Episode 439 - In a World Gone Wrong

Living Myth

Michael Meade

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

4.9 • 944 Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Increasingly, we are caught in the shattering of the world and in the broken heart of tragedy. The loss of soul in the world leaves people not only divided but turned against each other. The world we used to know is gone and we are suspended betwixt and between chaos and creation. We are in a series of crises and events that seem to turn the world upside down. For it is our mutual fate to be alive at a time of radical transformation that affects all levels of nature and all aspects of human culture.

The great crises of the world do not take place outside the soul, for soul also awakens in the midst of conflict and crisis. Even as everything breaks down, soul knows where to reconnect to life. The presence of soul connects our inner nature to the renewing energy of great nature and awakening the soul stirs a deep sense of resiliency and creativity that serves as an antidote and remedy for the rise of brutality and the misuse of power. What stirs the individual soul can also shift the ground of tragedy and help heal the world.

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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.
0:21.6	Increasingly, we are caught in the shattering of the world and in the broken heart of tragedy.
0:28.6	The loss of soul in the world leaves people not only divided, but turned against each other.
0:35.6	The world we used to know is gone and we are suspended
0:39.0	betwixt and between chaos and creation. The great crises of the world do not take
0:45.3	place outside the soul, for soul also awakens in the midst of conflict and crisis. Even
0:52.3	as everything breaks down, soul knows where to reconnect to life.
0:57.0	What stirs the individual soul can also shift the ground of stories going on in the world.
1:21.4	The ongoing drama of what we call the world, or the cosmos, or the earth, people
1:26.9	refer to it all different ways.
1:30.3	And the story of the individual soul. Those are the two ongoing stories that are secretly
1:36.3	connected and you could say in a sense are more connected in times of upheaval than in other
1:43.8	times. So two poems to start out with. One about, in a sense,
1:49.5	the condition of the world with the implication that the collapse of things has happened before,
1:56.7	not this way, but it's happened before. So this is an old poem from Rumi. When school and university,
2:04.8	when mosque and churches become worn or get torn down, then the dervishes can begin their
2:12.7	community. Not until faithfulness turns into betrayal, and betrayal turns into trust.
2:20.7	Can any human being become part of the truth?
2:25.3	Little poem, lots of stuff in there.
2:28.1	One idea is that when things are falling apart, a deeper unity is forming somewhere.
2:38.1	When the institutions are rattling and becoming hollowed out, one of the old ideas is that the deep self within people is actually rising to the
2:45.2	surface or trying to. And in the poem, he says, that's when the dervishes begin their community.
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