Humans on the Verge with Kelly Carlin-McCall explores how individuals and American culture change, evolve, move from one stage of life, or one state of mind, to another. It is born from Kelly’s curiosity about the strange and miraculous opportunity to be conscious, sentient beings, aka humans, in these interesting times we find ourselves in at the beginning of the 21st century.
Each month two episodes will drop. The first one will be a conversation with someone from the world of psychology, philosophy, politics, spirituality, science, the arts,or entertainment industry to unpack their life experiences and ideas about how culture and humans change. Then in the second episode she’ll build on that conversation by examining the topic through her own life, and those she guides and teaches in her online Humans on the Verge Community, and then offer to the listener a few thoughts for them to ponder on their own.
Theme song: "In the Name of Love" by Kenny Rankin. Used with permission.
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Humans on the Verge with Kelly Carlin-McCall explores how individuals and American culture change, evolve, move from one stage of life, or one state of mind, to another. It is born from Kelly’s curiosity about the strange and miraculous opportunity to be conscious, sentient beings, aka humans, in these interesting times we find ourselves in at the beginning of the 21st century.
Each month two episodes will drop. The first one will be a conversation with someone from the world of psychology, philosophy, politics, spirituality, science, the arts,or entertainment industry to unpack their life experiences and ideas about how culture and humans change. Then in the second episode she’ll build on that conversation by examining the topic through her own life, and those she guides and teaches in her online Humans on the Verge Community, and then offer to the listener a few thoughts for them to ponder on their own.
Theme song: "In the Name of Love" by Kenny Rankin. Used with permission.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
My guest on this episode is Craig Chalquist PhD, is a former psychotherapist, professor, scholar, and lecturer, who teaches and writes at the intersection of consciousness, place, story, and imagination.
He’s published multiple non-fiction books mostly focusing on Terrapsychology, Ecotherapy and exploring ones’ personal myth, but he’s also a fiction writer and has a series of speculative fiction books including his Lamplighter series.
He currently is the Academic Program Director of Consciousness, Psychology, and Transformation at National University, and has taught at both the California Institute of Integral Studies, and Pacifica Graduate Institute. And has recently founded Lampcove which is a part of the Pronaia Academy and was created to address the dire need for a New Kind of Change Agent.
Craig and I met a few years back at a conference where he spoke about field of inquiry and action that he has named Enchantivism which denote the actions of creative people at every level of society who give us glimpses of how things could be, making collective change through inspiration.
Among many threads of inquiry, Craig sees the need for a new kind of change agent who are the cultural edge-walkers with untapped potential for change. They are not dependent on the heroic-patriarchal model of change and can help us turn away from a culture of hyper-individualistic materialism that has unmoored us from the inner, social, and natural worlds and connect us to a new collective, overarching Big Story or “mythology” of meaning that outworn Patriarchal religion and modern materialism clearly no longer offer.
If this podcast has got you thinking and wondering, and you want to explore the topic in more depth, I invite you to join me in my monthly online call where I and others dig into things more deeply. We call this space The Humans on the Verge Podcast Soul Tribe.
In the Soul Tribe, we have a 90-minute monthly call where I contextualize the topic further, answer your questions, and personally help you apply the concepts to your own life. Helping folks understand and utilize these concepts is my bliss. It’s only $39/month.
And you get a bunch of bonus stuff too!
Wanting to up your self-discovery and momentum? You'll get to deepen your learning about yourself with DIY access to our Humans on the Verge Curriculum.
Looking to make a personal leap this year? You'll get 25% off our Humans on the Verge virtual weekend retreats.
Craving some structure? You will be able to join The Daily Practice - a Mon-Fri hour long online co-working session to stay accountable to your creative, spiritual, self-development and personal goals.
Hope to see you there!
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