The One True Calling: Making and Mixing Soul Medicine

The new Elder Fire podcast is out!This podcast has three primary chapters:1. The Earth Is a Marketplace, but the Heavens Are Our Home2. The Mythic Music of The Modern Marketplace3. Authentic Authority and The Folding of SteelIn this podcast we explore what it means to ‘make and mix soul medicine’ and how this is the one true calling. At another level, it’s intended to act as a ‘sonic talisman’, helping you deepen your relationship to your soul medicine and its importance in the world. Tune into The Elder Fire podcast to listen.It sounds best with high quality speakers or headphones.Or Listen on:SpotifyYouTubeApple MusicThe concept, feeling and lived experience of ‘purpose’ has tugged at the heart and mind of humanity since time immemorial, and whether or not you realize it, it tugs at you too. Contemporary culture acknowledges a ‘meaning crisis’, but totally misses the mark on its actual cause or potential solution, for it drops the responsibility of anchoring into deeper meaning upon the ‘ego’ and the cultural narratives that infuse the modern world.Along with this, many of us feel a deep yearning to participate in the unfolding of life, and an unyielding sense that we are here to to offer our gifts, to grow as people, and be of service by providing something essential to the whole. This is what is known as calling. Yet, following this path (or the thought of doing so) leads us straight into the internal thorn bushes of fear, doubt, resistance, impostor syndrome, or the external barricades of familial expectations, cultural narratives and institutional agendas. We want a sense of meaning and purpose, to follow the call, but as citizens of the modern 21st century, don’t even know where it comes from.Pop culture ‘purpose-talk’ leads people down dead ends, because they are dead narratives to begin with. Clinical psychologists sit on couches, blame their client’s problems on their parents and run down the checklist of the supposedly ‘well adjusted’ trying to find it.If not that, then our deep sense of purpose is hijacked by what the institutions around us claim it ‘should be’, what we ‘should do’ or what it ‘should look like’. All of this outsources and leaves meaning decontextualized from the lived experience of it.When this happens, life, with all its ups and downs, its failures and success, its boons and banes, loses a sense of being infused with essential continuity of purpose; we then measure life against trophies, accolades, influencer status, money, or white picket fences instead of a living breathing sense of being aligned with something that runs on a more profound, subterranean level: the soul. Each of us is infused with an inherent meaning and purpose seeded within our souls...the reason we come to earth in the first place.Ancient cultures knew this, and knew it well. They enshrined this truth into the very fabric of their societies with songs, mythic stories, chants, rituals, ceremonies, traditions, and life-ways that perpetually anchored humans into the soul world. Today, we have lost this anchor, and as a result, the human world is in a special kind of chaos.Souls function at the level of myth, archetypes, gods, ancestors and spiritual forces. When this is understood and lived all the way out, we recognize the physical world is intersected and interacting with an unseen world that animates it with a meaning and purpose that is more akin to a force of nature, like lightning.Not only this, but our soul has divine powers that emerge for us in the form of gifts, talents, and innate capacities. Our life story carries an underlying mythic narrative that is supported by the deep archetypal identity we were pre-seeded with before we were born. The challenges of our life have perpetually forged and shaped a set of skills. All of this comes together under the banner of soul medicine: an innate power or energy bestowed upon us before birth that can act upon the world for the benefit of self and others.It is the soul, its inherent medicine and its agenda that is one of the great wellsprings of meaning and purpose that once existed within human life.🌩️ Join Eating Ancient Virtue @ My Substack: eatingancientvirtue.substack.com*Special note: there was a hiccup with the audio recording of my voice that slightly eroded its quality. I have been told that it does not significantly interfere with the overall podcast, but I thought I would mention it. Solutions are underway to make sure it does not occur in future podcasts. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit eatingancientvirtue.substack.com/subscribe