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Living MythEpisode 434 - Soul and the Waves of ChangeThis episode uses two ancient stories to show how humans have repeatedly had to deal with periods of worldwide upheaval and fears of drowning in the seas of life. A creation myth from India, depicts how the original sage fell out of the dream of life and into the seas of oblivion. He found himself in an existential condition and metaphysical version of sink or swim. In order to survive he had to face his innermost fears of annihilation and learn to let go of those things that were not life-enhancing. Only then could he...2025-05-0726 min
Living MythEpisode 433 - The Necessity of Empathy On this episode of Living Myth the deep-seated feeling of empathy is viewed in several contexts: as it appears in a traditional story, as it occurs in personal experience, how it is currently being attacked as “toxic and sinful” and how as "suicidal empathy” it is being called “the existential threat to Western civilization.” The idea that truly caring about other people could end civilization is a new extreme in this era of extreme beliefs and what appears to be an endless onslaught of unprecedented ideas and events. As people become increasingly uncertain about the future of the world...2025-04-3034 min
Living MythEpisode 432 - Waking the Living Soul This episode begins with an often asked question: What is the soul? Michael Meade describes the soul as “the animating and connecting force without which we cannot live,” yet that “cannot be seen directly or simply be proven to exist.” He further describes the soul as “a betwixt and between thing, neither simply physical nor strictly spiritual,” but rather “the third element in the trinity of existence, that fills the subtle space between spirit and matter.” Soul is the connecting tissue and the hidden continuity of all of life. It is “the missing ingredient when everything seems to fall apar...2025-04-2343 min
Living MythEpisode 430 - Re-Creation and Renewal on Earth This episode of Living Myth explores how as humans we live and die in the context of the stories we tell ourselves about the world and our place in it. Two great stories happen at the same time, the great drama of the world and the unique story trying to unfold from each individual soul. At this critical time on earth, something essential to the story of the world is trying to be re-discovered and something crucial in each life story is trying to be revealed. People are increasingly fearful about the future of the ea...2025-04-091h 04
Living MythEpisode 428 - Being Worth Your Salt This episode of Living Myth begins with an unassuming teacher finding herself in a public controversy for refusing to take down posters that state that everyone is “welcome, important, respected, encouraged, valued and equal” in her classroom. As she said in an interview, "I would do anything to protect my students. I love all of them unconditionally, and as teachers, we protect them from danger, quite literally. This is the one small thing I can do to stand up for them, to protect them from being affected by racist sentiments that are affecting their classroom and our culture." ...2025-03-2632 min
Living MythEpisode 427 - Finding a Place to Stand This episode begins by tracing the evolution of propaganda from the creation of a papal agency entitled The College of Propaganda just over 400 years ago to the current process of “flooding the zone” to gain “full spectrum dominance of the news.” What is described as “rapid fire propaganda” aims, not simply to reframe the collective narrative, but rather to drown out all other narratives. In addition to being emotionally and psychologically exhausting, the flood of emotionally charged language, outrageous claims and crude accusations serves the goal of turning people against each other, using the age-old divisions of...2025-03-1924 min
Living MythEpisode 426 - The Deeper Self Within At this critical time on Earth, we are caught in storms of change that involve the shattering of norms and a loss of orientation as unprecedented events tear at the heart of humanity and ravage both the body politic and the face of the earth. The sense that we might just turn away from the troubling news of the day does not simply save us, for the polarization and fragmentation that trouble the outside world are also felt deeply within us. As the rational mind reels from the cascade of irrational events, we are thrown b...2025-03-1225 min
Living MythEpisode 425 - Looking Down on Autocracy This episode of focuses on the dehumanizing aspects of autocratic movements. The increasing uncertainties about the future create vacuums that would be dictators and autocrats seek to fill with big lies and fraudulent claims that are presented with a false sense of certainty. The autocratic playbook that they all inevitably follow requires that they enforce forms of economic and informational isolation and instill a siege mentality that depicts the outside world as being hostile, unfair and dangerous. Authoritarian leaders deliberately seek to polarize people and radicalize what would otherwise be civil societies. They intentionally promote d...2025-03-0526 min
Living MythEpisode 424 - Hubris Comes Before the Fall This episode of Living Myth begins with a consideration of psychological characteristics of the archetype of the king. In its positive form the king archetype is often connected to the sun which appears as a unifying force that brings warmth and light along with generosity and life enhancing generativity. Since it is the nature of archetypes to manifest negative as well as positive energies, the shadow king manifests the dark side of power, the corrupt side of ruling and the backside of humanity that everyone else must suffer. The dark side of the king archetype a...2025-02-2625 min
Living MythEpisode 423 - Facing DarknessOn this episode, Michael Meade explores the roots of wisdom and what it means to face the darkness. The healing and transformation needed now, both individually and collectively, require going into the exact places that look darkest to us. In following this path, we encounter hidden resources and an inner gold that connects us to sources of wisdom. During this time of division and isolation, Meade suggests that whereas simple knowledge tends to divide things, genuine wisdom makes meaningful unity possible. Thank you for listening to and supporting Living Myth. You can hear Michael Meade li...2025-02-1920 min
Living MythEpisode 422 - Surviving the Maelstrom This episode of Living Myth begins with the idea that we are experiencing not just radical changes that happen in quick succession, but a maelstrom that threatens to upend life as we know it. The word maelstrom comes from old roots meaning, “a grinding stream or great whirlpool that sucks everything into its downward spiraling vortex.” Being alive at this radical time when extreme changes engulf most areas of life means that we repeatedly risk being overwhelmed and pulled down by events that can be disheartening and discouraging. Faced with increasing uncertainty we must find things...2025-02-1219 min
The Bone CollectorsThe Myth of Death & the Rise of Soul with Michael MeadeI could not have imagined a better first guest for the bone collectors series. Michael Meade is an extraordinary author, teacher, and pioneer of mythology and the modern psyche was one of the earliest influences on my own journey and it was an absolute honor to interview him. Compelling, challenging and profoundly insightful, this conversation dives into the heart of personal and social transformation. Confronting the myths that need to die, and the quest for Soul that tests the very limits of our human being.Michael Meade is a renowned storyteller, author, a...2025-02-101h 19
