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

The Emerald

Joshua Schrei

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

4.8 • 853 Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2022

⏱️ 98 minutes

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There’s a lot of cultural clutter these days around 'The Goddess.' She appears everywhere, her many names are invoked free of context in a hundred thousand ways. She’s what? An empowerment tool. An archetype. A self-help course. A political symbol. Something that is invoked to bring more creative energy or material abundance into our lives. Something that, in an individualistic modern world, always seems to have a whole lot to do with us. Yet the goddess, traditionally, is much more tha...

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0:00.0	Hi everyone. I'm Josh, and this is The Emerald,
0:10.6	currents and trends through a mythic lens. The podcast where we explore an ever-changing world
0:17.0	and our lives in it through the lens of myth, story, and imagination.
0:27.2	The Emerald. All that's happening on this green jewel in space. Hey, everybody. This is Josh. I want to welcome our new listeners. We've got quite a few new
0:48.2	listeners in the past couple months. And if you haven't had a chance to check out the back
0:53.0	catalog of episodes, give it a listen.
0:56.2	There are over 60 episodes, and I'm sure you'll find something you like there.
1:00.1	Also, for those who are interested in going deeper, I offer a twice-monthly mythic study group.
1:05.8	That's through my Patreon site at patreon.com slash the Emerald Podcast.
1:14.2	Patronage levels start as low as $6 per month,
1:20.2	and you get access to two study groups per month. They're two-hour Zoom calls, and we talk about podcast episodes and mythic themes that we're exploring on the podcast, and it's a great community,
1:24.9	and it's a lot of fun. So if you're interested in that, that's patreon.com slash the Emerald podcast. And just because I'm getting a lot of inquiries about it
1:32.7	already, I am planning on offering a year-long mythic immersion starting in October of 2022.
1:41.1	It's called the mythic body. It's a deep dive into myth, animacy, and ritual. It includes
1:48.6	online learning and also in-person immersion. And if you're interested in finding out more about it,
1:55.0	you can email the mythicbody at gmail.com. That's the mythic body at gmail.com. I've been waiting a long time
2:25.3	In fact of the
2:26.3	In fact, to be honest, this was the very first episode I ever thought of doing.
2:30.3	There was a time when the emerald was going to basically be a travelogue of my experiences
2:36.6	at various goddess temples. So why did I wait so long to do this episode? I waited because I realized that
2:44.6	before I could really talk about the goddess, before I could talk about the animate force that infuses everything, before I could talk about the goddess, before I could talk about the animate force that infuses everything,
2:52.6	before I could talk about the holy tremor that powers the engine of space-time,
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