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 two things really quick before we get started here.

The first thing, as I know many of you know, is that this podcast really depends on

Patreon supporters for its existence.

Patreon support is what allows me to devote my full time to it.

It's what allows me to pay for studio time and to pay for musicians and to justify the

considerable hours that it takes me to edit each episode.

So if you love the podcast, I'm encouraging you to become a patron at patreon.com

slash the Emerald Podcast.

It's super simple.

It's as low as $6 per month.

Patrons get benefits like access to our twice-monthly study group in which a group of us get to talk

a lot deeper about the topics that are raised in the episodes. So please support if you can,

patreon.com slash the Emerald Podcast. Thank you so much. And the second thing is that I have an upcoming course with Pia, Lutzi, the singer, that I wanted to mention briefly before we start. It's called singing the world to be, the mythosomatics of invocation. And it's going deep into myth, story, song, and invocation. And over the course of four weeks, we will seek to

deepen our relationship with the mythic as a living, animate, animate force that moves through bodies

and is expressed through uttered sound and story. So it's a deep dive into myth and oral invocation.

And if you're interested in finding out more about this, you can email me at the mythicbody

at gmail.com. That's the mythicbody at gmail.com. So yeah, now we have a lot to get through today.

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