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The Emerald covers topics including: arts, religion, spirituality, society, culture.

The Emerald

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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 p...

Notable Guests

Deepak Chopra4×DDr. Maria Rodriguez3×DDr. Julian Saint Clair3×DDr. Sophia Patel2×SStephen Mitchell2×

Neil Gaiman2×

Episodes (96)

Enter the Dragon, Part 2: On Order and Chaos

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Enter The Dragon, Terrifying and Beautiful (Part 1)

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Carry That Weight: On Mythic Burdens and Cosmic Supports

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Notable Guests

Episodes (96)

Enter the Dragon, Part 2: On Order and Chaos

Enter The Dragon, Terrifying and Beautiful (Part 1)

Carry That Weight: On Mythic Burdens and Cosmic Supports

I Think I Hear the Coming of a Planetary Roar (with Louder Music)

I Think I Hear the Coming of a Planetary Roar

On Powers, Great and Small

Trickster Jumps Sides (Re-Issued for Tricky Times)

On Singing to the Beloved in Times of Crisis

For the Divine Mother of the Universe (Remixed and Reissued)

This Episode is FIRE

(Why Mindfulness Isn't Enough)

Guardians and Protectors!

Let Us Sing of the Syncretic Gods of Outcasts and Wanderers

On Clouds and Cosmic Law

Oh Justice

For the Intuitives (Part 2)

For the Intuitives (Part 1)

All of My Lessons Come in the Form of a Sound ( w/ Trevor Hall)

Reissue: On Trauma and Vegetation Gods

So You Want to Be a Sorcerer in the Age of Mythic Powers... (The AI Episode)

Inanimate Objects Aren't Inanimate (Or Objects)

Animism is Normative Consciousness (Re-mixed, Re-musicked, and Re-released)

The Revolution Will Not Be Psychologized, Part 2 (Interview w/ Báyò Akómoláfé)

The Revolution Will Not Be Psychologized

Universe, Adorned: Ornament in Culture, Cosmos, and Consciousness

On Birds, and the Imperative of Mystic Flight

Embodiment Means Being Torn Apart and Flying Away

No One Here Gets Out Alive (The Death Episode)

Reissue: How Trance States Shape the World

I Wish It Could Have Been Another Way (A Lament w/ Peia Luzzi)

Your Consciousness Comes From the Moon

Awake in the Forest of Dangers and Wonders

War and Ritual Ecstasy

Neck Hairs of the Shapeshifter (w/ Simon Thakur)

For the Divine Mother of the Universe (w/ Nivedita Gunturi)

Snail Juice & Bear Fat & Werewolf Moons (w/ Leah Song of Rising Appalachia)

The Body is the Metaverse

Festivals! Initiation and the Brilliance of Eternity

On Resonance: Caves, Hooves, Hearts, Harps... and the Birth of Culture

Becoming a Ruin: Decomposing and Regrowing the Mythic with Sophie Strand

Mapping The Mystic: Geographies of Ecstasy in Consciousness and Culture

The Shape of Stories: How Myths Move Through Bodies and Worlds

TRA is for Trance: On the Linguistics of Crossing Over

On Trauma and Vegetation Gods

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

Semele, Kuṇḍalinī, and the Path of Interiorized Lightning

Trickster Jumps Sides: Disruption and the Anatomy of Culture

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

How Trance States Shape the World

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