Meade

Michael Meade

Jiro Myth & storytelling podcasts

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"All that we have invented, the symbols in the church, the rituals, they are all put there by thought. Thought has invented these things. Invented the savior. Invented the temples in India and the contents of the temples. Thought has invented all these things called sacred. You cannot deny that. So thought in itself is not sacred. And when thought invents God, God is not sacred. So what is sacred? That can only be understood or happen when there is complete freedom, from fear, from sorrow, and when there is this sense of love and compassion with its own intelligence. Then, when the mind is utterly still, that which is sacred can take place."
Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Jiddu Krishnamurti on thought and the Sacred

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

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."

Light Inside Dark Times

Genius - Mission

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

The Irish poet and philosopher John O'Donohue was beloved for his book Anam Ċara, Gaelic for "soul friend," and for his insistence on beauty as a human calling. In one of his last interviews before his death in 2008, he articulated a Celtic imagination about how the material and the spiritual — the visible and the invisible — intertwine in human experience. His voice and writings continue to bring ancient mystical wisdom to modern confusions and longings.

See more at www.onbeing.org/program/john-o-donohue-the-inner-landscape-beauty/203

John O'Donohue — Your Identity is Not Your Biography

Looking At Fear. That Extraordinary Jewel.

Jiddu Krishnamurti - Looking At Fear. That Extraordinary Jewel.

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

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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.

The Soul Of Change Sample Track

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

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/