Living MythEpisode 421 - Chaos, Conflict and the Deep Self WithinThis episode begins with the idea that we live in times of extreme changes and increasing chaos. When the world around us falls apart the issue becomes not simply a change in lifestyle or shift in politics, but a revelation of the core imagination and original aim hidden within each of our souls from the beginning. Michael Meade tells an old Native American myth about a youth who has a vision of a “singing stone” that gives great medicine to whoever finds it. In order to find the stone and the medicine that can help him and also...2025-02-0524 min
Living MythPremium Episode 151 Excerpt - Pathways to the CenterOn this excerpt from a Living Myth Premium episode, Michael Meade explores how even in the darkest times, the inner abundance of the soul is ever nearby. The problem is that the pathways to our inner inheritance and instinctive vitality are blocked by received ideas and an over-adaptation to early life conditions. The rigid attitudes of our ego or little-self make it difficult to connect to the imagination and vitality of the greater self within us. The deeper self is our true center that can be both a place of stillness and refuge or a place of breaking open and...2025-01-2822 min
Living MythEpisode 419 - The Redemptive Power of Soul Michael Meade considers how as the world rattles around us and the soul trembles, balancing symbols and archetypal energies stir deep within us. If we can hold the tension of the immediate limitations, we can connect to the soul’s power of redemption and life’s natural energies of renewal. Archetypes, like instincts, are part of our inner inheritance. They hold all the potentials of life and can initiate creative responses to the challenges and dilemmas we face. As the outside world becomes more divided, the sense of creation coming from within repeats and renews the o...2025-01-2231 min
Living MythEpisode 418 - The Creative Middle Way Michael Meade looks at how a living system tends to be most complex in the middle or at the center, while being most open at the edges. Being at one side of a bridge of change opens possibilities of crossing over and reaching a place of greater understanding on the other side. Yet the actual change must happen in the complicated middle which involves both loss and renewal, both chaos and creation. The creative middle way involves the power of becoming; becoming aware of new ways of being as well as coming to know ancient wi...2025-01-1526 min
Living MythEpisode 417 - A Story That Must Not Be Forgotten Michael Meade recounts an ancient myth that reveals essential knowledge for navigating the turbulent time in which we all now live. The mostly forgotten tale describes the origin of the soul and explains how it is that we keep forgetting the still surprising idea that each soul brings to life a unique story and a destiny that seeks to unfold in the course of each life. When faced with dark times and worldwide troubles, there is no formula that can save us. There is no simple fix or silver bullet, but only the p...2025-01-0825 min
Living MythEpisode 416 - A Touch of the EternalAlthough it may often feel that we are running out of time when it comes to the great issues of the world and the struggles of daily life, Michael Meade suggests that it is not more time that we need but a stronger connection to things that are timeless, and therefore eternal. Meade tells an ancient Bushman story from Africa that depicts the dilemma which humanity faces with each crisis that involves issues of meaning, truth and the human soul. When great troubles abound, whether it be on the world stage or at a critical stage of life, what we ne...2025-01-0224 min
Living MythEpisode 415 - The Inner Speck of StarThis episode begins with an ancient myth from a tribe along the Amazon River. The story tells how the inner soul of each person travels at night all the way the center of the cosmos. Once there, the soul receives a message that is brought back and shared with the tribe as a dream. Meade draws on this link between the individual soul and the cosmos to describe how ancient cultures imagined each person to be born with a speck of star hidden in their soul, buried in their heart, just waiting to become a person’s “guiding star.” Each person is...2024-12-2623 min
Living MythEpisode 414 - Solstice and the Tree of Life On this winter solstice episode, Michael Meade states at the beginning: “This is not just the dark time of the year, but increasingly dark times for everyone, especially for those who care for the souls of other people and for the well-being of the earth we all live on.” He goes on to describe how ancient symbols and practices at the Winter Solstice served as a reminder of the cosmological connection between the human soul and the hidden unity of life. Symbols have the power to bring the mind and the heart together and connect us to...2024-12-1718 min
Living MythEpisode 413 - From Polarization to Re-Creation This episode begins with the word polarization being chosen as the dictionary word of the year and ironically being the one thing that both sides of the political spectrum agree upon. The Merriam Webster Dictionary defines polarization as “a division into sharply distinct opposites in which opinions and no longer range along a continuum, but become concentrated at opposing extremes.” When polarization becomes the key word, extreme levels of tension are being experienced, both on the collective level and in the psyche of each individual person. At critical times on Earth, the basic elements and energ...2024-12-1126 min
The Other Side of ThingsThe Other Side of Things (Ep 07) - "Moments of Eternity" with Michael Meade00:00 Introduction01:00 Who is Michael Meade?03:20 What Michael is tracking post election?04:00 Manu and the Fish - a story about the origin of human consciousness08:00 Moving from the Law of the Fishes to the Law of Manu10:30 How do we feed that 'little fish' in our own life.11:00 When we are following our calling we can deal with big heavy duty issues!12:00 The fish is the most ancient symbol of the deep self.14:00 Something bigger and deeper than politics.15:30 We are in a collective Rite of Passage.17:41 Apocalypsis - Collapse...2024-12-051h 10Living MythEpisode 412 - Living in Two Worlds This episode begins with the recognition that, what the United Nations calls “the biggest election year ever recorded,” has left most countries on Earth more divided and less free. Any issue that arises quickly becomes another example of two opposing attitudes or conflicting views of life. As increased polarization fractures any sense of civil society, people come to believe that they literally live in two different worlds that are essentially unreconcilable. Following a line from Shakespeare, Michael Meade considers the idea that we are in “a prison of our own making” if we believe we are simpl...2024-12-0426 minLiving MythEpisode 411 - The Necessity of Gratitude Michael Meade answers questions about the sources and meanings of grace and gratitude. Gratitude used to be called the “parent of all virtues” and its presence indicates the natural nobility of the human soul. We are most human and most alive when we allow ourselves to be touched by the beauty of the world and when we feel genuine gratitude for the life we have been given, no matter how hard or how dark the world around us has become. In this way, expressing gratitude helps to bring grace back into the world. ...2024-11-2639 min
Sounds of SAND#110 Mosaics of Myth: Michael MeadeMichael Meade is a renowned storyteller and scholar of mythology, anthropology, and psychology, who draws from his study of archetypal myths, ancestral wisdom and cross-cultural rituals to interpret our remarkable moment in human history. While many of us are attempting to recognize our own self-terminating patterns and inhabit new ways of being human, Michael helps us to see the stories we are living, and the new stories that are calling us.
