Episode 478 - Medicine of the Deep Self

Living Myth

Michael Meade

Philosophy, Society & Culture, Education

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2026

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Michael Meade examines how collective fear and overwhelm can knock the ego off balance and lead to stress and despair. Since the world will not settle soon, the unity and wholeness so sorely missing in the outer world must be found within us. As things fall apart the "knowing self" within moves closer to the surface, seeking to become more conscious to us.

Despite the troubles they cause, critical turning points in life intend to change us from within, giving us access to imagination and wisdom from the deeper self while also learning to deliver something of our true self to a troubled world. The centering and guiding power of the deep self gives us our innate sense of meaning, a true source of coherence and a instinctive sense of purpose.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Living Myth podcast with Michael Mead, where this shifting-changing world has looked at from a mythic perspective.
0:18.0	In this episode, Mead examines how collective fear and overwhelm
0:23.3	can knock the ego off balance and lead to stress and despair. Since the world will not settle
0:28.8	soon, the unity and wholeness so sorely missing in the outer world must be found within
0:33.7	us. Despite the troubles they cause, critical turning points in life intend to change
0:39.3	us from within, giving us access to imagination and wisdom from the deeper self, while also
0:45.0	learning to deliver something of our, true to your own secret knowledge.
1:12.4	That's what Seamus Heaney said in counseling young poets.
1:17.7	To be nobody but yourself in a world doing its best night and day to make you into everybody
1:23.3	else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.
1:30.5	That was E. Cummings. We're in a struggle. Call it a fight. Call it a struggle. To become ourselves.
1:38.2	And the world, what we call the modern world, is doing everything it can to turn us into someone else. That's what's happening in social
1:46.2	media. Young people trying to look the way they think they're supposed to look and all criticizing
1:51.3	each other and all that kind of thing that takes everybody away from the self that's trying to
1:57.2	become conscious. We're in a struggle to find that in ourselves and the world
2:02.0	right now doesn't help. And yet if we don't find it, then we find ourselves in that one-sided
2:07.8	condition, stuck on one side, longing for something. We have forgotten what it even look like.
2:14.6	One of the conditions that happens in the modern world, torn apart, polarized, is the situation of overwhelm.
2:23.4	It is easy to become overwhelmed by the non-stop 24-hour news delivery of all that's problematic,
2:32.9	torn, broken, hateful in this world. You can hardly escape it,
2:39.0	and it's easy to become overwhelmed by it. The word overwhelm literally means to knock over or
2:44.9	turn upside down. And in a sense, we're in an upside down world, and we can easily become
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