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Hi everyone,

A quick email to let you know two things.

First off, I was a recent guest on Dr. Deborah Lukovich’s podcast Dose of Depth. The episode is “Terrapsychology & Enchantment: Our Relationship With Place.” We talked about the presence of place and of myth, reenchantment, depth psychology, and a number of other topics having to do with restorying ourselves into the present. Here is a link to the video now up at YouTube.

Second, on the academic side of things, my second dissertation is now finished. This was for my PhD in Philosophy and Religion, with a concentration in Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness. Here is a link to the PDF version now up at ProQuest. The final version of the Abstract is below:

RE-STORYING OUR LORE:
FICTION, VISION, AND IMAGINATION
AS AN EARTH-HONORING WISDOM PATH

ABSTRACT

Belief in absolute truths is overrated. This study argues that inspiring tales imaginatively woven can serve as a playful and creative frame of orientation, inspiration, and action: a life path of meaning and magic not to believe, but to believe in. “Loreologizing” refers to how we can use compelling fiction (broadly defined) as lore for weaving stories, personal or collective, around an ideal, vision, or dream without recourse to massive systematizing, creedal absolutism, or hardened dogma. We can also update old storied elements, even myths and folktales, by loreologizing them to bring out their relevance for how we live and work and for what we aspire to in the quest for a more just and humane world.

Drawing on Hermeticism, Gnosticism, and the long tradition of imagination as gnosis, Worldread, a depth philosophy offering an Earth-honoring path of reenchantment in a time of global disruption and climate chaos, provides an example of loreologizing. Worldread can be used as an ecospiritual path as well. Its depth philosophy informs the Assembling Terrania Cycle (Chalquist 2020a), hopeful science fiction tales charting the long adventure by which human beings come of age as a species.

Cheers,

Dr C