He is the author of many books, including The Genius Myth, Fate and Destiny, Why the World Doesn’t End and The Water of Life. He is...2024-11-2156 minLiving MythEpisode 410 - On Hope and Despair This episode begins with the old idea that emotions travel in pairs. Sorrow tends to travel with joy, so that if we allow sorrow to penetrate us, it will pull us to a deep level of our soul where joy can provide a renewal of spirit that lifts us back up. On the other hand, when we deny the grief and sorrows that enter our lives, we wind up losing our capacity for joy. Another natural pairing of emotions occurs with hope and despair. While despair can mean to “lose all hope,” it is not simply a blind alley or a...2024-11-2030 minLiving MythEpisode 409 - The Law of the Fish vs. The Rule of Law Michael Meade turns to an ancient myth from India to show how elections can have such dire consequences that the rule of law becomes replaced with the “law of the fishes.” In the great oceans the big fish endlessly devour the little fish and the same drama is often replicated in the realm of culture, where every pond has its big fish and the small fry continually become fodder for the big shots. The law of the fishes was used by ancient people to describe periods of cultural disorder when there is no genuine leader, but only those seeking to w...2024-11-1332 minLiving MythEpisode 408 - To Not Be Lost It is our mutual fate to live in a time of such disorientation and upheaval that the institutions we hoped would protect us cannot keep up with the flood of changes pouring through both nature and human culture. It makes sense that we could feel lost when the present is full of chaos and fear, while the future looks increasingly uncertain. In the long run, we are not simply in a battle between Democrats and Republicans or conservatives and liberals, but rather we are in a struggle for meaning and truth, in a battle between nobility and mendacity, which...2024-11-0723 minLiving MythEpisode 407 - Antidotes to Uncertainty This episode of Living Myth begins with excerpts from a new psychological survey that a majority of American adults are worried that the upcoming presidential election could be the end of democracy in the United States. More than 7 in 10 people fear the results could lead to widespread violence. While it is clear that the political stakes are high, the levels of uncertainty and fear are even higher. Across the board, people feel less able to predict and control things, much less integrate the flood of emotions that come from all of the upheaval. Caught between t...2024-10-3025 minLiving MythEpisode 405 - The Symptoms We Suffer, The Symbols We Need This episode is about the need for living symbols that can give us a sense of unity and wholeness in a divided world. Symptom is an old Greek word that refers to something that “falls upon us or strikes us” in a way that wounds us or divides us against ourself. At this critical time on Earth, almost anything can suddenly become symptomatic and leave us more personally wounded and more collectively divided. The word symbol derives from Greek roots, meaning “to throw together or bring things together.” A genuine symbol unites unlike or opposite things in...2024-10-1624 minLiving MythEpisode 404 - Finding Shelter from the StormsThis episode of Living Myth begins with the idea that the old terminology of 100-year storms and 1000-year storms makes little sense, since events of that magnitude now happen so often. It becomes difficult to deny that we now live in a world that is more unpredictable, more chaotic, and sadly, more dangerous. As the storms occurring in nature grow greater and move faster, a parallel intensification of cultural conflicts and political storms have also been growing greater and changing with remarkable speed. By now, the two areas of increasing turbulence can be seen to overlap in ways that...2024-10-0927 minLiving MythEpisode 403 - The Divine Touch: Living Through Chaos and Fear This episode of Living Myth focuses on the sense that we are living through a radical time when change becomes necessary and a transformation of life becomes more possible. Michael Meade uses an ancient myth to depict, not just creation, but importantly the process of re-creation which secretly sustains life on earth. When we find ourselves in a time of radical changes in nature and conflicts and chaos in human societies, growing our true selves and changing our lives becomes more possible, unless we become stuck in the grip of uncertainty and fear. If we stay at the fearful...2024-10-0221 minLiving MythEpisode 402 - The Storm of Uncertainty and Your Authentic Self This episode begins with the idea of the Cone of Uncertainty as the front part of a hurricane or tropical storm that can veer to the right or left and change directions frequently. Michael Meade uses the Cone of Uncertainty as a metaphor for the political storms and radical uncertainties that characterize the current campaign season in the U.S. “No political forecaster could have predicted the storm of inauthenticity that overshadows so many issues and increasingly divides people into fearfully opposed sides. At this point in the amplified uncertainty of the modern world, some major candidates are boldly cr...2024-09-2524 minLiving MythEpisode 401 - Why We Resist Change On this episode, Michael Meade explores how life is change and to be truly alive means to be repeatedly transforming ourselves. There's an old statement that says, "The soul is here for us to transform". Yet at the same time, something within us resists changing, even when the time for transforming our lives has come. In the mysterious way of the world, the metamorphosis of the butterfly offers ways to understand why we resist the exact changes we most need in order to transform ourselves and help change the world. Along with this potent image of...2024-09-1832 minLiving MythEpisode 399 - Messages from the CosmosOne of the problems in the modern world is that people now tend to believe that science and technological inventions can solve problems that exist on much deeper and much greater levels. As Albert Einstein expressed it: “It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.” In the upward and onward at all costs rush of the modern world, it is the heart and soul of humanity that most often becomes lost. Fortunately, it turns out that the missing elements that make life meaningful, purposeful and beautiful do not simply disappear. Rather, what is sorel...2024-09-0423 minLiving MythEpisode 398 - A Deeper Sense of HopeFor many reasons, people question whether there is any hope for the world at this time. Yet, it is the nature of hope to become lost before being found again at another level of life. In the old myth of Pandora's Box, hope only appears after all possible troubles, pains and agonies have been unleashed upon the world. At critical times, life can seem hopeless before a deeper level of hope can be found again in the depths of the human heart and soul. This deeper level of hope includes a greater vision of the world, as...2024-08-2822 minLiving MythEpisode 397 - Following the Call of SoulOn this episode, Michael Meade talks about inner genius and how without a calling we can feel lost throughout our lives. Without a genuine purpose, we can turn bitter, drifting without genuine passion and withering without the blessing of the spirit of life. Yet, the spirit of life within us does not age as we grow older. The inner genius continues to be on the verge of awakening and our calling keeps calling no matter what age we are, no matter what position or condition in life we may have. Because what calls to us is timeless, the calling can...2024-08-2129 minLiving MythEpisode 396 - Dreams of HealingOn this episode, Michael Meade tells an old story of someone who follows a dream that leads to being stripped down and stuck, before it unfolds a path to healing and wholeness. Stories and dreams are about the mysteries of life. And penetrating the mysteries requires a different kind of vision and a different understanding than what we use to negotiate the common world. By now, most people can agree that we are living in a broken