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The Wounded Healer in The Apocalypse
Finding the mythic self.
“The hardest thing in life may be to learn to truly trust that there is something noble and generative in ourselves…When we connect to the inner resident of the soul, we also learn how we are woven to the Soul of the World.”
In order to understand the conditions we are in, we must place ourselves not in the mainstream of life but in the timeless stream of myth. As the fabric of life loosens, the veil between this world of hard facts and the otherworld of great imagination also becomes thinner and more permeable. Just as time seems to be running out, timeless things try to slip back into human awareness.”
The issue is not simply one of needing to save the world, but also of needing to solve the problem of the loss of soul throughout the modern world. Part of what has been lost in the reckless rushing of modernity is the sense that each life has an authentic interior that shelters important emotions as well as inherent purpose, and that the dignity of existence includes a necessary instinct to unfold the unique story woven inside each living soul.
― Michael Meade, The Genius Myth
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“People who do not believe in the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons.”
