In this podcast: What is the role of Chaos in spiritual development. The reaction against rationalism & chaos as a creative force - Dadaism The challenge of a crisis is to bring forth personal creativity to get out of it. Initiation can be a deliberate attempt to create a crisis for the novice or neophyte. Anxiety: the loss of control of ourselves and the environment. How fictional narratives resist change & uncertainty. Archetypal stories of crisis and the hand of providence. What happens when we open up to chance and uncertainty?