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Awakening the Soul Audible Audiobook – Unabridged

Michael Meade (Author, Narrator), Mosaic Audio (Publisher)
4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars 158 ratings
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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.

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  1. Listening Length
    6 hours and 38 minutes
  2. Author
    Michael Meade
  3. Narrator
    Michael Meade
  4. Audible release date
    July 30, 2019
  5. Language
    English
  6. Publisher
    Mosaic Audio
  7. ASIN
    B07VMTZXC8
  8. Version
    Unabridged
  9. Program Type
    Audiobook
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Product details

Listening Length 6 hours and 38 minutes
Author Michael Meade
Narrator Michael Meade
Audible.com Release Date July 30, 2019
Publisher Mosaic Audio
Program Type Audiobook
Version Unabridged
Language English
ASIN B07VMTZXC8
Best Sellers Rank #123,734 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals)
#2,717 in Spirituality (Audible Books & Originals)
#141,526 in Religion & Spirituality (Books)

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4.6 out of 5 stars
4.6 out of 5
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Nikki
5.0 out of 5 stars Positively Impactful
Reviewed in the United States on October 16, 2019
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Today's world is dark, perhaps it's that we know so much more than before about our ways, or just that our patterns have led us astray as to what is truly good for us. Whatever it is that ails you about life in general, this book gives you HOPE and the courage to shift your perspective towards deeper meaning so that we can use the messages that come from the dark to increase the light. This book gave me insights to truths such as the idea that chaos cannot exist without beauty and vis versa.
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Are Gee
5.0 out of 5 stars Great Condition of the Book!
Reviewed in the United States on September 9, 2020
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A great copy of a bit of a strange book. I am very happy it arrived in such mint condition. Thank you!
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Maryanne
5.0 out of 5 stars inspiring book
Reviewed in the United States on July 14, 2020
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Awakening the Soul is a very readable and inspiring book.
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RS
5.0 out of 5 stars A Book That Speaks From the Edge of Where the Wasteland Ends
Reviewed in the United States on December 5, 2019
The beauty of Meade’s approach — and it is beautiful, connected to body and bone — is that like a writer writing a book, he gets lost in the stories and in finding his way through it/them they seem to carry him along, a river rushing forward, murmurs, gurgles, echoes, a sonorous whoosh, together with the reader to new vistas, new places of exciting challenge, humbling insight and unexpected personal discovery. The reader gets the feeling that the author is not so much teaching as if from the front of the room or even Ted-Talk style as hunkered down or leaning against the bar or in a deep cushioned straight back chair in front of the fire being taught by the stories, the Elders’ Wisdom compacted into them, and sharing the transformative experience with others. Meade knows his stuff. Meade has lived his stuff. And he tells his stuff in a way that invites connection, communion and maybe even conversion to a recognition that we really are such stuff as dreams are made of, timeless myths and ancient stories that echo through our most mundane thought and ordinary action providing, if we have ears to hear and welcome them, a way not out but through our darkest collective and personal dilemmas. Highly Recommended.
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owl111@frontier.com
5.0 out of 5 stars Olden/New Wisdom for Today
Reviewed in the United States on January 16, 2019
In Awakening the Soul Michael Meade weaves three strands into a compelling, important and necessary book. Using traditional wisdom stories, his own dramatic life experiences and a philosophy born from years of study, he presents a book that provides a path for change. Not the kind of sweeping but unrealistic change that some hope can overthrow a culture gone wrong, but a way to think about one’s own place and importance in the entire scheme of things.
Michael reaches back to tribal and ancient wisdom to encourage each of us to awaken our own soul, the unique, gifted part of ourselves that we have somehow forgotten, and then give our gifts to the world.
I have studied with Michael for almost thirty years. Using this idea of personal gifts changed my teaching style with the young people I worked with (still am). I know that the ideas work from personal experience.
Michael Meade’s newest book is essential reading for anyone wishing for a more meaningful life.
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Michael P
5.0 out of 5 stars An invaluable compass for navigating these and all times
Reviewed in the United States on January 22, 2019
Meade's work consistently leads the reader towards a fully inhabited and expressed life. Using the wisdom of story, myth and personal insight, his writing counters the despair and distress of modernity that can overwhelm the best of us. I have given it to young adults who praise its insights and encouragement to live what uniquely calls them in life. Elegant offerings from a generous teacher who shares wisdom from having cultivated authentic curiosity for life and from living his fully.
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Anonymous Customer
5.0 out of 5 stars Wisdom in context
Reviewed in the United States on July 28, 2020
In THE AWAKENING THE SOUL Michael Meade reveals himself as a man who walks the walk. He offers insight and foresight. The rhythm of his delivery makes his offering resound deeply and constructively. Truly inspiring!
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Milch Wolfson
5.0 out of 5 stars If you feel hopeless, broken, or stuck in a rut, pick up this book
Reviewed in the United States on October 27, 2021
This is a book that sparks meaning and purpose into one's life, especially in times of difficulty.

Pros:
-Meade is a powerful guy. This book will have you think more about your own soul's purpose, and what it wants to create through you. It'll likely either connect you with a feeling of personal purpose, or at least open you up to explore what your personal purpose may be
-He's a great story-teller. The stories about his own life are pretty riveting
-There's some awesome myths that give great context into shared ideas across cultures
-He's speaking to the world in a time where there's a lot of shit going wrong. He's a light voice penetrating through a fog

Cons
-Meade's writing style can be hard to get through. His personal stories are great, and the myths are enjoyable too. But when he writes prose, he's often very repetitive and sometimes a bit poetic where it's hard to know what he means exactly. I find he'll often say the same type of thing about 100 different ways. This is valuable in that it brings a point home, but it can also be hard to get through
-This book would be most valuable for someone who is feeling in a real life low. I read this book from an already pretty optimistic space, looking to reflect on my own sense of purpose. It did help me with that, though I did not feel like I was the target audience when reading it. That said, if you are feeling disturbed by where the world is going, or your life is currently falling apart, I'd definitely turn to this text
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Jezza
5.0 out of 5 stars Life changing
Reviewed in Australia on June 21, 2021
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This book comes across simple but is profound and life changing. Brilliant read and hard to put down.
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