Episode 473 - Finding Guidance in Your Life

Living Myth

Michael Meade

Philosophy, Society & Culture, Education

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2026

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Michael Meade reflects on how, if we are able to stop and listen more deeply, we can connect with subtle sources of wisdom and guidance. He shares his experiences of receiving guidance that has taken the form of dreams, birds and animals, an inner voice and the realm of myth and story. Essential to the practice of hearing these vital messages is both an embrace of humility and a willingness to stand in the place of not knowing.

During this time of upheaval in both culture and nature, when we collectively stand in a greater period of uncertainty, being able to hear the guiding messengers all around us can bring us closer to the call of our deeper self. The centering and guiding power of the deep self gives us our innate sense of meaning and instinctive sense of purpose. Without this inner, unifying factor, any meaningful sense of change can become fraught with excess fears and anxiety. Since the world will not quickly settle, we have to look deep inside for a true source of coherence, for meaningful guidance and for finding our true aims in life, which are not deterred by the troubles of 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.
0:19.3	On this episode, Mead reflects on how, if we're able to stop and listen
0:24.5	more deeply, we can connect with subtle sources of wisdom and guidance. He shares his experiences
0:31.3	of receiving guidance that has taken the form of dreams, birds and animals, an inner voice,
0:39.5	and the realm of myth and story.
0:46.9	Essential to this practice of hearing these vital messages is both an embrace of humility and a willingness to stand in the place of not knowing. During this time of upheaval in both culture
0:52.4	and nature, when we collectively stand in a greater period of uncertainty, being able to hear the guiding messengers all I started to get visitations in the middle of the night.
1:26.9	I would wake up but not fully wake up. I would be
1:30.0	between sleeping and waking, and I would be receiving information. Sometimes it was just a statement,
1:38.7	often just a voice, or at other times it was clearly paragraphs that could be entered into a book. And I thought both
1:47.7	were forms of guidance in the sense that one thing, one voice was commenting on what I was experiencing
1:54.7	very much the way a dream does, but it was a voice, not a dream. And the other was guiding me into the realm of writing books.
2:03.7	And so that continues to this day, and I must say as I get older, it gets more intense, and it
2:10.7	can happen at almost any time. So that's one experience. The other is more of a waking experience that has two parts to it.
2:20.7	One is, I will hear something even that someone else says, and I will hear it as something I needed
2:26.8	to hear. And also, I will see things the way a person sees an omen like a bird flying overhead
2:33.4	or something like that.
2:35.2	And it will seem to have a message in it for me.
2:38.9	Maybe I'll add a third thing is in learning how to listen to the unseen,
2:45.9	which sometimes whispers or uses a different kind of voice,
2:50.3	I actually have a more continuous sense of being
2:54.6	guided from within. And so that's the three forms of it, waking up or not quite waking up and
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