Episode 415 - The Inner Speck of Star

Living Myth

Michael Meade

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

4.9 • 944 Ratings

🗓️ 26 December 2024

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

This episode begins with an ancient myth from a tribe along the Amazon River. The story tells how the inner soul of each person travels at night all the way the center of the cosmos. Once there, the soul receives a message that is brought back and shared with the tribe as a dream. Meade draws on this link between the individual soul and the cosmos to describe how ancient cultures imagined each person to be born with a speck of star hidden in their soul, buried in their heart, just waiting to become a person’s “guiding star.”

Each person is intended to contribute presence and meaning to the world and liberation happens each time we become conscious of the contents of our soul. We are here to awaken and learn how to express the uniqueness of our souls, and if we do that we add presence, being and creativity to the world and we become irreplaceable. If we don’t find the meanings hidden in our souls, the world loses presence and people who have no idea who they are come to dominate society.

Rumi wrote that: “The world inside is bigger than the world outside.” Meade argues that in this time of darkness and conflict, hatred and bigotry, we have to revive the sense of the inner magnanimity and enduring brilliance of the individual soul.

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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 mythic perspective.
0:18.1	This episode begins with an ancient myth from a tribe along the Amazon River.
0:23.5	The story tells how the inner soul of each person travels at night all the way to the center
0:28.9	of the cosmos. Once there, the soul receives a message that is brought back and shared
0:35.1	with the tribe as a dream. Me draws on this link between the individual soul and the cosmos
0:42.3	to describe how ancient cultures imagined each person to be born
0:46.3	with a speck of star hidden in their soul,
0:50.3	buried in their heart,
0:52.3	just waiting to become a person's guiding star.
1:07.5	I'm arguing for the essential meaning and presence of the human soul in the midst of the universe.
1:16.6	You know, we know this Earth is not the center of the universe, but it is for humans.
1:22.6	See, they made a little mistake when they figured out the science there.
1:26.6	They said, we measured it and everything, you know, and the Earth isn't the center.
1:31.3	But for humans, it is.
1:32.3	So we lost the idea that we're at the center in terms of our own capacity to be connected to the cosmos.
1:40.3	And by the way, human are the only cosmologists.
1:45.6	It's a joke.
1:58.7	In the collapsing of the world, cosmology now means scientific study of the stars and the origins of the stars, something like that.
2:05.0	But the old meaning of cosmos was the story that explains the entire world.
2:12.7	And every group of humans, no matter how small a tribe, has a story for the whole universe.
2:15.6	Because our imagination is that big.
2:20.3	One of the tribes, I've never seen them, I don't know anything, I just read about this tribe, the Appentary along the Amazon River in South America,
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