Episode 104 - Myths of Creation and Re-creation

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. Traditional tales from many cultures show... by Living Myth

33 min listen

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 where Gaya or Gayatri appears as the ancient goddess... by Living Myth

29 min listen

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 existential crisis speaks to the world we live... by Living Myth

32 min listen

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 unimportant star within a random and meaningless universe.... by Living Myth

24 min listen

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 clear that healing and transformation are the secret aims... by Living Myth

25 min listen

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. In mythological terms, creation is ever ongoing as... by Living Myth

24 min listen

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 the liminal stage of a life-changing rite of passage.... by Living Myth

29 min listen

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 foundational because they reveal important truths... by Living Myth

26 min listen

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, as if to make clear that it is not simply the... by Living Myth

25 min listen

Episode 371 - Fear is the Way Through: Michael Meade tells a story to illustrate the idea that sometimes we must go where we fear to go. Fear is an old word that derives from the same roots that give us “fare,” as in “thoroughfare.” Although it often causes people to run away from... by Living Myth

44 min listen

Episode 370 - Veiling the Truth: Michael Meade uses an ancient tale about a lost message from the god of creation to consider the contemporary dilemma in which many people become blind to the truth. The old Sanskrit word avidya can mean “ignorance,” but also “delusion.”... by Living Myth

28 min listen

Episode 369 - Three Kinds of Wisdom: Unlike religious narratives or scientific theories, folk myths don't require that we believe in them. They simply prefer that we continue to learn from them. Sometimes, the ancient wisdom needed for surviving and transforming our lives comes in the... by Living Myth

33 min listen

Episode 368 - Touching Spirit, Making Soul: Increasing tensions throughout the world pit the effects of modern culture against the instinctive practice of becoming a genuine individual. Yet, the heart of the human drama concerns whether we are becoming a greater vessel for the flow of life.... by Living Myth

25 min listen

Episode 367 - The Redemptive Power of Soul: As the world rattles around us and the soul trembles, balancing symbols and archetypal energies stir deep within us. If we can hold the tension of the immediate limitations, we can connect to the soul’s power of redemption and life’s natural... by Living Myth

42 min listen

Episode 366 - Facing Our Fears: Under the rule of the ego or little-self, we live on the fringes of our natural potential and our genuine purpose in life. A core pattern exists in each soul intended to shape the unique project of that life from within. Whenever we experience a life... by Living Myth

35 min listen

Episode 365 - Kairos Time: Currently, the world is beset by a cascade of crises that seem impossible to solve. Yet, the situation can also be seen as what the ancient Greeks called a kairos period, a betwixt and between time in which the course of history changes and all of... by Living Myth

33 min listen

Episode 364 - The Sacred Fifth: This episode takes up the issue of healing from the ancient idea of the Sacred Fifth, or Secret Fifth, that represents the hidden center of the world, the original source of wholeness and renewal. Following the Navajo myth of the Fifth World, Meade... by Living Myth

25 min listen

Episode 363 - Myths of Creation and Re-Creation: On this New Year’s podcast, Michael Meade begins an exploration of the myths of creation and tales of re-creation that allow time to renew and the world to begin again. Any serious consideration of creation must also include the energies of... by Living Myth

23 min listen

Episode 362 - Darkness and the Light: This episode approaches the darkest time of the year through the creative tension between time and eternity and between darkness and the light. Prior to the hardening of time that is so characteristic of the modern world, the eternal was understood to... by Living Myth

24 min listen

Episode 361 - The Stream of Knowledge: Currently, the common understanding of “streaming” means “listening to music or watching video in real time as part of a continuous stream of data.” An older idea describes a cosmic stream of essential knowledge constantly pouring through the... by Living Myth

29 min listen

Episode 360 - Ancient Myths, Modern Science: This episode of Living Myth begins with scientific studies of the ways that ants can be capable of incredible feats during times of crisis. A single ant will quickly drown in the turbulent floodwaters of a hurricane. Yet, a group of... by Living Myth

29 min listen

Episode 359 - The Necessity of Imaginatioin: This episode of Living Myth begins with the ancient idea that nothing exists until it passes through imagination. Imagination is not simply a subjective inner capacity; rather, it is a genuine force of life. In this old way of seeing, the increase of... by Living Myth

26 min listen

Episode 358 - The Origins of Gratitude: This episode begins with an ancient Mayan myth about the first human ancestors being shaped from corn. Far from being random creatures, humans were created to bring missing ingredients to the world. The missing ingredients included: a conscious... by Living Myth

27 min listen

Episode 357 - The Wisdom of the Butterfly: This episode of Living Myth looks at both the need to transform and our resistance to change through the lens of the metamorphosis of butterflies. The fact that the Greek word psyche means butterfly implies how we are secretly connected to the... by Living Myth

25 min listen

Episode 356 - The Furies in Myth: On this episode Michael Meade turns to Greek myths about the Furies in order to imagine ways that deeper understanding and healing might be found amidst the tragic events engulfing Gaza and Israel and the “unbearable losses and blood-dimmed... by Living Myth

25 min listen

Episode 355 - The Purpose Seeded in You: This episode of Living Myth begins with recent scientific research showing how having purpose can lower levels of stress and contribute to longevity for older people. Michael Meade suggests that in troubled times finding a genuine purpose is also... by Living Myth

23 min listen

Episode 354 - The Light Within Dark Times: This episode begins with the idea that we are living in the dark times in which the storms, conflicts and tragedies that darken the earth place us in a crisis of spirit and soul. Either we find a greater sense of our own life spirit and soul purpose... by Living Myth

26 min listen

Episode 353 - Roots of Inner Peace: This replay of a timely a relevant episode considers the difficulties of finding peace in a troubled world. The increasing amount of tension and conflict in the outside world generates a corresponding intensification of conflicts within each soul.... by Living Myth

29 min listen

Episode 352 - A World on Fire: This episode of Living Myth begins with the growing procession of unprecedented, heart rending and earth-shattering events that currently tear at the core of human culture and also ravage the face of the earth. The sense of a split screen... by Living Myth

22 min listen

Episode 351 - Oracle at the Center: This episode begins with the ancient axiom inscribed at the Oracle of Delphi: Know Thyself. In Greek mythology Delphi was known as the “navel of the world,” the center and womb from which life as well as inspiration comes. Like many ancient... by Living Myth

22 min listen

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Episode 104 - Myths of Creation and Re-creation

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