The Emerald

Joshua Schrei

The Emerald explores the human experience through a vibrant lens of myth, story, and imagination. Brought to life through the wise, wild, and humorous vision of Joshua Michael Schrei — a teacher and lifelong student of the cosmologies and mythologies of the world — the podcast draws from a deep well of poetry, lore, and mythos to challenge conventional narratives on politics and public discourse, meditation and mindfulness, art, science, literature, and more. At the heart of the podcast is the premise that the imaginative, poetic, animate heart of human experience — elucidated by so many cultures over so many thousands of years — is missi...

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The Emerald

Episodes (96)

Feb 17th Enter The Dragon, Terrifying and Beautiful (Part 1)
Nov 12, 2025 Carry That Weight: On Mythic Burdens and Cosmic Supports
Sep 7, 2025 I Think I Hear the Coming of a Planetary Roar (with Louder Music)

The Emerald

Feb 17, 2026
2 hours
82 MB

Dragon lore is everywhere in global mythology — no matter what continent you live on, the land you inhabit holds dragon story, and quite possibly was shaped by dragons, or has sleeping dragons in it. Such dragons have captured human imagination across hundreds of cultures and thousands of years. But the dragon is much more than a category of fantastical beast. In many traditions the world-dragon, or world-serpent, is creator, land-shaper, present in the water cycle and in weather systems and in the vast temporal cycles of the cosmos itself. More deeply, the dragon is related to kinetic power — to all tha...

The Emerald

Enter The Dragon, Terrifying and Beautiful (Part 1)

Joshua Schrei

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