On Birds, and the Imperative of Mystic Flight

The Emerald

Joshua Schrei

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

4.8 • 853 Ratings

🗓️ 24 November 2022

⏱️ 104 minutes

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Birds in myth are messengers, deliverers of prophecy, and instigators of journeys. But birds are much more than this. Human neurobiology is deeply linked to birds, who, through the arcing patterns of their flight, their hypnotic songs, and their high, piercing calls, awakened human sense faculties, taught us to look up in wonder, and therefore gave us the ability to soar into imaginal spaces. Somatically, we ideate, journey, and soar because of our coevolution with birds. So we find the influ...

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0:00.0	Hi everyone. I'm Josh, and this is The Emerald,
0:10.4	currents and trends through a mythic lens. The podcast where we explore an ever-changing world
0:16.8	and our lives in it through the lens of myth, story, and imagination.
0:27.6	The Emerald.
0:28.6	All that's happening on this green jewel in space. Hey, everyone.
0:43.3	I've got a bunch of quick announcements I want to make here at the beginning of the episode.
0:48.0	First of all, welcome to all the new listeners.
0:51.4	The podcast has been growing quite a bit recently, and I just want to encourage
0:55.8	you who are new to check out the back catalog. We've got nearly 80 episodes at this point. There's a
1:02.1	lot of really good material further back. So if you're new to the podcast and you're resonating
1:06.5	with it, take some time and check out some of the older episodes. I want to take just a quick
1:10.6	minute to talk
1:11.6	about patronage. You hear me mention patronage a fair amount on the podcast, so I'll keep it really
1:18.1	simple. Just to say that patronage is really what keeps the podcast going, it allows for me to pay for
1:25.0	studio time, to pay musicians, to pay for research. And really,
1:29.7	it's the single best way to support the artistic vision of the podcast. So if you feel like
1:35.2	you're getting something from the podcast, please consider becoming a patron. Right now, we've got
1:40.4	about 5% of our listeners as patrons. And really, I'm reaching out directly at the beginning of
1:46.6	this episode to see if we can maybe increase that number a bit. I feel like in the spirit of
1:53.3	supporting the arts and supporting the imaginative vision, that maybe that number could be a
1:58.9	little bit higher than 5%. Like, upping that to about 15% or 20% of listeners, I think makes sense.
2:06.8	So again, if you've been listening to the podcast and you've been getting something out of it,
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