Welcome to the Living Myth podcast with Michael Mead.

In this excerpt from a premium episode, Mead discusses the inherent longing for redemption

and how it can be experienced as a life-seeking process rather than an end-of-life event.

He explores the archetypes of creation and apocalypse, reframing the latter as an expression of the dynamic of collapse and renewal.

Part of renewal involves connecting to vertical imagination

that goes deep into the unconscious and can reveal the unique map of each soul's journey

and help us become instruments for transformation and awakening. You can hear the full episode

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Learn more and join this community of listeners at patreon.com slash living myth. When we mingle the energies of our physical and spiritual dimensions,

we connect to the origins of life and awaken the divine within our own souls.

All methods of churning the soul,

meditation and study,

dance and devotion,

depend upon the hidden holiness

and the inner abundance of the body,

which is born of the original sound

and the resonant waves of creation.

So this is the old idea that the body is sacred and that it's an expression of the eternal waves of creation.

I'm saying it now because it's so hard to be alive, because the background of everything is the turmoil of the

world and the loss of ideals and loss of courage to live in meaningful ways, but our bodies are

actually still resonating with the waves of creation back from the beginning into the present.

And so I'm trying to redeem that in a sense, I guess, and connected to the idea that we each

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