The Emerald

Exploring human experience through myth, poetry and imagination AI summary

Joshua Schrei Visit website › Arts · EN · 100 episodes · latest 2026-08-10

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

2026-08-10 · 2 hr 5 min · Season 1, episode 101

In a time of fracture, in which people are searching for meaning and belonging, it is no wonder that men are re-exploring what manhood means. Yet the sense-making project around manhood has veered from the mythic…
Space Hex! (The Curse of Restlessness, Revisited)

2026-06-12 · 1 hr 1 min · Season 1, episode 100

“We don’t go to other planets because our planet is dying. Our planet dies, specifically because we perpetually want to go somewhere else.” Fresh off of the Initial Public Offering of Space X, the largest IPO in human…
Seven

2026-06-08 · 44 min · Season 1, episode 99

Seven years ago last Tuesday, The Emerald podcast was born. This episode reflects on the journey of the podcast so far and gives hints of what's to come, all through the prism of the number 7, which is — to say the…
Enter the Dragon, Part 2: On Order and Chaos

2026-05-01 · 2 hr 12 min · Season 1, episode 98

The dragon, or serpent, in myth and story, is the coiling, spiraling power of nature itself. And so, how cultures have treated the dragon depends a lot on how they view nature and how they view the world. Some have…
Enter The Dragon, Terrifying and Beautiful (Part 1)

2026-02-17 · 1 hr 59 min · Season 1, episode 97

Dragon lore is everywhere in global mythology — no matter what continent you live on, the land you inhabit holds dragon story, and quite possibly was shaped by dragons, or has sleeping dragons in it. Such dragons have…
Carry That Weight: On Mythic Burdens and Cosmic Supports

2025-11-12 · 2 hr 16 min · Season 1, episode 96

There is a weight to modern existence — perhaps you've felt it. In a world in which social and environmental crises only seem to be deepening and our familial, communal and spiritual support systems are steadily…
I Think I Hear the Coming of a Planetary Roar (with Louder Music) E

2025-09-07 · 2 hr 6 min · Season 1, episode 95

In times of rising frustration over the state of nations, times of personal, ecological, societal, and planetary impasse, when cycles of senseless suffering seemingly repeat themselves over and over, and all the global…
I Think I Hear the Coming of a Planetary Roar E

2025-08-30 · 2 hr 6 min · Season 1, episode 94

In times of rising frustration over the state of nations, times of personal, ecological, societal, and planetary impasse, when cycles of senseless suffering seemingly repeat themselves over and over, and all the global…
On Powers, Great and Small

2025-06-16 · 2 hr 6 min · Season 1, episode 93

POWER is on the mind these days, as the world grapples with shifting global power dynamics, old powers crumbling, new ones rising, and archaic power paradigms resurfacing… Yes, issues of power run rampant and…
Trickster Jumps Sides (Re-Issued for Tricky Times) E

2025-04-01 · 1 hr 15 min · Season 1, episode 92

Tricksters and culture disruptors populate global mythology. From Loki to Coyote to Èṣù and Hermes, they bend rules, cross boundaries, commit deliberate and unintentional offenses and generally mess with established…

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Oldest episode in feed: 05/2019 · over 7 years
Typical length: 1 hr 12 min
Format: Episodic Newest first, episodes stand alone
Keywords: mythology, art, cosmology, culture, history, justice, shamanism, spirituality

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