A Mythic Trilogy
from
mythologist
Michael Meade
"Whether it's oil spills threatening nature or the threat of everyone alienating each other, any solution that helps nature and culture heal will arise from the human soul."
Michael Meade's trilogy of writings and recordings about the current crises in the world offer a "mythic inoculation" for these hard times. A sense of
myth and story is required for making sense of the rapid changes in the world and for sustaining a sense of meaning and purpose in our individual lives.
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The Light Inside
Dark Times
The timely new 2 CD set from Michael Meade
This recording offers Michael Meade's mythic view of modern economic troubles and the loss of soul that plagues both culture and Nature. Using an ancient myth, Meade shows that creation has two hands: a spirit hand that brings bright beginnings, and a soul hand that touches darkness and knows how to be creative in troubled times.
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"I cannot tell you emphatically enough how delightful The Light Inside Dark Times is; my heart is bigger and my entire being more flexible. What a gift!"
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At once a mythic journey, a study in depth psychology, and a treatise on initiation The Water of Life addresses the roots of conflict, the recurring hunger for war and the issues of "reducing the warrior." Throughout the text the water of life functions as the core symbol for both personal and cultural renewal, and redemption of the spiritual wasteland.
Using ideas gleaned from many years working with youth and communities at-risk Meade's writing rings with the echoes of truth and "sings with an incantational voice that takes you right to the edge of elemental knowledge."
"Meade writes quite brilliantly about initiation, ordeal and the importance of scars and wounds. He is a master of the mode" - New York Times Book Review
"Meade insists on grounding the high-flying abstractions of myth in the 'bones-laid-bare' realities of the street." - San Francisco Chronicle
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Change, so greatly desired, is not easily accomplished because genuine change requires that one's whole life be altered- mind and body, spirit and soul. Such transformations involve facing obstacles and loss as well as finding new ways to proceed. When it comes to making meaningful changes the missing ingredient is usually the soul.
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from The Soul of Change about Eros:
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Myth Makes Things Whole
an essay by Michael Meade
Myths are intended to break the spell of time and release us from the pressures and limitations of daily life. Myth speaks to the extraordinary in us and to the innate nobility of our souls. Hearing a mythic story awakens the myth living in each of us. As the story enters us, we enter the timeless territory of myth. We become mythic again, a knowing participant in our own story and a seeker near its source. For, being in a "mythic condition" allows us to reconnect to the core imagination at the center of our soul.
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The World
Behind the World
The timely and timeless new book
by mythologist
Michael Meade
Michael Meade is one of the few people who provides a mythological view of critical issues affecting the world at this time. In The World Behind the World, Meade shows how "myth makes meaning" and helps a person find the meaningful path through life. He mines a series of "re-creation" stories in which the earth renews itself just when all seems lost. When it appears that there's no time left, it isn't time that people need, but the touch of the eternal.
"As a teacher and mythologist, Michael Meade is genius let out of the bottle. The World Behind the World is his strong medicine for hard times, an elixir of amazing stories, rich ideas, heart-breaking truth, and brilliant seeds of wisdom for remaking the world."
~ Jack Kornfield ~ The Wise Heart
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CREATIVE MENTORING
Creative Mentoring offers orientation and training in the core ideas and purposes of mentoring. The character named Mentor first appears in The Odyssey where he acts as guide and teacher for a young prince facing cultural devastation. From the beginning mentoring involves healing culture as well as guiding youth. Creative Mentoring assists nature to heal and culture to renew while helping youth encounter their own genius and unique spirit for life.
of Vets
A Bridge Back
to the World
A collection of original, immediate poems by veterans of Iraq, Afghanistan, and Vietnam, and their families that address the shocks experienced in battle and the emotional and physical repercussions that follow war.
Voices of Vets expresses compelling feelings and thoughts about the horrors of war, the reasons for going, and the anguish and difficulty involved in trying to find a way home again.
Candid, vulnerable, caring, and courageous.
Includes Michael Meade's essay, War, the Underworld, and Initiation.
"I walked up my ramp alone - to a reception of none...
no welcome home party, because like so many others
I'm not home.
Expose emotional silence, so your wounds
can finally be healed.
Give yourself that precious gift.
Let the self-inflicted guilt die, instead of you."
- from veteran's poems.
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