# Categories

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## [Start Here](https://chalquist.discourse.group/c/general/4.md)

Orientation time. Come here for an overview of the forum.

## [Site Feedback](https://chalquist.discourse.group/c/site-feedback/2.md)

Discussion about this site, its organization, how it works, and how we can improve it.

## [Lamplighting: Inspiring Change](https://chalquist.discourse.group/c/lamplighting-inspiring-change/6.md)

“Lamplighting,” a term I took from my hopeful Assembling Terrania Cycle of near-future fiction, means bringing light to a dim, confused, or unclear situation by offering new ways to perceive it, es...

## [Terrapsychology](https://chalquist.discourse.group/c/terrapsychology/7.md)

In 2000, Lali Mitchell, Matt Cochran, and I were graduate students working on how the presence of places–not only natural ones like rivers and regions, but also built environments–showed up inside ...

## [Loreosophy](https://chalquist.discourse.group/c/loreosophy/8.md)

Loreosophy is my pocket philosophy, a compass for navigating strange and confusing times. The name reflects this philosophy’s emphasis on story and imagination. It is a philosophy not for abstract ...

## [Applied Folklore and Myth](https://chalquist.discourse.group/c/applied-folklore-and-myth/9.md)

Folklore, which includes myths, folktales, fairytales, and legends, was never an explanation for things science now understands. Instead, it operates as a kind of collective psychology, showing us ...

## [Gnoesis](https://chalquist.discourse.group/c/gnoesis/10.md)

“Gnoesis” is the third and final name for the esoteric and ecospiritual branch of my work. For a while I called it Terragnosis, but an ibogaine company in Canada lifted the name after I had used it...

## [Loreology and Loreologizing](https://chalquist.discourse.group/c/loreology-and-loreologizing/11.md)

Although all my work is about loreologizing, loreology deserves its own category here because it involves a methodology for melting down the literal stuck parts of our guiding stories (personal or ...

## [Assembling Terrania / Planetary Mythology](https://chalquist.discourse.group/c/assembling-terrania-planetary-mythology/12.md)

It has been said for some time that we need a new big story to live in, collectively. But I think the German Idealists and the Romantics were more accurate: we really need a new mythology / worldvi...