#michael meade

I thought of @hthrrloooo when listening to this episode today because he starts out reading a poem by William Stafford called A Ritual to Read to Each Other. And he goes on to talk about the connection between poetry and ritual.

"And one of the things I want to say about ritual is it's kind of like a poem. William Stafford would write a poem every morning. The first word that would come to him when he woke up, he was in a kind of a meditative state, and then the first word that came would be the beginning of a poem. He wrote a poem each day that way. He understood that being a poet, when he was awake, he was awaking into the world of poetry and his task was to catch those things that were trying to become evident, that otherwise might not be present at all."

I've always known that I dream but never cultivated memories of those dreams until fairly recently. Probably coincident with doing consciousness medicine work. But I'm fascinated by dreams. Susan dreams and they are sometimes beautiful and many times terrifying. It is a rich dream life.

[I realize everyone is inundated with things that take their attention but Meade again is a truth teller by mining the mythic.]

"In other words, we should not retreat from life because of the misuse of power, but rather, we should more fully find ways to live in our own truth. For each individual living in truth helps to demonstrate that living in lies means becoming more empty of inner values, as the lies of the soul make a person an empty vessel that lacks genuine. substance and loses any sense of personal purpose. Living within lies can only work if a majority of people subscribe to the systemic use of falsehoods on the part of the administration, for as long as the system of false appearances is not confronted with lived realities, it does not appear to be as empty and hollow as it truly must be.