The podcast dives into the interplay of darkness and light, particularly during the winter solstice. It examines how modern life has distanced us from ancient wisdom about time and eternity. Listeners will explore the journey from ignorance to enlightenment, emphasizing the need for renewal in dark times. The discussion also highlights the spiritual significance of nighttime and warns against artificial light's impact on natural rhythms. Overall, it encourages embracing both darkness and light to foster hope and community.

Explore the contrast between modern streaming culture and an ancient cosmic stream of essential knowledge. Delve into the importance of individuality in a conformist society and the role of innate wisdom versus external knowledge. Discover how slowing down can nurture our connection to nature and inner vitality, essential for healing societal and environmental issues. Reflect on the complex relationship between technology and deeper meaning, and the necessity of community engagement in fostering responsible tech use.

Explore the ancient belief that reality is birthed through imagination, highlighting its essential role in healing societal divides. Discover how myth can unlock deeper truths and foster genuine connections. Delve into the dangers of a strictly literal viewpoint, which clouds our understanding of existence. Learn how imagination serves as a bridge for diverse experiences and promotes individual transformation. The discussion emphasizes the need for renewed creativity in navigating contemporary crises and fostering community.

This episode explores the transformative process of butterflies and how it relates to the human soul. It discusses the resistance to change and the importance of embracing transformation. The podcast delves into the core mystery of life, death, and rebirth, emphasizing the significance of self-discovery and personal growth. It also explores the concept of awakening within oneself and reconnecting with nature. The episode concludes with a discussion on integrating the different parts within us, symbolized by butterflies.

Finding inner peace is challenging in today's chaotic world, where external conflicts often mirror our internal struggles. The dual meanings of 'peace'—settlement and reconciliation—offer pathways to tranquility. By exploring our original purpose and revisiting personal agreements, we can cultivate authenticity. The importance of creative expression as a vital link to our deeper selves becomes apparent, guiding us toward collective harmony. Ultimately, achieving personal peace can be instrumental in addressing broader societal conflicts.

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.

On this excerpt from a Living Myth Premium episode, Michael Meade explores how inside of each of us is a mostly hidden, mostly golden and mostly eternal image and aspect of being similar to the gold that is buried in the Earth. In seeking out this inner gold, we meet egoic resistance and must find ways to break the ego’s shell to tap the deeper wisdom within. Along the way, part of what opens this territory is a courageous act of facing death, for a death of the ego is required in order for the deeper self to emerge.    You can hear the full episode and receive additional podcast content by becoming a member of Living Myth Premium.  Members receive bonus episodes each month, access to the full archives of over 520 episodes and a 30% discount on all events, courses and book and audio titles.     Learn more and join this community of listeners at patreon.com/livingmyth

Mythologist Michael Meade discusses the intertwining of cosmology, psychology, and philosophy in ancient Irish myths, exploring embodied wisdom and the symbolic significance of salt. The podcast delves into the quest for wisdom, interconnectedness of self, initiatory wounds, and the journey to finding inner wisdom.

On this excerpt from a premium episode, Michael Meade talks about key issues that affect transformation in our lives. He considers core complexes in family and culture and wades into the territory of deep emotions. The word complex is trying to point out that when we have a particular kind of interior trouble, the issues are complex. Deep down, we all want to change, he says, and each crisis and obstacle we encounter serves to spark the initiatory transformation our soul longs for.   If we change one small thing in our lives, we affect everything and everyone around us. In following our deep calling in life, we naturally encounter struggles. Yet it is these exact struggles that become the turning point for our lives to become bigger, for our wounds to find healing and for our destiny to be revealed.   You can hear the full episode and receive additional podcast content by becoming a member of Living Myth Premium. Members receive bonus episodes each month, access to the full archives of over 445 episodes and a 30% discount on all events, courses and book and audio titles.   Learn more and join this community of listeners at patreon.com/livingmyth.

Exploring the collapse of certainty in the world, dangers of cynicism and isolation, and the importance of cosmology and inner gifts. Delving into the link between cosmic elements and human existence, adapting to uncertainty, and self-discovery through imagination. Reflecting on finding resilience and connection amidst disruptions and embracing our inner selves.