Emergence Magazine Podcast
Emergence Magazine is an award-winning magazine exploring the threads connecting ecology, culture and spirituality. Our podcast features exclusive interviews, author-narrated essays, fiction, multipart series, and more. We feature new podcast episodes weekly on Tuesdays.
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Coming Home to the Cove: A Story of Family, Mem...
As the Point Reyes National Seashore deliberates the fate of Theresa Harlan’s family homestead, she continues her grassroots efforts to involve the wider community in protecting the last standing Coast Miwok structures on Tomales Bay.
64 min
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Coming Home to the Cove: A Story of Family, Mem...
Episode Two traces thousands of years of Indigenous presence and history in the greater San Francisco Bay area, all the way through the oppressive colonial systems that have become today’s mainstream culture, and asks: Who gets to define history?
63 min
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Coming Home to the Cove: A Story of Family, Mem...
48 min
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Deep Time Diligence – A Conversation with Tyson...
Aboriginal scholar and author Tyson Yunkaporta illustrates how deep time thinking, born of an intimate relationship between a place and its community, can radically reshape our relationship to the cosmic order.
39 min
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Finding the Mother Tree – A Conversation with S...
In this in-depth interview, Suzanne Simard, the renowned scientist who discovered the “wood-wide web,” speaks about Mother Trees and how to heal our separation from the living world.
66 min
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Wild Clocks – David Farrier
Attentive to the loss of age-old ecological relationships as “wild clocks” fall out of synchronization with each other, David Farrier imagines an opportunity to renew the rhythms by which we live and embody a time rooted in kinship.
40 min
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The Radical Intimacy of Spiritual Ecology – A T...
Given at St. Ethelburga’s Centre for Reconciliation and Peace in London, this talk by Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee explores how an embodied practice of spiritual ecology is a radical act amid a culture that has forgotten the sacred nature of our relationship with the Earth.
57 min
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A Path Older Than Memory – A Conversation with ...
Speaking to us from Liaoning, China, journalist Paul Salopek shares how his personal relationship to time has deepened while moving through the world at three miles per hour.
50 min
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An Ecological Technology – A Conversation with ...
In this interview, writer, artist, and technologist James Bridle questions our fundamental assumptions about intelligence and explores how radical technological models can become portals into deeper relationship with the living world.
59 min
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The Serviceberry: An Economy of Abundance – Rob...
As Robin Wall Kimmerer harvests serviceberries alongside the birds, she considers the ethic of reciprocity that lies at the heart of the gift economy.
48 min
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When the Prince of Heaven Sleeps – Roger Reeves
Centering images of Muhammad Ali, John Coltrane, DMX, and Mike Tyson in postures of rest and repose, poet Roger Reeves reflects on the stillness of their interior worlds as a protest against the control of capitalistic time.
34 min
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Breath-Space and Seed-Time – David Hinton
“Vast and deep, everything and everywhere, including all the depths of our mental realm, this Being is always moving and changing. It is alive somehow.” Read this essay and six-poem sequence on the fabric of space-time by David Hinton.
15 min
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The World Is a Prism, Not a Window – A Conversa...
Pushing the limits of our Western scientific imagination, Zoë Schlanger speaks about her book The Light Eaters, and how embracing plant intelligence can upend the hierarchies we’ve placed around living beings—ourselves included.
51 min
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Practical Reverence – A Conversation with Robin...
In this conversation, Potawatomi botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer speaks about embracing a gift economy, and offers a framework for embodying a practical reverence: an ethic of care, reciprocity, and gratitude for the Earth.
60 min
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Dendrochronology – Robert Moor
Walking amid a tangle of ancient Sitka spruces and cedars on Gwaii Haanas, Robert Moor wonders how old-growth trees can help us feel, rather than intellectualize, not only the deep past, but also our responsibility to the future.
34 min
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Wrinkled Time: The Persistence of Past Worlds o...
“We live in a vast, labyrinthine library of time.” In this essay, geologist Marcia Bjornerud celebrates the deep time-fulness of Earth, and orients us to read the many-volume stories kept in the rock beneath our feet.
33 min
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Unborn and Undying – Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
In this essay, Sufi mystic Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee calls us to bring the love we feel in moments of timelessness into our engagement with a dying world.
24 min
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On Time, Mystery, and Kinship – A Conversation ...
In this conversation, poet Jane Hirshfield speaks about finding an intimacy with mystery, offers a practice against despair, and shares the potential of grief and beauty to draw us into a felt sense of kinship with all life.
102 min
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Remembering Earth Time – A Talk by Emmanuel Vau...
This final talk in a series by Emergence executive editor and Sufi teacher Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee offers a framework to understand Earth Time, not through a linear lens, but through the principles and practices of spiritual ecology.
53 min
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Time and Place – A Talk by Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee
Looking at the relationship between time and place, this second of three talks by Emergence executive editor and Sufi teacher Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee explores a time that—rather than being abstract—is rooted in land and ancestral memory.
36 min
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The Axis of All Things – A Talk by Emmanuel Vau...
In this talk from our Remembering Earth Time retreat in Devon, Emergence executive editor and Sufi teacher Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee turns our attention away from a linear sense of time toward one rooted in the cycles of the Earth.
50 min
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ស្គាល់ មជាតិ Knowing Your Taste – Kalyanee Mam
Reconnecting with her homeland of Cambodia through the taste of Battambang oranges, yellow mushrooms, and chapchang snails, filmmaker Kalyanee Mam remembers her way into an ancestral and spiritual connection with the land.
37 min
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Beings Seen and Unseen – A Conversation with Am...
In this wide-ranging conversation, Amitav Ghosh calls on storytellers to lead us in the necessary work of collective reimagining: decentering human narratives and re-centering stories of the land.
43 min
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Thylacine – Lydia Millet
In this short story, Lydia Millet explores the loss of extinction as a man seeks the company and friendship of the last Tasmanian tiger, housed in a failing zoo.
25 min
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Documenting Shifting Landscapes – A Conversatio...
In this conversation from our Shifting Landscapes exhibition last year, filmmaker Kalyanee Mam talks about her film Lost World, and shares how intimate and heart-centered storytelling connects her to Cambodia’s changing landscapes.
64 min