Episode 484 - Changing Life by Finding Spirit and Making Soul

Living Myth

Michael Meade

Philosophy, Society & Culture, Education

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2026

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

This episode of begins with the idea that the world we used to know is gone and we have not found a footing in the world that is trying to emerge. That leaves us in a state of uncertainty and in the midst of multiple levels of tragedy. In that sense, we are in a collective rite of passage that seeks to awaken the spirit of humanity and stir the creative depths of our souls. However, if we cannot sustain the vitality of our own being we become unable to change the conditions of community and culture.

The heart of the human drama concerns whether we are becoming a greater vessel for the flow of life. Spirit calls us to a higher sense of self, while soul would connect us more deeply to the heart of nature and the soul of the world. Either we are following spirit and growing more soul or we can find ourselves shrinking from life.

We are each here to live out an inner story and living plot line that brought us to life. When we live our lives more fully it is beneficial, not just for us personally, but also for the transformation of the world. When in touch with the soul's mythic thread we can find the aims and meanings that allow our souls to grow deeper, our imagination to expand and our spirits to awaken.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Living Myth podcast with Michael Mead, where this shifting, changing world is
0:16.0	looked at from a mythic perspective. This episode begins with the idea that the world we used to know is gone, and we have not
0:25.4	found a footing in the world that is trying to emerge.
0:28.8	That leaves us in a state of uncertainty and in the midst of multiple levels of tragedy.
0:34.9	In that sense, we are in a collective rite of passage that seeks to awaken the spirit
0:39.5	of humanity and stir the creative depths of our souls. When in touch with the soul's mythic thread,
0:46.7	we can find the aims and meanings that allow our souls to grow deeper, our imagination to expand,
0:53.9	and our spirits to awaken.
1:10.4	The theme is finding spirit making soul.
1:13.6	We're in that wild time of betwixt and between where the world that we used to know is gone
1:20.6	and we haven't found our footing in the world that's trying to recreate with us.
1:25.6	And that's what they used to call liminal space between one thing and another when things are
1:31.2	disorienting, but at the same time, anything could happen.
1:35.3	So part of the idea is imagining what should human community look like going forward?
1:41.8	How do we, on one hand, sustain the spirit of our own lives
1:46.2	in the midst of great uncertainty and overwhelming conflicts? And then on another hand,
1:52.1	how do we find ways to make soul and build community while the institutions and the mainstream
1:59.5	ways of life are essentially collapsing.
2:03.1	This story takes place back in the day, a long time ago, in one of these towns where there
2:08.2	was a temple in the middle of the town and there was an old man who was considered a holy
2:13.1	man, especially he himself considered himself a holy man.
2:16.9	And every day he would pray three times in the courtyard
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