Re-Creating The World with Michael Meade

 Hosted by: Justine Willis Toms

Once again Meade reminds us of the larger story in which life is unfolding. In his masterful way he weaves the Native American story of the Old Woman in the Cave and the ancient Vedic myth of Manu who saves a fish and establishes our interconnection with all life and the natural world. He points out that these myths are re-creation stories as opposed to simply creation myths. He also reminds us that we are narrative beings and part of our creativity comes from finding out where in the story we belong. As fundamentalism tells us a story of the end of the world, Meade says that this is just a limited view. He gives us hope for the future as he encourages each of us to tap into our mythic imagination because we are in the age of wonder.  He challenges each of us to find the thread of our life and weave it into the bigger pattern of humanity saying, “Why not take the side of creation, why not find our own thread and even in the midst of uncertainty and pain, learn how to weave and create?” (hosted by Justine Willis Toms)

Michael Meade is a renowned storyteller, author, scholar of mythology, and student of ritual in traditional cultures. He has the unusual ability to tap into ancestral sources of wisdom and connect them into the stories we are living today. Michael is the founder of Mosaic Multicultural Foundation, author of the World Behind the World and The Water of Life (GreenFire Press 2006). He has many CD recordings including, The Soul of Change (Mosaic Audio 2010) andInner Wisdom (Mosaic Audio 2009). He is also the author of Fate and Destiny (revised & expanded, Greenfire Press 2012) and Why the World Doesn’t End: Tales of Renewal When All Seems Lost (Greenfire Press 2012). To learn more about the work of Michael Meade go to www.mosaixvoices.org.

Topics explored in this dialogue include:

• Why apocalypse means beginning as well as end
• What are some of the cultural wounds that are being healed now
• What is the Indian Vedic myth of the first human who saves a fish
• How even science is contained in a larger story
• What is the re-creation myth of the Old Woman In the Cave
• What are the three parts of creation: weaving beauty, sustaining the world, the unraveling
• Why it’s important for each of us to find our own thread to weave the re-creation of the world
• Why young people and others are so interested in video games and how they can save the world

Program Number: 3448     Hosted by: Justine Willis Toms     Interview Date: 8/13/12

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