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The Emerald — 100 episodes

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1

Bronze Age Reset: De- and Re-Mythologizing the Manosphere

2

Space Hex! (The Curse of Restlessness, Revisited)

3

Seven

4

Enter the Dragon, Part 2: On Order and Chaos

5

Enter The Dragon, Terrifying and Beautiful (Part 1)

6

Carry That Weight: On Mythic Burdens and Cosmic Supports

7

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

8

I Think I Hear the Coming of a Planetary Roar

9

On Powers, Great and Small

10

Trickster Jumps Sides (Re-Issued for Tricky Times)

11

On Singing to the Beloved in Times of Crisis

12

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

13

This Episode is FIRE

14

(Why Mindfulness Isn't Enough)

15

Guardians and Protectors!

16

Let Us Sing of the Syncretic Gods of Outcasts and Wanderers

17

On Clouds and Cosmic Law

18

Oh Justice

19

For the Intuitives (Part 2)

20

For the Intuitives (Part 1)

21

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

22

Reissue: On Trauma and Vegetation Gods

23

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

24

Inanimate Objects Aren't Inanimate (Or Objects)

25

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

26

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

27

The Revolution Will Not Be Psychologized

28

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

29

On Birds, and the Imperative of Mystic Flight

30

Embodiment Means Being Torn Apart and Flying Away

31

No One Here Gets Out Alive (The Death Episode)

32

Reissue: How Trance States Shape the World

33

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

34

Your Consciousness Comes From the Moon

35

Awake in the Forest of Dangers and Wonders

36

War and Ritual Ecstasy

37

Neck Hairs of the Shapeshifter (w/ Simon Thakur)

38

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

39

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

40

The Body is the Metaverse

41

Festivals! Initiation and the Brilliance of Eternity

42

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

43

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

44

Mapping The Mystic: Geographies of Ecstasy in Consciousness and Culture

45

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

46

TRA is for Trance: On the Linguistics of Crossing Over

47

On Trauma and Vegetation Gods

48

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

49

Semele, Kuṇḍalinī, and the Path of Interiorized Lightning

50

Trickster Jumps Sides: Disruption and the Anatomy of Culture

51

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

52

How Trance States Shape the World

53

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

54

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

55

When Exactly Was the Age of Reason?

56

Animism is Normative Consciousness

57

Giving Thanks

58

Seeking the Luminous in an Age of Manufactured Light

59

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

60

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

61

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

62

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

63

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

64

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

65

Holy River of Flows: Words and Discourse in a Declarative Age

66

Sand Talk with Tyson Yunkaporta

67

Space Hex: The Curse of Restlessness in Worldviews of Perpetual Escape

68

Rapturous Focus and Extraordinary Powers: Breathing Life into the Third Book of the Yoga Sutras

69

Broadcasting Live From the Time of Poets and Bards

70

Broadcasting Live From the Center of the Universe

71

O Holy Rupture: Cracking Open the Great Myth with Joseph Sansonese

72

The Pandemic and the Goddess: Perspectives on Humanity, Disease, and Nature

73

The Eyes Have It: The Optics of Creation and Consciousness

74

Reimagining Our Ancestors: A Dive into the Paleolithic Heart and Mind

75

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

76

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

77

Melting Frost: A Holiday Hymn to the Animate Heart

78

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

79

Great Bear: The Being at the Heart of Global Tradition

80

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

81

On Cauldrons, Inner and Outer

82

Healing the Science-Spirit Divide in 34 Minutes

83

Picture This with All Your Heart: Reclaiming the Urgent Incandescence of Imaginative Vision

84

Enchanted Lands: Remembering the Holy Hum Between Person and Place

85

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

86

The Goddess Wept All Night: That Little Matter of Sacrifice

87

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

88

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

89

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

90

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

91

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

92

The Fauna Mandala: Animals, Imagination, and Consciousness

93

Who Gets To Claim Objective Reality? An Imaginative Dive Into Cultural Fictions Along the Science-Spirit Divide

94

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

95

The Yoga of Gun Control, The Grail Myth, and the Healing of the American Wound

96

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

97

The Bright and Bristling Mind: Hair in Imagination and Myth

98

The Cow in the Elevator — An Anthropology of Wonder. An Interview with Professor Tulasi Srinavas

99

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

100

Notre Dame in Flames, The Goddess Isis, and the Architecture of Consciousness