Enter the Dragon, Part 2: On Order and Chaos

The Emerald

Joshua Schrei

Religion & Spirituality, Mythology, Entheogens, Trance, Justice, Cosmology, Culture, Shamanism, Art, Arts, History, Society & Culture, Spirituality

4.8 • 853 Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2026

⏱️ 132 minutes

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Summary

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 celebrated and honored the serpent power, some have sought to harness or direct it, others to contain or tame it, while some have labeled it as chaos and sought to subdue and slay it. The history of the Western world's relationship with dragons and serpents is fraught, and Western ...

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0:00.0	Hi everyone. I'm Josh, and this is The Emerald,
0:10.2	currents and trends through a mythic lens.
0:13.6	The podcast where we explore an ever-changing world and our lives in it
0:18.1	through the lens of myth, story, and imagination.
0:26.8	The Emerald.
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0:43.4	I'll keep this quick here at the beginning, because we've got a great spiraling dragon of an episode to dive into today.
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