Episode 382 - Unlocking Destiny

Living Myth

Michael Meade

Transformation, Philosophy, Society & Culture, Genius, Education, Myth, Soul, Culture

4.9 • 944 Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

This episode begins with the idea that we suffer a mutual fate of living in a time of tragedy and trouble, and yet, the way through the troubles of the world must depend upon an individual thread of fate set within each person. Although the thread of fate implies limitation in each person’s life, it also ties each person to a destiny waiting to awaken. In order to illustrate the dynamic of limitations and calling, Michael Meade tells the story of how he came to write the book called “Fate and Destiny”.

There may be no greater time than these troubled times for understanding how the exact limits of an individual life can lead to the specific destiny that was the aim of that life from the beginning. As Meade says, “destiny is purpose seen from the other end of life.”

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Living Myth Podcast with Michael Mead where where this shifting, changing world is looked at from a mythic
0:16.9	perspective. This episode begins with the idea that we suffer a mutual fate of living in a time of tragedy and trouble,
0:26.1	and yet the way through the troubles of the world must depend upon an individual threat of
0:32.1	fate set within each person.
0:36.0	Although the threat of fate implies limitation in each person's life,
0:40.8	it also ties each person to a destiny waiting to awaken.
0:46.2	In order to illustrate the dynamic of limitations and calling, Michael Mead tells the story of how he came to write the book called Fate and Destiny. The premise of the modern world is that new things will save us or lead us to where we need to go.
1:21.0	And yet, what is often missing is old or ancient things that have persisted over time
1:28.9	and therefore might educate us on how to persist and endure.
1:35.0	There's an old proverb that says,
1:38.0	it is the same to live in tragic times as to be in a tragic place. And that old idea seems helpful when so much of
1:47.0	the news is of the tragedy of great storms and the ongoing human tragedy of the inhumanity of man to man.
1:57.0	Using another old idea we could say that it is our mutual fate to be living in a trouble world and living during troubled times.
2:10.0	Fate is an old word which suggests limits and even hints of fatality.
2:18.1	And yet fate is also the doorway to destiny in In the very old ideas of this world it is the limitations that
2:28.4	create the openings for growth. The refusal to accept limitations keeps people stuck where they are.
2:37.0	Fate is an old word for what circumscribes our lives or limits us in very specific ways. Fate used to be understood
2:48.3	as the threat of one's life trying to unfold into the world in very specific ways.
2:55.0	And over time, Fate got caught up in arguments about free will.
3:00.0	And Fate came to mean that which was predetermined.
3:05.0	And yet the old notion of the threat of fate is a living thread,
3:10.0	more like a plotline of a story, trying to find its way into a world that has both limitations
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