Living Myth Podcast
1) Episode 63 - The Beloved Cow
Michael Meade tells an old wisdom tale from India, the kind that would be used to offer guidance to young people heading out into the world trying to find themselves, but also used as a reminder to pe...Show More
AUDIO REMOVED: The podcast creator has removed the audio for this episode.2) Episode 462 - The Child of Joy
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 humanity as a whole, but also each individual soul. Since our so...Show More
3) Episode 461 - The Golden Self Within
As the world around us becomes increasingly divided into opposing forces, the tensions and conflicts within us also intensify. In psychological terms, the division most in need of being healed is the ...Show More
4) Episode 460 - From Blindness to Renewed Vision
This episode of Living Myth is about blindness, both individual and collective, and about the need for genuine visions and visionaries. Western culture, enthralled with the heroic and trapped in the l...Show More
5) Episode 459 - The War on Empathy and Vertical Imagination in the Soul
This episode begins by examining the rise of "vertical morality" that appears in both Christian communities and conservative politics and has given rise to a "war on empathy." Whereas Jesus famously p...Show More
6) Episode 458 - From Chaos and Trauma to Cosmos and Renewal
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 fully distinguish between something traumatic happening to us...Show More
7) Episode 457 - Open Moments in the Heart
The theme on this episode is the loss of eros and a sense of interconnectedness in the contemporary world. Eros is the elemental principle of connection, the touch of soul that binds us to this world ...Show More
8) Episode 456 - The Real Enemy Within
This episode begins with the old psychological idea that warns that when the conflicts inside us are not made conscious, they must be experienced outside us as fate. It has become our mutual fate to l...Show More
9) Episode 455 - A Mythic Inoculation
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 capacity to renew itself. Critical to this old understanding of...Show More
10) Episode 454 - We Are All Called To Stand For Something
This episode takes us back to the origins of the theater in ancient Greece where many of the ideas of democracy also originated. Tragedy began with a lament for the fatal flaws in human character, whi...Show More