The Crow's Nest is a new weekly series with Ian MacKenzie and special guests. Each episode will riff on the latest current events and themes from a mythopoetic lens. Enroll in the School http://schoolofmythopoetics.com Joshua Michael Schrei is the founder and host of The Emerald podcast. The Emerald combines evocative narrative, soul-stirring music, and interviews with award-winning authors and luminaries to explore the human experience through a vibrant lens of myth, story, and imagination. The Emerald 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.  A writer, teacher, and a lifelong student of the cosmologies and mythologies of the world — in particular the Indian subcontinent — Josh has sought to navigate the living, animate space of the imagination and advocate for a world that prioritizes imaginative vision. Josh has taught intensive courses in mythology and somatic disciplines for nearly 20 years. Support The Emerald http://patreon.com/theemeraldpodcast

The Crow's Nest is a new weekly series with Ian MacKenzie and special guests. Each episode will riff on the latest current events and themes from a mythopoetic lens. Enroll in the School http://schoolofmythopoetics.com  Raamayan is an architect for the Next Civilization Experiment. He is an international speaker, a multi-company impact entrepreneur, and a systems designer. Rooted in the spiritual lineages of Advaita Vedanta & HUMUH Clear Mind Buddhism, Raamayan brings together the ancient enlightenment traditions forward into the modern world.   Raamayan is the founder of VEME, a web 3 creator network built to usher in the next renaissance. He works at the intersection of  creative expression, new economic systems and spirituality.   Follow Raamayan https://www.instagram.com/raamayan

The Crow's Nest is a new weekly series with Ian MacKenzie and special guests. Each episode will riff on the latest current events and themes from a mythopoetic lens.    Sarah Durham Wilson midwives women from the wounded, patriarchalized feminine across the bridge to the archetypal Mother, or mature feminine. Before her service to the Goddess, she was a rock journalist in New York City, beginning with an internship at Rolling Stone and culminating as an editor at Interview magazine. For more, visit: themotherspirit.com Join the School of Mythopoetics http://schoolofmythopoetics.com

The Crow's Nest is a new weekly series with Ian MacKenzie and special guests. Each episode will riff on the latest current events and themes from a mythopoetic lens.  Enroll in the School of Mythopoetics http://schoolofmythopoetics.com Day Schildkret is internationally known for Morning Altars and has inspired tens of thousands of people across the globe to heal and connect with nature, art and ritual. His latest book is "Hello, Goodbye:  75 Rituals for Times of Loss, Celebration and Change." Visit Day's official website http://dayschildkret.com Get the book http://morningaltars.com

The Crow's Nest is a new weekly series with Ian MacKenzie and special guests. Each episode will riff on the latest current events and themes from a mythopoetic lens. In this episode, I speak with Andreas Kornevall is an author, storyteller and ecological activist. We discuss his new book "Waking The Dragons: Norse Myth, Folklore, Runes and Magic" along with rituals of reconciliation, the power of thought-forms in magic, and the birth of Google's new empathic being LaMDA. Andreas Kornevall Official Website https://www.kornevall.com Enroll in The School of Mythopoetics http://schoolofmythopoetics.com

The Crow's Nest is a new weekly series with Ian MacKenzie and special guests. Each episode will riff on the latest current events and themes from a mythopoetic lens.  In this Wed edition, I'll be joined by Samara Concepcion, a birth doula who is directing a forthcoming documentary Birth: A New Story.  We'll talk about the film and a mythopoetic exploration of birth.    Support the film Birth: A New Story http://birthanewstory.com Become a Member of The School of Mythopoetics http://schoolfomythopoetics.com

The Crow's Nest is anew weekly series with Ian MacKenzie and special guests. Each episode will riff on the latest current events and themes from a mythopoetic lens.  Become a Founding Member of The School of Mythopoetics http://schoolfomythopoetics.com

Topics: The school shooting in Texas, mythologies of masculinity, and how to create healthy cultural ecosystems.   The Crow's Nest is anew weekly series with Ian MacKenzie and special guests. Each episode will riff on the latest current events and themes from a mythopoetic lens.   Become a Founding Member of The School of Mythopoetics http://schoolfomythopoetics.com

In myth, the Underworld is a place of testing and initiation, but hopefully not a final destination. Within many stories the descent is the second element of a three-stage process, leading to a final grounding that is both redemptive and a gift to others. Martin Shaw is suggesting in the West we have often made the Underworld so comfortable, so subtle, and in some cases so chronic, we’ve become a two-stage, not three-stage culture. Without quite knowing it, the Underworld has become home. In this state we experience the liminoid not the liminal, the rupture but not the rapture. Nothing grows, except cynicism. Come and join Martin as he speaks old-world stories and ideas into the malaise of our times.

The reign of the Hero has come to an end. As humanity faces increasing crisis and collapse, we come to a threshold where the archetype of the Hero can no longer be our saviour. We have entered a liminal time – a space between stories – and so we must bend and instead look to, and learn from, the boundary-crossing, shape-shifting Trickster. Join Ben Murphy and John Wolfstone as they explore the significance of this cultural transition and how it applies to each of our lives.