Episode 430 - Re-Creation and Renewal on Earth

Living Myth

Michael Meade

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

4.9 • 944 Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2025

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

This episode of Living Myth explores how as humans we live and die in the context of the stories we tell ourselves about the world and our place in it. Two great stories happen at the same time, the great drama of the world and the unique story trying to unfold from each individual soul. At this critical time on earth, something essential to the story of the world is trying to be re-discovered and something crucial in each life story is trying to be revealed.

People are increasingly fearful about the future of the earth. Yet, people cannot simply be scared into caring for the earth. Fear can be an awakening force; yet fear over time can become a cause of further division and greater isolation. The unity of life must be found again and one challenge involves seeing how collapse and renewal can be happening at the same time. Through myths of re-creation we can touch the timeless images and archetypes from which the living world first arose and find inspiration as well as insights into collective transformation on Earth.

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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 perspective.
0:18.0	This episode explores how as humans we live and die in the context of the stories
0:23.6	we tell ourselves about the world and our place in it.
0:27.6	Two great stories happen at the same time, the great drama of the world,
0:32.6	and the unique story trying to unfold from each individual soul.
0:40.3	At this critical time on Earth, something essential to the story of the world is trying to be rediscovered,
0:44.3	and something crucial in each life's story is trying to be revealed.
0:50.3	Through myths of recreation,
0:52.3	we can touch the timeless images and archetypes from which the living world first arose, and find inspiration a poem or a song, in this case a poem. This is called
1:32.1	Spirit of Place, Great Blue Heron. It's a poem by William Stafford. May he rest in peace. I worked
1:39.1	with him years ago, and I'd be really curious what kind of poems he'd be writing at this time.
1:45.0	But years ago he wrote this poem about spirit, about place, about animals, about earth.
1:52.0	It goes like this.
1:54.0	Out of their loneliness for each other, two reeds, or maybe two shadows,
2:00.0	lurch forward and become suddenly a life lifted from the dawn
2:05.3	and from the rain. It is the wilderness, come back again, a lagoon with our city reflected in its eye.
2:14.4	We live by faith in such presences. It is a test for us, that thin but real undulating figure that promises, if you keep faith, I will exist at the edge where your vision joins the sunlight and the rain.
2:32.1	Heads in the light, feet that go down all the way into the mud where the truth is.
2:38.7	That's a great poem.
2:40.9	And he's making that pronouncement that poet, storytellers, artists throughout the ages have made,
2:47.7	which is at the edge of our vision, we're connecting to the other world, which could
2:53.7	be considered the world of nature, but also the unseen world.
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