Living Myth Podcast 376 - A Divided World, A Hidden Unity

On this episode of Living Myth, Michael Meade contrasts two creation myths that feature the original division that becomes the source of all subsequent divisions in life. One ancient tale makes clear that healing and transformation are the secret aims of the tension of opposites that exist inside each person, inside each society and inside life itself.
“At critical moments in the life of individuals and societies, the basic elements and energies of existence polarize. While the two poles of a polarity seem to be irreconcilable opposites, they are secretly one. In a true polarity, one side cannot exist without the other; for existence itself is an essential unity appearing as a duality. Yet, at the level of pre-systemic thought, the mystery of totality underlies all the conflicts and divisions in life, both personal and collective. We suffer what divides us in order to find ways back to the wholeness before all the dividing began.
Something ancient in us bends us towards the origins of the whole thing, so that what troubles us takes us down to the bottom of what troubles us and back to the beginning before the original unity was divided. The word healing means “to make whole again.” Healing, health, wealth, wholeness all hail from the same etymological roots. To heal is to make whole and what continually requires healing is the original split. No healing without a return to origins, no healing that does not in some way touch the original split.
Without stories that remind us of the hidden wholeness and the hidden holiness of the world, all that is left are the pressing problems and threatening divisions that seem increasingly impossible to solve.”
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Michael Meade, D.H.L., is a renowned storyteller, author, and scholar of mythology, anthropology, and psychology. He is the creator of the Living Myth podcast and founder of Mosaic Multicultural Foundation.
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[@flow963]

Your genius is so pure, Michael. You’re a great soul. You are well named as a personification of archangel Michael. Thank for this episode and your work.

[@Createyouramazing]

Beautiful Truth! Ase Oo ✨️ 🙌🏾

[@sauldasc2226]

In these material times, understanding the significance of connection between two opposites is more important than ever. Two ends of the same stick might never see eye to eye or come to agreement on the world view, but understanding, that each end of that stick is as important as the other, and that there would be no stick without both of them is the 'trick' to the compromise. Thank You!

[@peopleunite3605]

I used to listen to Meade all the time, for years, I have no idea what he is talking about anymore.