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Episode 468 - The Soul's Great Adventure
Michael Meade explores how the soul's great adventure tries to surface throughout life, so that any moment can become a true turning point if we leave the maps that others have made, follow the soul'…
Published on 16 hours ago
Episode 467 - How Healing Songs Began
This episode of Living Myth begins with a Native American story of the origin of healing rituals. In telling the tale Michael Meade emphasizes a remarkable point in the story when knowledge, healing …
Published on 1 week, 3 days ago
Episode 466 - Bringing Back the Light
This episode of Living Myth begins with a review of how cosmology used to refer to all of the ways that humans could imagine the creation of the world and the subtle connections of the human soul to…
Published on 2 weeks, 2 days ago
Episode 465 - The Spell of Perfectionism
This episode brings a focus to the problem of perfectionism and how it can silence our natural spontaneity, turn our innate passions into stone and cancel the imagination and creativity that are n…
Published on 3 weeks, 2 days ago
Episode 464 - The Importance of the Otherworld
This episode brings a focus to the importance of recognizing that we live in more than one world. Before modern times, it was commonly understood that there was another world next to the daily domai…
Published on 4 weeks, 2 days ago
Episode 463 - Gratitude and Grace
On this episode, Michael Meade considers the sources and meanings of grace and gratitude, two words that are connected and come from the same ancient roots. Gratitude is like a flower rooted in the…
Published on 1 month, 1 week ago
Episode 462 - The Child of Joy
This episode begins with the idea that all the troubles in the world at this time bring a great weight and pressure down upon, not just humanity as a whole, but also each individual soul. Since our …
Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Episode 461 - The Golden Self Within
As the world around us becomes increasingly divided into opposing forces, the tensions and conflicts within us also intensify. In psychological terms, the division most in need of being healed is th…
Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago
Episode 460 - From Blindness to Renewed Vision
This episode of Living Myth is about blindness, both individual and collective, and about the need for genuine visions and visionaries. Western culture, enthralled with the heroic and trapped in the…
Published on 1 month, 4 weeks ago
Episode 459 - The War on Empathy and Vertical Imagination in the Soul
This episode begins by examining the rise of "vertical morality" that appears in both Christian communities and conservative politics and has given rise to a "war on empathy." Whereas Jesus famously…
Published on 2 months ago