Michael Meade

Michael Meade joins host, Lyn Moelich, for a lively and deep discussion of violence in our culture

The Pervasive Violence in our Culture with Michael Meade from KBOO

From New Dimensions Radio -- Michael Meade joins host, Justine Willis Toms, for a lively and rich discussion of the new book, Why the World Doesn't End. Topics include the meaning of apocalypse, living in a betwixt and between time, and why the world cannot end.

Why the World Doesn't End

From KBOO Radio -- This recording offers Michael Meade's mythic view of modern economic troubles and the loss of soul that plagues both culture and Nature. Using an ancient myth, Meade shows that creation has two hands: a spirit hand that brings bright beginnings, and a soul hand that touches darkness and knows how to be creative in troubled times.
Full of great wit and healing humor, rich with surprising insights and compelling stories this recording weaves a path through modern troubles while constantly showing how soul would have us understand who we are individually and what we serve collectively. "When all seems lost, the things that are most essentially ours can be found again."

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Michael Meade and Terry Patten talk about how, whether rich or poor, we are all being pushed to the margins to face our brokenness during this time of “apocalypsis” — in which both collapse and renewal are unveiling all that has been hidden.

They talk about how adversity in the margins, at the edge, is what triggers each person’s unique genius and gifts, and thus is the source of renewal. In our time, this fomenting of unique genius in the margins takes on added importance, since there is no one “right” solution for the numerous, complex problems in the world. Instead, there are many solutions waiting to be awakened in each person.


The World is in Trouble and it Needs Your Genius - Interview on Beyond Awakening with Terry Patten

Michael Meade joins hosts Jed Ward and Damien Able on their podcast "Vajra Body Vajra Mind".  They talk about each person's natural gifts and how, by giving our gifts, we experience meaning.  The conversation also explores talent vs. genius, the call of the muses, staying close to our wound, the importance of rites of passage and much more.

Our Natural Gifts - Interview on "Vajra Body Vajra Mind" Podcast

Listen in as mythological storyteller Michael Meade teaches us how to find our inner genius. Michael talks about how he found his path as a leader of the men's movement, a troubadour for the disenfranchised, and a rabble rouser.

In Your Right Mind Michael Meade - How to find your genius?

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Change, so greatly desired, is not easily accomplished because genuine change requires that one's whole life be altered; mind and body, spirit and soul. Such transformations involve facing obstacles and loss, as well as finding new ways to proceed. When it comes to making meaningful changes the missing ingredient is usually the soul.

This recording addresses the issue of change from the depths of the soul. Themes and stories range from the deeply personal to the broadly cultural and brightly mythical. Mythologist Michael Meade places the human soul at the center of change when it comes to healing both culture and nature.

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Michael Meade joins Portland, OR radio station KBOO to talk about how we can respond to the daily onslaught of fear and lies coming from the Trump administration.  When entire communities are living under constant fear of deportation, when the 45th administrations' chief strategist predicts there will be an "ideological fight everyday" and when lies are touted as truth on a regular basis, how do we hold the thread of who we are and maintain our energy for what is true?"

Fear, Lies and Acts of Truth

This recording follows the ancient story of a spiritual seeker who encounters the god of creation and learns that knowledge can be a burden. As the seeker grows into a true Disciple, he must learn the wisdom of trusting one's deep Self. In order to release the inner gifts and find a true way in the world the seeker must learn the practice of not holding back and break the inner spells of fear and inadequacy.
 
In following the "way of the disciple" each listener must consider where they give away too much and where they hold back in fear of living fully. In selling ourselves short we fail to find our inner gold, and natural generosity.

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The Eye of the Pupil Sample Track - The Divine Twin

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Michael Meade, D.H.L., is a renowned storyteller, author, and scholar of mythology, anthropology, and psychology. He combines hypnotic storytelling, street-savvy perceptiveness, and spellbinding interpretations of ancient myths with a deep knowledge of cross-cultural rituals. He has an unusual ability to distill and synthesize these disciplines, tapping into ancestral sources of wisdom and connecting them to the stories we are living today.
 
Michael is the author of The Genius Myth, Fate and Destiny: The Two Agreements of The Soul, Why the World Doesn't End, The Water of Life: Initiation and the Tempering of the Soul; editor, with James Hillman and Robert Bly, of Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart; and editor of Crossroads: A Quest for Contemporary Rites of Passage. Meade is the founder of Mosaic Multicultural Foundation, a nonprofit network of artist, activists, and community builders that encourages greater understanding between diverse peoples. http://www.mosaicvoices.org/

Michael Meade: The Powers of Myth and Story Telling

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Following myths from ancient India and Ireland Meade weaves together cosmology, psychology, philosophy, and poetry in order to open the soul's vision and catch the fish of wisdom. Rather than being abstract knowledge, "embodied wisdom" is shown to be both immediate and eternal, both spiritual and soulful.
 
Using the "inner eyes of the soul," Meade looks behind the great conflicts of modern culture and uncovers hidden connections between youth and the elders. Using poetry and wit, he makes the case for the necessity of a meaningful life and the authenticity of each soul. Using cogent ideas from the East and the West, he brings a soulful sense of wisdom back to life.

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Inner Wisdom Sample Track - The Guest is Inside You

When the certainty of the world collapses around us, the danger of cynicism, isolation, and becoming numb inevitably increases. Following a Native American myth that tells how healing ceremonies and artful practices began, this exciting live recording offers ways to find and sustain a "bigger life."

In mythic terms, each person seeks to enter the Great Dance of Life, also called the "big medicine." In this view of the ongoing dance of life, emotions are repeated invitations to the dance; both "divine influxes” and emphatic guides intended to awaken each person and connect us all to the deep Self and to the Soul of the World. Healing and growth require that we change, and artful practices offer authentic ways to expand how we are woven into the world. From acute cultural critique to insights into ancient practices, Meade provides fuel for artists, seekers, social activists, teachers and innovators of all kinds.

The Great Dance Sample Track - The Dust of Creation

Using traditional myths, Meade shows the three steps of initiation: separation, ordeals, and the conscious return to community. Initiation is the way the soul grows and finds its unique project in life. Initiation requires both ascents and descents, climbing the ladders of wisdom, and descending to the depths of love and healing. Through the dual lenses of myth and depth psychology, initiation becomes the ideal context for understanding anxiety and add=iction, death and divorce, illness and healing.

In this study of the "awakened soul" imagination becomes the essential power which can turn painful traumas and twists of fate from victimization to initiation.

As "agents of epiphany," Meade shows how each of us brings medicine to the world and how the sacred is found where nature and human culture come together."

Initiation And The Soul Sample Track - Agents of Epiphany

Beginning with the frustrations of cultural conflicts including: fundamentalism, literalism and opposed ideologies; Meade takes up the soul's cry for a multiplicity of ideas and a diversity of beliefs. Using mythic imagination and alchemical ideas, he reveals how conflicts and oppositions are essential for the ongoing creation of the world as well as for a genuine redemption of the individual.

An Eskimo story, The Mistress of Fire, shows how solutions for both personal and cultural problems require the sacrifice of our unconscious, infantile attitudes towards both spirit and body. Meade shows how received ideas from others and fixed ego attitudes restrict and distort our instincts for survival and for shaping vital communities. Beyond that, he redeems the role of pleasure in life and reconnects the flame of libido to its origin in the spiritual realm. In addition, he echoes the soul's passionate struggle to ignite the divine spark of creation again and its life-long effort to love and be loved.

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