#176 The Initiatory Path (with Josh Schrei)

The Wonder Dome

“We’ve worshipped a hungry monster. And the more you feed and worship a hungry monster, the hungrier it gets.”

-Josh Schrei

This week we welcome Josh Schrei — storyteller, mythologist, and creator of The Mythic Body. As host of The Emerald podcast, Josh shepherds listeners through explorations of our modern world through a vibrant lens of mythos, music and mindfulness. His work is a salve for modern wounds, using song and story to help us de-center the “hungry monster” of consumerism and bring us back to the sacred, animate center of the living world.

Josh and Andy trace a path back to the core truths we’ve forgotten in our contemporary times — that humanity’s innate desire for transcendence can be found not in the hungry maw of capitalism that encourages our relentless consumption, but in a return to ritual, presence, and belonging.

"Remember" by Joy Harjo Remember the sky that you were born under, know each of the star’s stories. Remember the moon, know who she is. Remember the sun’s birth at dawn, that is the strongest point of time. Remember sundown and the giving away to night. Remember your birth, how your mother struggled to give you form and breath. You are evidence of her life, and her mother’s, and hers. Remember your father. He is your life, also. Remember the earth whose skin you are: red earth, black earth, yellow earth, white earth brown earth, we are earth. Remember the plants, trees, animal life who all have their tribes, their families, their histories, too. Talk to them, listen to them. They are alive poems. Remember the wind. Remember her voice. She knows the origin of this universe. Remember you are all people and all people are you. Remember you are this universe and this universe is you. Remember all is in motion, is growing, is you. Remember language comes from this. Remember the dance language is, that life is. Remember.

Show Notes:

* The Mythic Body

* The Emerald Podcast with Josh Schrei

* Let Us Sing of the Syncretic Gods of Outcasts and Wanderers

* For the Intuitives (Part One)

Connect with Andy:

* LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewjcahill/

* Instagram: https://instagram.com/wonderdomepodcast​

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