Episode 345 - Your Calling Keeps Calling
Living Myth
Michael Meade
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 23 August 2023
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
This episode brings a focus to the need for having a calling in life and the idea that as the world seems to fall apart there can be an acceleration of calling. The human heart carries an indelible expectation of being called to a greater sense of meaning and a revelation of our true aims in life. In the old sense of a rite of passage, the deeper point is not simply to grow up and take more responsibility in society, but rather to awaken to the story trying to unfold from within oneself. The point is to open up, to break out and to feel the feathers of the heart in full flight.
No one knows when an opening to spirit might come and change the trajectory of their life. Something as light as a feather, as bright as an idea or as fleeting as a dream comes into our life and essential aspects of our souls become revealed to us, at the same time that the mysteries of nature and the realms of spirit speak directly to us.
Without a calling we can feel lost throughout our lives. Without a genuine purpose, we can turn bitter, drifting without genuine passion and withering without the blessing of the spirit of life. Yet, the spirit of life within us does not age as we grow older. The inner genius continues to be on the verge of awakening and our calling keeps calling no matter what age we are, no matter what position or condition in life we may have. Because what calls to us is timeless, the calling can come at any time in life.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Living Myth Podcast with Michael Mead where this shifting changing world is looked at from a mythic perspective. |
| 0:17.7 | This episode brings a focus to the need for having a calling in life and the idea that as the world seems to |
| 0:25.8 | fall apart, there can be an acceleration of calling. Without a calling we can feel |
| 0:31.8 | lost throughout our lives, without a genuine purpose we can turn bitter, drifting without genuine passion, and withering without the blessing of the spirit of life. |
| 0:48.0 | Yet, the spirit of life within us does not age as we grow older. The inner genius continues to be on the verge of awakening, |
| 0:52.0 | and our calling keeps calling no matter what age we |
| 0:55.8 | are no matter what position or condition in life we may have because what calls to us is timeless, the calling can come at any time in life. Years ago I was a presenter at a big conference on psychology and mythology. Unlike the other |
| 1:30.3 | presenters, I began by telling a myth and followed with a commentary on two levels, |
| 1:38.0 | one of which was psychological and the other being directly mythological. |
| 1:44.1 | After the commentary, one of the other presenters asked where I got the ideas I had presented. |
| 1:51.1 | I answered from the story. He said, I mean what book did you get the ideas from? |
| 1:57.2 | And to my surprise I had to explain that a myth can teach directly that the living |
| 2:02.1 | waters of myth are intended to be consulted directly as |
| 2:07.0 | oracles that can reveal meanings in the current moment of one's life or collective life. |
| 2:15.0 | I think I referenced the old idea |
| 2:18.0 | that what troubles this world can only be healed |
| 2:21.0 | by directly connecting to the other world of myth and imagination. |
| 2:26.0 | I didn't think of it then, but it occurs to me now that my initiation into the realm of myth occurred on my 13th birthday |
| 2:37.9 | when I mistakenly received a book on mythology. My aunt thought she was giving me a book on history so that |
| 2:49.5 | the initial encounter with myth, a sense bypassed history to connect me |
| 2:57.1 | directly to mythology. On one level it was a book, on another level the stories came alive in my imagination |
| 3:08.2 | which I now know was looking for and expecting to find not just ideas but revelations. |
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