Art, Practice and Personal Myth

Описание: In ancient India, Shiva was both the arch-yogi of the gods and the master of the dance. Shiva inspires the great dance of life and is also the ascetic who meditates on the void and renounces the world and all its illusions. These paths were also seen as the two motions of the cosmic two-step, the dance of life and of death. They were also known as the two movements of the breath of life, the great Yea and the great Nay of existence.

In the excerpt from his ongoing live series "Personal Myth, Cultural Change", Michael Meade considers how creative arts offer ways of engaging the world, but also add to the pulse of ongoing creation; while yoga and meditation enact a withdrawal from the entanglements of the daily world. Thus, expressive arts and meditative practices can flourish side by side. Each path offers a way of transcendence and, like Shiva, some people travel both.

In having a practice we can become more present and reconciled in ourselves and in our lives. We gain an emotional seating, a place to dwell, a refuge to return to again and again. In the old way of knowing, it was not a matter of “practice make’s perfect.” Rather, a practice involves us in essential work that can never be completed; yet can somehow be both centering and fulfilling.

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Michael Meade, D.H.L., is a renowned storyteller, author, and scholar of mythology, anthropology, and psychology. He combines hypnotic storytelling and spellbinding interpretations of ancient myths with a deep knowledge of cross-cultural rituals.

He is the author of Awakening the Soul: A Deep Response to a Troubled World, The Genius Myth, Fate and Destiny: The Two Agreements of The Soul, Why the World Doesn't End, and The Water of Life: Initiation and the Tempering of the Soul and editor, with James Hillman and Robert Bly, of Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart. He is also the creator of the Living Myth podcast.

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