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Awakening the Soul

By: Michael Meade
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Awakening the Soul addresses issues of the loss of soul throughout the world and the loss of meaning and truth in modern life. Using ancient myths and stories and compelling insights, Michael Meade illustrates how meaning is essential to the human soul and describes how soul can be recovered and people can learn to “live in truth.” 

Drawing 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.

©2018 Michael Meade (P)2019 Michael Meade

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Michael Meade is full of the kind of wisdom in this world needs

when listening to this book, I realized that I was listening to an elder. A real elder. The kind of elder who has a lived a life to break him open and discovering the gold inside. His words remind me of my own commitments to a life well lived. This is a wonderful wonderful book

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Awakening The Soul - for those willing to follow there soul’s path, listen with there heart and help heal this world..

You may want to listen to this book a chapter at a time along with breaks in between to help process what Mr. Meade has discussed. I personally found his presentation a bit monotonous, but well worth the time and energy. I believe I will listen to it again when I can spend more dedicated time, energy and process.
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Awakening the soul

To me this is The most important contribution to our time. I am grateful to Meade.

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best book I've read this year!!!

best book I've read this year. it is an amazing journey into Michael Meade's incredible and accessible wisdom.

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Profound guidance

In AWAKENING THE SOUL Michael Meade brings amazing light to assist those who struggle with today’s dilemmas and paradoxes. His storytelling draws from a vast knowledge mythologies and wisdom, ancient and modern, from around the world. His interpretations are enlightening, connecting his audience to deeper meaning and truth. He sheds light by sharing insight and foresight gleaned on his own path to awakening the soul.

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A timely and necessary book.

IMHO Micheal Meade is our current Joseph Campbell and Carl Jung. He intelligently explains our global situation and individual dilemmas with clarity. He creates a map of understanding of the historical reasons and resulting
trauma that has been created. Listening deeply with your heart an opening of self and soul/heart will occur. He certainly gently pushed my heart to where it belongs.

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Personal Myth

This book is helpful if you’re looking for ways to live your life with purpose.
Thanks Michael for writing this book and taking the time to tell it to us.

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Beautiful and powerful

Michael Meade is the writer the world needs. Beautifully written and delivered by Meade. Filled with powerful insights that speak to the soul. I can’t recommend this book or his other works enough!

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  • 07-07-22

Soul Food

Resonates with all that is real & true within the depths of me. Thanks for the outpouring of Soul.

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  • 08-23-23

shallow and didactic

The main critique I have is that this book is written for people who already are convinced of what Meade is trying to say. For them, however, this book has no practical solutions to help them.

For the unconvinced, this book is too shallow and hosts a plethora of fallacies and generalisations. I found his opinions forced into my mind every few pages through the art of repetition that West is bad, soul is good. It ignores the fact however that the myths he presents come from cultures that are far more diverse that he presents them to be. He doesn't explore the myths in this book but rather uses them to make the same point again and again.

It is a valid point, but it could have been summarised in an one hour lecture.

His tragic story about his army experience was insightful.

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  • Anonymous User
  • 11-30-22

Intriguing stories

Intriguing stories. Poetic and yet very real and poignant language. Wonderfully read by the author.

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  • 04-14-21

Bold and crucial

I believe this book explores a huge way we can bring meaning into our lives as humans, individually and collectively. The ways in which Meade conveys the ideas are relatable through old stories and present day overlap.
At times his voice is monotonous, but overall I enjoyed his mature tone and gravity.

If the idea of a fleeting world that is left unspoken has ever passed your mind, read this book!

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  • Ohad Rein
  • 12-03-19

michael meade is amazing

I love his message and way of delivery. a lot of great insights in this book. my only comment is that it could use more story telling less analyzing.

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