Living Myth
Episodes
Ep. 486 - Uncertainty, Vulnerability and Meaningful Change
06 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
To be alive at this time means to be present as many familiar patterns simply dissolve. One major crisis quickly replaces another, so that both colle...
Ep. 485 - Under the Spell of Power and Greed
29 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This episode begins with the ancient tale of the Titans, the mythic giants who wreaked havoc at the beginning of civilization and arise again when hu...
Episode 484 - Changing Life by Finding Spirit and Making Soul
22 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of begins with the idea that the world we used to know is gone and we have not found a footing in the world that is trying to emerge. Th...
Episode 483 - When Things Fall Apart, Our Souls Can Awaken
15 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of Living Myth begins with the idea that we keep finding ourselves in uncharted waters in terms of the future of the planet and in unmap...
Episode 482 - To Not Abandon Ourself
08 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Clearly, we are living in radical times when almost everything can be taken to the extreme. We find ourselves in uncharted waters when it comes to th...
Premium Episode 175 Excerpt - The Redemptive Power of Soul
02 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On this excerpt from a Living Myth Premium episode, Michael Meade discusses the inherent longing for redemption and how it can be experienced as a lif...
Episode 481 - The Path of Dreams
01 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Michael Meade tells an old story of someone who follows a dream that leads to being stripped down and stuck, before it unfolds a pat...
Episode 480 - A Reminiscence Bump vs. the Eternal Youth Within
25 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This episode begins with the contemporary psychological theory of a "reminiscence bump" which attempts to explain why we remember certain songs and e...
Episode 479 - Living with Emotional Upheaval
18 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of Living Myth focuses upon the extreme emotions generated by the war in Iran and the many other conflicts and divisions in the current ...
Episode 478 - Medicine of the Deep Self
11 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Michael Meade examines how collective fear and overwhelm can knock the ego off balance and lead to stress and despair. Since the wor...
Episode 477 - Living with a Whole Heart
04 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Living Myth, Michael Meade considers the current global challenges and emphasizes the importance of living from a place of wholehe...
Episode 476 - Resistance to Change
25 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This episode considers the problem of resistance to change from psychological and mythological viewpoints. While we are facing radical changes that t...
Episode 475 - How Stories Heal and Make Us Whole
18 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Michael Meade explores how stories enable us to understand the world and our place in it. Mythic narratives weave the divine and natural realms toget...
Episode 474 - Fear of Change
11 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
There are certain, critical moments that say directly to us: You must change your life. Collectively, we are in a time when great changes are necessa...
Episode 473 - Finding Guidance in Your Life
04 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Michael Meade reflects on how, if we are able to stop and listen more deeply, we can connect with subtle sources of wisdom and guidance. He shares h...
Episode 472 - Moments of Truth
28 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This episode begins with the recent shooting in Minneapolis in which an intensive care nurse named Alex Pretti was shot ten times by ICE and border ...
Episode 471 - The Importance of Creative Practice
21 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode of Living Myth, Michael Meade turns to the realms of art and practice as ways to avoid overwhelm and find coherence in an increasing...
Episode 470 - Lifting the Veil
14 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This episode begins with the differences between paradigm shifts that replace old theories with new ones and a shifting of the archetypes that can t...
Episode 469 - World Upside Down
07 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This episode looks at the shocking beginning of the new year in which the U.S. government invades Venezuela, extracts the sitting president and anno...
Episode 468 - The Soul's Great Adventure
02 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Michael Meade explores how the soul's great adventure tries to surface throughout life, so that any moment can become a true turning point if we leave...
Episode 467 - How Healing Songs Began
24 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of Living Myth begins with a Native American story of the origin of healing rituals. In telling the tale Michael Meade emphasizes a rem...
Episode 466 - Bringing Back the Light
17 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of Living Myth begins with a review of how cosmology used to refer to all of the ways that humans could imagine the creation of the wor...
Episode 465 - The Spell of Perfectionism
10 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode brings a focus to the problem of perfectionism and how it can silence our natural spontaneity, turn our innate passions into stone an...
Episode 464 - The Importance of the Otherworld
03 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode brings a focus to the importance of recognizing that we live in more than one world. Before modern times, it was commonly understood th...
Episode 463 - Gratitude and Grace
25 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, Michael Meade considers the sources and meanings of grace and gratitude, two words that are connected and come from the same ancien...
