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Episode 458 - From Chaos and Trauma to Cosmos and Renewal
The episode of Living Myth begins with a study on how our brains and our bodies respond to traumatic events. Apparently, our brains do not fully distinguish between something traumatic happening to …
Published on 2 months, 1 week ago
Episode 457 - Open Moments in the Heart
The theme on this episode is the loss of eros and a sense of interconnectedness in the contemporary world. Eros is the elemental principle of connection, the touch of soul that binds us to this worl…
Published on 2 months, 2 weeks ago
Episode 456 - The Real Enemy Within
This episode begins with the old psychological idea that warns that when the conflicts inside us are not made conscious, they must be experienced outside us as fate. It has become our mutual fate to…
Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago
Episode 455 - A Mythic Inoculation
This episode begins with the idea that myths of creation are also intended to be understood as re-creation tales that reveal the world's capacity to renew itself. Critical to this old understanding …
Published on 3 months ago
Episode 454 - We Are All Called To Stand For Something
This episode takes us back to the origins of the theater in ancient Greece where many of the ideas of democracy also originated. Tragedy began with a lament for the fatal flaws in human character, w…
Published on 3 months, 1 week ago
Episode 453 - Violence, Despair and Young Men
While often being considered the leading nation in the world, the United States increasingly finds itself on the cutting edge of cultural upheaval, political polarization and increasing violence tha…
Published on 3 months, 2 weeks ago
Episode 452 - A Taste for Destruction
This episode of Living Myth begins with a description of psychological projection as the necessary process through which people project their power on to others in order to see it and become more co…
Published on 3 months, 3 weeks ago
Episode 451 - The Path of Genius and Calling
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 …
Published on 4 months ago
Episode 450 - Healing and Transformation
On this episode of Living Myth, edited from an interview with Thomas Hubl for his Collective Healing Conference, Michael Meade considers transformation as an ongoing and natural dynamic of the unive…
Published on 4 months, 1 week ago
Episode 449 - Creative Paths in Chaotic Times
On this episode, Meade considers how the specific struggles encountered in life can open pathways to the center of the self where purpose waits to be found, where vitality can ever be renewed and wh…
Published on 4 months, 2 weeks ago