Episode 399 - Messages from the Cosmos

Living Myth

Michael Meade

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

4.9 • 944 Ratings

🗓️ 4 September 2024

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

One of the problems in the modern world is that people now tend to believe that science and technological inventions can solve problems that exist on much deeper and much greater levels. As Albert Einstein expressed it: “It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.” In the upward and onward at all costs rush of the modern world, it is the heart and soul of humanity that most often becomes lost.

Fortunately, it turns out that the missing elements that make life meaningful, purposeful and beautiful do not simply disappear. Rather, what is sorely missing in the outside must be sought in the deeper, greater sense of self that is the natural birthright of each human soul. Times of radical change and great uncertainty can become the exact conditions in which we each become the potential recipients of messages from the cosmos that remind us that what we are most desperately looking for already exists inside us in the form of a unifying and guiding sense of self and soul.

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0:17.0	Welcome to the Living Myth Podcast with Michael Mead, where this shifting, changing world is looked at from a mythic perspective.
0:19.6	On this episode, Mead considers how one of the problems in the modern world is that people now tend to believe that science and technological inventions can solve problems that exist on much deeper and much greater levels. As Albert
0:36.3	Einstein expressed it, it has become appallingly obvious that our technology has
0:42.4	exceeded our humanity. In the upward and
0:46.0	onward at all costs rush of the modern world, it is the heart and soul of humanity
0:51.1	that most often becomes lost.
0:54.3	Fortunately, it turns out that the missing elements that make life meaningful, purposeful,
1:00.3	and beautiful do not simply disappear.
1:04.0	Rather, what a sorely missing in the outside must be sought in the deeper, greater sense of self
1:11.8	that is the natural birthright of each human soul. It has always been a challenge for the individual human being to find a sense of purpose and meaning in life.
1:39.0	But to be a modern person can mean to doubt that human life has any meaning or purpose at all.
1:47.0	To be modern can mean to be always on the edge of the next technological revolution, but also to always be on the verge of a sense of
1:57.1	annihilation. To be modern can mean to be lost, and to be postmodern can mean to be lost and to be postmodern can mean to feel forsaken both
2:06.6	individually and collectively. As Albert Einstein who is often held as the genius of modern science, as he expressed it,
2:18.0	it has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity. In the upward, onward, and forward at all
2:28.2	costs rush of the modern world, it is the soul of humanity that can easily become lost.
2:37.0	Technology has been with us from the very beginning in the old Greek language root
2:44.5	Technae includes the knowledge of both making and doing things and whereas Technae applied to practical knowledge about the world,
2:56.8	particularly the outer world,
2:59.8	the deeper ways of knowing were referred to as Nosis, G N-O-S, a kind of knowing that involves genuine
3:12.0	insights, a kind of knowing that would involve would involve seeing beyond the practical and beyond the factual.
3:21.0	Nosis would be a knowing in the body, in the blood, in the feeling as well as in the mind,
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