The Emerald
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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)
The Many Voices of Water, Part 2: Imagining Water Beyond Lines
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Apr 2, 20211:23:15pending
How Trance States Shape the World
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Mar 12, 20211:38:59pending
The Many Voices of Water, Part 1: Oceans of Melancholy and Bliss
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Feb 4, 202159:59pending
Give the Drummer Some: Trance, Danger, and Rapture in the Oldest Instrument of A...
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Jan 19, 20211:03:25pending
When Exactly Was the Age of Reason?
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Dec 30, 202054:03pending
Animism is Normative Consciousness
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Dec 1, 202058:15pending
Giving Thanks
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Nov 26, 202034:21pending
Seeking the Luminous in an Age of Manufactured Light
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Nov 15, 202048:43pending
Medusa and #MeToo: How Modern Narratives Miss the Heart of Myth
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Nov 1, 202042:28pending
When Bread is No Longer Bread: The Importance of Context in Consciousness, Commu...
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Oct 8, 202052:01pending
The Return to Focused Presence: Rediscovering the Greatest Conspiracy of All
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Sep 16, 202048:03pending
The Honey that Hums and Blazes: Somatic Nectars of the Trance State
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Sep 1, 202039:35pending
A Brief History of Want: Longing and Its Place in Cosmos and Consciousness
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Aug 18, 202049:28pending
In These Mythic Times: Monsoon, Apocalypse, and What We Are Truly Longing For
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Aug 4, 202048:35pending
Holy River of Flows: Words and Discourse in a Declarative Age
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Jul 21, 20201:02:08pending
Sand Talk with Tyson Yunkaporta
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Jun 30, 20201:22:42pending
Space Hex: The Curse of Restlessness in Worldviews of Perpetual Escape
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Jun 24, 202048:11pending
Rapturous Focus and Extraordinary Powers: Breathing Life into the Third Book of...
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May 19, 20201:06:50pending
Broadcasting Live From the Time of Poets and Bards
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May 6, 202042:54pending
Broadcasting Live From the Center of the Universe
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Apr 22, 202042:28pending
O Holy Rupture: Cracking Open the Great Myth with Joseph Sansonese
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Apr 7, 202044:12pending
The Pandemic and the Goddess: Perspectives on Humanity, Disease, and Nature
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Mar 25, 202038:36pending
The Eyes Have It: The Optics of Creation and Consciousness
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Mar 3, 202039:08pending
Reimagining Our Ancestors: A Dive into the Paleolithic Heart and Mind
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Feb 18, 202041:10pending
The Shape of Art: Place, Relevance, and the Living Force Between Adorer and Ador...
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Jan 21, 202036:42pending
Airplanes, Epilepsy, and Shamanism: A Respectful Response to Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Jan 7, 202045:43pending
Melting Frost: A Holiday Hymn to the Animate Heart
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Dec 24, 201937:02pending
How to Churn an Ocean and Breathe Like a Horse: Rekindling the Somatic Heart of...
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Dec 10, 201935:15pending
Great Bear: The Being at the Heart of Global Tradition
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Nov 26, 201932:53pending
The Poetry of The Point: All of Cosmos and Consciousness in a Little Round Dot
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Nov 12, 201934:42pending
On Cauldrons, Inner and Outer
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Oct 29, 201933:27pending
Healing the Science-Spirit Divide in 34 Minutes
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Oct 15, 201934:31pending
Picture This with All Your Heart: Reclaiming the Urgent Incandescence of Imagina...
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Oct 1, 201936:21pending
Enchanted Lands: Remembering the Holy Hum Between Person and Place
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Sep 25, 201934:29pending
Orpheus: The Song Of Life — A Conversation With Ann Wroe
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Sep 17, 201958:01pending
The Goddess Wept All Night: That Little Matter of Sacrifice
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Aug 27, 201938:50pending
Sei and Her Soul Are Separated: The Colonization of Consciousness and Reclaiming...
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Aug 20, 201934:18pending
Dispatches from the Cremation Ground: Comfort, Discomfort, and Surrender in Prac...
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Aug 13, 201931:48pending
The Shamanic Vonnegut: Or, The Fine Art of Hearing the Purple Hum
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Aug 6, 201933:57pending
Homer, Tolkien, and the Heart of the Visionary Experience: A Conversation with R...
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Jul 30, 201948:32pending
Stone Soup: In Which I Argue Strongly in Favor of The Worship of Rocks
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Jul 24, 201931:43pending
The Fauna Mandala: Animals, Imagination, and Consciousness
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Jul 16, 201929:48pending
Who Gets To Claim Objective Reality? An Imaginative Dive Into Cultural Fictions...
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Jul 9, 201932:59pending
Dismembered Frost Giants and the Core-Power Paradox — Self-Care Meets Self-Oblit...
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Jul 3, 201932:45pending
The Yoga of Gun Control, The Grail Myth, and the Healing of the American Wound
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Jun 25, 201930:37pending
Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World: A Conversation With Wade Davis
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Jun 18, 201934:12pending
The Bright and Bristling Mind: Hair in Imagination and Myth
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Jun 11, 201931:05pending
The Cow in the Elevator — An Anthropology of Wonder. An Interview with Professor...
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May 26, 201944:05pending
The Case of the Man Who Grew Horns: Imagination as a Driving Force of the Human...
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May 26, 201934:05pending
Notre Dame in Flames, The Goddess Isis, and the Architecture of Consciousness
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May 26, 201931:48pending