Course Introduction

• Welcome to the "Waking the Inner Healer" Course
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Part 1 - Timeless Healing, Timely Wisdom (VIDEO)

• Opening Song - Pura Sa Meni / Introduction
• Chiron - Greek Myth (part 1)
• Story Commentary

Part 2 - Q&A  with Michael Meade (VIDEO)

• Question 1: Could you expand on the idea of gifts and wounds?
• Question 2: In this deeply wounded time in which we are living, are we living an expansion, an opening of the cosmic wound, and thus an unparalleled opportunity for collective healing?
• Question 3: Is a long term illness connected with the wound, and how might it relate to medicine?
• Question 4: If everyone has the essence of the Chiron myth inside them—with this abandonment, spirit, soul split—and everyone is called to heal the world and also each other, then are there people that are especially called to live the Chiron archetype?
• Question 5: The idea of a cave to heal seems like leaving a community to heal. Do you find we need to stay and drop inside and not go somewhere to escape, but to develop the cave of our deeper being, to heal and then serve?
• Question 6: How are you defining wound?
• Question 7: The idea of never finding a cure after a lifetime of being on the healing path—over 50 years, I guess, for the person asking the question—is kind of a knife to the heart. How do you find solace knowing you will never heal?

Part 3 - Audio Recordings and Written Material (ASSETS)

• Audio: Pura Sa Meni - Song and Commentary
• Audio: Pura Sa Meni - Song (small choir version)
• Audio - The Wounded Healer
• Book Excerpt - The Story of Apocalypse
• Book Excerpt - Gifts and Wounds

Part 1 - The Anti-Hero (VIDEO)

• Chiron - Greek Myth (part 2)
• Story Commentary
• Chiron - Greek Myth (part 3)
• Story Commentary

Part 2 - Q&A  with Michael Meade (VIDEO)

• Question 1: The wound that is activated now and most often is a lack of intimacy. Most likely, the lack of touch during infancy and early childhood is involved. I now crave that intimacy even into my late 50s, but I'm never satiated. I can't find it.
• Question 2: Having built walls of numbness and a height of protectiveness and devastation of my wound, how do you change the numbness to caring without shattering?
• Question 3: Can you say more about the nature of knowing or learning the healing question, the question that is able to heal the incurable wound?
• Question 4: What would an example of an initiatory wound be?
• Question 5: I really needed to hear the part about the hero archetype not being involved with healing. I was looking to have the wound completely healed and removed, nullified. But that, in and of itself, is inflated and heroic, but not Chironic.
• Question 6: I feel my wound of abandonment and separation, and that feels like the wound of the world. What happened to me as a young boy triggers my thoughts to race, and I become blind to the medicine right in front of me.
• Question 7: So the artist doesn’t make the painting and now it’s over. There’s a curating process that keeps it all going. Do you have any suggestions about how to fit the wound into the overall gift of life?
• Question 8: I'm so grateful to receive the myth of Chiron to understand that my walk is not seeking a cure, but transforming the wound to a womb for further development of the gift as a creative artist, offering healing wisdom through my poetry.
• Question 9: Can you speak of courage? What would non-heroic courage be to move from being stuck in woundedness to accepting suffering in order to heal? What is this wounded hero model?
• Question 10: I was diagnosed with chronic fatigue four years ago. It's very much been my incurable wound. I am curious as to how ongoing fatigue as a wound reveals something about not only ourselves, but our time and culture.

Part 3 - Audio Recordings and Written Material (ASSETS)

• Audio - Dreams of Healing
• Book Excerpt: The Arc of Return
• Book Excerpt: The Two Agreements

Part 1 - Facing Our Wounds (VIDEO)

• Introduction
• Milarepa - Tibetan Buddhist Story
• Story Commentary

Part 2 - Q&A  with Michael Meade (VIDEO)

• Question 1: Does the healer need cycles of extroversion and introversion to stay balanced—cycles of going out and helping to heal and bearing one's vulnerabilities in the process, and then going into the cave to dwell in the shadow and regenerate?
• Question 2: How to hold the feminine mythos of cycles, birth, death, renewal, within the Chiron myth? How would you bring the Demeter / Persephone myth to incorporate the feminine mythos prior to the masculinization of myth via the Greeks?
• Question 3: Can you speak to feeling grief instead of grievance, which is a common move when one understands where the wounds come from?
• Question 4: It seems that most interactions avoid communicating authentically. Might this be why in the West we rely on private relationships with therapists and we become fixated on social media—because we don't experience real connection with others?
• Question 5: I feel like I was trained to wield the wand of medicine, but then told implicitly that it was wrong to experience the Eros moving through the practice of my calling. So the wand turns against me and burns me when I use it.
• Question 6: How do we know when to reach out for help with our own healing? I carry old wounds that seem to be a part of my fabric at this point. And I no longer reach out for healing services from others.

Part 3 - Audio Recordings and Written Material (ASSETS)

• Audio: Healing Inner Splits
• Audio: Healing and Transformation
• Book Excerpt: Die Before You Die
• Book Excerpt: The Roar of Awakening
  

Part 1 - Facing Shadow, Finding Healing (VIDEO)

• Splitting of the Archetype

Part 2 - Q&A  with Michael Meade (VIDEO)

• Question 1: This reminds me of the #MeToo movement. What happens institutionally, like in education, for example? The mentor abuses the student and power plays out as love, something you're not supposed to speak about. How does the student heal?
• Question 2: Can you say more about the coniunctio between healer and wounded, between mentor and mentee? Can you expand upon the magic that can be activated in this experience?
• Question 3: The part of my wound that is most up now is being unable to sing, write, draw or dance. I just can't. I try and nothing happens. Like my instinct for creative expression is just broken or missing again.
• Question 4: Can you talk about money and resource wounds and the wounded healer? I've lived most of my life precariously, sometimes homeless, often without access to things that attract me and would help me live my own gifts.
• Question 5: Is it typically the case that the wounded healers have recovered their lost libido energy, or is this in fact, the incurable wound that the myth refers to?
• Question 6: My core wound seems related to overwhelm. It seems necessary to heal my sense of overwhelm in order to recover from my fatigue, which seems protective. Any recommendations?
• Question 7: Can you speak about emergence from rituals of communal healing and how to return to the daily world in a way that sustains and brings things into relationship with the self and others so that the gifts that were offered are obtained.
• Question 8: The wound activated for me involves the limitations of living with unpredictable symptoms, which often means I cannot keep my commitments.

Part 3 - Conclusion and Closing Song (VIDEO)

Part 4 - Audio Recordings and Written Material (ASSETS)

• Audio: In the Shadows of Power
• Audio: The Archetypal Riverbed
• Book Excerpt: A Tale of Two Villages
• Book Excerpt: Holy Water
• Document: About Michael Meade and Mosaic
• Info: How to redeem the special 30% discount on book and audio titles