Michael Meade

In Fate and Destiny, renowned mythologist and storyteller Michael Meade explores the complex and mysterious territories of the human soul with hard-won wisdom.

Michael Meade is a street-smart storyteller, drummer, mythologist and mentor of many. His newest book, The Genius Myth delivers potent medicine.

This recording offers Michael Meade’s mythic view of modern economic troubles and the loss of soul that plagues both culture and Nature.

Change is not easily accomplished because genuine change requires that one’s whole life be altered—mind and body, spirit and soul. Such transformations involve facing obstacles as well as finding new ways to proceed. When it comes to making meaningful changes the missing ingredient is usually the soul.

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.

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 is increasingly endangered through holes in the ozone and the effects of global warming.

According to ancient myths, there are two agreements each soul must make upon entering the world. The First Agreement binds the individual to a destiny that becomes the soul’s great experiment in life. The Second Agreement involves one in the distinct limitations of family, culture, time and place.