Ranked #1
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
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34mins
Ranked #2
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
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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
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48mins
Ranked #4
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
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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
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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
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34mins
Ranked #7
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
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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
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32mins
Ranked #9
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
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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
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31mins
Ranked #11
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
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33mins
Ranked #12
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
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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
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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
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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
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31mins
Ranked #16
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
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32mins
Ranked #17
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
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37mins
Ranked #18
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
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38mins
Ranked #19
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
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29mins
Ranked #20
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
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45mins