Episode 461 - The Golden Self Within

Living Myth

Michael Meade

Philosophy, Society & Culture, Education

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

As the world around us becomes increasingly divided into opposing forces, the tensions and conflicts within us also intensify. In psychological terms, the division most in need of being healed is the split between the ego or "little self" and the deeper, knowing self within us.

In fairy tales a golden ball often appears as a symbol of the inner unity and wholeness we felt, at least for a moment, as children. The old rule is that everyone has at least one experience of the presence of the deep self, typically felt as something golden within us.

This deeper self within knows why we are here on earth and what we are intended to do. Yet, the ego, with its fixed attitudes and pretensions of being at the center of life, stands in the way. At each turning point in life this golden self within tries to become more conscious as a source of grounding and centering, but also as a resource of genuine visions, big dreams and vital energies.

In a world filled with conflicts and great uncertainty, the guidance and centering power of the deeper self can save us from feeling anxious and overwhelmed. In order for both individual and collective awakening and meaningful change to occur, a deeper sense of self and soul must become more conscious and available to us.

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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.
0:20.0	On this episode, Meade considers how, as the
0:24.9	world around us becomes increasingly divided into opposing forces, the tensions and conflicts
0:30.8	within us also intensify. In psychological terms, the division most in need of being healed
0:37.4	is the split between the ego or little self and the deeper knowing self within us.
0:42.3	In fairy tales, a golden ball often appears as a symbol of the inner unity and wholeness we felt, at least for a moment, as children.
0:53.3	The old rule is that everyone has at least one experience of the presence of the deep self,
0:59.0	typically felt as something golden within us.
1:02.0	At each turning point in life, this golden self within tries to become more conscious
1:08.0	as a source of grounding and centering, but also as a resource of genuine visions,
1:14.7	big dreams, and vital energies.
1:35.3	Some creation stories begin with the idea that in the beginning was the word.
1:39.9	Others say that in the beginning was the sound.
1:45.0	There are ways in which both can be seen to be true.
1:53.2	And if we add the idea that creation is not something simply far in the past,
2:00.7	but rather is something that is continuing moment to moment in the living world, then we can see both the resonance and reverberation
2:05.7	of sound as creation happening right now, but also we could see human speech as an aspect of
2:17.0	creation ongoing moment to moment. In the strange ways of the modern
2:24.3	world, it turns out that you can research the frequency of usage of a particular word over long
2:33.3	periods of time.
2:35.8	Someone once showed me how you could enter a word in a Google search
2:41.7	and a graph would appear that would show how often the word was being used
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