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. So a few announcements here right at the start.

The first announcement is that I will be offering a year-long deep dive into mythic study starting in early November of 2024. A year-long deep dive

into mythic study and animacy and ritual foundations called the mythic body. And this is a course I've

offered a couple times before and I'll be offering it again.

It's a year-long journey, and it's for students of the mythic, students of the animate,

who want to better understand the ecstatic, animate heart of myth and story, who want to deepen

their access to the imaginal core of human experience,

and really specifically to explore foundational knowledge that is common to global ritual

traditions, animate traditions, in order to enhance their practice and their own traditions.

Through mythic study, somatic practice, ritual repetition, nature immersion,

threshold exploration, and shared story, we will recalibrate together and deepen our relationship

with body, community, and cosmos together. It's a course that has deep relevance and deep applicability for body workers,

for somatic instructors, for therapists, for depth psychologists,

for psychedelic facilitators, for storytellers,

for artists, for writers, for activists, for policymakers, for community builders,

and sustainable systems thinkers,

really for all knowledge seekers.

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