This course with Michael Meade explores how each person carries an inner connection to the inherited treasure of the human soul, which includes surprising resources, profound capacities for creation and enduring instincts for survival.
Course Includes:
Course Fee: $49
COURSE OVERVIEW
This is a hard time to be alive. We can easily feel overwhelmed by the cascade of crises affecting most levels of nature and culture. We can feel painfully isolated by the pandemic and dangerously divided as a people. There can seem to be nowhere to turn for genuine refuge or meaningful resources. Yet, each person carries an inner connection to the inherited treasure of the human soul, which includes surprising resources, profound capacities for creation and enduring instincts for survival.
Although the ego or “little self” can be overwhelmed with fear, anxiety and isolation, the soul remains undaunted. It seeks our individual transformation as well as a renewal of the world. It views each dilemma and troubling obstacle as a threshold through which the hidden inheritance of humanity can enter the world through us.
COURSE DETAILS
Part 1 - The Treasure Hard to Obtain
Each time we unlock the original pattern within us we align with our inner gradient and find a path with heart and soul. In contrast to the sense of a heroic journey that leads to treasure in the outside world, the road of awakening involves a pilgrimage to the genuine center of the deep self. What is so often sought in the outer world waits to be discovered in the soul’s inner realm. As things fall apart all around us, we have to find the center of the deep self within us.
Part 2 - The Difficult Path to the Center
The rigid attitudes of our ego or little-self make it difficult to connect to the imagination and vitality of the greater self within us. The deeper self is our true center that can be both a place of stillness and refuge or a place of breaking open and breaking through the limitations of the little self. Thus, attaining the center is equivalent to an initiation and a consecration. Yet, each approach to the center awakens our internal obstacles and inner demons. Typically, a sacrifice is required in order to breakthrough and dwell in the center again.
Part 3 - The Redemptive Power of Soul
As the world rattles around us and the soul trembles, balancing symbols and archetypal energies stir deep within us. If we can hold the tension of the immediate limitations, we can connect to the soul’s power of redemption and life’s natural energies of renewal. The emergence of imagination and inspiration from within is a revelation of our undaunted soul and a little redemption as each act of creativity brings something new and meaningful into the world.