Welcome to the Living Myth Podcast with Michael Meade.

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Mead considers how when the certainty of the world collapses around us, the danger of cynicism, the In looking for antidotes to these feelings of overwhelm and separation, he draws and ideas including

cosmology, genius, and our inner gifts and wounds.

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of Living Myth Premium. The basic idea I think for being modern. Modern means to me to be lost. To be

modern is to have lost the way. It's to have lost a connection to ancestors.

To have lost a connection to animals.

To have lost a connection to the earth.

Lost a connection to trees, lost the connection to rituals

and traditions that might pull people together rather than divide them and drive them

into isolated spaces apart.

To have lost a sense of communing with the universe.

In fact, you have lost the understanding that humans have a place and fit in the universe has no center.

One of the modern things is that the idea is that the universe has no center.

And if you go back like 700 years, people thought there was a center and they thought we were

at the center. That was interpreted literally starting in about 1270 and and as a result

they lost a metaphorical idea which is what it was to begin with.

Humans are the center of the universe when they are centered in their own life.

It wasn't about literally being centered in the universe.

It was about being centered in one's life and therefore in the center of the universe.

So this center part was connected to what's called the middle ground.

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