The Emerald
The Emerald explores the human experience through a vibrant lens of myth, story, and imagination. Brought to life through the wise, wild, and humorous vision of Joshua Michael Schrei — a teacher and lifelong student of the cosmologies and mythologies of the world — the podcast draws from a deep well of poetry, lore, and mythos to challenge conventional narratives on politics and public discourse, meditation and mindfulness, art, science, literature, and more. At the heart of the podcast is the p...
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Episodes (100)
Bronze Age Reset: De- and Re-Mythologizing the Manosphere
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Space Hex! (The Curse of Restlessness, Revisited)
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Seven
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Enter the Dragon, Part 2: On Order and Chaos
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Enter The Dragon, Terrifying and Beautiful (Part 1)
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Carry That Weight: On Mythic Burdens and Cosmic Supports
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I Think I Hear the Coming of a Planetary Roar (with Louder Music)
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I Think I Hear the Coming of a Planetary Roar
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On Powers, Great and Small
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Trickster Jumps Sides (Re-Issued for Tricky Times)
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On Singing to the Beloved in Times of Crisis
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For the Divine Mother of the Universe (Remixed and Reissued)
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This Episode is FIRE
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(Why Mindfulness Isn't Enough)
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Guardians and Protectors!
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Let Us Sing of the Syncretic Gods of Outcasts and Wanderers
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On Clouds and Cosmic Law
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Oh Justice
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For the Intuitives (Part 2)
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For the Intuitives (Part 1)
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All of My Lessons Come in the Form of a Sound ( w/ Trevor Hall)
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Reissue: On Trauma and Vegetation Gods
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So You Want to Be a Sorcerer in the Age of Mythic Powers... (The AI Episode)
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Inanimate Objects Aren't Inanimate (Or Objects)
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Animism is Normative Consciousness (Re-mixed, Re-musicked, and Re-released)
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The Revolution Will Not Be Psychologized, Part 2 (Interview w/ Báyò Akómoláfé)
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The Revolution Will Not Be Psychologized
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Universe, Adorned: Ornament in Culture, Cosmos, and Consciousness
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On Birds, and the Imperative of Mystic Flight
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Embodiment Means Being Torn Apart and Flying Away
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No One Here Gets Out Alive (The Death Episode)
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Reissue: How Trance States Shape the World
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I Wish It Could Have Been Another Way (A Lament w/ Peia Luzzi)
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Your Consciousness Comes From the Moon
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Awake in the Forest of Dangers and Wonders
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War and Ritual Ecstasy
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Neck Hairs of the Shapeshifter (w/ Simon Thakur)
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For the Divine Mother of the Universe (w/ Nivedita Gunturi)
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Snail Juice & Bear Fat & Werewolf Moons (w/ Leah Song of Rising Appalachia)
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The Body is the Metaverse
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Festivals! Initiation and the Brilliance of Eternity
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On Resonance: Caves, Hooves, Hearts, Harps... and the Birth of Culture
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Becoming a Ruin: Decomposing and Regrowing the Mythic with Sophie Strand
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Mapping The Mystic: Geographies of Ecstasy in Consciousness and Culture
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The Shape of Stories: How Myths Move Through Bodies and Worlds
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TRA is for Trance: On the Linguistics of Crossing Over
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On Trauma and Vegetation Gods
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Tyson Yunkaporta on Pattern, Kinship, and Story in a World of Decontextualized M...
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Semele, Kuṇḍalinī, and the Path of Interiorized Lightning
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Trickster Jumps Sides: Disruption and the Anatomy of Culture
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