Episode 392 - The Call of Genius

Living Myth

Michael Meade

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

4.9 • 944 Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2024

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of Living Myth, Michael Meade suggests that in times of change, just as in periods of personal crisis, there can be an intensification and an acceleration of calling. Whether it comes as a daunting challenge or a crushing blunder, a big dream or a cutting loss, each major life event has within it an opportunity to awaken to the call of the deeper self and the resident genius of the soul.

What calls us calls for the giving of the inherent gifts and natural talents we brought to life to begin with. What calls to us calls to the dream set within our soul before we were born. Answering the call opens pathways of genius and imagination that can lead to finding one’s “dharma” or natural way of being in life and serving in the world. We are each called to become more fully ourselves and our transformation liberates our spirit, but it also serves something beyond ourselves. In transforming each of us, genius also transforms the world.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Living Myth Podcast with Michael Mead, where the shifting changing world is looked at from a
0:16.5	mythic perspective. On this episode, Mead suggests that in times of change, just as in periods of personal crisis, there can be an
0:28.1	intensification and an acceleration of calling. Whether it comes as a daunting challenge or a crushing blunder,
0:36.0	a big dream, or a cutting loss,
0:40.0	each major life event has within it an opportunity to awaken to the call of the deeper self and the resident genius of the soul. The I collect proverbs. They're like vitamins for the mind. They're like those slow release vitamins. You take them and then a
1:15.8	few days later you go, oh, I get it. I mean imagine this now and look at what's happening in the culture here's one a
1:27.1	culture is a totality of imaginative power that's William Blake that's what a culture is. A totality of imaginative power.
1:37.0	A little different from what we're having at the moment.
1:40.0	And then this idea of imagination being a key to the human soul.
1:45.0	Imagination is more important than knowledge.
1:48.0	You recognize that. That's Einstein.
1:50.0	A thing isn't real until it passes through the imagination.
1:56.0	And this one is brilliant and painful.
2:00.0	Hatred is a failure of imagination, right?
2:04.0	What's going on is a failure of imagination, and imagination is the deepest power of the soul.
2:11.0	So loss of soul means loss of imagination. Loss of
2:14.7	imagination indicates loss of soul. So the world has gone wrong again and
2:27.2	humans have a role in it. Right now there's still a little bit of debate about whether humans are contributing to climate change, you know most people
2:31.9	who aren't employed by an oil company or deficient in
2:36.8	capacity to think, feel, and imagine, agree that we've been doing something wrong and it's made a mess.
2:45.0	But the positive side about that is if we have done that damage,
2:50.0	that means we might have a capacity to do the necessary healing.
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