world at both the levels of nature and culture. What still seems difficult to accept is that the way to find...2024-08-1130 minLiving MythEpisode 394 - Living in Turbulent Times This episode of Living Myth begins with the series of shocks and radical changes that have occurred in contemporary American politics and the current election campaign. Michael Meade expands the theme of dramatic changes to include both nature and culture as we find ourselves “in the midst of a transformation of life on earth.” Whether we want to admit to it or not, we have entered a radical transition of life in which we are being pushed and pulled into territories that we would not choose to go on our own. We keep finding ourselves in uncharted waters in term...2024-07-3124 minLiving MythEpisode 393 - In Dire Straits We live in a time when seemingly all possible conflicts and oppositions come crashing all around us. Each day leaves us more exposed to raw emotions and rocked by the harsh energies of life. The tragedies and calamities of this era leave us in the lurch of history as antagonisms harden into stone and life seems increasingly stuck. In order to imagine ways to pass through the dire straits of these troubled times, Michael Meade turns to ancient myths which can offer a third way to see when we find ourselves caught between opposing ideas a...2024-07-2438 minLiving MythEpisode 392 - The Call of Genius On this episode of Living Myth, Michael Meade suggests that in times of change, just as in periods of personal crisis, there can be an intensification and an acceleration of calling. Whether it comes as a daunting challenge or a crushing blunder, a big dream or a cutting loss, each major life event has within it an opportunity to awaken to the call of the deeper self and the resident genius of the soul. What calls us calls for the giving of the inherent gifts and natural talents we brought to life to begin with. W...2024-07-1725 minLiving MythEpisode 391 - The Pathless Path On this episode of Living Myth, edited from a Shift Network Summit on mysticism, Michael Meade suggests that we each arrive at turning points where the map we have been given does not match the territory we find ourselves in. Because each soul is unique, each life journey leads to the pathless path where we must awaken to the dream of our own life. When we open the eyes of the heart, we find the ways of the mystic souls and visionary seers, the outsiders and wounded healers who hold the threads to the underlying unity of life. 2024-07-1039 minLiving MythEpisode 390 - In the Shadows of Power This episode begins with the sense that the recent presidential debate and the series of radical Supreme Court decisions add to the long line of broken moments that leave us in a deepening state of loss about the present and in an increasing condition of uncertainty about the future. Michael Meade turns to ancient ideas about how the process of elevating people to positions of power and authority is related to the web of life. At critical times the web of life becomes more fragile and we find ourselves in danger of losing that which secretly holds us together.2024-07-0324 minLiving MythEpisode 388 - The Call of Dreams This episode of Living Myth is about how our dreams call to something in us that is awake in some other way. Dreams call us to recognize other aspects of ourselves, other levels of awareness and even other realms of being. Dreams are the universal evidence that there is an Otherworld and that we as humans, as dreamers live in both worlds. Each person born is called to become a living bridge where dreams and reality can meet. Whether we acknowledge it or not, whether we remember it or not, each night we dream. And e...2024-06-1924 minLiving MythEpisode 387 - The Three Kinds of Thinking This episode of Living Myth begins with the meaning of the verb to think. Ever since Descartes declared, “I think therefore I am,” thinking has come to mean to form in the mind, to consider, to reflect upon. Yet, the Indo-European roots of the verb “to think” can also mean “to feel” and even “to imagine.” The sense of thinking having more than one meaning leads back to the ancient idea that there are three realms of life and three ways of thinking about the world. The first and most evident realm of life appears as what most now...2024-06-1229 min
Dr Espen Podcast44. How To Find Our Inner Genius | Michael MeadeCheck our upcoming events: https://bit.ly/3whDgVo
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"The genius of a person is connected to their inner wounds, so sometimes, to get to the genius, you have to go through the wound."
Summary
In this episode, Dr Espen had a conversation with Michael Meade, a renowned storyteller, author, and scholar of mythology, anthropology, and psychology. They explore how to tap into individual genius, the significance of rites of passage, and the global awakening of humanity.
💡Episode Highlights:
00:00:00 - Episode trailer
00:01:17 - Introduction to Michael Meade
00:04:33 - Awakening Through Archetypal Transition Rituals
00:07:50 - Transitioning to Deeper Und...2024-06-0935 minLiving MythEpisode 386 - How We Become Ourselves On this episode, Michael Meade tells two stories about the question we are asked at the end of our lives. We enter the world as seekers and what we most need to find is the uniqueness of our own souls. Each life is a surprising pilgrimage intended to arrive at the center of the pilgrim’s soul. The figures most revered in the many traditions found throughout the world became memorable because they became uniquely themselves. Whether a spiritual teacher or an artist, a healer or a leader, they had to awaken to an inner vis...2024-06-0525 minLiving MythEpisode 385 - Your Inner InitiateThis episode of Living Myth brings a focus to the inner initiate, the eternal seeker in the soul. To initiate means “to begin, to originate, to enter into, to awaken.” The inner initiate is the “beginner’s mind” part of each of us that is always wanting to learn and ever ready to begin anew. In that sense, the initiate within us becomes the locus through which healing energies and inspired ideas continually try to enter the common world. Entering the modern world is like stepping into the middle of a rite of passage that has reached...2024-05-2931 minLiving MythEpisode 384 - Dealing with Emotional Storms This episode brings a focus to ways in which the troubles and tragedies of the world can fall upon us in storms of emotion. When life becomes greatly uncertain, and the daily world becomes deeply unsettled, we can find ourselves subjected to sudden states of fear and anxiety. Michael Meade uses an old Sufi teaching story to open up the emotional territory where fear can become contagious and one emotion can turn into another. Emotions are a necessary and mysterious presence, a flow of energies without which we cannot tell if we are alive or n...2024-05-2226 minLiving MythEpisode 383 - Threaded by DreamsOn this episode, Michael Meade explores the dynamic between myth and dream and considers the idea that myths are like the collective dreams of humanity. He also speaks to the core idea that each life carries a message and a meaning trying to find its way into the world and each adds a thread in the tale of history being woven as we speak, being shaped as we dream, and potentially being made anew each time we step more fully into the story trying to live through us. The inner dream is the vessel for e...2024-05-1540 minLiving MythEpisode 382 - Unlocking Destiny This episode begins with the idea that we suffer a mutual fate of living in a time of tragedy and trouble, and yet, the way through the troubles of the world must depend upon an individual thread of fate set within each person. Although the thread of fate implies limitation in each person’s life, it also ties each person to a destiny waiting to awaken. In order to illustrate the dynamic of limitations and calling, Michael Meade tells the story of how he came to write the book called “Fate and Destiny”. There may be no gre...2024-05-0827 minLiving MythEpisode 381 - Coming of Age in an Age of Chaos On this episode of Living Myth, Michael Meade looks at