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    Picture This with All Your Heart: Reclaiming the Urgent Incandescence of Imaginative Vision

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    Picture This with All Your Heart: Reclaiming the Urgent Incandescence of Imaginative Vision

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    Picture This with All Your Heart: Reclaiming the Urgent Incandescence of Imaginative Vision

    FromThe Emerald

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    Length:
    36 minutes
    Released:
    Oct 1, 2019
    Format:
    Podcast episode

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    The active practice of imaginative visioning has been utterly central for many societies. Far from being fantasy, such practices reinforce a deep understanding of the cosmos in which the active cultivation of imagination relates directly to tangible actualization — the ability to do, to see and understand, to shape one’s mind and therefore one’s life, to reap the benefits of spaciousness, luminosity, and calm in the mind, to bridge the inner and outer worlds, to understand oneself, the place of the individual within a community and cosmos. Considering its prevalence, it’s quite possible that ultimately for human culture to survive we need to actively imagine and seek visions.Support the show
    Released:
    Oct 1, 2019
    Format:
    Podcast episode

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    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 missing in modern discourse and is urgently needed at a time when humanity is facing unprecedented problems. The Emerald advocates for an imaginative vision of human life and human discourse as it questions deep underlying assumptions about societal progress.