Rob Kall: You've got
a workshop coming up in Columbia Maryland on May 10th and 11th:
Why the World Doesn't End, and Finding Genius. Why the World Doesn't End is your most
recent book. I've interviewed all kinds
of different people, but with you I put together some questions to get started
with. I'm going to read the list of
them, and they're really different from the kinds I usually do, and I think
it's because I see you as a really big picture person. So I'm going to throw a list of questions at
you, you can play with them as you like.
OK?
Michael Meade: All Right.
Rob Kall: What do
you do? Who are you? What are your goals? What is important in this world? What are the major patterns that you see in
the world? What are the most important
challenges people face? What can we do
to meaningfully make a difference? Who
are your heroes? What is the most
important story? What story do you have
for people who are seriously engaged in attempting to make the world a better
place?
Michael Meade: hmm.
Rob Kall: (laughs)
Michael Meade: It's a
barrage. Well, here's what I'll pull out
of that. To the question "What is the
most important story?" my answer is: there are two important stories going on
all the time, and this is like a mythological point of view. So there's the great drama of the world, of
the cosmos, that includes, now, "The planet," as we refer to the earth
nowadays. It used to be called "The
Eternal Drama," and that's why I wrote the book saying Why thew World
Doesn't End, because we are embedded in an eternal drama. It's a drama because it includes the ups and
downs and the inside outs of everything that happened in the world; but there's
a second important story, which is the unique and individual story of human
life. So the unique story of each
individual and the overall drama of the cosmos are the two most important
stories. They happen together, they're
entwined together, and we are involved in both.
That's the mythological point of view.
Rob Kall: OK, and
why is that important? What are the
insights that we should gain from that?
Michael Meade: Right now
we're going through this huge transitional period. It's a transformation as people have become
more aware of the planet. But at the
same time, everybody is living through their personal drama; and modern people
think, in many ways, those two things are not connected. That's partially because we've lost touch
with the old stories which carried in in them the old cosmological point of
view that showed how things were interconnected.
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