The Emerald

A podcast by Joshua Schrei

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92 Episodes

  1. Trickster Jumps Sides (Re-Issued for Tricky Times)

    Published: 4/2/2025
  2. On Singing to the Beloved in Times of Crisis

    Published: 2/27/2025
  3. For the Divine Mother of the Universe (Remixed and Reissued)

    Published: 1/1/2025
  4. This Episode is FIRE

    Published: 11/3/2024
  5. (Why Mindfulness Isn't Enough)

    Published: 10/1/2024
  6. Guardians and Protectors!

    Published: 9/2/2024
  7. Let Us Sing of the Syncretic Gods of Outcasts and Wanderers

    Published: 5/24/2024
  8. On Clouds and Cosmic Law

    Published: 4/9/2024
  9. Oh Justice

    Published: 3/3/2024
  10. For the Intuitives (Part 2)

    Published: 12/31/2023
  11. For the Intuitives (Part 1)

    Published: 11/21/2023
  12. All of My Lessons Come in the Form of a Sound ( w/ Trevor Hall)

    Published: 10/21/2023
  13. Reissue: On Trauma and Vegetation Gods

    Published: 8/28/2023
  14. So You Want to Be a Sorcerer in the Age of Mythic Powers... (The AI Episode)

    Published: 7/12/2023
  15. Inanimate Objects Aren't Inanimate (Or Objects)

    Published: 6/6/2023
  16. Animism is Normative Consciousness (Re-mixed, Re-musicked, and Re-released)

    Published: 5/9/2023
  17. The Revolution Will Not Be Psychologized, Part 2 (Interview w/ Báyò Akómoláfé)

    Published: 4/7/2023
  18. The Revolution Will Not Be Psychologized

    Published: 2/21/2023
  19. Universe, Adorned: Ornament in Culture, Cosmos, and Consciousness

    Published: 1/9/2023
  20. On Birds, and the Imperative of Mystic Flight

    Published: 11/24/2022

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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 premise that the imaginative, poetic, animate heart of human experience — elucidated by so many cultures over so many thousands of years — is missing in modern discourse and is urgently needed at a time when humanity is facing unprecedented problems. The Emerald advocates for an imaginative vision of human life and human discourse as it questions deep underlying assumptions about societal progress.