The Body is the Metaverse

The Emerald

Joshua Schrei

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

4.8 • 853 Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2021

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Science fiction writers and tech enthusiasts have long spoken of a digital Metaverse — a virtual otherworld that, as the narrative goes, is the logical next phase in human technological development. This Metaverse serves a deep mythosomatic function — it satisfies our collective need for otherworlds, for trance, for mythic narrative, for journeying, and even for shapeshifting. Yet it does so removed from all somatic context — without the accompanying ritual, without any somatic sacrifice, wit...

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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. Good day, everybody.
0:43.8	You probably heard the recent news that Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is hard at work on a new project,
0:50.5	an alternate universe in which he really, really hopes you'll spend most of your time.
0:56.0	The Metaverse.
0:58.0	That's right. Facebook's new name is Meta.
1:01.0	Meta as in overarching beyond more than.
1:04.0	So the Metaverse is what?
1:06.0	A greater universe.
1:07.0	The universe beyond the universe.
1:09.0	A whole new universe accessible within this universe, the
1:12.6	Metaverse.
1:14.6	The announcement went something like this.
1:16.6	It is time for us to adopt a new company brand to encompass everything that we do.
1:24.6	To reflect who we are and what we hope to build, I am proud to announce that starting
1:30.6	today, our company is now meta. Now we have a new North Star to help bring the metaverse to life.
1:39.6	And we have a new name that reflects the full breadth of what we do and the future that we want to help build.
1:46.9	From now on, we're going to be Metaverse first, not Facebook first.
1:57.4	Not bad, right?
1:58.4	Mark's handlers clearly told him to emulate dorky excitement and he really pulled it off,
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