Explore a Resilient and Earth-Centered Worldview with Visiting Scholar Craig Chalquist
As a founder of terrapsychology—the study of how the things of the world live in us—The New School’s Spring 2025 Visiting Scholar Craig Chalquist is interested in how imagination, story, and creativity let us tune in on the Greater Conversation unfolding continually around and within us. With the podcasts, videos, writings, and exercises gathered during Craig’s visit, you can join the exploration: growing a more resilient and earth-honoring worldview.
Authors of the Impossible
In part 6 of our series with Jeffrey Kripal and Host Michael Lerner, they discuss Jeffrey’s Authors of the Impossible: The Paranormal and the Sacred. The history of psychical phenomena, Jeffrey contends, is an untapped source of insight into the sacred. The cultural history of telepathy, teleportation, and UFOs; a ghostly love story; the occult dimensions of science fiction; cold war psychic espionage; galactic colonialism; and the intimate relationship between consciousness and culture all come together in Authors of the Impossible, a dazzling and profound look at how the paranormal bridges the sacred and the scientific.
Reclaiming Wildness with Visiting Scholar Jeanine Canty
Jeanine M. Canty is a visionary scholar whose groundbreaking work illuminates the profound connections between consciousness, thought, and our relationship with the natural world. Her teaching weaves together social justice, ecological wisdom, and transformation. By reading her writings and watching or listening to recordings of her time in residence, you can explore how mind and spirit intersect with ecological healing in your own life.
Beyond Cancel Culture: On Healing, Conflict, and Community
Facilitator and writer Shilpa Jain deeply understands the nature of being human. She is well known in her East Bay community for hosting more than 250 “Yes Jams!” over the last decade, encouraging laughter and play as she facilitates groups through conflict. Working with change makers—activists, artists, healers, executives, and young people—she helps them navigate conflict from a place of freedom and joy.
Serpent’s Gift
In part 5 of this series, Host Michael Lerner talks with author Jeffrey Kripal about his book The Serpent’s Gift—Reflections on the Study of Religion. The book is a provocative call for a complete reorientation of religious studies—a reversal of the Adam and Eve story—aimed at a larger understanding of the world, the self, and the divine. He considers Feuerbach’s Gnosticism, the untapped mystical potential of comparative religion, and even the modern mythology of the X-Men.
Mend Your Mind and Reinhabit Your Greater Self
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The Art of Peacebuilding: Haiku, Accompaniment, and Courageous Love
A thousand dew dropsBubbling on clover leavesGlisten morning sun —John Paul Lederach Join Host Serena Bian and international peacebuilder John Paul Lederach in exploring questions about how—in a world filled with animosity—we can help things “glisten.” The conversation explores ways to accompany communities to bring forward their deepest sense of their nature and purpose, as […]
Bridging Mind and Nature
During this second event with Fall 2025 Visiting Scholar Jeanine Canty, we look at various notions of self—ecological, multicultural, and transpersonal—and engage in some experiences and reflections that embody this. Host Susan Grelock Yusem will be in conversation with Jeanine for the first hour, followed by a half hour of experiential work with Jeanine.
Beyond Cancel Culture: on Healing, Conflict, and Community
Join Host Serena Bian with community builder, facilitator, and writer Shilpa Jain for a conversation exploring how conflict can bring us into greater clarity, purpose, and alignment.