two contemporary crises involving young people through the lens of rites of passage. One crisis involves the alarming increase in both the numbers of youth who consider suicide and those actually taking their own lives. Teens and young adults across the country report growing levels of sadness, loneliness and hopelessness with youth of color and LGBTQ+ youth increasingly being severely affected. Young people have no choice but to grow up in the collective atmosphere of their culture. At this point in time that means to b...2024-05-0131 minLiving MythEpisode 380 - Elders and Youth on Paths of Healing This episode follows the path of an old tale in which youth and elders have to solve seemingly impossible tasks, outwit a power-driven ruler and help create a more welcoming, wise and just society. Traditional tales from many cultures show how youth and elders are opposite sides of a psychic pairing in which each is necessary to understand the other. Despite cultural gaps between them, youth and elders are secretly connected, and each holds an essential piece of the human inheritance. The eternal youth in each soul carries the original dream of our life, while t...2024-04-2433 minLiving MythEpisode 379 - Earth Day and the Origins of GaiaOn this Earth Day podcast, Michael Meade begins by looking at the Gaia Hypothesis published 50 years ago and then explores the older roots of the name Gaia, which can be traced back to ancient India where Gaya or Gayatri appears as the ancient goddess of creation. Gaya appears in the Vedas or sacred texts as the source of all knowledge and wisdom. As the “mother of all,” she also had the power to heal all ills and nurture all of life, so that the wellbeing of the planet depended upon the presence and support of Gaya. Originally, the Veda...2024-04-1729 minLiving MythEpisode 378 - Mythic Medicine Michael Meade tells an old story from India about the creation of the world. In it, an ancient sage named Markandeya is caught in the tension between creation and wonder, despair and loss. His existential crisis speaks to the world we live in now with its increasing levels of fear and despair. Addressing the two great fears - fear of abandonment and the fear of being overwhelmed – Meade talks about how easily we can get lost in despair if we don’t know there is something essential in the ground of our being. He suggests that this story, and all the...2024-04-0932 min
Irish Stew PodcastS6E4: Michael Meade - From Banking to BrewingMichael Meade spent over 20 years on Wall Street and then stepped away from the pressured world of high finance to do something totally different. Some, in his circumstances, may have opted for plenty of time on the golf course and cracking open a few brews, that’s not the kind of person Michael Meade is. Intrigued by a visit to Ireland, Michael wanted to build a business that would connect to his Irish roots, work with a famous brewing dynasty, revive Ireland's oldest brewing brand and return beer making to Kilkenny, the home of red ale.It...2024-04-0856 minLiving MythEpisode 377 - Eclipses and Epiphanies This episode of Living Myth considers how a total solar eclipse can have the effect of reinforcing the now common idea that we are each but a mere speck on a small planet orbiting a relatively unimportant star within a random and meaningless universe. Or it can be a revelation that reassures our souls that we are secretly connected to the whole living cosmos. A total solar eclipse has the paradoxical quality of hiding the sun, while also revealing aspects of its true nature. At totality, the sun appears as it truly is, a star a...2024-04-0324 minLiving MythEpisode 376 - A Divided World, A Hidden Unity On this episode of Living Myth, Michael Meade contrasts two creation myths that feature the original division that becomes the source of all subsequent divisions in life. One ancient tale makes clear that healing and transformation are the secret aims of the tension of opposites that exist inside each person, inside each society and inside life itself. “At critical moments in the life of individuals and societies, the basic elements and energies of existence polarize. While the two poles of a polarity seem to be irreconcilable opposites, they are secretly one. In a true polarity, one...2024-03-2724 minLiving MythEpisode 375 - The Return of Eros On this episode, Michael Meade suggests that the message borne by spring flowers breaking through the hard ground of a long winter involves much more than a simple return to how things were before. In mythological terms, creation is ever ongoing as nature continually presents the essential mystery of life renewing itself from the haunts of death. In terms of that ageless story, we are being invited to participate in a return to the original potential that was there at the beginning and continually becomes present again. This greater invitation involves the blossoming of our own souls as well as...2024-03-2024 minLiving MythEpisode 374 - Threads of Fate and Destiny This episode is about how the inner tension between the limits of fate and the call of destiny manifests uniquely in each person’s life. It is also about how a dark night of the soul can serve as the liminal stage of a life-changing rite of passage. Finally, it is about how we are currently in the midst of a collective rite of passage that involves the destiny of humanity and the fate of life on earth. Thank you for listening to and supporting Living Myth. You can hear Michael Meade live by joining his...2024-03-1328 minLiving MythEpisode 373 - Lies that Poison, Truths that Heal This episode begins with Socrates’ idea of the difference between two types of lies. The first type of untruth is the “noble lie” best understood as stories or myths that are not factual, yet are foundational because they reveal important truths and wisdom. The other kind of untruth is the “lie of the soul” that is taken into a person's being and becomes treated as if it was the truth. This is the most dangerous kind of lie because it has a destructive effect on a person's core being and soul. The rise of political strongmen i...2024-03-0626 minLiving MythEpisode 372 - Jonah and the Whale This episode begins with the idea that we are living in flood times again as we face overwhelming changes at most levels of life. Deluge and flood stories have been found even in landlocked places, as if to make clear that it is not simply the literal seas that can overflow, but also the psychic waters of the unconscious that can overwhelm an individual or an entire culture. In the old story of Noah, a great ark serves as a life preserving vessel in the midst of great loss and worldwide flooding. In the tale of...2024-02-2824 minLiving MythEpisode 371 - Fear is the Way Through Michael Meade tells a story to illustrate the idea that sometimes we must go where we fear to go. Fear is an old word that derives from the same roots that give us “fare,” as in “thoroughfare.” Although it often causes people to run away from troubling situations, at a deeper level, fear means “to go through it.” When we fail to recognize how fear works in the world, we become ruled by it. The point is not to become paralyzed with foreboding or be caught in the panic that can grip the collective and cause people to run blindly in t...2024-02-2143 minLiving MythEpisode 370 - Veiling the Truth Michael Meade uses an ancient tale about a lost message from the god of creation to consider the contemporary dilemma in which many people become blind to the truth. The old Sanskrit word avidya can mean “ignorance,” but also “delusion.” Avidya is a fundamental blindness about reality, not simply a lack of information that can be resolved with some new facts, but a veiling of the truth that can befall, not simply individuals, but entire groups of people. The veil of avidya causes a kind of trance state in which people become increasingly distanced from their own...2024-02-1427 minLiving MythEpisode 369 - Three Kinds of Wisdom Unlike religious narratives or scientific theories, folk myths don't require that we believe in them. They simply prefer that we continue to learn from them. Sometimes, the ancient wisdom needed for