Two African stories with discussion of their relevance to the male psyche. The stories are used to evoke the griefs & wounds of fathers & sons, to remind of the love & suffering between the two, & to make the first step in healing - looking at the wound

Off with the Rat's Head: Tales of the Father, Son & King

Michael Meade

Yellow Moon Press

The Genius Myth

Each person born participates in the genius of life and the world at this time is in great need of an awakening of genius qualities hidden within each of us. In a rapidly changing world faced with seemingly impossible problems, it becomes important to understand that each person has something to contribute. Both timely and timeless, this book combines dramatic real life experiences with compelling mythic tales and a profound exploration of the wisdom of genius, and is essential for anyone who seeks to awaken their own genius and learn how to heal nature and renew culture. Rather than a heroic journey undertaken by a select few, the genius myth imagines that everyone by virtue of bearing some genius qualities is subject to a genuine calling in life. The question becomes not whether or not you are a genius, but in what way does genius appear in you and how might it contribute to your well-being and at the same time benefit the world around you. This book will help young people hoping to find a meaningful way in the world and adults wanting to dwell more deeply in life. It offers essential ideas for parents and teachers, counselors and mentors seeking to encourage and support those they teach and care about. The Genius Myth is vital reading for anyone searching for a true orientation in the midst of a world gone wrong.

Religion & Spirituality

GreenFire Press

Holding the Thread of Life : A Human Response to the Unraveling of the World

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Mosaic Audio

A Poetics of Peace arises at this critical juncture in the course of American history, when the exercise and expression of freedom requires a renewal of free speech and a revival of the radical roots of imagination that can awaken the "other America," the one being dreamed in the land and in the diverse hearts and souls of its people.    Vital Voices is an effort to find radical medicines for an ailing culture through practices of peace and paths of purpose and returning learning to its sacred condition and poetic essence.    Alice Walker, Jack Kornfield, Luis Rodriguez, Orland Bishop, and Michael Meade offer each listener an invitation to "imaginative activism" and an active imagining of cultural change. Not rabble-rousing but raising the level of thought and deepening the feelings that can reveal the hidden America of vital diversity and genuine nobility.

Vital Voices in Troubled Times

JACK KORNFIELD

ALICE WALKER

Luis Rodriguez

Orland Bishop

When the certainty of the world collapses around us, the danger of cynicism, withdrawing or becoming numb increases. Following a Native American myth that tells how healing ceremonies and artful practices began, this exciting workshop recording with mythologist Michael Meade offers ways to find and sustain a 'bigger life.' In mythic terms, each person carries a piece of the original cosmic dust and seeks to enter the Great Dance of Life. Also called the 'big medicine,' this dance includes finding one's own natural rhythms, innate gifts and inherent styles. In the dance of life emotions are 'divine influxes,' the guides intended to awaken us and connect us to the 'world behind the world.' Through the essential vitality of the emotions we continually re-enter the dance that moves to and from the center of ourselves. Healing and growth require that we change and artful practices offer authentic ways to expand how we are woven into the world. From acute cultural critique to insights into ancient practices, Meade provides fuel for artists, seekers, social activists, teachers and innovators of all kinds. Listeners exclaim: Remarkable insights that redeem the negative emotions and make a passionate life more possible. Suddenly, I could see the relationship between art and spiritual practice, the dance between, the way one can lead the other on.

The Great Dance: Finding One's Way in Troubled Times

Self-Help

Mosaic

Branches of Mentoring

In response to demand for a new edition of The Water of Life, Michael Meade has revised and refined the classic text and added a new preface that addresses the important issue of men and violence in modern culture. As a recent reader remarked, This book is even more prescient and important at this critical point in the world than when it was first published. At once a mythic journey, a study in depth psychology and a treatise on initiation, Meade mines ancient stories, finding wisdom and guidance for the turbulent times in which we live. Throughout the text, the water of life functions as a core symbol for both personal and cultural renewal, and for the redemption of nature from a wasteland condition. Using ideas gleaned from many years of cutting-edge work with at-risk youth and oppressed communities, Meade's writing has the ring of lived truth.

