Welcome to the Living Myth podcast with Michael Mead.

On this excerpt from a premium episode, Mead explores how resiliency amidst adversity is a hallmark of genius and an

essential capacity for navigating a rapidly changing and confusing world. What we need now is the

courage to follow our genius all the way to where it would lead us. When enough people awaken

to the inner meaning and purpose

in their lives, a collective shift of understanding can alter the course of history. You can hear

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at patreon.com slash living myth. And so what I want to do is tell a story about how we could understand that there is purpose in the individual human life

and that we each can bring something to the kind of healing and revisioning and

remaking of the world, because apocalypse, the Greek word is Apocalypseis, it means collapse

renewal. It means that things fall apart only to come back together again in a new form.

And in a way you could say that living at this time,

we're in that moment that is both collapse and renewal. And it's our choice. Do we want to get caught in the collapse and fall apart ourselves? Or can we find that inner thread of imagination

and genius that gives us orientation and purpose

and allows us then to contribute to the reweaving, the reimagining, and the remaking of the world?

That's, I think, the situation.

I know politically they're talking about something similar, but on a simple level,

I see it mythologically on a big level.

And so, myth, which essentially is something that never has been but always is,

something that is untrue at the surface and deeply meaningful and true in depth.

Myth is one of the places to go to like a song, like a ritual.

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