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Michael Meade - Mosaic Voices
Приєднався 23 бер 2008
Michael Meade 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.
He is the author of Awakening the Soul, 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. Meade is the creator of the Living Myth Podcast and the founder of Mosaic Multicultural Foundation, a nonprofit network of artist, activists, and community builders that encourages greater understanding between diverse peoples.
He is the author of Awakening the Soul, 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. Meade is the creator of the Living Myth Podcast and the founder of Mosaic Multicultural Foundation, a nonprofit network of artist, activists, and community builders that encourages greater understanding between diverse peoples.
Living Myth Podcast 400 - In the Face of Tyranny
This episode of Living Myth focuses on the struggle between the force of tyranny and the power of liberation from falsehoods and injustice. The old Greek word tyrant was applied to despotic kings and rulers, but was also used to describe popular usurpers who claimed to be all powerful and above the law. In modern usage, a tyrant can be any oppressive or cruel ruler, a would-be dictator or autocrat. The rule of divide and conquer has been a favorite tool of tyrants who typically ascend to power through the manipulation of people's fears and the proliferation of confusion and chaos.
A key characteristic of such a tyrant is an insistence upon complete obedience from other people. And there lies a sad irony, for tyranny is not something simply imposed upon people without their agreement. Rather, the rise of tyranny requires consent from those willing to lose their own sense of individual freedom and liberty. Needless to say, it is when people are becoming smaller at the level of their self that they give the power of their lives over to those who claim to be the strong men, but who turn out to be empty within themselves and lacking that very thing that makes each person meaningful and purposeful, that is to say, a soul.
Opposite tyranny's unfair and cruel use of power would be a greater sense of autonomy and freedom. The word liberal can mean “generous, noble or free,” but can also mean “selfless and unrestricted.” Although it has become common for conservative politicians to use the word liberal as something derogative, it remains the key concept and core spirit of any genuine democracy. The American experiment in democracy was founded upon the liberal principle that all humans are endowed with natural rights and that government exists to protect those rights.
Authoritarianism has always posed the most potent challenge to liberalism, and it has now returned as an ideological force armed with previously unimaginable tools of social media, disinformation and social controls, even reaching into the heart of liberal societies, seeking to undermine them from within.
The dream of America as a liberal democracy was never simply an economic enterprise, never only a search for personal aggrandizement. Rather, America has always been a dream of freedom needing to be renewed and be reimagined by each generation. The seeds of that dream have always included longings for opportunity, but also a desire for living with a sense of justice for all that includes care for those less fortunate and mercy for those suffering illness or trapped in poverty. There has always been a deeper dream of America, not simply the political notion of a union of states, but an intuition of a deeper unity of life. Not simply the chance to win an election, but an opportunity to keep dreaming the dream forward and even the opportunity to sacrifice for a future of renewed meaning and universal ideals.
The word vote can mean more than “the formal expression of a wish or a choice for a candidate or a proposal.” Vote comes from old radical roots that mean “a vow, even a promise to God or a solemn pledge.” And there are times when casting a vote can be both an act of recalling the origins of the dream of freedom and also a strike against tyranny in all its forms. For it is exactly in times of great conflict and fear that the ideals of humanity must be remembered while meaning and truth are being struggled for again.
The complete archive of Living Myth Podcasts is available at www.patreon.com/livingmyth
#livingmyth #michaelmeade #tyranny #democracy
Michael Meade, D.H.L., is a renowned storyteller, author, and scholar of mythology, anthropology, and psychology. He is the creator of the Living Myth podcast and founder of Mosaic Multicultural Foundation.
www.mosaicvoices.org/
www.patreon.com/livingmyth
MichaelMeadeMosaic
www.mosaicvoices.org/podcast
A key characteristic of such a tyrant is an insistence upon complete obedience from other people. And there lies a sad irony, for tyranny is not something simply imposed upon people without their agreement. Rather, the rise of tyranny requires consent from those willing to lose their own sense of individual freedom and liberty. Needless to say, it is when people are becoming smaller at the level of their self that they give the power of their lives over to those who claim to be the strong men, but who turn out to be empty within themselves and lacking that very thing that makes each person meaningful and purposeful, that is to say, a soul.
Opposite tyranny's unfair and cruel use of power would be a greater sense of autonomy and freedom. The word liberal can mean “generous, noble or free,” but can also mean “selfless and unrestricted.” Although it has become common for conservative politicians to use the word liberal as something derogative, it remains the key concept and core spirit of any genuine democracy. The American experiment in democracy was founded upon the liberal principle that all humans are endowed with natural rights and that government exists to protect those rights.
