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Back to SearchEpisode 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 numb…
Published on 1 year, 8 months ago
Episode 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.
…Published on 1 year, 8 months ago
Episode 379 - Earth Day and the Origins of Gaia
On 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 …
Published on 1 year, 8 months ago
Episode 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 exi…
Published on 1 year, 8 months ago
Episode 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 unimp…
Published on 1 year, 9 months ago
Episode 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 clea…
Published on 1 year, 9 months ago
Episode 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. …
Published on 1 year, 9 months ago
Episode 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 t…
Published on 1 year, 9 months ago
Episode 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 f…
Published on 1 year, 10 months ago
Episode 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,…
Published on 1 year, 10 months ago