96 Episodes

  1. TRA is for Trance: On the Linguistics of Crossing Over

    Published: 15/07/2021

  2. On Trauma and Vegetation Gods

    Published: 22/06/2021

  3. The Emerald Turns Two

    Published: 1/06/2021

  4. Tyson Yunkaporta on Pattern, Kinship, and Story in a World of Decontextualized Minds

    Published: 26/05/2021

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

    Published: 8/05/2021

  6. Trickster Jumps Sides: Disruption and the Anatomy of Culture

    Published: 21/04/2021

  7. The Many Voices of Water, Part 2: Imagining Water Beyond Lines

    Published: 2/04/2021

  8. How Trance States Shape the World

    Published: 12/03/2021

  9. The Many Voices of Water, Part 1: Oceans of Melancholy and Bliss

    Published: 4/02/2021

  10. Give the Drummer Some: Trance, Danger, and Rapture in the Oldest Instrument of All

    Published: 19/01/2021

  11. When Exactly Was the Age of Reason?

    Published: 30/12/2020

  12. Animism is Normative Consciousness

    Published: 1/12/2020

  13. Giving Thanks

    Published: 26/11/2020

  14. Seeking the Luminous in an Age of Manufactured Light

    Published: 15/11/2020

  15. Medusa and #MeToo: How Modern Narratives Miss the Heart of Myth

    Published: 1/11/2020

  16. When Bread is No Longer Bread: The Importance of Context in Consciousness, Community, and Cosmos

    Published: 8/10/2020

  17. The Return to Focused Presence: Rediscovering the Greatest Conspiracy of All

    Published: 16/09/2020

  18. The Honey that Hums and Blazes: Somatic Nectars of the Trance State

    Published: 1/09/2020

  19. A Brief History of Want: Longing and Its Place in Cosmos and Consciousness

    Published: 18/08/2020

  20. In These Mythic Times: Monsoon, Apocalypse, and What We Are Truly Longing For

    Published: 4/08/2020

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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.

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