Hi everyone. I'm Josh, and this is The Emerald,

currents and trends through a mythic lens. The podcast where we explore an ever-changing world

and our lives in it through the lens of myth, story, and imagination.

The Emerald. All that's happening on this green jewel in space.

Thank you. Thanks to everyone who inquired about the upcoming course, the mythic body, we had a tremendous response and the course is now full.

I'm trying to keep it manageable and at a good size so that we can really explore things together

in an intimate way and that there can be a good amount of personal attention that comes with the

course. So I'm really excited for the course and I will be offering it next year and I'll be sure

to update everyone on how the plans for next year's course are coming and stay tuned. And in the meantime, if you're interested in more of this mythic study, I offer a twice-monthly

study group that's going to be ongoing.

It's for podcast patrons and patronage levels start as low as $6 a month.

So for $6 a month, you get access to two two-hour study groups per month where we can go into

these mythic topics in a lot more detail and a lot more depth and discuss the mythic with other

members of the community.

And it's been a really rich way to explore this mythic content together.

So if you're interested in that, go to patreon.com slash the Emerald podcast. That's Patreon, p-A-T-R-E-O-N.com

slash the Emerald podcast and sign up for any level of patronage and you'll have access to the ongoing

Mythic Study Group.

Sophie Strand describes herself as a writer, an animist troubadour, and a giant pile of composting leaves.

Her lyrical, ecocentric vision of the mythic has gained her a lot of fans, including me,

as someone myself who is always seeking to bring the mythic into the tangible, to help myths regain their body, to place myths in an ecosystem,

and to explore the somatic dimensions of the mythic, I was thrilled to discover Sophie's work.

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