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. Hi, everyone. Just a quick note here at the beginning to say that applications are open for the year-long course that I offer, the mythic body. It's a year-long deep dive into the mythic and

has particular relevance to the topics that we're exploring today in this episode. We go deep into

the mythic stories. We work on opening up ancestral sense faculties to deepen and enhance our relationship with a living world.

And we do a lot of cross-cultural comparison that is designed to enhance our understanding

and knowing of commonalities of animate and ritual tradition.

So if you're interested in joining or finding out more about how to potentially join the course,

you can check out the mythicbody.com.

And there on the mythic body, there's a page called courses.

So the mythicbody.com slash courses.

And the brochure and application are available there.

And I recommend applying soon as it's a course that tends to fill up

and looking forward to spending a mythic year with you. Also just want to say that this podcast depends on patronage.

In order to bring you the multi-textured deep storytelling dives that these episodes are,

requires a lot of research and writing time and editing time and studio time and musician collaboration,

and there's a whole lot that goes into it, as I hope people feel and recognize.

And if you feel that and you recognize that and you've gotten something out of

these episodes, please consider becoming a patron. It costs as little as $6 a month, and it's really

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