O Holy Rupture: Cracking Open the Great Myth with Joseph Sansonese

The Emerald

Joshua Schrei

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

4.8 • 853 Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2020

⏱️ 44 minutes

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There’s a great myth that is told and retold in cultures throughout the world. The story goes like this — something is harnessed, raised upwards, suspended there, until finally there is a great cracking open and then a cascade of sweetness downward. Mythologist Joseph Sansonese calls this — and not Campbell’s monomyth — the real Great Myth. Today on the podcast we explore myths of rupture — from the cracking of Krishna's butter pot to the collapse of Troy — that invoke the yogic process. Thes...

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0:00.0	Hi everyone. I'm Josh, and this is The Emerald,
0:09.9	currents and trends through a mythic lens.
0:13.3	The podcast where we explore an ever-changing world and our lives in it
0:17.8	through the lens of myth, story, and imagination.
0:26.5	The Emerald.
0:28.2	All that's happening on this green jewel in space. So it's August 2013, and I'm in Rindavan, India, right in the middle of the busiest festival of the year.
0:49.8	Rindavan is a town of about 63,000 people, and there are over 5,000 temples.
0:56.1	For devotees of Krishna, the amorous, cowherd, prince, floutest, divine being of the Indian pantheon,
1:03.3	there's no holier place in the world, or perhaps even the universe.
1:07.8	Rindavan marks where Krishna spent his childhood years, and so the famous stories
1:12.6	of his mischievous childhood exploits all took place here. The water tank here at Radakund is where
1:19.7	he and Radha used to have their midnight meetups, the amorous sway of their nocturnal dance in the
1:26.2	forest mirroring the amorous sway of creation itself.
1:30.1	These trees, Rada used to swing from.
1:32.5	This low, stony outcropping is the famed Mount Govardan,
1:36.3	which Krishna hoisted up onto one pinky in defiance of Indra, the old Vedic thunder god.
1:42.2	It's a city teeming with devotion, and what I mean by devotion is hard for
1:46.7	us in the West to even comprehend unless we've been there. It means that even under normal circumstances,
1:52.1	the city is like a 24-7 mosh pit to the divine. Ban Ki Bihari Temple is spiritual mayhem,
1:58.9	people collapsing and falling on their knees and rolling on the
2:02.1	ground and shouting the divine name and tossing their babies up to be blessed by the priests,
2:07.7	rapture in the face of the force of love.
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