
Ep. 486 - Uncertainty, Vulnerability and Meaningful Change
To be alive at this time means to be present as many familiar patterns simply dissolve. One major crisis quickly replaces another, so that b...
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Mosaic presents Living Myth, a podcast with Michael Meade, renowned mythologist and storyteller. Meade presents mythic stories that offer uniquely insightful and wise ways of understanding t...

To be alive at this time means to be present as many familiar patterns simply dissolve. One major crisis quickly replaces another, so that b...

This episode begins with the ancient tale of the Titans, the mythic giants who wreaked havoc at the beginning of civilization and arise agai...

This episode of begins with the idea that the world we used to know is gone and we have not found a footing in the world that is trying to e...

This episode of Living Myth begins with the idea that we keep finding ourselves in uncharted waters in terms of the future of the planet and...

Clearly, we are living in radical times when almost everything can be taken to the extreme. We find ourselves in uncharted waters when it co...

On this excerpt from a Living Myth Premium episode, Michael Meade discusses the inherent longing for redemption and how it can be experience...

In this episode, Michael Meade tells an old story of someone who follows a dream that leads to being stripped down and stuck, before it unfo...

This episode begins with the contemporary psychological theory of a "reminiscence bump" which attempts to explain why we remember certain so...

This episode of Living Myth focuses upon the extreme emotions generated by the war in Iran and the many other conflicts and divisions in the...

In this episode, Michael Meade examines how collective fear and overwhelm can knock the ego off balance and lead to stress and despair. Sinc...

In this episode of Living Myth, Michael Meade considers the current global challenges and emphasizes the importance of living from a place o...

This episode considers the problem of resistance to change from psychological and mythological viewpoints. While we are facing radical chang...

Michael Meade explores how stories enable us to understand the world and our place in it. Mythic narratives weave the divine and natural rea...

There are certain, critical moments that say directly to us: You must change your life. Collectively, we are in a time when great changes ar...

Michael Meade reflects on how, if we are able to stop and listen more deeply, we can connect with subtle sources of wisdom and guidance. He...

This episode begins with the recent shooting in Minneapolis in which an intensive care nurse named Alex Pretti was shot ten times by ICE and...

On this episode of Living Myth, Michael Meade turns to the realms of art and practice as ways to avoid overwhelm and find coherence in an in...

This episode begins with the differences between paradigm shifts that replace old theories with new ones and a shifting of the archetypes th...

This episode looks at the shocking beginning of the new year in which the U.S. government invades Venezuela, extracts the sitting president...

Michael Meade explores how the soul's great adventure tries to surface throughout life, so that any moment can become a true turning point i...

This episode of Living Myth begins with a Native American story of the origin of healing rituals. In telling the tale Michael Meade emphasiz...

This episode of Living Myth begins with a review of how cosmology used to refer to all of the ways that humans could imagine the creation of...

This episode brings a focus to the problem of perfectionism and how it can silence our natural spontaneity, turn our innate passions into st...

This episode brings a focus to the importance of recognizing that we live in more than one world. Before modern times, it was commonly under...

On this episode, Michael Meade considers the sources and meanings of grace and gratitude, two words that are connected and come from the sam...

This episode begins with the idea that all the troubles in the world at this time bring a great weight and pressure down upon, not just huma...

As the world around us becomes increasingly divided into opposing forces, the tensions and conflicts within us also intensify. In psychologi...

This episode of Living Myth is about blindness, both individual and collective, and about the need for genuine visions and visionaries. West...

This episode begins by examining the rise of "vertical morality" that appears in both Christian communities and conservative politics and ha...

The episode of Living Myth begins with a study on how our brains and our bodies respond to traumatic events. Apparently, our brains do not f...

The theme on this episode is the loss of eros and a sense of interconnectedness in the contemporary world. Eros is the elemental principle o...

This episode begins with the old psychological idea that warns that when the conflicts inside us are not made conscious, they must be experi...

This episode begins with the idea that myths of creation are also intended to be understood as re-creation tales that reveal the world's cap...

This episode takes us back to the origins of the theater in ancient Greece where many of the ideas of democracy also originated. Tragedy beg...

While often being considered the leading nation in the world, the United States increasingly finds itself on the cutting edge of cultural up...

This episode of Living Myth begins with a description of psychological projection as the necessary process through which people project thei...

Michael Meade talks about inner genius and how without a calling we can feel lost throughout our lives. Without a genuine purpose, we can tu...

On this episode of Living Myth, edited from an interview with Thomas Hubl for his Collective Healing Conference, Michael Meade considers tra...

On this episode, Meade considers how the specific struggles encountered in life can open pathways to the center of the self where purpose wa...

Beginning with the idea of "die before you die," Michael Meade describes how a little-death can lead to a deeper sense of knowledge and a gr...
On this excerpt from a Living Myth Premium episode, Michael Meade explores how resiliency amidst adversity is a hallmark of genius and an es...

Currently, we are experiencing the demise of a world view and the breakup of the symbols that once functioned within it. As a result, life h...

This episode begins with a description of the youngest sisters and youngest brothers in fairy tales. They seem out of place and behind every...

This episode of Living Myth begins with the story of the Spirit in the Bottle in which a youth must confront a powerful and angry spirit in...

This episode of Living Myth addresses the rise of conspiracy theories and spread of falsehoods in conjunction with the phenomenon of a wides...

On this episode of Living Myth Michael Meade tells a fairy tale about a realm that is rapidly becoming a wasteland because its king has beco...

This episode of Living Myth begins with the ancient idea of each soul receiving a "lot in life." Lot basically means "a chip of wood," but i...

On this episode of Michael Meade recounts a myth from ancient Persia, the name by which Iran was known for centuries. The ancient tale preda...
On this excerpt from a Living Myth Premium episode, Michael Meade explores how even in the darkest times, the inner abundance of the soul is...

On this excerpt from a Living Myth Premium episode, Michael Meade explores how inside of each of us is a mostly hidden, mostly golden and mo...