Omid Safi and mythology knowledgeable Joshua Michael Schrei discover the shared threads of religious traditions, discussing ecstasy, discernment, and the braveness to domesticate a coronary heart that turns into a refuge for others.
This episode was initially recorded for The Emerald, a podcast that explores the human expertise by a vibrant lens of fable, story, and creativeness. Delivered to life by the smart, wild, and humorous imaginative and prescient of Joshua Michael Schrei — a instructor and lifelong scholar of the cosmologies and mythologies of the world — the podcast attracts from a deep effectively of poetry, lore, and mythos to problem standard narratives on politics and public discourse, meditation and mindfulness, artwork, science, literature, and extra. Subscribe to The Emerald in your favourite podcast app for extra conversations like this!
On this episode, Omid and Joshua navigate:
- The connecting thread between totally different religion traditions
- The mythic, the ecstatic, and the embodied
- Making contact with the thriller
- Constructing religious rhythm by each day follow
- Actual friendship: holding up the mirror to at least one one other
- Staying consciously open however sustaining smart boundaries
- Non secular naivety, engaged on discernment, and being conscious of self-justification
- Political activism and taking accountability for our personal roles
- Making our hearts a backyard by which others can search shelter
About Joshua Michael Schrei:
Josh Schrei is a podcaster, fable teller, instructor, and a lifelong scholar of the cosmologies and mythologies of the world—particularly the Indian subcontinent. All through a lifetime of instructing, examine, meditation, and yogic follow, wilderness immersion, artwork, music, and public talking, Josh has sought to navigate the dwelling, animate house of the creativeness and advocate for a world that prioritizes imaginative imaginative and prescient. Josh has taught intensive programs in mythology and somatic disciplines for greater than 20 years. Sustain with Joshua on his web site and keep tuned for contemporary episodes of The Emerald.
“After we re-find that ecstatic thread, then we discover that thread unifies so many issues that we as soon as thought had been disparate. The divine has all the time been accessed musically, by story, by artwork, in so many various methods, by mythic examine. All of this can be a totally different method of getting out of agitated consciousness and into a spot the place we will discover that ecstatic expertise.” –Joshua Michael Schrei
About Omid Safi:
Omid Safi is a instructor within the Islamic mystical custom of Radical Love, and serves as a professor of Islamic research at Duke College. Omid’s ardour for instructing has been acknowledged by his ten nominations for Professor of the 12 months awards. Omid has revealed extensively on the foundational sources of Islam and Sufism. His Recollections of Muhammad is an award-winning biography of the Prophet Muhammad. His most up-to-date guide is Radical Love: Teachings from the Islamic Mystical Custom. He teaches on-line programs by Illuminated Programs on subjects starting from Rumi to the magical dimension of the Qur’an. Lastly, he gives for most people Illuminated Excursions , spiritually oriented contemplative journeys and retreats which have introduced greater than 2,500 associates from over twenty nations to Turkey, Morocco, Andalusia, and now Umrah since 2002.
“There’s such a factor because the darkish facet of the power and there’s super energy in it. There are individuals who derive their cause to dwell and talent to rise up within the day from that very detrimental vitality. I don’t assume it’s the healthiest one, I don’t assume it’s essentially the most stunning one, however to fake that it’s not actual and merely an phantasm I believe that’s setting your self up for a really impolite awakening. Possibly what you need is to carry up the mirror and say sure this has energy, however is that this essentially the most stunning method to dwell? –Omid Safi
