The Emerald

A podcast by Joshua Schrei

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92 Episodes

  1. Semele, Kuṇḍalinī, and the Path of Interiorized Lightning

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

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

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

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

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

    Published: 1/19/2021
  7. When Exactly Was the Age of Reason?

    Published: 12/30/2020
  8. Animism is Normative Consciousness

    Published: 12/1/2020
  9. Giving Thanks

    Published: 11/26/2020
  10. Seeking the Luminous in an Age of Manufactured Light

    Published: 11/15/2020
  11. Medusa and #MeToo: How Modern Narratives Miss the Heart of Myth

    Published: 11/1/2020
  12. When Bread is No Longer Bread: The Importance of Context in Consciousness, Community, and Cosmos

    Published: 10/8/2020
  13. The Return to Focused Presence: Rediscovering the Greatest Conspiracy of All

    Published: 9/16/2020
  14. The Honey that Hums and Blazes: Somatic Nectars of the Trance State

    Published: 9/1/2020
  15. A Brief History of Want: Longing and Its Place in Cosmos and Consciousness

    Published: 8/18/2020
  16. In These Mythic Times: Monsoon, Apocalypse, and What We Are Truly Longing For

    Published: 8/4/2020
  17. Holy River of Flows: Words and Discourse in a Declarative Age

    Published: 7/21/2020
  18. Sand Talk with Tyson Yunkaporta

    Published: 6/30/2020
  19. Space Hex: The Curse of Restlessness in Worldviews of Perpetual Escape

    Published: 6/24/2020
  20. Rapturous Focus and Extraordinary Powers: Breathing Life into the Third Book of the Yoga Sutras

    Published: 5/19/2020

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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.