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The Emerald

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 l... Read more

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Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World: A Conversation With Wade Davis

Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World: A Conversation With Wade Davis

What can we learn from those who can read the ocean like we can read words on a page? How can we transform how we view c... Read more

18 Jun 2019

34mins

Ranked #2

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On Cauldrons, Inner and Outer

On Cauldrons, Inner and Outer

Cauldrons — cooking vessels — have been part of the human experience and have captured the human imagination for a very ... Read more

29 Oct 2019

33mins

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Homer, Tolkien, and the Heart of the Visionary Experience: A Conversation with Robert Tindall

Homer, Tolkien, and the Heart of the Visionary Experience: A Conversation with Robert Tindall

This week on The Emerald, a conversation with author Robert Tindall on Homer, Tolkien, Paleolithic cave art, Zen koans, ... Read more

30 Jul 2019

48mins

Ranked #4

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The Poetry of The Point: All of Cosmos and Consciousness in a Little Round Dot

The Poetry of The Point: All of Cosmos and Consciousness in a Little Round Dot

What's the point? Well, far from being an image of smallness or insignificance, the single point, the dot communicates a... Read more

12 Nov 2019

34mins

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

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

Bette Midler recently made headlines for tweeting a picture of three girls at a museum distracted by their phones instea... Read more

21 Jan 2020

36mins

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The Case of the Man Who Grew Horns: Imagination as a Driving Force of the Human Experience

The Case of the Man Who Grew Horns: Imagination as a Driving Force of the Human Experience

Today on The Emerald. How did paleolithic and neolithic peoples see the world? What if, as an increasing number of anthr... Read more

26 May 2019

34mins

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Sei and Her Soul Are Separated: The Colonization of Consciousness and Reclaiming the Visionary State

Sei and Her Soul Are Separated: The Colonization of Consciousness and Reclaiming the Visionary State

In the modern western understanding of consciousness, certain states are afforded the status of more important, or real,... Read more

20 Aug 2019

34mins

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Dismembered Frost Giants and the Core-Power Paradox — Self-Care Meets Self-Obliteration in an Identity-Driven World.

Dismembered Frost Giants and the Core-Power Paradox — Self-Care Meets Self-Obliteration in an Identity-Driven World.

Ancient visions of cosmic dismemberment and ego destruction meet modern yoga practice with its focus on self-care and se... Read more

3 Jul 2019

32mins

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How to Churn an Ocean and Breathe Like a Horse: Rekindling the Somatic Heart of Myth

How to Churn an Ocean and Breathe Like a Horse: Rekindling the Somatic Heart of Myth

The power of myth exists beyond representation and symbolism. Myths grow out of a time when to utter the word ‘sky’ arou... Read more

10 Dec 2019

35mins

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The Bright and Bristling Mind: Hair in Imagination and Myth

The Bright and Bristling Mind: Hair in Imagination and Myth

Have you ever looked at your dog and wondered what it feels like to have whiskers? Those bristling antennae, so bright a... Read more

11 Jun 2019

31mins

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The Shamanic Vonnegut: Or, The Fine Art of Hearing the Purple Hum

The Shamanic Vonnegut: Or, The Fine Art of Hearing the Purple Hum

In his classic novel Slaughterhouse Five, about four-dimensional alien beings and a protagonist that has come unstuck in... Read more

6 Aug 2019

33mins

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Orpheus: The Song Of Life — A Conversation With Ann Wroe

Orpheus: The Song Of Life — A Conversation With Ann Wroe

He’s stirred the imagination of poets and writers and artists for 30 centuries. Rilke wrung his pale heart out to him. H... Read more

17 Sep 2019

58mins

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Stone Soup: In Which I Argue Strongly in Favor of The Worship of Rocks

Stone Soup: In Which I Argue Strongly in Favor of The Worship of Rocks

Sacred stones are ubiquitous across India. You find them in villages, in rural shrines, and in major urban temples that ... Read more

24 Jul 2019

31mins

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Healing the Science-Spirit Divide in 34 Minutes

Healing the Science-Spirit Divide in 34 Minutes

In this episode we take a deep dive into the abyss — the seemingly unbridgeable gap that exists between science and spir... Read more

15 Oct 2019

34mins

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Dispatches from the Cremation Ground: Comfort, Discomfort, and Surrender in Practice

Dispatches from the Cremation Ground: Comfort, Discomfort, and Surrender in Practice

Modern yoga has put forward a vision of the whole human being that revolves around comfort, ease, freedom from pain, and... Read more

13 Aug 2019

31mins

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Great Bear: The Being at the Heart of Global Tradition

Great Bear: The Being at the Heart of Global Tradition

Bears have been right at the center of pan-global belief systems for a very long time, causing some anthropologists to s... Read more

26 Nov 2019

32mins

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Melting Frost: A Holiday Hymn to the Animate Heart

Melting Frost: A Holiday Hymn to the Animate Heart

In this poetic ode to the animate vision of the cosmos that has been so central to humanity for so long, we explore the ... Read more

24 Dec 2019

37mins

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The Goddess Wept All Night: That Little Matter of Sacrifice

The Goddess Wept All Night: That Little Matter of Sacrifice

It’s easy to dismiss the practice of sacrifice as brutal, but the fact is that sacrifice, enacted in varying degrees in ... Read more

27 Aug 2019

38mins

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The Fauna Mandala: Animals, Imagination, and Consciousness

The Fauna Mandala: Animals, Imagination, and Consciousness

Animals have not only ‘shared the planet’ with human beings as we often hear on nature shows, which of course is a noble... Read more

16 Jul 2019

29mins

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Airplanes, Epilepsy, and Shamanism: A Respectful Response to Neil deGrasse Tyson

Airplanes, Epilepsy, and Shamanism: A Respectful Response to Neil deGrasse Tyson

A few weeks back, wizard-yogi-talkshow host Russell Brand interviewed scientist Neil deGrasse Tyson on his podcast Under... Read more

7 Jan 2020

45mins

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