Join musician and activist Peia Luzzi as she delves into the heart-wrenching topics of social and environmental injustices in this podcast episode. Explore themes of grief, sorrow, and longing for a world free from devastation. Through mythological references and original music, embark on a journey of healing and renewal, embracing universal love and sorrow through art and music.
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Howling with Ancestors
Josh Schrei describes a moment with his son in the Weminuche Wilderness.
Both howled together, echoing his ancestors and feeling a connection to an unbroken world.
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Unfractured Mind
Imagine a mind unbroken by modern concepts like "nature" or rectangular gridlines.
What would the world be like without these separations, experienced with unfractured awareness?
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Scar of Modernity
Learning about the world's destruction causes a "contraction of the possible."
Modernity stunts our imaginal capacity, limiting what our minds can grow around.
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Not easy listening, but possibly necessary listening — this episode of The Emerald dives deep into the heart of the grief many are feeling over the social and environmental ills that are plaguing the planet. The consequences of ecosystem destruction, species loss, industrialization, social inequality, and rising extremism can be felt everywhere — acutely, in the bodies of those affected by environmental toxicity, armed conflict, and class divide, and more subtly in the gnawing sense of anxiety that pervades the modern psyche. Our experience of the world feels diminished. A vastness and wonder, a fundamental hope has been seemingly lost. Faced with such devastation, what is there for us to do? The mythic traditions have much to say about grief and woe. Rather than simply being 'about' grief, this episode takes us on a direct journey into the tears, into heartwrenching mythologies of lamentation and woe, through rivers that weep and fields of flowers that cry to the skies. The journey follows Demeter's search for her missing daughter, weaving its way through the story of the sirens, who were fated to sing forever of the violation of the world. Featuring original music by Peia Luzzi and Serena Joy, this is one great keening for the loss of the world, a journey through the depths that emerges at last into the morning meadows where grief and joy are one. It is recommended to listen to this episode on a good sound system or with headphones, when you have dedicated time to feel.
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