This episode focuses on the tension between fear and Eros, between widening societal divisions and our innate instinct to connect and find unity. The struggle between fear and Eros or fear and love is an old one, for one would separate where the other would unify. When fear becomes the dominant collective emotion, it can permeate an entire culture and divide all the people. When we feel surrounded by fear, the danger is that our souls will shrink and life itself will be diminished. An excess of fear separates us from each other, but also divides us within ourselves. We become isolated and cut off from our inner nobility and from the creative capacities of our souls. When people fail to live the life of their soul with its instinctive Eros connections, the world becomes diminished and the garden of life becomes overburdened with the remains of unlived lives. When the enemy becomes fear itself, only boldness, imagination and Eros can save us from it. Eros or love is the antidote to fear and the way in which people can find a deeper sense of imagination, and a greater vision of what is needed both for survival and for feeling connected to each other again. What we love as well as who we love connects us to the life-enhancing energy of Eros and to the original force of creation that wishes to continue. An old proverb states: What we love is the cure. That we love is our connection to ongoing creation. We are being called to imagine the world anew and to open to how our own souls can grow and blossom in greater ways that might contribute to the re-imagination of community and the healing and renewal of the earth.
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Episode 385 - Your Inner Initiate
Episode 384 - Dealing with Emotional Storms
Episode 383 - Threaded by Dreams
Episode 382 - Unlocking Destiny
Episode 381 - Coming of Age in an Age of Chaos
Episode 380 - Elders and Youth on Paths of Healing
Episode 379 - Earth Day and the Origins of Gaia
Episode 378 - Mythic Medicine
Episode 377 - Eclipses and Epiphanies
Episode 376 - A Divided World, A Hidden Unity
Episode 375 - The Return of Eros
Episode 374 - Threads of Fate and Destiny
Episode 373 - Lies that Poison, Truths that Heal
Episode 372 - Jonah and the Whale
Episode 371 - Fear is the Way Through
Episode 370 - Veiling the Truth
Episode 369 - Three Kinds of Wisdom
Episode 368 - Touching Spirit, Making Soul
Episode 367 - The Redemptive Power of Soul
Episode 366 - Facing Our Fears
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