alternative for connecting reflection with action in the world. Stay tuned.