Episode 394 - Living in Turbulent Times

Living Myth

Michael Meade

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

4.9 • 944 Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2024

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

This episode of Living Myth begins with the series of shocks and radical changes that have occurred in contemporary American politics and the current election campaign. Michael Meade expands the theme of dramatic changes to include both nature and culture as we find ourselves “in the midst of a transformation of life on earth.” Whether we want to admit to it or not, we have entered a radical transition of life in which we are being pushed and pulled into territories that we would not choose to go on our own. We keep finding ourselves in uncharted waters in terms of the future of the planet and in unmapped territories in terms of human culture.

At the same time, the human soul is not separate from the living world, but rather is secretly attuned to it. The radical changes sweeping through both nature and culture at this time can be felt by our souls, and because humans are implicated at all levels of the current crises in the world, a transformation of humanity is also required. Without a renewed sense of genuine imagination, the battles between lies and genuine knowledge will grow, just as the divisions between the mind and the body, humanity and nature will also expand. When everything seems about to fall apart or even come to a tragic end, what we need is not a sense of evolution over time, but a felt connection to the possibilities of recreation and renewal at this particular time.

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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
0:16.9	perspective.
0:19.1	This episode begins with a series of shocks and radical changes that have occurred in contemporary
0:24.9	American politics and the current election campaign.
0:29.5	Meade expands the theme of dramatic changes to include both nature and culture as we find ourselves
0:36.6	in the midst of a transformation of life on Earth.
0:40.6	We keep finding ourselves in uncharted waters in terms of the future of the planet and in
0:46.5	unmapped territories in terms of human culture.
0:51.1	When everything seems about to fall apart or even come to a tragic end, what we need is not a sense of evolution over time, but a felt connection to the possibilities of recreation and renewal at this particular time. Someone once said that everyone is born into the river of time and there's truth in that,
1:27.0	but it could also be said that sometimes we are born into the seas of change and to be alive at this time means to be subject to radical
1:37.7	changes that include the rising seas the troubled waters, the polluted atmosphere, and shocks and
1:46.2	upheavals that move through human culture like a flood of waves. Whether we want to admit to it or not, we have entered a radical
1:57.1	transition of life in which we are being pushed and pulled into territories that we would not choose to go on our own.
2:07.0	As is the case with climate crisis, we find ourselves pulled into depths of change we would not willingly choose and we keep finding ourselves
2:16.5	in uncharted waters in terms of the future of the planet and in unmapped territories in terms of human culture.
2:25.0	People keep remarking how this or that event is unprecedented
2:30.0	as if a part of us already knows that the maps of the past no longer described or
2:36.5	depict the territory we find ourselves in.
2:41.1	In politics, people have often worried about an October surprise that happens close to the actual election, but by now each week brings its own October surprise.
2:54.0	From the point where Donald Trump becomes the first former president convicted of a felony
3:00.0	to the Supreme Court's decision to grant him immunity for most of his acts, to the assassination
3:07.5	attempt against him, and just eight days later the decision by Joe Biden to withdraw from the race and then the speed at which
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