Episode 386 - How We Become Ourselves

Living Myth

Michael Meade

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

4.9 • 944 Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

On this episode, Michael Meade tells two stories about the question we are asked at the end of our lives. We enter the world as seekers and what we most need to find is the uniqueness of our own souls. Each life is a surprising pilgrimage intended to arrive at the center of the pilgrim’s soul.

The figures most revered in the many traditions found throughout the world became memorable because they became uniquely themselves. Whether a spiritual teacher or an artist, a healer or a leader, they had to awaken to an inner vision and find a destiny that was already set within them for the tale of their life to become instructive to others.

Although it has mostly been forgotten in the modern world, each soul bears an inborn purpose and a natural way of being from the beginning. Each person born is intended to bring something meaningful to the world. When everything seems to be falling apart, we must turn all the way inside in order to find the threads of meaning and purpose that are woven into our very being. When we follow our soul’s inner thread it becomes more clear that the changes so urgently needed in the outside world have to begin with meaningful changes in the souls of those born to these troubled times.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Living Myth Podcast with Michael, where this shifting changing world is looked at from a
0:16.7	mythic perspective. On this episode, Meade tells two stories about the question we are asked at the end of our lives.
0:25.0	We enter the world as seekers and what we most need to find is the uniqueness of our own souls. Each life is a surprising pilgrimage
0:36.2	intended to arrive at the center of the pilgrim's soul. Although it has mostly
0:42.2	been forgotten in the modern world, each soul bears an inborn
0:46.4	purpose and a natural way of being from the beginning.
0:51.6	When everything seems to be falling apart, we must turn all the way inside in order to find
0:57.8	the threads of meaning and purpose that are woven into our very being. As I've said many times before on this podcast, this is a hard time to be alive.
1:25.6	This is a troubled time, a dark time on earth, you could say.
1:31.6	For many people we live in unprecedented times and one way to see that is at the same time that culture seems to be unraveling before our eyes, nature is rattling with all of the
1:47.3	effects of the climate crisis. And because each person's soul is secretly connected to the soul of the world,
1:56.0	what happens to the world can't help but affect us at the level of the soul.
2:04.3	So in effect, as the troubles of the world
2:07.2	become more manifest, both in terms of nature
2:11.2	and in terms of human culture, the weight of that, the intensity of it,
2:17.0	and the brokenness of it, falls into each person's inner world in such a way that the inner splits and the
2:28.9	inner conflicts and inevitable inner wounds of each person become more activated and more
2:38.5	Intensified
2:41.2	So the effect can be that there's nowhere to turn because the outside world continues to
2:48.8	rattle and rattles all the unresolved things within us as well, so where do we turn?
2:57.4	For me, from a pretty young age and increasingly in the deepening troubles of this age,
3:05.0	the place where I go when I have nowhere else to turn to
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