The Emerald

A podcast by Joshua Schrei

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86 Episodes

  1. War and Ritual Ecstasy

    Published: 3/25/2022
  2. Neck Hairs of the Shapeshifter (w/ Simon Thakur)

    Published: 3/9/2022
  3. For the Divine Mother of the Universe (w/ Nivedita Gunturi)

    Published: 2/7/2022
  4. Snail Juice & Bear Fat & Werewolf Moons (w/ Leah Song of Rising Appalachia)

    Published: 1/10/2022
  5. The Body is the Metaverse

    Published: 12/3/2021
  6. Festivals! Initiation and the Brilliance of Eternity

    Published: 11/18/2021
  7. On Resonance: Caves, Hooves, Hearts, Harps... and the Birth of Culture

    Published: 10/12/2021
  8. Becoming a Ruin: Decomposing and Regrowing the Mythic with Sophie Strand

    Published: 9/16/2021
  9. Mapping The Mystic: Geographies of Ecstasy in Consciousness and Culture

    Published: 8/31/2021
  10. The Shape of Stories: How Myths Move Through Bodies and Worlds

    Published: 8/5/2021
  11. TRA is for Trance: On the Linguistics of Crossing Over

    Published: 7/15/2021
  12. On Trauma and Vegetation Gods

    Published: 6/22/2021
  13. The Emerald Turns Two

    Published: 6/1/2021
  14. Tyson Yunkaporta on Pattern, Kinship, and Story in a World of Decontextualized Minds

    Published: 5/26/2021
  15. Semele, Kuṇḍalinī, and the Path of Interiorized Lightning

    Published: 5/8/2021
  16. Trickster Jumps Sides: Disruption and the Anatomy of Culture

    Published: 4/21/2021
  17. The Many Voices of Water, Part 2: Imagining Water Beyond Lines

    Published: 4/2/2021
  18. How Trance States Shape the World

    Published: 3/12/2021
  19. The Many Voices of Water, Part 1: Oceans of Melancholy and Bliss

    Published: 2/4/2021
  20. Give the Drummer Some: Trance, Danger, and Rapture in the Oldest Instrument of All

    Published: 1/19/2021

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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.