Episode 462 - The Child of Joy
19 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode begins with the idea that all the troubles in the world at this time bring a great weight and pressure down upon, not just humanity as ...
Episode 461 - The Golden Self Within
12 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As the world around us becomes increasingly divided into opposing forces, the tensions and conflicts within us also intensify. In psychological term...
Episode 460 - From Blindness to Renewed Vision
05 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of Living Myth is about blindness, both individual and collective, and about the need for genuine visions and visionaries. Western cul...
Episode 459 - The War on Empathy and Vertical Imagination in the Soul
29 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode begins by examining the rise of "vertical morality" that appears in both Christian communities and conservative politics and has given r...
Episode 458 - From Chaos and Trauma to Cosmos and Renewal
22 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The episode of Living Myth begins with a study on how our brains and our bodies respond to traumatic events. Apparently, our brains do not fully dist...
Episode 457 - Open Moments in the Heart
15 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The theme on this episode is the loss of eros and a sense of interconnectedness in the contemporary world. Eros is the elemental principle of connect...
Episode 456 - The Real Enemy Within
08 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode begins with the old psychological idea that warns that when the conflicts inside us are not made conscious, they must be experienced out...
Episode 455 - A Mythic Inoculation
01 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode begins with the idea that myths of creation are also intended to be understood as re-creation tales that reveal the world's capacity to...
Episode 454 - We Are All Called To Stand For Something
24 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode takes us back to the origins of the theater in ancient Greece where many of the ideas of democracy also originated. Tragedy began with a...
Episode 453 - Violence, Despair and Young Men
17 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
While often being considered the leading nation in the world, the United States increasingly finds itself on the cutting edge of cultural upheaval, p...
Episode 452 - A Taste for Destruction
10 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of Living Myth begins with a description of psychological projection as the necessary process through which people project their power o...
Episode 451 - The Path of Genius and Calling
03 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Michael Meade talks about inner genius and how without a calling we can feel lost throughout our lives. Without a genuine purpose, we can turn bitter...
Episode 450 - Healing and Transformation
27 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode of Living Myth, edited from an interview with Thomas Hubl for his Collective Healing Conference, Michael Meade considers transformati...
Episode 449 - Creative Paths in Chaotic Times
20 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, Meade considers how the specific struggles encountered in life can open pathways to the center of the self where purpose waits to be...
Episode 448 - Be Your Note
13 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Beginning with the idea of "die before you die," Michael Meade describes how a little-death can lead to a deeper sense of knowledge and a greater ap...
Premium Episode 163 Excerpt - Know Yourself, Change the World
10 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On this excerpt from a Living Myth Premium episode, Michael Meade explores how resiliency amidst adversity is a hallmark of genius and an essential c...
Episode 447 - Purpose and the Waking Soul
06 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Currently, we are experiencing the demise of a world view and the breakup of the symbols that once functioned within it. As a result, life has become...
Episode 446 - On the Wings of Myth
30 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode begins with a description of the youngest sisters and youngest brothers in fairy tales. They seem out of place and behind everyone else,...
Episode 445 - The Spirit of Life
23 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of Living Myth begins with the story of the Spirit in the Bottle in which a youth must confront a powerful and angry spirit in order to ...
Episode 444 - An Act of Truth
16 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of Living Myth addresses the rise of conspiracy theories and spread of falsehoods in conjunction with the phenomenon of a widespread lo...
Episode 443 - Facing Inner Fears
09 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode of Living Myth Michael Meade tells a fairy tale about a realm that is rapidly becoming a wasteland because its king has become seriou...
Episode 442 - Your Lot in Life
02 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of Living Myth begins with the ancient idea of each soul receiving a "lot in life." Lot basically means "a chip of wood," but in this ca...
Episode 441 - A Light Within Dark Times
25 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode of Michael Meade recounts a myth from ancient Persia, the name by which Iran was known for centuries. The ancient tale predates all ...
Episode 440 - The Orphan Boy and the Heedless King
18 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode begins with one of the great scenes in the mythologies of India. Indra had become King of the Earth by winning a great battle; he also b...
Episode 439 - In a World Gone Wrong
11 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Increasingly, we are caught in the shattering of the world and in the broken heart of tragedy. The loss of soul in the world leaves people not only d...
