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THE LIGHT INSIDE DARK TIMES
by Michael Meade
$27.50, 2 CDs. Mosaic. June 2009.
isbn 9789000094400     2.5 hours

This recording offers Michael Meade’s mythic view of modern economic troubles and the loss of soul that plagues both culture and Nature. Using an ancient myth, Meade shows that creation has two hands: a spirit hand that brings bright beginnings, and a soul hand that touches darkness and knows how to be creative in troubled times.

Meade reassures us that in dark times things become both impossible and more possible at the same time. Heralding a return of wisdom and of eros, Meade explains how soul-making works and how soul would lead us to the spirit of renewal, but only after some descent occurs.

News of financial downturns and economic collapse resonates differently to the ears of the soul than it does to the antennae of the mind or aspirations of the spirit. Spirit may offer “peak experience,” but the soul would lead us down, past the bottom line into the depths of life where real change occurs. Soul would take us deeper to make us wiser. Secretly, our souls seek wisdom and wisdom is a darker knowledge found in dark places and in dark times.

Soul awakens as things seem to fall apart and the soul would have us each find our path in life even as the world around becomes more troubled. The soul is the light inside the dark, the hidden quintessence secretly holding things together inside each of us and within the world.

Full of great wit and healing humor, rich with surprising insights and compelling stories, this recording weaves a path through modern troubles while constantly showing how soul would have us understand who we are individually and what we serve collectively. When all seems lost, the things that are most essentially ours can be found again.

Themes include Silver Linings, Inner Gold; The Dance of Spirit and Soul; The Erotic Nature of Soul; Elders and Outlaws; Youth and Elders Turning Things Around; Ecstatic Poetry and Dark Times.

In addition to several strong storytelling/mythopoetic titles on CD, Michael Meade has also written two fine books: The Water of Life and The World Behind the World. Visit him at www.mosaicvoices.org.