People increasingly question whether there is any hope for the world at this time. In this episode of Living Myth, Michael Meade suggests that it is the nature of hope to become lost, before being found at another level of life. In the myth of Pandora, hope only appears after all possible troubles have been unleashed upon the world. There is a deeper sense of hope that can arise when “all hope is lost.”

At critical times things must seem hopeless before the “second level of hope” can be found again in the depths of the human heart and soul. This sense of “active hope” depends upon the power of the soul to imagine meaningful changes that can help renew the force of life on Earth.

The underlying spirit of life and the true resiliency of the soul are connected to the power of vertical imagination that rises from the original ground of being. In the dark times, when it seems that Pandora’s Box is open 24 hours a day, it is a deeper sense of hope and a greater sense of imagination that we long for and that the world needs in order to transform and become renewed.