Authoritarianism has always posed the most potent challenge to liberalism, and it has now returned as an ideological force armed with previously unimaginable tools of social media, disinformation and social controls, even reaching into the heart of liberal societies, seeking to undermine them from within.
The dream of America as a liberal democracy was never simply an economic enterprise, never only a search for personal aggrandizement. Rather, America has always been a dream of freedom needing to be renewed and be reimagined by each generation. The seeds of that dream have always included longings for opportunity, but also a desire for living with a sense of justice for all that includes care for those less fortunate and mercy for those suffering illness or trapped in poverty. There has always been a deeper dream of America, not simply the political notion of a union of states, but an intuition of a deeper unity of life. Not simply the chance to win an election, but an opportunity to keep dreaming the dream forward and even the opportunity to sacrifice for a future of renewed meaning and universal ideals.
The word vote can mean more than “the formal expression of a wish or a choice for a candidate or a proposal.” Vote comes from old radical roots that mean “a vow, even a promise to God or a solemn pledge.” And there are times when casting a vote can be both an act of recalling the origins of the dream of freedom and also a strike against tyranny in all its forms. For it is exactly in times of great conflict and fear that the ideals of humanity must be remembered while meaning and truth are being struggled for again.
The complete archive of Living Myth Podcasts is available at www.patreon.com/livingmyth
#livingmyth #michaelmeade #tyranny #democracy
Michael Meade, D.H.L., is a renowned storyteller, author, and scholar of mythology, anthropology, and psychology. He is the creator of the Living Myth podcast and founder of Mosaic Multicultural Foundation.
www.mosaicvoices.org/
www.patreon.com/livingmyth
MichaelMeadeMosaic
www.mosaicvoices.org/podcast
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The Call of Genius
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“We may be closest to hearing the call when we feel most alone or in trouble, for genius hides behind the wound and one of the greatest wounds in life is to not know who we are intended to be or what we are supposed to serve in life.” - Michael Meade #genius #calling
Living Myth Podcast 395 - To Not Feel Lost in the Chaos of the World
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In a world that's rapidly changing in ways that can feel chaotic and threatening, it becomes easy to feel diminished, lost and small. Although it is common now to feel like nothing but a speck in a vast, accidental universe; we only feel truly small when we lose our sense of soul. Small and insignificant as we may feel at times, we carry within our souls a spark that is connected to the galaxie...
Living Myth Podcast 394 - Living in Turbulent Times
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This episode of Living Myth begins with the series of shocks and radical changes that have occurred in contemporary American politics and the current election campaign. Michael Meade expands the theme of dramatic changes to include both nature and culture as we find ourselves “in the midst of a transformation of life on earth.” Whether we want to admit to it or not, we have entered a radical tr...
Living Myth Podcast 393 - In Dire Straits
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We live in a time when seemingly all possible conflicts and oppositions come crashing all around us. Each day leaves us more exposed to raw emotions and rocked by the harsh energies of life. The tragedies and calamities of this era leave us in the lurch of history as antagonisms harden into stone and life seems increasingly stuck. In order to imagine ways to pass through the dire straits of the...
Wisdom of the Wounded Healer
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Michael Meade talks about how myths of the wounded healer are key for understanding the nature of healing and how we find the inner light of our soul and the hidden ground of unity. No better time than the divided times in which we live for seeking the guiding, healing power of the deep self and soul and for tapping the archetypal roots of wisdom. We are not alone in times of change, but rather...
Living Myth Podcast 392 - The Call of Genius
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The Kairos Moment
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Living Myth Podcast 391 - The Pathless Path
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This episode of Living Myth begins with the sense that the recent presidential debate and the series of radical Supreme Court decisions add to the long line of broken moments that leave us in a deepening state of loss about the present and in an increasing condition of uncertainty about the future. Michael Meade turns to ancient ideas about how the process of elevating people to positions of po...
Waking to Archetypal Wisdom
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How To Not Abandon Oneself
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May Michael Meade, Ralph Nader and Bernie Sanders Live Forever❣️⚡️🙏🐗💙🇺🇸💔💔💢🧙♂️✨️👄🎊🎊🎊🎊
But if irreversible rapid climate change is upon us, does this matter? Perhaps we just need to get a call from Hanuman. Liberalism can also be a foil as in "Inverted Totalitarianism".