surviving and transforming our lives comes in the form of animals. This episode of Living Myth centers upon an old teaching tale about how a wise fish, a half-wise fish and one who is simply unwise deal with the nets intended to entrap them. Amidst a consideration of all the current crises that can entrap and incapacitate us, a bird appears with three pieces of wisdom about avoiding...2024-02-0733 minLiving MythEpisode 368 - Touching Spirit, Making Soul Increasing tensions throughout the world pit the effects of modern culture against the instinctive practice of becoming a genuine individual. Yet, the heart of the human drama concerns whether we are becoming a greater vessel for the flow of life. Either we are following spirit and growing more soul or we can find ourselves shrinking from life. Downward movement personalizes and upward movement eternalizes. Thus, the genuine way is made by answering both the call to spirit and the pull of soul. Spirit continually calls us to awaken to a greater sense of self, while s...2024-01-3024 minLiving MythEpisode 367 - The Redemptive Power of Soul As the world rattles around us and the soul trembles, balancing symbols and archetypal energies stir deep within us. If we can hold the tension of the immediate limitations, we can connect to the soul’s power of redemption and life’s natural energies of renewal. Archetypes, like instincts, are part of our inner inheritance. They hold all the potentials of life and can initiate creative responses to the challenges and dilemmas we face. As the outside world becomes more divided, the sense of creation coming from within repeats and renews the origins of life as wh...2024-01-2341 minLiving MythEpisode 366 - Facing Our Fears Under the rule of the ego or little-self, we live on the fringes of our natural potential and our genuine purpose in life. A core pattern exists in each soul intended to shape the unique project of that life from within. Whenever we experience a life transition or personal crisis, the esoteric pattern and latent genius within us tries to awaken. At each turning point in life, we must face our deepest fears in order to grow. The path of discovery will inevitably raise the exact fears that hold the heart captive. If we don't r...2024-01-1634 minLiving MythEpisode 365 - Kairos Time Currently, the world is beset by a cascade of crises that seem impossible to solve. Yet, the situation can also be seen as what the ancient Greeks called a kairos period, a betwixt and between time in which the course of history changes and all of reality seems to be altered. Things become both impossible and more possible at the same time as life transforms on many levels. A kairos period often begins with crises that break time open and break down our usual patterns of life. Although radically disorienting, such moments can be transformative, e...2024-01-0933 minLiving MythEpisode 364 - The Sacred Fifth This episode takes up the issue of healing from the ancient idea of the Sacred Fifth, or Secret Fifth, that represents the hidden center of the world, the original source of wholeness and renewal. Following the Navajo myth of the Fifth World, Meade describes how a small reed can become the connective link to the axis of the world that then leads to the hidden center that remains the living source of life. The ancient myth becomes a way of recovering from and shifting the burden of the otherwise overwhelming dilemmas of the modern world. Th...2024-01-0425 minLiving MythEpisode 363 - Myths of Creation and Re-CreationOn this New Year’s podcast, Michael Meade begins an exploration of the myths of creation and tales of re-creation that allow time to renew and the world to begin again. Any serious consideration of creation must also include the energies of chaos that continually dissolve and disintegrate what creation establishes in the world. An ancient story from India describes the “two hands of creation” through which the world recreates itself from emptiness as well as from abundance, from sorrow as well as joy and from despair as well as wonder. Thank you for listening to and suppo...2023-12-2722 minLiving MythEpisode 361 - The Stream of KnowledgeCurrently, the common understanding of “streaming” means “listening to music or watching video in real time as part of a continuous stream of data.” An older idea describes a cosmic stream of essential knowledge constantly pouring through the world. This much needed knowledge about life on earth flows freely, but at such a fast rate of speed that most people cannot catch it or even see it. On this episode, Michael Meade suggests that when it comes to finding ways to respond to the climate crisis and all the humanitarian issues in the world, we may have to find w...2023-12-1328 minLiving MythEpisode 357 - The Wisdom of the Butterfly This episode of Living Myth looks at both the need to transform and our resistance to change through the lens of the metamorphosis of butterflies. The fact that the Greek word psyche means butterfly implies how we are secretly connected to the essential dynamic of transformation in life. As if compelled by the primordial poetics of transformation, scientists named the cells that carry the potential for a true transformation of the caterpillar “imaginal cells.” The capacity of the imaginal cells to develop into a butterfly and transform life completely is related to the inner capacity of th...2023-11-1524 min
Be MythicalHow mythic narratives bring vital energy and forgotten wisdom for healing - Michael MeadeThis week’s show is with Michael Meade. Michael Meade, D.H.L., is a renowned storyteller, author, and scholar of mythology, anthropology, and psychology. He combines hypnotic storytelling, street-savvy perceptiveness, and spellbinding interpretations of ancient myths with a deep knowledge of cross-cultural rituals. He has an unusual ability to distill and synthesize these disciplines, tapping into ancestral sources of wisdom and connecting them to the stories we are living today. He is the author of Awakening the Soul, The Genius Myth, Fate and Destiny: The Two Agreements of The Soul, Why the World Doesn't En...2023-11-1457 minLiving MythEpisode 353 - Roots of Inner Peace This replay of a timely a relevant episode considers the difficulties of finding peace in a troubled world. The increasing amount of tension and conflict in the outside world generates a corresponding intensification of conflicts within each soul. Because the individual soul is not separate from the conditions of the world, simply turning away from outside conflicts does not necessarily lead to states of inner peace. The word peace comes from two deep roots. On one hand, peace can mean “to settle, to find stillness;” on the other hand, it can mean “to reconcile, to make ag...2023-10-1329 minLiving MythEpisode 345 - Your Calling Keeps Calling This episode brings a focus to the need for having a calling in life and the idea that as the world seems to fall apart there can be an acceleration of calling. The human heart carries an indelible expectation of being called to a greater sense of meaning and a revelation of our true aims in life. In the old sense of a rite of passage, the deeper point is not simply to grow up and take more responsibility in society, but rather to awaken to the story trying to unfold from within oneself. The point is to open...2023-08-2328 minLiving MythPremium Episode 116 Excerpt - The Subtle Ground of ImaginationOn this excerpt from a Living Myth Premium episode, Michael Meade explores how inside of each of us is a mostly hidden, mostly golden and mostly eternal image and aspect of being similar to the gold that is buried in the Earth. In seeking out this inner gold, we meet egoic resistance and must find ways to break the ego’s shell to tap the deeper wisdom within. Along the way, part of what opens this territory is a courageous act of facing death, for a death of the ego is required in order for the deeper self to em...2023-06-1017 min
Be Here Now NetworkRaghu Markus – Mindrolling – Ep. 483 - Mosaic Voices With Michael Meade-Scholar Michael Meade sits down with Raghu Markus for a mythical episode on storytelling, symbolism, and human nature.
