Jiro Myth & storytelling podcasts

NOURISHING the SOUL

Join us on "Going Shamanic" on Nov 24 at 7:30 pm PST when Jennifer Engracio interviews Stephen Jenkinson on the topic of grieving.  We have all had losses in life.  Learn what grieving well has to do with deep living on the show today.

Stephen Jenkinson is a teacher, author, storyteller, spiritual activist, ceremonialist and founder of the Orphan Wisdom School, a teaching house and learning house for the skills of deep living and making human culture. It is a redemptive project that comes from where we come from. It is rooted in knowing history, being claimed by ancestry, and working for a time we may not see.  (http://orphanwisdom.com)

2014 - Going Shamanic 'Walking with Grief', Jennifer Engracio interviews Stephen Jenkinson

Stephen Jenkinson interviewed by Daniel Vitalis on Rewild Yourself.

Read more: http://www.danielvitalis.com/rewild-yourself-podcast/stephen-jenkinson-on-dying-wise-in-a-death-phobic-society
Photo: Ian Mackenzie -ianmack.com

2015 - Dying Wise In A Death Phobic Society, Daniel Vitalis interviews Stephen Jenkinson

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

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

Agents of Creation Workshop
May 12, 9:30-5:30
Seattle First Baptist Church
Register: www.mosaicvoices.org/events.html

Ancient people relied on myth and ritual to heal the wounds of culture and draw upon the renewing energies of nature. Myth and ritual touch the entire person, spirit and mind, body and soul. In the eye of the soul nature and culture are secretly woven together, so that working with one requires engaging the other. There may be no better time to reclaim and relearn the ancient arts of myth and ritual in order to assist with the healing of nature and the renewal of culture.

This workshop will draw upon the redeeming functions of myth and ritual as vessels of imagination and regeneration that can open new ways to see the world and new paths to follow.

Agents Of Creation Workshop Introduction

Death, Sex, Money, Power, Age: all sacred – orthodoxed into Taboo, now liberated back to vernacular sacred, through the agency of Stephen Jenkinson – filing scouting reports from the life-death border… Guiding us to “Come of Age,” by honoring age.

“Stephen is a teacher, author, storyteller, spiritual activist, farmer and founder of the Orphan Wisdom School, a teaching house and learning house for the skills of deep living and making human culture. It is rooted in knowing history, being claimed by ancestry, working for a time ​yet to come.”​Author of “Die Wise,” “Money and the Soul’s Desires,”and the forthcoming “Come of Age, The case for elder hood in a time of Trouble.” www.OrphanWisdom.com

and, as KPFA is in Fund Drive, when we release our guest back to Midnight in Athens, we will be playing excerpts of James Hillman on the 1st Visionary Activist Show (one of the pledge incentives we are proffering this week).

https://kpfa.org/episode/the-visionary-activist-show-march-8-2018/

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2018 - KPFA Radio/Visionary Activist Show interviews Stephen Jenkinson

On this excerpt from a premium episode, Meade reads selected poems from The Rag & Bone Shop of the Heart, the renowned anthology edited along with Robert Bly and James Hillman. The recording includes reflections on the surprising dynamic of creating the anthology along with commentary on the importance of poetic inspiration. This is the first part of a Living Myth Premium podcast series that weaves poetry, spoken word and anecdotal stories about the role of art and creativity and the undying speech of the soul.  You can hear the full episode and receive additional podcast content by becoming a member of Living Myth Premium.  Go to www.patreon.com/livingmyth to learn more.

For $10/month, members receive:

* Q & A episodes where Michael Meade answers questions from Premium members
* Autobiographical stories from Michael
* Archival recordings from live events and dynamic interviews
* Exclusive offers on products and events
* Access to the entire collection of Living Myth podcasts

Living Myth and Living Myth Premium are products of Mosaic Multicultural Foundation, a 501©3 organization. Your membership helps grow Living Myth and ensures we are able to continue developing and expanding this creative project.

Living Myth Premium Sample Track - The Song Coming Through

Michael Meade's latest book is now available as an audio book.  
6 hours, 36 minutes.  Narrated by Michael Meade

Audio Download: https://www.mosaicvoices.org/shop/#!/Awakening-the-Soul-Audio-Book/p/141588053
6-CD Set: https://www.mosaicvoices.org/shop/#!/Awakening-the-Soul-Audio-Book/p/141588179

"Awakening the Soul" addresses the issue of the loss of soul throughout the world and the loss of meaning and truth in modern life.  Meade shows how meaning is essential to the human soul and uses ancient stories and compelling insights to describe how soul can be recovered and people can learn to “live in truth.”

Drawing from dramatic episodes in his own life, Meade shows how the soul tries to awaken at critical times, and how an awakened soul is crucial for finding medicine to treat the ailments and alienation of modern life. What we need now is not a minor repair, but a major transformation of the world that can only start with the awakening of the individual soul.