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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 cris…
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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 hel…
2 years 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 nam…
2 years, 1 month 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 betwe…
2 years, 1 month 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 s…
2 years, 1 month 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 subsequ…
2 years, 1 month 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 mor…
2 years, 2 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…
2 years, 2 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 a…
2 years, 2 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 …
2 years, 2 months ago