Let's hear about a kind of experience-based spirituality unique to the United States starting far back and long ago, long before the founding of the nation. It is a spirituality of unlimited vision and yet practical concern, of utopian goals and pragmatic methods, of aspiration blended with a yearning for freedom and justice.

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"Lamplighting" is my term for a new kind of change-making in the world by visionaries, dreamers, intuitives, and depth workers gathering in service to deep cultural (and personal) transformation. Those of us who work on ourselves have the privilege of a large and effective toolbox. Perhaps it's time to bring it more fully out into the world, and to make change through imagination, inspiration, and creativity.

See "Carrying Light in Dark Times: Resources for Lamplighters" at Chalquist.com.

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There is no shortage of examples of ring-kissing, selling out, and being a moral windsock as entire companies, departments, and branches of government kiss up to authoritarian bullies. Isn't this when the heroes emerge? Some are. But the figure of the junzi, the exemplary person from Chinese folklore and philosophy, has something to offer as a model for integrity and courage.

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How many times must we be fooled by unscrupulous and event violent leaders until we wake up and get conscious? Persephone and Innana might be good examples of how to obtain the "night vision" of recognizing when we are being mistreated and refusing to put up with it.

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In January I made available the fifth book of the Assembling Terrania Cycle. In this podcast I discuss the need for a planetary mythology and new guiding stories and talk about A Chorus of Resistance, the fifth ATC book, and how voices from the margins can reinvigorate us inwardly and outwardly.

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