MAKING SOUL FOR A TROUBLED WORLD, with Michael Meade  

How to make more soul for a world that seems to be falling apart?  “What you love is the cure”, reminds us mythologist Michael Meade.  In this conversation with the renowned storyteller, author, and scholar, we speak about why it’s of the essence to get closer to what you  love and do more of it, so you can be in conversation with your own soul, harvesting its timeless resources for living a meaningful life and making more soul for the world. Join us for this rich conversation on the significance of lunar knowledge, embodied soul wisdom, mythological acupuncture, and living with purpose in times like ours.

“We all hope our lives have meaning. The way to make sure of that is to love what we love and make more soul for the world. When we make more soul through our personal genius,  life is more present, things are more connected, and the world secretly more united.”

ABOUT MICHAEL MEADE

Michael Meade, D.H.L., is a renowned storyteller, author, and scholar of mythology, anthropology, and psychology. He combines hypnotic storytelling, street-savvy perceptiveness, and spellbinding interpretations of ancient myths with a deep knowledge of cross-cultural rituals. He has an unusual ability to distill and synthesize these disciplines, tapping into ancestral sources of wisdom and connecting them to the stories we are living today.

He is the author of The Genius Myth, Fate and Destiny: The Two Agreements of The Soul, Why the World Doesn't End, and The Water of Life: Initiation and the Tempering of the Soul. Meade is the founder of Mosaic Multicultural Foundation, a nonprofit network of artist, activists, and community builders that encourages greater understanding between diverse peoples.

For more information about Michael's work, books, and podcast: 

www.mosaicvoices.org

www.livingmyth.org

THIS EPISODE’s QUOTES

“It can feel at first that we are falling, but really what we do is fall to the ground of the soul,  where we have each inherited deep resources for life. And in the soul there resides the genius of a person’ life–– the spirit that is already there. There is a deep spirit in the soul of each person, and when things are falling apart, it is soul that we need to bring everything  back together.”

“So we are experiencing in culture a loss of soul. And we are here to make more soul. It begins with the individual, with everyone’s personal genius,  and once enough soul has been made by individuals, then we can reconnect to the collective and begin to change life. And our issues right now are so profound and widespread that we need many people’s genius, and many people’s soulful connections in order to build our way back to a meaningful culture, and a meaningful connection of culture to nature.”