Episode 395 - To Not Feel Lost in the Chaos of the World

Living Myth

Michael Meade

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

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🗓️ 7 August 2024

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

In a world that's rapidly changing in ways that can feel chaotic and threatening, it becomes easy to feel diminished, lost and small. Although it is common now to feel like nothing but a speck in a vast, accidental universe; we only feel truly small when we lose our sense of soul. Small and insignificant as we may feel at times, we carry within our souls a spark that is connected to the galaxies and to the origins of creation. When the world becomes darker, more confusing and more chaotic, we have to learn to see with the eyes of the soul or else wind up feeling smaller and smaller when our souls would have us grow in meaningful ways.

When we begin to feel diminished by the chaos and the confusion in the world, there are two places to turn to. We can turn to our innate connection to the stars, to the origins of life and the source of ongoing creation. For that is part of the inheritance of the human soul. And we can turn the opposite way, looking inward where there is also a great expanse of darkness, in which the speck of star, the spark of life and inner light of the soul waits to receive our attention in order that it might grow, and it can only grow from darkness.

It is our nature to be betwixt and between, to be part of both the macrocosm and the microcosm; to be stretched between the mundane and the sacred, between the gravity-bound surface of the earth and the endless expanse of the starry heavens. We are here to grow our souls, despite and because of the darkness around us. For, the world is not a finished place; rather it is always on the verge of becoming. The same is true of our lives; for our souls are always on the verge of awakening further in both small and big ways that can connect with and contribute to creation ongoing.

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0:17.0	Welcome to the Living Myth Podcast with Michael Mead, where the shifting, changing world is looked at from a mythic perspective.
0:19.9	In a world that's rapidly changing in ways that can feel chaotic and threatening, it becomes easy to
0:25.8	feel diminished, lost, and small.
0:29.8	Although it is common now to feel like nothing but a speck in a vast accidental universe,
0:36.2	we only feel truly small when we lose our sense of soul.
0:41.6	Small and insignificant as we may feel at times, we carry within our souls a spark that is connected
0:48.4	to the galaxies and to the origins of creation. On this episode, Mead considers how when the world becomes
0:56.5	darker, more confusing, and more chaotic, we have to learn to see with the eyes of the soul, or else wind up feeling smaller and smaller
1:07.0	when our souls would have us grow in meaningful ways. I woke up this morning thinking about this poem by Rumi which has the title Madness Trouble. You say, I'm so small I can barely be seen in all of this. How can
1:40.2	a great love be inside someone as small as me.
1:45.0	Friend, look at your eyes, they are small,
1:48.0	yet they see enormous things.
1:50.8	Listen, your love of spying a far-off satisfaction is what keeps you from tasting the real water
1:59.1	of where and who you are right now. The real way is who and where you already are. What you search
2:08.7	for is sleeping in your very being, that which sleeps and dreams of sweet water is the taste of the divine
2:17.6	in you. The true way is who and where you already are. It is sleeping in your very being.
2:25.0	The reason I woke up with this poem trailing me or tracking me is partly in the first line where Rumi says that you say
2:37.9	meaning I say we say I say I'm so small I can barely be seen in all of this and I think the reason those words were
2:48.5	tracking me or trailing me is because of several situations in the last few days in which I felt so small.
2:58.7	It wasn't simply that I felt small, it was also that the other people in the situations felt small, in the other people in the situations felt small, in the sense of being unequal
3:07.6	to the times in which we live, in the sense of not being big enough or courageous enough or genuine enough to stand up or
3:18.0	reach out or even call for help.
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