#170 - Michael Meade - Fate, Destiny & How To Unlock Your Inner Genius
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
I'm Wendy K. Laidlaw and I am the Emotionologist. What makes us who we are? Why do some emotions liberate us while others seem to chain us down? This podcast is about getting to the heart of the matter, uncovering the truths beneath our emotions. What are their meanings? Over the years, I've discovered that when emotions are blocked, they don't just weigh on our hearts. They can actually weigh heavily in the body and show up as sickness, pain and or conditions and diseases that demand our attention for change. Through stories, signs and soulful conversations, we'll explore how to dissolve those shackles and release and unleash your inner Picasso so that you can create a more authentic, vibrant and free life.
Enjoy the show.
Hey everyone, it's Wendy K Laidlaw and as always, I do hope that this message finds you well. Well, today we have an amazing guest on and I'm so excited to be chatting with him. His name is Michael Mead. He is a modern day mythologist, storyteller, and teacher who seeks to bring wisdom of ancient stories and mythology into the life of our contemporary world. He weaves together, in the most wonderful poetic way, mythology, deep psychology, poetry,
How does Michael Meade differentiate between fate and destiny?
and cross-cultural traditions, crafting a kind of living mythic medicine for the inner and communal revival. Over decades, he has worked with populations ranging from youths who are at risk to prisoners to veterans and also unhoused to spiritual seekers as well. And he Michael weaves together mythology, deep psychology, poetry, ritual and cross-cultural traditions, which are just a joy to hear, crafting a kind of living mythic medicine for the inner and communal renewal of the soul and the spirit. Over decades, he's worked with a whole range of populations from youths that are at risk, prisoners, veterans, homeless people to spiritual seekers, always with a sense of that the stories that we carry
and shape the world that we live in and how to make sense of the world that we live in. Michael has also founded the Mosaic Multicultural Foundation, which endeavours to bring healing and cultural connection through story, ritual and the imaginative community building. He hosts a weekly podcast called Living Myth, where he converses about mythical themes in our cultural areas. and continues to teach lead retreats and other programmes in the mythic literacy, as well as helping people see the deeper stories they live by and how to rewrite them. Now, Michael's work is rooted in the conviction that each person has a soulful seed or mythical call, a unique story that they're meant to live, and that much of our suffering tends to come from betrayal or suppression or denial, indeed, of that inner naming or the inner calling.
And through story and careful listening, he helps to awaken in you what has been dormant probably for some time or overshadowed. So in this interview, you're going to learn how he bridges the ancient stories, which are wonderful, and the modern, and how ritual, even small ones, can overshadow. open these spiritual parts to us and how myth can even offer more than a metaphor. It can also, you can also learn how it can be medicine as well, medicine for the soul. So I do hope that you enjoy this.
Why can crises serve as initiatory experiences?
It's a real honour and a privilege to have interviewed him. I think we could have definitely spoken for longer. So I hope you enjoy what we've recorded. And until next time, take care and to your health.
Thank you, Michael.
Hello. Hi, Wendy.
Good to see you. Yes, and you. How are you today?
Oh, you know, struggling with seasonal changes and, you know, maybe too many things going on, but otherwise all right.
Good. Yes, I know. Can you feel it in your bones? Do you feel it in your body when these seasonal changes are about to occur?
What role does emotional intensity play in our lives?
Yeah, I'm like my eyes water and, you know, it's because it's windier and it's colder and things of that kind.
Yeah, because you're in sort of Seattle, Washington way, is that right?
Yeah, we're on an island near Seattle.
Right, okay. So you're more exposed to the elements then than being in that.
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Chapters
8 chapters
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:07–1:36
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How does Michael Meade differentiate between fate and destiny?
1:36–3:55
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Why can crises serve as initiatory experiences?
3:55–4:30
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What role does emotional intensity play in our lives?
4:30–5:45
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How can one unlock their unique inner genius?
5:45–6:25
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What does Michael Meade say about the world's instability?
6:25–7:13
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How can storytelling and myth help in personal transformation?
7:13–8:05
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What practices can help individuals reconnect with their true selves?
8:05–1:39:03