About this episode

The episode explores how humans have historically navigated crises through connection to the cosmos via songs, poems, and rituals.

We live in times of individual, sociocultural and planetary crisis, exacerbated by rising divisions between people. How have humans historically navigated such times of crisis? Yes, we've organized, taken action, and responded as we've been called to respond. But we have also deepened our connection to the greater cosmos, through songs and poems and rituals of devotion, through crying out to a beloved universe whose workings remain a mystery but to whom we feel intimately and inextricably con...

People in this episode

Host: Joshua Schrei

Topics covered

• crisis
• connection
• songs
• poems
• rituals
• devotion
• cosmos

Keywords

• crisis
• devotion
• songs
• poems
• rituals
• connection
• cosmos

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