Meade, once more, shares with us a cornucopia of myths, including Jason and the Argonauts, as we explore this dangerous and narrow passage we are entering in our collective history. He points out that, even with opposing viewpoints, we are all traveling together in one ship and that mythic imagination will carry us successfully forward during these threshold times. Meade describes the landscape leading up to the Presidential election of 2020, “We are worn down, worn out. Burned out and exhausted—COVID crisis, political crisis, climate crisis… economic crisis, and equal opportunity and justice for all. We are divided and socially distanced We have to look for underlying unities and that requires, more than anything, imagination -- the kind of imagination that suggests that we are all connected somehow -- All connected to the soul of the world. And where [we are] secretly connected to the deep self.”  Michael Meade is a renowned storyteller, author, scholar of mythology, and student of ritual in traditional cultures. He is the author of many books including: Why the World Doesn't End: Tales of Renewal in Times of Loss (GreenfirePress 2012) and The Water of Life: Initiation and the Tempering of the Soul (GreenFire Press 2019) 

Interview Date: 11/6/2020    Tags: Michael Meade, soul, mythic imagination, sacrifice, wisdom, 2020 Presidential Election, Jason and the Argonauts, uncertainty, vertical imagination, interconnectedness, oceans, collective anxiety, Golden Fleece, communitas, soul, rite of passage, the heroic, vitality, core imagination, the world tree, the tree of forgetfulness, collective awakening, vaccine, Mythology, Social Change/Politics, Philosophy, media, community, Art & Creativity