Autocrats and dictators are not synonymous with cruel. What a childish worldview.
Lol. Hang in there 6043.
Thought the woman who fell in love with Hitler ... Until they slept with him.
The very acts of autocracy and dictatorship are inherently cruel on a social, cultural, psychological and spiritual level; and often on an economic and physical level, too (as means of control). To deny individuals, communities, societies or countries their liberty and sovereignty is a massive, repressive and cruel assault.
Indeed that is the policy of the neo-con Democrat party today.
The anti-natalism tilt of the emerging neo-western mythos and the recasting of the society myths carrying the day will birth a chaos that will take our collective story back into a dark age. The individualistic focus of this episode lands on the mind like a vision of daffodils in a soft breeze by a very shallow pond. The most dangerous form of tyranny is not the tyrant who is obvious and bloviating. It’s the tyrant who lulls the populace into a self satisfied-stupor of moral superiority; and once enamored will march like rodents behind a piper to terrible ends- finally sacrificing a fragile liberty they were duped into believing they already lost. The tune such a Piper plays is likely to accompany lyrics such as, “imagine what could be, unburdened by what has been…” Conservation of tradition is as tedious and as thankless a task as fence mending. The beneficiaries of the fences rarely thank the mender, and are often unwitting of the suffering just beyond the boundary. But if one truly honors the past then the recognition that traditions are the vote today of those already departed and to dispense with those traditions lightly is to become a mouse…. One that will be whistling the tune the Piper is playing.
you're amazing gift Michael
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Just found this podcast and subbed. Great content!
I so deeply appreciate this most resonant explanation, Michael. Thank you for sharing your invaluable understanding.
Fascinating ❤
in my next incarnation id like you to be my grandfather.
Insight within insight. Thank you for sharing.
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Thankyou for existing, this talk touched my heart ❤️
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get these jews out of my face
So help- and meaningful! Thank you so much Michael! I looked up that rumi poem from the beginning: ,"thread of death", but i cant find it anywhere...can you help, please?
Thank you so nourishing and helpful to listen to.
WOW‼️‼️❤️🩷💓🌹🌹🥰 this is just exactly what I needed at this moment in time! Thank you so so much for helping me become my true authentic self! And blessings to you, Michael for all that you do for all of us! I love and appreciate you so much! THANK YOU‼️
real Genius can't operate under whatever the world's on-going paradigm. you can make many geniuses tho. still hard.
that was too deep and hit too hard for only a thousand view lol
Relevant
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Thank you Michael, so timely.
Destines del creative-destruction. We are hyphenated. Very small indeed. Witnessing titanic Cosmos-Chaos stirring up Mezzano.
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Everyone ready for true change on deeper levels need to hear this message. Grateful for Michael being my guide since my first Bly, Meade, Hillman week long men’s conference in 1989. True blessings to a young, lost male at the time
❤ Thank you for your wisdom stories 🎭 A deep healing Blessings 🙏
Didn't know when I woke up this morning how much I would need to hear this tonight. Thank you for sharing 🙏❤
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Still relevant today 2024🙏🌀⛩
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Celebrating the depth of the soil which you have probed so far in your incarnation and the density of what you have alchemised so as to offer poetical clarity to help us all to crack open the chrysalis we are bound up in... Bless your heart and all hearts listening.
Like coming home 🙏 Thank you ✨
Thank you! Your passion for mythology truly inspires me! 🙏 I have this too, but in the dimension of artistic practice, like painting, sculpting. I love to find myth interconnection with nowadays reality. Also sending light and love from Ukraine, that's all we have to fight the darkness now.
Thank you Michael. This podcast speaks deeply to an old initiate❤
Extraordinary Truth… Thank you Michael Meade for articulating with insight what is so powerful and profound Guidance. Your Voice is so Important for our times Thank you for making it heard and putting it out there ❤
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So true. So well articulated. You are indeed a great Seer. A real Sage. Gracias 🙏
JUST what I need, a new Michael Meade❣️❣️❣️⚡️🙏👄🎊🐗💙🇺🇸💔💢🌈🐦🍃👑✨️🌠🌠🌠
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Pigeons teach me.
Priceless remembrance through the confusion of the apocalypse unfolding in real time.
I am your daughter...😊💞💞💞💞💞💞💞✨️✨️✨️
THANK YOU Michael Meade❣️❣️❣️❣️🔥⚡️🙏🐗💙🇺🇸💔💢👑✨️🌏💦👄🎊🐦🍃🍃🍃