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A Time Between Worlds: Michael Meade

October 29, 2026 · 44 min

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AI, Mythology, and the Battle for the Soul of Humanity

We live in a moment of profound uncertainty, marked by existential planetary threats and the dizzying rise of artificial intelligence. Michael Meade suggests this threshold offers a choice: to see these times not as a crisis to solve, but as a collective rite of passage.

Topics
  • 00:02 Transformation is the way of the cosmos
  • 00:03 The heart within the heart
  • 00:07 The caterpillar and the butterfly
  • 00:09 Imaginal cells
  • 00:10 Why resistance is necessary
  • 00:13 Liminality
  • 00:18 The Cartesian split and 869
  • 00:22 Authentic intelligence
  • 00:23 The Popol Vuh myth
  • 00:27 Polarization as a symptom
  • 00:30 Unfinished rites of passage
  • 00:40 Prophecy is not prediction

Michael Meade is a storyteller, mythologist and author with a rare gift for connecting ancient myth and ancestral wisdom to the stories we are living now. He is the creator of the Living Myth podcast, heard weekly in over 150 countries, and the founder of the Mosaic Multicultural Foundation, which brings the medicine of myth and story to the issues that trouble both culture and nature.

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