The Renewal Of Culture with Michael Meade

Program Description

Culture no longer protects against growing threats of global terror and societal greed, while Nature becomes increasingly endangered through pollution, holes in the ozone, and the effects of global warming. In this insightful dialogue, storyteller and mythologist Michael Meade, shows that when things seem darkest, it is “mythic sense” that is missing and mythic imagination is needed. He tells us, “Now is the time to find one’s own unique, personal connection to things beyond time and beyond the simplicity of place. The best connection to have when all connections are breaking down is a connection to eternity which is the individual right of each person.”

Michael Meade is a renowned storyteller, drummer, scholar of mythology and student of ritual in traditional cultures. He has the unusual ability to synthesize this material into a persuasive presentation, tapping ancestral sources of wisdom and connecting them to the stories we are living today. He has led retreats for me for more than two decades and brings a wealth of strength, humor, compassion and fearlessness to this work. He is the author of The Water of Life (GreenFire Press 2006), co-editor of The Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart (Harper Perennial 1993), and the CD set, The Ends of Time, the Roots of Eternity: Tales of Myth, Nature, and Culture (Mosiac 2007) and the book The World Behind the World: Living at the Ends of Time (Greenfire Press 2008). To learn more about the work of Michael Meade go to www.mosaicvoices.org

Topics Explored in this Dialogue:

• What is time and where do you get more of it
• Why the story is everything
• How do you find your “Tree of Life?”
• Why poetry is what you’re looking for
• When apocalypse is not the end
• What is fundamentalism

Program Number: 3211               Host: Michael Toms           Interview Date: 8/13/2007