Episode 438 - Heart Within the Heart
04 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As nature and culture rattle and old forms crumble, a crisis of imagination occurs and we are called to see the world with different eyes. Finding and...
Episode 437 - On the Road of Fate and Destiny
28 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, Michael Meade considers how finding and following the thread that connects our fate to our destiny ultimately involves a pilgrimage ...
Episode 436 - In the River of Time
21 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of Living Myth begins with recent scientific reports which seek to explain why humans may be inclined to put their trust in leaders who c...
Episode 435 - Why We Resist Change
14 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Even when change is greatly desired, it is not easily accomplished. This episode of Living Myth considers the problem of resistance to change from psy...
Episode 434 - Soul and the Waves of Change
07 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode uses two ancient stories to show how humans have repeatedly had to deal with periods of worldwide upheaval and fears of drowning in the s...
Episode 433 - The Necessity of Empathy
30 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode of Living Myth the deep-seated feeling of empathy is viewed in several contexts: as it appears in a traditional story, as it occurs i...
Episode 432 - Waking the Living Soul
23 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode begins with an often asked question: What is the soul? Michael Meade describes the soul as "the animating and connecting force without w...
Episode 431 - Opening Pandora's Box Again
16 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of Living Myth considers the oldest versions of the tale of Pandora's Box as a way of understanding how it is that all the ailments an...
Episode 430 - Re-Creation and Renewal on Earth
09 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of Living Myth explores how as humans we live and die in the context of the stories we tell ourselves about the world and our place in i...
Episode 429 - A Lack of Elders, A Loss of Wisdom
02 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode begins with the idea that in traditional cultures worldwide the search for wisdom would be a necessity for developing genuine leadership...
Episode 428 - Being Worth Your Salt
26 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of Living Myth begins with an unassuming teacher finding herself in a public controversy for refusing to take down posters that state th...
Episode 427 - Finding a Place to Stand
19 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode begins by tracing the evolution of propaganda from the creation of a papal agency entitled The College of Propaganda just over 400 years...
Episode 426 - The Deeper Self Within
12 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
At this critical time on Earth, we are caught in storms of change that involve the shattering of norms and a loss of orientation as unprecedented eve...
Episode 425 - Looking Down on Autocracy
05 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of focuses on the dehumanizing aspects of autocratic movements. The increasing uncertainties about the future create vacuums that would ...
Episode 424 - Hubris Comes Before the Fall
26 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of Living Myth begins with a consideration of psychological characteristics of the archetype of the king. In its positive form the king ...
Episode 423 - Facing Darkness
19 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, Michael Meade explores the roots of wisdom and what it means to face the darkness. The healing and transformation needed now, both ...
Episode 422 - Surviving the Maelstrom
12 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of Living Myth begins with the idea that we are experiencing not just radical changes that happen in quick succession, but a maelstro...
Episode 421 - Chaos, Conflict and the Deep Self Within
05 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode begins with the idea that we live in times of extreme changes and increasing chaos. When the world around us falls apart the issue become...
Episode 420 - A Crucial Test of the Dream of Justice, Liberty and Diversity
29 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode looks at the misuses of power, the dangers of arch narcissism and the ways that the dream of America is now being severely tested. An o...
Premium Episode 151 Excerpt - Pathways to the Center
28 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On this excerpt from a Living Myth Premium episode, Michael Meade explores how even in the darkest times, the inner abundance of the soul is ever near...
Episode 419 - The Redemptive Power of Soul
22 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Michael Meade considers how as the world rattles around us and the soul trembles, balancing symbols and archetypal energies stir deep within us. If ...
Episode 418 - The Creative Middle Way
15 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Michael Meade looks at how a living system tends to be most complex in the middle or at the center, while being most open at the edges. Being at one...
Episode 417 - A Story That Must Not Be Forgotten
08 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Michael Meade recounts an ancient myth that reveals essential knowledge for navigating the turbulent time in which we all now live. The mostly forgo...
Episode 416 - A Touch of the Eternal
02 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Although it may often feel that we are running out of time when it comes to the great issues of the world and the struggles of daily life, Michael Mea...
Episode 415 - The Inner Speck of Star
26 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode begins with an ancient myth from a tribe along the Amazon River. The story tells how the inner soul of each person travels at night all t...
