Michael Meade - "Initiation, Imagination, and Living Myth"

J. Brown Yoga Talks

J. Brown

Yoga, Health & Fitness, Yogateacher, Alternative Health, Yogaindustry, Religion & Spirituality, Spirituality

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🗓️ 27 December 2021

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Michael Meade, author of Awakening the Soul, The Genius Myth, and The Water of Life: Initiation and the Tempering of the Soul; and creator of the Living Myth Podcast, talks with J about initiation into the holy waters of our collective story. They discuss stages of initiation, the activation of myths, pronounced rationality and exaggerated objectivity leading to a broken system based on a broken cosmology, moving towards resilience and a feeling of organic change, mythic poetic unity, and healing through the natural yoga of our own inner genius.

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0:00.0	All right, here we are.
0:13.5	This is Jay Brown Yoga Talks podcast.
0:16.9	My name is Jay Brown.
0:19.0	Welcome to you.
0:21.7	Your choosing to listen today is greatly appreciated.
0:26.2	I am coming to you from one of my biannual visits to my in-laws in Virginia.
0:33.9	Long-time listeners will remember.
0:37.1	I have come to spend time with my extended family here in Virginia.
0:42.8	Pretty much every year except for 2020 when we were locked down.
0:47.9	I have made this ritual visit to Virginia for, gosh, I can't even remember, more than a decade at this point.
0:58.1	And it's always very useful for me personally to have even just this week where I remove myself
1:07.9	from my usual routines and identifiers.
1:13.6	It's always nice for me to be able to see myself in a different context that I'm normally operating in.
1:23.6	And given that I only am here twice a year,
1:30.8	it's impossible to avoid reflecting on where I was this time last year.
1:38.7	And I wanted to mention that I wrote a blog finally.
1:47.6	It hasn't been a good year for my writing,
1:55.7	honestly. I think in 2020, I wrote nine blog posts in the whole year out of the usual 12 that I wrote every year for 10 years prior. And this year, I only wrote four.
2:03.2	And one I just published a few days ago.
2:06.2	It's called The Re-enchantment of Yoga.
2:09.1	And I invite you to go read that.
2:12.8	I would say that today's talk with Michael Mead in some ways is a it's like a companion offering the
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