Waking the Inner Healer

Michael Meade's new in-depth course explores how the myth of the Wounded Healer is a key story for understanding the crisis of our time. If we desire to heal ourselves and the world around us, we would be wise to learn directly from this archetypal source for finding wisdom, healing and renewed vision.

In Greek myths Chiron was a centaur, meaning half-human and half-horse. He was also part-human and part-divine, thus symbolizing the complicated and often conflicted nature of the human soul. Chiron bears an incurable wound which can represent primal traumas each person carries from early life, which also can become the area where we find our innate gifts and our natural capacity for healing.

Chiron represents the archetypal presence of the Wounded Healer that can be found in each soul, and which knows the pain of suffering as well as the nature of healing. A key theme in the myth of the Wounder Healer involves a repression of instincts and intuition which are otherwise intended to lead to a redemption of the rejected, orphaned and marginalized parts of our psyche.

Chiron’s story reveals an initiatory path that involves the healing of divisions, the depths of empathy, the role of mentoring, and our capacity for spiritual growth. At this critical time on Earth waking the inner healer becomes essential for our individual and collective lives and for the healing of the entire world.