Episode 414 - Solstice and the Tree of Life
17 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On this winter solstice episode, Michael Meade states at the beginning: "This is not just the dark time of the year, but increasingly dark times for...
Episode 413 - From Polarization to Re-Creation
11 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode begins with the word polarization being chosen as the dictionary word of the year and ironically being the one thing that both sides of...
Episode 412 - Living in Two Worlds
04 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode begins with the recognition that, what the United Nations calls "the biggest election year ever recorded," has left most countries on E...
Episode 411 - The Necessity of Gratitude
26 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Michael Meade answers questions about the sources and meanings of grace and gratitude. Gratitude used to be called the "parent of all virtues" and i...
Episode 410 - On Hope and Despair
20 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode begins with the old idea that emotions travel in pairs. Sorrow tends to travel with joy, so that if we allow sorrow to penetrate us, it...
Episode 409 - The Law of the Fish vs. The Rule of Law
13 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Michael Meade turns to an ancient myth from India to show how elections can have such dire consequences that the rule of law becomes replaced with t...
Episode 408 - To Not Be Lost
07 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It is our mutual fate to live in a time of such disorientation and upheaval that the institutions we hoped would protect us cannot keep up with the ...
Episode 407 - Antidotes to Uncertainty
30 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of Living Myth begins with excerpts from a new psychological survey that a majority of American adults are worried that the upcoming pr...
Episode 406 - Men, the Soul and the Search for Truth
23 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode addresses the issue of the "strongman" in politics and the way it exemplifies and contributes to a loss of authenticity, a lack of inte...
Episode 405 - The Symptoms We Suffer, The Symbols We Need
16 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode is about the need for living symbols that can give us a sense of unity and wholeness in a divided world. Symptom is an old Greek word t...
Episode 404 - Finding Shelter from the Storms
09 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of Living Myth begins with the idea that the old terminology of 100-year storms and 1000-year storms makes little sense, since events of ...
Episode 403 - The Divine Touch: Living Through Chaos and Fear
02 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of Living Myth focuses on the sense that we are living through a radical time when change becomes necessary and a transformation of lif...
Episode 402 - The Storm of Uncertainty and Your Authentic Self
25 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode begins with the idea of the Cone of Uncertainty as the front part of a hurricane or tropical storm that can veer to the right or left a...
Episode 401 - Why We Resist Change
18 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, Michael Meade explores how life is change and to be truly alive means to be repeatedly transforming ourselves. There's an old stat...
Episode 400 - In the Face of Tyranny
11 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of Living Myth focuses on the struggle between the force of tyranny and the power of liberation from falsehoods and injustice. The old ...
Episode 399 - Messages from the Cosmos
04 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
One of the problems in the modern world is that people now tend to believe that science and technological inventions can solve problems that exist on ...
Episode 398 - A Deeper Sense of Hope
28 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
For many reasons, people question whether there is any hope for the world at this time. Yet, it is the nature of hope to become lost before being foun...
Episode 397 - Following the Call of Soul
21 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, Michael Meade talks about inner genius and how without a calling we can feel lost throughout our lives. Without a genuine purpose, we...
Episode 396 - Dreams of Healing
11 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, Michael Meade tells an old story of someone who follows a dream that leads to being stripped down and stuck, before it unfolds a path...
Episode 395 - To Not Feel Lost in the Chaos of the World
07 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In a world that's rapidly changing in ways that can feel chaotic and threatening, it becomes easy to feel diminished, lost and small. Although it is...
Episode 394 - Living in Turbulent Times
31 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of Living Myth begins with the series of shocks and radical changes that have occurred in contemporary American politics and the curren...
Episode 393 - In Dire Straits
24 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We live in a time when seemingly all possible conflicts and oppositions come crashing all around us. Each day leaves us more exposed to raw emotions...
Episode 392 - The Call of Genius
17 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode of Living Myth, Michael Meade suggests that in times of change, just as in periods of personal crisis, there can be an intensificati...
Episode 391 - The Pathless Path
10 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode of Living Myth, edited from a Shift Network Summit on mysticism, Michael Meade suggests that we each arrive at turning points where ...
Episode 390 - In the Shadows of Power
03 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode begins with the sense that the recent presidential debate and the series of radical Supreme Court decisions add to the long line of bro...