Episode 397 - Following the Call of Soul

Living Myth

Michael Meade

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

4.9 • 944 Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

On this episode, Michael Meade talks about inner genius and how without a calling we can feel lost throughout our lives. Without a genuine purpose, we can turn bitter, drifting without genuine passion and withering without the blessing of the spirit of life. Yet, the spirit of life within us does not age as we grow older. The inner genius continues to be on the verge of awakening and our calling keeps calling no matter what age we are, no matter what position or condition in life we may have. Because what calls to us is timeless, the calling can come at any time in life.

This episode is edited from a Jung Platform Summit presentation.

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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
0:16.8	mythic perspective. On this episode, Mead talks about inner genius and how without a calling we can feel lost throughout our lives.
0:27.0	Without a genuine purpose, we can turn bitter,
0:30.0	drifting without genuine passion and withering without the blessing of the spirit of life.
0:36.0	Yet, the spirit of life within us does not age as we grow older.
0:42.0	The inner genius continues to be on the verge of awakening and our
0:46.7	calling keeps calling no matter what age we are, no matter what position or condition in life we may have.
0:55.0	Because what calls to us as timeless, the calling can come at any time in life.
1:02.0	This episode is edited from a Jung Platform Summit presentation. The first experience of calling was when I was 13 on my 13th birthday.
1:29.0	When my aunt had asked me what I was interested in and I said history. And she went to a bookstore to buy me a history book. She was notoriously short. Someone pointed to an upper shelf.
1:43.8	She reached up there and grabbed a book,
1:45.8	had it wrapped up, gave it to me.
1:48.2	I tore some of the paper off, and she said,
1:51.2	oh, it's the wrong book, give it back.
1:53.0	And I'm holding on to it, because what I'm looking at is a flying horse
1:57.5	with someone sitting on the horse shooting an arrow that's arcing back over the cover of the book.
2:02.3	And I'm saying, I want this book, and book and she said no it's the wrong book and I tear the rest of the paper off and it says mythology, Edith Hamilton.
2:10.0	So she mistakenly got me the exact right book and you know so anyway it's there's a bunch of stuff in there that the calling can come in an odd way or maybe even the
2:25.4	calling comes in a way that makes it more noticeable or in this case the calling
2:32.1	seemed to be a mistake, but it wasn't.
2:35.0	And maybe what I'm thinking about there is once a person can figure out a moment where they had a sense of calling,
2:42.0	you can unpack that.
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