"Myth is about vertical imagination. Myth opens up the connections we have to the heavens and the connections we have to the underworld... On the surface a myth is false, but it carries deeper truths than you can find anywhere else." – Michael Meade
In this episode Raghu Markus and Michael Meade converse about:
Michael's induction into the realm of myth
Storytelling with musical instruments
Oral and literary traditions in mythology
Finding truth within imagination
Life, death, and renewal
The mythic nature of hu...2023-03-2355 min
Mindrolling with Raghu MarkusEp. 483 - Mosaic Voices with Michael MeadeScholar Michael Meade sits down with Raghu Markus for a mythical episode on storytelling, symbolism, and human nature."Myth is about vertical imagination. Myth opens up the connections we have to the heavens and the connections we have to the underworld... On the surface a myth is false, but it carries deeper truths than you can find anywhere else." – Michael MeadeIn this episode Raghu Markus and Michael Meade converse about:Michael's induction into the realm of myth Storytelling with musical instrumentsOral and literary traditions in mythologyFinding truth within imaginationLife, death, and renewalThe mythic natur...2023-03-2355 minLiving MythPremium Episode 108 Excerpt - The Salt of Inner Wisdom On this excerpt from a premium episode, Michael Meade follows a myth from ancient Ireland and weaves together cosmology, psychology and philosophy in order to open the soul's vision and catch the fish of wisdom. Rather than being abstract knowledge, "embodied wisdom" is shown to be both immediate and eternal, both spiritual and soulful. You can hear the full episode and receive additional podcast content by becoming a member of Living Myth Premium. Members receive bonus episodes each month, access to the full archives of over 480 episodes and a 30% discount on all events, courses and book and audio...2023-01-1325 minLiving MythPremium Episode 104 Excerpt - Complexities of LifeOn this excerpt from a premium episode, Michael Meade talks about key issues that affect transformation in our lives. He considers core complexes in family and culture and wades into the territory of deep emotions. The word complex is trying to point out that when we have a particular kind of interior trouble, the issues are complex. Deep down, we all want to change, he says, and each crisis and obstacle we encounter serves to spark the initiatory transformation our soul longs for. If we change one small thing in our lives, we affect everything a...2022-09-1618 min
Kyle Kingsbury Podcast#259 Michael MeadeAll the guests I’m lucky enough to have are incredible, none more so than Michael Meade. He has been through what some may call hell and back in the form of a court marshall and solitary confinement. He took that opportunity to dive deep into his psyche and see the world through the lense of world mythologies. We get back story as well as deep deep insight and wisdom into the constant and simultaneous destruction and (re)creation of the world.
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2022-07-021h 18Living MythPremium Episode 97 Excerpt - The Stars Know Your NameOn this excerpt from a Living Myth Premium episode, Michael Meade considers how when the certainty of the world collapses around us, the danger of cynicism, isolation, and becoming numb inevitably increases. In looking for antidotes to these feelings of overwhelm and separation, he draws on themes and ideas including cosmology, genius and our inner gifts and wounds. If you would like to hear the rest of this episode, and receive additional podcast content, you can become a member of Living Myth Premium. Members receive bonus episodes each month, access to the full archives of o...2022-06-1715 min
Today DreamerDancing in the collapse with Michael MeadeDancing in the collapse can take place even through the most difficult situations in life. The Greek word "Apokalypsis", which is "Apocalypse" in English, means the lifting of the veil. But it also means collapse and renewal. In this podcast episode, we learn about life lessons from mythology and how everyone has some genius inside of them. Michael Meade shares with us the art of dancing yourself into life and experiencing this collective collapse. ❂ About our special guest: A renowned storyteller, author, and scholar of mythology, Michael Meade was a figure in the Men's Movement of...2022-04-051h 15
For The WildMICHAEL MEADE on Cultivating Mythic Imagination [ENCORE] /270This week we are rebroadcasting our interview with Michael Meade, originally aired in June of 2019. The crises of cosmological, mythological and psychological disconnection from nature, from ourselves, and from each other may drive us to places of darkness and suffering; and yet there is great potential in that darkness to interact with creative energy. Retracing meaning through archetypal myth offers an opportunity to understand the great challenge of our time to heal the planet from its wounds, and to refresh our dominant worldview with one based on connection and imagination. This week, journey into Michael Meade’s expansive vision of aw...2022-01-261h 00
How Humans Work Podcast#20: Michael Meade - Standing in the Rivers of TimeEpisode SummaryMichael J. Meade, D.H.L., is a storyteller, author, scholar of mythology as well as the founder of Mosaic Multicultural Foundation and the creator of the Living Myth Podcast.In Standing in the Rivers of Time, Michael offers us his rich understanding of story and myth as we venture further into our season two conversation around passages in general, and rites of passage in particular. By focusing on the importance of ordeals and their role in challenging the ego and awakening the deep self, Meade shines a clear light into the territory...2021-11-171h 29
Inspired Evolution with Amrit Sandhu 🙏🏻IE184 Michael Meade: Living Mystic: Unravelling Your Story & Life's Mysteries (Myth, Meaning, and Imagination)In this week’s episode, Amrit interviews Michael Meade, a storyteller, scholar of mythology, anthropology, and psychology, and author. He is the founder of Mosaic Multicultural Foundation and host of the Living Myth Podcast. Please check into this beauty here: https://www.livingmyth.org/contactMichael and Amrit, talk about the importance of having a deep connection to our soul to find our spirit and live authentically, and about the knowledge that keeps pouring in to awaken us. When we find our gifts and share them, we can consciously connect and become creative. We can change the...2021-08-011h 00
WE Earth Radio: Conversations That Make A Difference with Michael Stone and GuestsConversations with Michael and Michael Meade ~Climate, Chaos, and CreationMichael Meade is the author of The Genius Myth, Fate and Destiny: The Two Agreements of The Soul, Why the World Doesn't End, and The Water of Life: Initiation and the Tempering of the Soul. Meade is the founder of Mosaic Multicultural Foundation, a nonprofit network of artists, activists, and community builders that encourages greater understanding between diverse people. www.mosaicvoices.org/For more information on the Well of Light Global Community, Programs, Radio shows and Services go to www.welloflight.comTo access other great interviews and offerings: www.patreon...2021-07-1158 min
