Sei and Her Soul Are Separated: The Colonization of Consciousness and Reclaiming the Visionary State
The Emerald
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The Emerald is a podcast where we explore an ever-changing world and our lives in it through the lens of myth, story and imagination. There's an old Zen Koan about a woman named Sei who marries her childhood friend but doesn't want to marry him. In modern western understanding of consciousness, certain states are afforded the status of more important or real than others. Is the dream state less important than what we call normal waking consciousness? And how have we historically treated those states of consciousness that veer from what has been termed normalcy?
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