{"podcast":{"title":"Living Myth","slug":"living-myth-721505","podcast_index_feed_id":721505,"rss_url":"https://livingmyth.libsyn.com/rss","website_url":"https://livingmyth.libsyn.com/podcast","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/a/b/6/7/ab6757499a3d375927a2322813b393ee/2024_Logo_3.jpg","author":"Michael Meade","episode_count":58,"summary":"Mosaic presents Living Myth, a podcast with Michael Meade, renowned mythologist and storyteller. Meade presents mythic stories that offer uniquely insightful and wise ways of understanding the current dilemmas of the world we live in. Living Myth proposes that genuine solutions to the complex and intractable problems of our world require both transcendent imagination and cohering, transformative narratives.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/living-myth-721505"},"episode":{"title":"Episode 479 - Living with Emotional Upheaval","slug":"episode-479-living-with-emotional-upheaval","published_at":"2026-03-18T18:28:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/living-myth-721505/episode-479-living-with-emotional-upheaval","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/living-myth-721505","url":"https://livingmyth.libsyn.com/episode-479-living-with-emotional-upheaval","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/livingmyth/Episode_479_-_Living_with_Emotional_Upheaval.mp3?dest-id=441422","summary":"This episode of Living Myth focuses upon the extreme emotions generated by the war in Iran and the many other conflicts and divisions in the current world. Michael Meade addresses the increasing flood of raw emotions that we are all subjected to and what psychologists are now calling \"political depression.\" Although political depression can present the same sense of hopelessness and despair as traditional depression, its source is different. It does not simply come from within; but rather from the violence and upheaval, the corruption and unjustness in the world around us. According to recent studies, this sense of political depression has affected the psyches of most people, and along with issues of anger and outrage, increasingly appears in the offices of therapists and counselors. The human psyche cannot simply be separated from the conditions of the world. Whereas emotional responses can be eruptive and disruptive, emotions are also \"the necessary and mysterious turbulence without which we cannot truly tell if we are alive or not.\" Emotions move us because they carry massive amounts of energy that can be used to change life from within. The natural inheritance of the human soul includes an ability to \"feel the feelings\" and shift raw emotions to being sources of increased vitality and creativity. Ultimately, emotions are intended to connect us to our deeper sense of self and to the world as it is. In that sense, emotions would have us engage life more fully and live life more meaningfully, especially in times of crisis when a transformation of life actually becomes more possible. Thank you for listening to and supporting Living Myth. You can learn more about connecting to the deep self by taking Michael Meade's new course \"Rites of Passage\" that explores how timely…","meta_description":"This episode of Living Myth focuses upon the extreme emotions generated by the war in Iran and the many other conflicts and divisions in the current world…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2117,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/living-myth-721505/episodes/episode-479-living-with-emotional-upheaval/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/living-myth-721505/episode-479-living-with-emotional-upheaval.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}