Episode 442 - Your Lot in Life

Living Myth

Michael Meade

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

4.9 • 944 Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

This episode of Living Myth begins with the ancient idea of each soul receiving a “lot in life.” Lot basically means “a chip of wood,” but in this case, the chip comes from the roots of the World Tree, that also used to be known as the Tree of Destiny. Thus, each of our souls secretly carries a “divine word” or living symbol drawn from the Tree of Life that makes each person a divine experiment in life.

We are human by lot, but we are divine by origin. We must begin life with the hand that fate has dealt us; yet our fate can be seen as more of an oracle set within us than as an outcome predetermined for us. When so many aspects of modern life seem increasingly out of our control, turning to the adventure our souls would have us live can give us our best chance to find a sense of inner unity and live with meaning and purpose.

The soul’s adventure involves stepping off the common pathways and going off the maps that others have given to us. This “second adventure of life” intends an unfolding of the meaningful story trying to unfold from within us. It is a path of awakening to who we already are at our core and how we can best contribute to life. The soul’s adventure aims at things beyond the concerns of the daily world, and yet the transformations it can produce are essential for renewing human culture and for determining the fate of life on Earth.

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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.
0:21.6	This episode begins with the ancient idea of each soul receiving a lot in life.
0:27.6	Lot basically means a chip of wood, but in this case, the chip comes from the roots of the world tree,
0:34.6	that also used to be known as the tree of destiny.
0:39.3	Thus, each of our souls secretly carries a divine word or living symbol drawn from the tree of life
0:45.9	that makes each person a divine experiment in life.
0:50.8	We are human by lot, but we are divine by origin.
0:54.8	We must begin life with the hand that fate has dealt us, yet our fate can be seen as more
1:00.5	of an oracle set within us than as an outcome predetermined for us. There's an old idea that states that figuring out the right question to ask will itself bring a person closer to finding a meaningful answer.
1:33.7	Some of the most frequent questions people ask me concern the nature and the meaning of the human soul.
1:43.1	People of all different ages coming from a wide variety of life circumstances, will ask,
1:51.3	how do you know that each soul is somehow gifted?
1:56.0	How do you know that our souls are secretly aimed at life?
2:04.2	How can you be sure that each soul has meaning?
2:12.7	And if that is true, why are so many people lost, and why do people seem to have less and less respect and care for the souls of other people?
2:18.5	Given the radical and often tragic condition of the world right now,
2:23.8	it makes good sense to question the meaning of life
2:27.6	and whether an individual soul can have any effect
2:32.1	in a world that seems to be tearing itself apart.
2:36.4	I call this podcast living myth because it seems to me that
2:42.5	myth which most modern people have come to believe means something false or untrue,
2:54.7	means at a deeper level, something closer to emergent truth. Myths are something that can be deemed false on the surface, but that can also
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