This podcast explores myths of creation and re-creation, discussing concepts of chaos and cosmos, abundance and loneliness intertwined. It reflects on uncertainties of the new year and the importance of embracing difficult emotions. It emphasizes the constant process of creation and recreation, inviting all aspects of ourselves.
Creation and re-creation must include chaos as it dissolves and disintegrates what creation establishes in the world.
Chaos is not the end of creation but an integral part of it, and actively imagined and told creation myths can have regenerative effects on individuals.
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The Two Hands of Creation
This podcast explores the concept of creation and recreation from a mythic perspective. It delves into the idea that any serious consideration of creation must also include chaos, which disintegrates what creation establishes. The episode references an ancient Indian story that describes creation as arising from both abundance and emptiness, joy and sorrow, and despair and wonder. It highlights the significance of letting go of time during certain periods, allowing a sense of timelessness and opening up to the eternal world. The mythic recreation of time is seen as the renewal of the world.
Cosmos and Chaos
The podcast discusses the contrasting energies of cosmos and chaos in the process of creation. Chaos is described as the primal emptiness that precedes the manifestation of the world, while cosmos represents order and arrangement. Chaos is seen as part of every situation and resides within each person as the unconscious. The episode emphasizes that chaos is not the end of creation but an integral part of it. Creation myths, when actively imagined and told, can have regenerative effects on individuals by awakening something transformative in each listener.
The Two-Handed Way of Creation
The podcast introduces the mythological story of Prajapati, who created the world twice. The first creation was borne out of abundance and joy, while the second creation emerged from loneliness and fear. This story reflects the duality within each person, with both abundance and emptiness, joy and sorrow, love and fear. The episode highlights the importance of holding a vision of the whole story, despite the uncertainties and insecurities of the current era. It encourages embracing all experiences and emotions as guests in the guest house of being human, recognizing that each has the potential to contribute to the ongoing recreation of the world.
On this New Year’s podcast, Michael Meade begins an exploration of the myths of creation and tales of re-creation that allow time to renew and the world to begin again. Any serious consideration of creation must also include the energies of chaos that continually dissolve and disintegrate what creation establishes in the world. An ancient story from India describes the “two hands of creation” through which the world recreates itself from emptiness as well as from abundance, from sorrow as well as joy and from despair as well as wonder.
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