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By elaborating key themes and polishing the gems of wisdom, Meade gives us an even more powerful opportunity to change ourselves and our world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003co:p\u003e\u003c\/o:p\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eAmidst the current turmoil of the world, \u003ci\u003eFate and Destiny\u003c\/i\u003e speaks directly to young people seeking to find a genuine path in life and trying to awaken to the dream they carry inside. At the same time, stories of the elders help older people find new ways to value their lives and touch the threads of their own destiny.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003co:p\u003e\u003c\/o:p\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"At the age of thirteen Michael became a lover of myth. That love kept unfolding. Now he is a great elder in our tribe, and this book is the flowering and the fruiting of the seed-story of this unique individual. His genius is a generous gift to us all.\"\u003co:p\u003e\u003c\/o:p\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-indent: 0.5in; padding-left: 30px;\"\u003e-\u003ci\u003eColeman Barks\u003c\/i\u003e\u003co:p\u003e\u003c\/o:p\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-indent: 0.5in; padding-left: 30px;\"\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003co:p\u003e\u003c\/o:p\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eStories Include:\u003c\/strong\u003e Origin of the Soul • The Two Hands of Creation • The Disciple's Tale• Eisik's Dream • The Servant and Death• The Old Thief • Zushya's Last Word • The Beloved Cow • Maggots and Gold • Tigers and Goats • An Errand for God • The Act of Truth\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003co:p\u003e\u003c\/o:p\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThemes:\u003c\/strong\u003e The Return of Wisdom • Facing Fate, Finding a Destiny • The Famous and The Infamous • Finding Your Life Dream • The Wise and the Crosswise • The Importance of Being Weird • Little Death and Big Death • Gifts and Wounds • Awakening the Inner Sage\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003co:p\u003e\u003c\/o:p\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mosaic Multicultural Foundation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44311850614945,"sku":"BK_Fate and Destiny","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0455\/0377\/4881\/files\/3612011446.jpg?v=1738261371"},{"product_id":"awakening-the-soul","title":"Awakening the Soul","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAwakening the Soul\u003c\/em\u003e addresses the issue of the loss of soul throughout the world and the loss of meaning and truth in modern life. Michael Meade shows how meaning is essential to the human soul and uses ancient stories and compelling insights to describe how soul can be recovered and people can learn to “live in truth.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDrawing from dramatic episodes in his own life, Meade shows how the soul tries to awaken at critical times, and how an awakened soul is crucial for finding medicine to treat the ailments and alienation of modern life. What we need now is not a minor repair, but a major transformation of the world that can only start with the awakening of the individual soul.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhen the whole world turns upside down, it is the soul at the bottom of everything that is trying to become known again. 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As nature rattles and culture unravels, mythic imagination tries to return to the world, for endings and beginnings are particularly mythic. When \"the End\" seems near, how people imagine the world becomes more important; how people imagine humanity becomes of the utmost importance. Meade shows how \"myth makes meaning\" and helps a person find the meaningful path through life. He mines a series of \"re-creation\" stories in which the earth renews itself just when all seems lost. When it appears that there's no time left, it isn't time that people need, but the touch of the eternal.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhile explaining how culture renews itself from the dreams of youth and the visions of elders, Meade introduces the concept of becoming ancient again by connecting to the eternal youth and the old soul within. At one level, The World Behind the World is a guide for living at the ends of time. 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At a time when people expect the world to come to an end because of global warming or nuclear nightmares, at the hand of wrathful deities or the prediction of ancient calendars, Meade offers surprising tales of renewal as well as an in-depth-treatise on the psychology and mythology of the end of an era.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eIn place of simple apocalyptic scenarios, the author follows a knowing thread back to ancient notions of \"apocalypsis\" as a liminal period marking the passage between one era and the next. Apocalypsis involves eruptions in nature and disruptions of culture, but also makes possible revelations of unifying principle and guiding force in each life. 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