Coaches Rising81 - Michael Meade: Following the Call, Living Myth & Uncovering our GeniusIn a world that is suffering from a dearth of soul, how do we find our way back to deeper levels of meaning-making and identity? In this conversation with storytelling and mythologist Michael Meade we explore the current state of the world through the lens of myth, the concept of unique individual genius and how to access it, and the role of imagination in bringing forth our calling. Michael Meade D.H.L. is a renowned storyteller, author, and scholar of mythology, anthropology, and psychology. He combines hypnotic storytelling, street-savvy perceptiveness, and spellbinding interpretations of ancient myths with a...2021-02-1557 min
WE Earth Radio: Conversations That Make A Difference with Michael Stone and GuestsWE Earth Radio: Conversations That Make A Difference with Michael Meade ~Inner Wisdom: Finding Healing in a Divided WorldMichael Meade, D.H.L., is a renowned storyteller, author, and scholar of mythology, anthropology, and psychology. He combines hypnotic storytelling, street-savvy perceptiveness, and spellbinding interpretations of ancient myths with a deep knowledge of cross-cultural rituals. He is the author of Awakening the Soul: A Deep Response to a Troubled World, The Genius Myth, Fate and Destiny: The Two Agreements of The Soul, Why the World Doesn't End, and The Water of Life: Initiation and the Tempering of the Soul and editor, with James Hillman and Robert Bly, of Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart. He...2020-10-1958 min
State of Emergence018 Michael Meade – Standing on the ThresholdRenowned storyteller and scholar of mythology, anthropology, and psychology Michael Meade draws from his study of archetypal myths, ancestral wisdom and cross-cultural rituals to interpret our remarkable moment in human history. While many of us are attempting to recognize our own self-terminating patterns and inhabit new ways of being human, Michael helps us to see the stories we are living, and the new stories that are calling us. Michael is the author of many books, including The Genius Myth, Fate and Destiny, Why the World Doesn’t End and The Water of Life. He is also the fou...2020-02-291h 17
Comics & CharactersEpisode 1: Nightwing, KGBeast, Teen Titans and more!Co-Hosts Jeff Anderson and Michael Meade go deep with DC Comics like Nightwing, Teen Titans and more. And what happened to Starfire, Raven and the Titans crew?
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Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/comicsandcharacters/support2020-02-0833 minLiving MythBonus Episode - Premium Podcast #37 - The Language of TruthOn this bonus sharing of the latest premium podcast, Michael Meade begins with a poetic response to the deadening language that at times dominates the discussion about impeaching the President. What begins as a critique of the speech being used to defend the politics of big lies turns into a lament for the loss of language able to carry the truth of the human heart and soul. A procession of poems and commentary ranges from Aime Cesaire seeking “to rediscover the secret of great communications and great combustions" to D.H. Lawrence warning us how big lies and damning mist...2019-12-1422 min
WE Earth Radio: Conversations That Make A Difference with Michael Stone and GuestsMichael Meade ~ Chaos, Climate and CreationMichael Meade, is a renowned storyteller, author, and scholar of mythology, anthropology, and psychology. He combines hypnotic storytelling, street-savvy perceptiveness, and spellbinding interpretations of ancient myths with a deep knowledge of cross-cultural rituals. He has an unusual ability to distill and synthesize these disciplines, tapping into ancestral sources of wisdom and connecting them to the stories we are living today. He is the author of The Genius Myth, Fate and Destiny: The Two Agreements of The Soul, Why the World Doesn't End and The Water of Life: Initiation and the Tempering of the Soul. Meade is the founder of...2019-10-1354 minLiving MythPremium Episode 23 Sample - Inner Eyes of the SoulThis excerpt from the latest premium episode offers samples from the new audio book Awakening the Soul, along with expanded content and spontaneous commentary by Meade. The book sample focuses on the chapter “Inner Eyes of the Soul” which includes a story of an orphan left behind by his tribe, who then unexpectedly has a radical awakening experience that leads to a vision that affects everyone in the tribe. The commentary by the author includes autobiographical material as well as psychological ideas about each person’s “orphan self.” You can hear the full episode and receive additional podcast con...2019-06-2915 minLiving Myth"Awakening the Soul" Audio Book SampleWe are pleased to announce that Michael Meade’s latest book “Awakening the Soul” is now available as an audio book. Here is a sample from this newly released title. The audio book can be purchased as a download or CD at mosaicvoices.org/audio. Members of the Living Myth Premium Podcast can save 30% on this title and all other offerings from Michael Meade and Mosaic. Learn more and become a member of this podcast at patreon.com/livingmyth.2019-06-2012 minLiving MythPremium Q&A Episode 6 Excerpt - The Two Agreements of the SoulOn this excerpt from the latest Living Myth Premium episode, Michael Meade answers questions about the soul posed by listeners. One question is “what is the meaning of the original agreement of the soul?” Another is “why is this first agreement so important that it is indelible in the soul?” Using ancient stories about the origin of the soul, Meade offers a compelling commentary on the soul’s way of bridging the two worlds, the eternal and the time bound. Rather than being separated from the divine by an “original sin”, old stories depict the separation as an original forge...2019-04-2016 minLiving MythPremium Episode 15 excerpt - The Song Coming ThroughOn this excerpt from the latest Living Myth Premium episode, Michael Meade reads selected poems from The Rag & Bone Shop of the Heart, the renowned anthology edited along with Robert Bly and James Hillman. The recording includes reflections on the surprising dynamic of creating the anthology along with commentary on the importance of poetic inspiration. This is the first part of a Living Myth Premium podcast series that weaves poetry, spoken word and anecdotal stories about the role of art and creativity and the undying speech of the soul. You can hear the full episode and receive a...2019-01-2710 min
KPFA - The Visionary Activist ShowThe Visionary Activist Show – Caroline Hosts Michael MeadeTrue Beltane Festival of Animism unfurling before us, Caroline welcomes fellow mytho-guide Michael Meade, to animate the guiding story, that we humans may rejoin the choreography of creation.
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“Michael Meade, is a renowned storyteller, author, and scholar of mythology, anthropology, and psychology. He combines hypnotic storytelling, street-savvy perceptiveness, and spellbinding interpretations of ancient myths with a deep knowledge of cross-cultural rituals. He has an unusual ability to distil and synthesize these disciplines, tapping into ancestral sources of wisdom and connecting them to th...2017-05-0408 minLiving MythEpisode 1 - Why Myth, Why Now?Michael Meade introduces the role of myth in making sense of our complex and challenging world and he answers the question “Why Myth, Why Now?”.2017-01-0621 min