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O Holy Rupture: Cracking Open the Great Myth with Joseph Sansonese
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Length:
44 minutes
Released:
Apr 7, 2020
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Podcast episode
Description
There’s a great myth that is told and retold in cultures throughout the world. The story goes like this — something is harnessed, raised upwards, suspended there, until finally there is a great cracking open and then a cascade of sweetness downward. Mythologist Joseph Sansonese calls this — and not Campbell’s monomyth — the real Great Myth. Today on the podcast we explore myths of rupture — from the cracking of Krishna's butter pot to the collapse of Troy — that invoke the yogic process. These myths, according to Sansonese, detail the journey of the individual practitioner toward an experience of yogic union, the trance state, a journey so central to the human story that it is found literally everywhere.Support the show
Released:
Apr 7, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode
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