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Back to SearchEpisode 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 ter…
Published on 1 year, 5 months ago
Episode 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 …
Published on 1 year, 6 months ago
Episode 389 - The Roots of Personal Myth
This episode of Living Myth begins with the idea that the task of finding symbols and stories through which we discover the meaning of our lives is as old as human consciousness. In that sense, Car…
Published on 1 year, 6 months ago
Episode 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 eve…
Published on 1 year, 6 months ago
Episode 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 refl…
Published on 1 year, 6 months ago
Episode 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 sou…
Published on 1 year, 7 months ago
Episode 385 - Your Inner Initiate
This 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 "begi…
Published on 1 year, 7 months ago
Episode 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 un…
Published on 1 year, 7 months ago
Episode 383 - Threaded by Dreams
On 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…
Published on 1 year, 7 months ago
Episode 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…
Published on 1 year, 7 months ago