Episode 345 - Your Calling Keeps Calling

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Aug 23, 2023

This podcast discusses the importance of having a calling in life and how it can provide direction and passion. It explores the concept of finding meaning and purpose, as well as the idea of initiation and rite of passage. The podcast delves into the current state of the world and how times of change and crisis can reveal a hidden message in life. Ultimately, it emphasizes the importance of living a life of meaning and purpose by contributing to the renewal of the next world.

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INSIGHT

Importance of a Calling

A calling provides meaning and purpose, especially when the world feels chaotic.
Without a calling, we risk feeling lost, bitter, and lacking passion.

ANECDOTE

Meade's Calling

Michael Meade shares how he discovered his calling through a mythology book on his 13th birthday.
This sparked a lifelong journey into myth and its relevance to life.

ANECDOTE

Firebird Feather

Meade tells a story of a young rider who finds a firebird feather and is tasked by the king to bring him the whole bird.
This illustrates the allure and potential danger of pursuing a calling.

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This episode brings a focus to the need for having a calling in life and the idea that as the world seems to fall apart there can be an acceleration of calling. The human heart carries an indelible expectation of being called to a greater sense of meaning and a revelation of our true aims in life. In the old sense of a rite of passage, the deeper point is not simply to grow up and take more responsibility in society, but rather to awaken to the story trying to unfold from within oneself. The point is to open up, to break out and to feel the feathers of the heart in full flight.

No one knows when an opening to spirit might come and change the trajectory of their life. Something as light as a feather, as bright as an idea or as fleeting as a dream comes into our life and essential aspects of our souls become revealed to us, at the same time that the mysteries of nature and the realms of spirit speak directly to us.

Without a calling we can feel lost throughout our lives. Without a genuine purpose, we can turn bitter, drifting without genuine passion and withering without the blessing of the spirit of life. Yet, the spirit of life within us does not age as we grow older. The inner genius continues to be on the verge of awakening and our calling keeps calling no matter what age we are, no matter what position or condition in life we may have. Because what calls to us is timeless, the calling can come at any time in life.

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