The Emerald

A podcast by Joshua Schrei

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86 Episodes

  1. The Shape of Art: Place, Relevance, and the Living Force Between Adorer and Adored

    Published: 1/21/2020
  2. Airplanes, Epilepsy, and Shamanism: A Respectful Response to Neil deGrasse Tyson

    Published: 1/7/2020
  3. Melting Frost: A Holiday Hymn to the Animate Heart

    Published: 12/24/2019
  4. How to Churn an Ocean and Breathe Like a Horse: Rekindling the Somatic Heart of Myth

    Published: 12/10/2019
  5. Great Bear: The Being at the Heart of Global Tradition

    Published: 11/26/2019
  6. The Poetry of The Point: All of Cosmos and Consciousness in a Little Round Dot

    Published: 11/12/2019
  7. On Cauldrons, Inner and Outer

    Published: 10/29/2019
  8. Healing the Science-Spirit Divide in 34 Minutes

    Published: 10/15/2019
  9. Picture This with All Your Heart: Reclaiming the Urgent Incandescence of Imaginative Vision

    Published: 10/1/2019
  10. Enchanted Lands: Remembering the Holy Hum Between Person and Place

    Published: 9/25/2019
  11. Orpheus: The Song Of Life — A Conversation With Ann Wroe

    Published: 9/17/2019
  12. The Goddess Wept All Night: That Little Matter of Sacrifice

    Published: 8/27/2019
  13. Sei and Her Soul Are Separated: The Colonization of Consciousness and Reclaiming the Visionary State

    Published: 8/20/2019
  14. Dispatches from the Cremation Ground: Comfort, Discomfort, and Surrender in Practice

    Published: 8/13/2019
  15. The Shamanic Vonnegut: Or, The Fine Art of Hearing the Purple Hum

    Published: 8/6/2019
  16. Homer, Tolkien, and the Heart of the Visionary Experience: A Conversation with Robert Tindall

    Published: 7/30/2019
  17. Stone Soup: In Which I Argue Strongly in Favor of The Worship of Rocks

    Published: 7/24/2019
  18. The Fauna Mandala: Animals, Imagination, and Consciousness

    Published: 7/16/2019
  19. Who Gets To Claim Objective Reality? An Imaginative Dive Into Cultural Fictions Along the Science-Spirit Divide

    Published: 7/9/2019
  20. Dismembered Frost Giants and the Core-Power Paradox — Self-Care Meets Self-Obliteration in an Identity-Driven World.

    Published: 7/3/2019

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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.