The Water of Life: Initiation and the Tempering of the Soul

Social Sciences

Tales of Myth, Nature, & Culture  with storyteller & mythologist Michael Meade    The modern world suffers from "double exposure" as culture and nature, the "two great garments of life," seem to unravel at the same time. Culture no longer protects against growing threats of global terror and societal greed, while Nature becomes increasingly endangered through holes in the ozone and the effects of global warming. Science and religion seem to arrive at similar conclusions as statistics and scriptures each predict the "end of the world." Is it the end of all time or a time of many endings seeking the vital ground of renewal?    In this dynamic recording mythologist Michael Meade shows that when all sense is lost and all seems headed for destruction, it is "mythic sense" that is missing and mythic imagination that is needed. Not a particular myth, but stories and "earthly wisdom" that reunite culture with great Nature where the pattern of birth, death, and renewal prevails. Rather than the literal call for people to "save the planet," Meade suggests the issue is finding the lost connections to the living Soul of the World and the Tree of Life at the center of all spiritual paths.    "Humans are the 'makeweights' in the scales of time and eternity. Either we find the courage to live the dream that brought each of us to life or we live a 'half-life' of fear and resignation in the face of growing uncertainty and increased exposures. Near the end it is important to have 'mythic sense' and a 'story-mind;' not a fantasy to escape with, but grounding imaginations that can hold the two worlds of spirit and matter together. At the ends of time we find the roots of eternity again." - Michael Meade    Mosaic Audio  Three Compact Discs

The Ends of Time, the Roots of Eternity: Tales of Myth, Nature & Culture

Mosaic Multicultural Foundation

Drawing on the experiences of his life, traditional wisdom stories, poetic and metaphoric language, etymology, and his personal brand of scholarship, Michael Meade leads us to an undeniable truth: that the only story we came here to live is our own. Often called "an instant classic," in this newly revised and expanded edition of Fate and Destiny, Meade has taken his original message of the uniqueness of each life to new levels of meaning and inspiration. By elaborating key themes and polishing the gems of wisdom, Meade gives us an even more powerful opportunity to change ourselves and the world. Meade shows how the limitations of family and fate form the inner threads from which our individual destiny must emerge. He explains how our wounds can become doorways to our deepest gifts and how our greatest obstacles are intended to lead us to a treasure divinely seeded within us before birth. Amidst the current turmoil of the world, Fate and Destiny speaks directly to young people seeking to find a genuine path in life and trying to awaken to the dream they carry inside. At the same time, stories of the elders help older people find new ways to value their lives and touch the threads of their own destiny. Fate and Destiny offers everyone penetrating insights for those caught in life's inevitable struggles and shows the wisdom of elders depends upon remembering the spirit of eternal youth.

Fate and Destiny, The Two Agreements of the Soul - Newly Revised and Expanded Edition

Starting with the sense that the contemporary world is uncertain and fragmented, troubled with tragedy and fraught with inauthenticity,mythologist Meade seeks for hints of renewal amidst the rattling and the rubble. At a time when people expect the world to come to an end because of global warming or nuclear nightmares, at the hand of wrathful deities or the prediction of ancient calendars, Meade offers surprising tales of renewal as well as an in-depth treatise on the psychology and mythology of the end of an era. In place of simple apocalyptic scenarios, the author follows a knowing thread back to ancient notions of apocalypsis as a liminal period marking the passage between one era and the next. Apocalypsis involves eruptions in nature and disruptions of culture, but also makes possible revelations of a unifying principle and guiding force in each life. Apocalypsis uncovers the hidden unity that connects all of life; but only after the surface of life cracks and the expected patterns fail. He describes a time of indeterminate length when people face the choice of assisting with the renewal of the world or falling under the spell of collective anxieties and doomsday predictions.

Why the World Doesn't End, Tales of Renewal in Times of Loss

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