Logos + Mythos

Michael Meade’s Article “Moments of Wholeness”

What voices guide you in darkness and complexity? Michael Meade is one of the voices I turn to. He calls me into stories. I’ve come to appreciate the concepts of logos and mythos he describes in this article.

“The ancient Greeks, amongst others, had two ways of thinking and seeing the world. They called them logos and mythos with each word making some sense of what happens in the world. Logos seeks to find objective truths, the kind of definitive explanations that can be proven with observable facts, statistics and controlled experiments. Mythos, on the other hand, approaches the world through more imaginative and intuitive means. One seeks knowledge in the realm of matter, the other seeks an understanding of what matters most to us.”

Meade has written a lot about the idea that we are all born with a thread of genius. It’s something only we can bring to the collective.

“If those willing to enter the darkest places and face the unknown would gather whatever threads of meaning and imagination they might find and begin to follow where they lead, new paths to unity would be revealed and old oppressions could be relieved.”

Here’s a short video by Meade about the concept of genius.

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