Craig Chalquist
drchalquist.bsky.social
Craig Chalquist
@drchalquist.bsky.social
Depth psychology, philosophy, mythology, storytelling, terrapsychology, imagination: let’s blend them. Author the Lamplighter Trilogy of hopeful, near-future SF. Chalquist.com.
These days Washington reminds me of something a construction supervisor I once knew would say when he saw something catastrophically senseless: “What a fucking fuckup.”
February 13, 2026 at 1:41 PM
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Going to be sharing this a bit often in hopes of finding the souls who want & need it…

As I said in an email to my peeps…Georgia O’Keeffe drew me there, the land calls me back over & over…
I’m taking a small group of people to Ghost Ranch for a retreat in May to find their center & hear their heart again. humansontheverge.com/ghostranch
Join us?
Ghost Ranch Retreat — HUMANS ON THE VERGE
Ghost Ranch Retreat
humansontheverge.com
February 11, 2026 at 8:56 PM
Because of recent events, there are lists going around about how to discern a true guru or spiritual teacher from a false one. A better question is: Why do we assign our spark, shine, wisdom etc to someone else instead of taking responsibility for cultivating it ourselves?
February 11, 2026 at 4:05 PM
Leaving behind aptly named Microsoft
February 8, 2026 at 3:21 PM
Fiction and comedy can help push us out of our denial.
February 5, 2026 at 3:49 PM
Winter serenade / by the cricket behind the / fridge near the window.
February 3, 2026 at 9:52 PM
Difficult times can engage the imagination
February 1, 2026 at 3:47 PM
What an old story can tell us about projection.
January 30, 2026 at 4:04 PM
My students strive to become better people in a dark time. 
January 26, 2026 at 7:47 PM
An old story shows us that heroic resistance to injustice, which is often necessary, is not the only mode of action available.
January 25, 2026 at 6:12 PM
A friendly grasshopper helping me water the plants.
January 18, 2026 at 3:47 AM
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Strangely some of my favorite topics are death & grief. I think it’s because they’re such powerful human experience that changed me in the deepest ways.

youtu.be/inJ0lrVwtcc
George Carlin’s Daughter on His Death
YouTube video by DEAD Talks Podcast
youtu.be
January 13, 2026 at 1:35 AM
As we grieve everything that we are losing right now, let us also consider that times of difficult transition are also openings.
January 12, 2026 at 6:15 PM
A suggestion for people wanting to become effective during a time of chaos and injustice.
January 9, 2026 at 4:01 PM
A suggestion for people wanting to become effective during a time of chaos and injustice.
January 9, 2026 at 3:59 PM
Is there a term for the soulless wait to talk to bureaucrats (just spent an hour and a half) to get them to fix a problem they created? And that has huge consequences? How about “Sisyphrustration”? (My first thought was “sublimated rage.”)
January 7, 2026 at 12:21 AM
Let’s make 2026 make the 1960s look like the 1950s
December 31, 2025 at 5:26 PM
We need new guiding stories.
December 27, 2025 at 4:18 PM
“Explain it to me like I’m five.” Okay.
December 22, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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Mañana we gather, shed, and spark.
Feel like you need a little time to contemplate your year outside of the shit show? I’ve created a fun & rich way to unpack the year and then dive into your soul to bring forth your desired future.

We’re going to need our best selves in 2026.

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Gather The Gifts Winter Solstice Event
The cure for never enough-ness disease!
humans-on-the-verge.mn.co
December 19, 2025 at 8:56 PM
“Your Mythic Life” starts 1/31. Pronoia.org/your-mythical-life
December 19, 2025 at 12:26 PM
No. Just no.
December 18, 2025 at 6:07 PM
What if?
December 17, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Despite repeated “less like this,” this app isn’t getting that I have absolutely no interest in stories about spectator sports. None.
December 14, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Subject to changes via capricious whimsicality.
December 7, 2025 at 5:26 PM