The Light Inside Dark Times

I am moved to share this message that I received from Mosaic today.

I so appreciate the work that Michael Meade does in the world.

Peace ~ Molly

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When asked about the current crises in culture and nature Michael Meade referred to an excerpt from the recent CD set The Light Inside Dark Times:

“Creation in almost all stories and mythologies comes from emptiness and darkness. So culturally speaking, when things get dark and difficult a time of creation is also happening if we can recognize it. In a culture that has been saying for so long that it is the most powerful and most abundant of all, it is hard to get the notion of how a fall from that height could be a creative circumstance. We now have ourselves in one of those places where the Second Hand of Creation enters… and the way that things will be created will be through the losses and from the broken parts.”

He then added: “We might also add from the broken oil pipes and the cracking institutions and even from the broken hearts of those who witness the pollution of the oceans and the destruction of the marshes and the breeding grounds of nature.”

Visit the Mosaic website to listen to excerpts where Michael Meade shows how the dark and troubled times create circumstances for the return of the ecstatic, an increase of Eros, and growth of the soul.

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Magical and profound, unlike anyone else one is likely to encounter,

Michael Meade is one of the greatest living teachers of our time.

~ Alice Walker

The symptoms of personal and cultural sickness are aimed at something; they are purposeful. On the surface, a symptom appears to be the problem. Yet treating only the symptom makes the underlying trouble worse. Purpose hides within the symptom. Wisdom seeks not simply the cause of the symptom in the past, but the purpose hidden within it, the goal that the symptom secretly points to and aims at.... Wisdom is attained by going to the depths, finding meaning below in the dark tangle of emotions and repressions that appear as illness above. It's important not to take the darkness out of wisdom, for wisdom begins in the half-light where the upper-world meets the underworld. Those who try to be wise without descending to the deepest levels of meaning turn out to be just clever. Under pressure, they easily lose their heads. What's missing and needed, what has been repressed and has fallen below common awareness, must be sought in the exact extremities of the psyche, at the edges of knowledge and in the depths of awareness.

~ Michael Meade, from The Water of Life