Episode 432 - Waking the Living Soul

Living Myth

Michael Meade

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

4.9 • 944 Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

This episode begins with an often asked question: What is the soul? Michael Meade describes the soul as “the animating and connecting force without which we cannot live,” yet that “cannot be seen directly or simply be proven to exist.” He further describes the soul as “a betwixt and between thing, neither simply physical nor strictly spiritual,” but rather “the third element in the trinity of existence, that fills the subtle space between spirit and matter.”

Soul is the connecting tissue and the hidden continuity of all of life. It is “the missing ingredient when everything seems to fall apart. When we lose our way in the world, it is the soul's way of being that has been lost. For we are most lost and truly abandoned when we have lost touch with our own soul, with our own inward style and way of being.

Each person born enters the world as a unique soul on a unique life adventure. From the view of the soul, the troubles and obstacles we encounter in life are secretly intended to awaken the inner nobility and creative energies that are part of our soul’s inheritance. As unique souls we live on the verge of awakening to who we already are at the core of our being and how we can best contribute to a world in need of more soul.

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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.
0:18.5	This episode begins with an often asked question, what is the soul? Mead
0:24.6	describes the soul as the animating and connecting force without which we cannot live, yet that
0:30.9	cannot be seen directly or simply be proven to exist. Soul is the connecting tissue and the missing continuity of all of life.
0:40.3	It is the missing ingredient when everything seems to fall apart.
0:45.3	Each person enters the world as a unique soul on a unique life adventure.
0:51.3	From the view of the soul, the troubles and obstacles we encounter in life,
0:56.8	are secretly intended to awaken the inner nobility and creative energies that are part of our
1:02.4	soul's inheritance. Several listeners have sent in questions about the original self.
1:25.1	What do I mean by original self? and why am I always referring to the first
1:31.4	agreement of the soul? In order to answer, I want to read some things from the book
1:38.4	Fate and Destiny, the Two Agreements of the Soul, and Add some additional material.
1:43.9	The Soul is an indwelling, animating, and connecting force
1:48.6	without which we cannot live.
1:51.7	Yet, it cannot be seen directly or be proven to exist.
1:56.8	We can feel its subtle presence and we languish in its absence, but we cannot pin it down or
2:03.8	hold it firm. The soul is a betwixt and between thing. It is neither simply physical nor strictly
2:11.4	spiritual, but something that participates in both realms. The soul is there before life begins,
2:19.3	and it is said to continue on after we lay our body down.
2:23.9	In that sense, the soul is another kind of body,
2:26.8	a subtle body that partakes of both spirituality and physicality.
2:32.2	And as the third element in the Trinity of existence, the soul fills the subtle
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