Episode 388 - The Call of Dreams

Living Myth

Michael Meade

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

4.9 • 944 Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2024

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

This episode of Living Myth is about how our dreams call to something in us that is awake in some other way. Dreams call us to recognize other aspects of ourselves, other levels of awareness and even other realms of being. Dreams are the universal evidence that there is an Otherworld and that we as humans, as dreamers live in both worlds. Each person born is called to become a living bridge where dreams and reality can meet.

Whether we acknowledge it or not, whether we remember it or not, each night we dream. And each night we die to the practical, measurable, logistical world and float on waves of the eternal. We let go of so-called reality, pull on the skyrope of dreaming and whether we know it or not, we touch the source of life again.

We are called to awaken in ways that allow us to hold the two worlds together. For, what is most missing in the common world must be found in the Otherworld. In order to find our way in life and not lose our sense of self, we need both deep sleep and deep dreams. The two go hand in hand and each contributes to the creative presence of imagination and the renewal of life and that can happen while we sleep.

Life is the dream that dreams us up to begin with and that dreams the world on through us. Even when everything around us seems to be falling apart, dreams of a coherent center or a living source of life can appear to remind us that we are secretly connected to the Otherworld, to the center of things, to what used to be known as the Soul of the World.

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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
0:16.8	mythic perspective. This episode is about how our dreams call to something in us that is awake in some other way.
0:27.0	Dreams call us to recognize other aspects of ourselves, other levels of awareness,
0:32.4	and even other realms of being.
0:35.0	Each person born is called to become a living bridge where dreams and reality can meet.
0:42.0	Even when everything around us seems to be falling apart,
0:46.0	dreams of a coherent center or a living source of life
0:51.0	can appear to remind us that we are secretly connected to the other world, to the
0:56.6	center of things, to what used to be known as the soul of the world. There's an old idea that says that a person is a dream placed in a soul around which a body grows.
1:27.0	Another old idea is that dreams are the universal evidence that there is an other world and that we as humans and as dreamers live in both worlds.
1:42.0	Life is the dream that dreams us up and that dreams life on through us. Dreaming
1:49.2	is the evidence of the unseen visiting us repeatedly whether we are conscious of that or not.
1:57.0	The dream is a mystery that happens to us, that happens in us, whether we acknowledge it or not. Most people forget their dreams, but it doesn't mean they weren't dreaming. Dreams speak to us in an otherly voice that calls us to live more fully.
2:16.0	Our dreams call to something in us that is already awake in some other way. Dreams call to us while we are asleep to the world around us.
2:29.0	In that sense a dream happens to us. It arrives unannounced so that dreams are something uncalled for and yet they can call us to something we might otherwise miss altogether.
2:44.0	Dreams call us to recognize other levels of awareness
2:48.4	and other aspects of ourselves,
2:50.7	other ways of knowing, and even other realms of being.
2:55.0	In those mostly unseen depths, a person separates into the sleeper and the dreamer. And the sense that part of us disappears
3:07.5	and something else subsequently appears led many ancient people to consider the presence of a dream soul.
3:15.0	Most ancient cultures imagined that a person had more than one soul.
3:21.0	There's the body soul that must rest regularly, for if we fail
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