Words that inspire action
Pre-Read for The Secret Body Series
In this introductory document to the Secret Body self-paced course, Host Michael Lerner offers an introduction to Jeffrey Kripal’s work, as well as suggestions on what to read to orient yourself to his work before, or while, you explore the conversations.
Part of the The Secret Body Series
A Terrapsychological Glance at Bolinas, California
from Visiting Scholar Craig Chalquist
In this playful terrapsychological exploration of Bolinas, California, Summer 2025 Visiting Scholar Craig Chalquist exemplifies how his worldview brings the land around us to life, affecting our decisions, thoughts, and our relationship with the land itself.
A Call for an Earth-Honoring Worldview
from Visiting Scholar Craig Chalquist
In this concluding article, Summer 2025 Visiting Scholar Craig Chalquist summarizes his residency experience, which exemplified for him how imaginative modes of consciousness allow us to perceive places, beings, buildings, and the elements, normally considered mute objects, as speaking presences, and how tending the living presence of place helps assemble a worldview that centers Earth, humaneness, justice, equity, reenchantment, participation, and imagination.
Invitation to Land All Around Us
from Visiting Scholar Craig Chalquist
In this invitation to Land All around Us, Summer 2025 Visiting Scholar Craig Chalquist invites us to join him as he embarks on his residency. In his worldview, imagination, story, and creativity let us tune in on a Greater Conversation unfolding continually within us and with the land around us. He asks: How are we called to respond deeply and soulfully to our turbulent time? Might that response include joining others to weave into being a new worldview?
There Is a Field
from Jeanine M Canty
In this concluding article from 2025 Visiting Scholar Jeanine M. Canty, Jeanine summarizes the synchronicities that happened during her residency, giving examples of how living in relationship with the phenomenal and transpersonal worlds allows for harmonious relationship with our more earth-based selves.
Invitation to Reclaiming Wildness
from Jeanine M Canty
In this invitation to Finding Wildness, 2025 Visiting Scholar Jeanine M. Canty invites us to join her as she embarks on her residency. She offers a framework for her worldview, some of the projects she brought with her, and what she hoped to find during her residency.