About this episode

This episode explores the cultural clutter surrounding the concept of 'The Goddess' and its various interpretations in modern society.

There’s a lot of cultural clutter these days around 'The Goddess.' She appears everywhere, her many names are invoked free of context in a hundred thousand ways. She’s what? An empowerment tool. An archetype. A self-help course. A political symbol. Something that is invoked to bring more creative energy or material abundance into our lives. Something that, in an individualistic modern world, always seems to have a whole lot to do with us. Yet the goddess, traditionally, is much more tha...

People in this episode

Host: Joshua Schrei

Topics covered

• Goddess
• empowerment
• archetype
• self-help
• political symbol
• creative energy
• material abundance

Keywords

• Goddess
• empowerment
• archetype
• self-help
• political symbol
• creative energy
• material abundance

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