From 1342 to 1415, Julian lived through the bubonic plague that killed one out of three humans in Europe. She did not deny suffering but found goodness in all things and was a feminist 700 years before the current movement. She held God as Mother and deconstructed patriarchy pulling the rug out from under dualism of body as separate from soul. Michael Meade is a renowned storyteller, author, scholar of mythology, and student of ritual in traditional cultures. He has scoured the world to bring to us meaningful folk tales that tap into ancestral sources of wisdom and acts as a guide to connect them to the stories we are living today. Meade is the founder of Mosaic Multicultural Foundation. He also offers regular Living Myths Podcasts and is the author of many books including: Why the World Doesn't End: Tales of Renewal in Times of Loss (GreenfirePress 2012), Fate and Destiny: The Two Agreements of the Soul (GreenFire Press 2012), The Genius Myth (GreenfirePress 2016), Awakening the Soul: A Deep Response to a Troubled World (GreenFire Press 2018), The Water of Life: Initiation and the Tempering of the Soul (GreenFire Press 2019)

Interview Date: 6/4/2021    Tags: Matthew Fox, bubonic plague, goodness, dualism, patriarchy, Saint Augustine, Pope Benedict XVI, Cardinal Ratzinger, Motherhood of God, Divine Feminine, sacred masculine, compassion, rachem, Mirabai Starr, grief, Rilke poem: Pushing Through, Robert Bly, Hafez, the Mystics of the Middle Ages, Thomas Aquinas, Meister Eckart, Francis of Assisi, Hildegard of Bingen, Jesus, climate change, oneing, soul, trust, Fred Shuttlesworth, Dorothy Stang, evil, despair, acedia, Thomas Berry, eco-theologian, creation centered spirituality, climate change, Spirituality, Philosophy, Social Change/Politics, Women’s Studies, History, Ecology/Nature/Environment