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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A Story of Requiem, Invitation, and Celebration...
This second talk in a series by Emergence executive editor and Sufi teacher Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee explores how the story told by the seasons can help us remember a reverence for the cyclical nature of existence.
42 min
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Unfurling the Spiral – A Talk by Emmanuel Vaugh...
In this talk from our Song of the Seasons retreat on Whidbey Island, Emergence executive editor and Sufi teacher Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee explores how the cyclical nature of the seasons unfurls like a spiral that can draw us deeper into kinship with the Earth.
46 min
3
Thin White Line – Maya Pace
Writer and community practitioner Maya Pace awakens to how California’s essential nature, dry, scorched, renewed by flame, has been repressed for centuries by our ideals of paradise.
32 min
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Making the Invisible Visible – A Conversation w...
Recorded live at our Shifting Landscapes exhibition, this conversation with Marshmallow Laser Feast’s creative director Ersin Han Ersin explores the power of experiential art to broaden our perception of more-than-human experiences.
60 min
5
Museum of Color – Stephanie Krzywonos
From ochre to lapis lazuli, Stephanie Krzywonos opens a door into the entangled histories of our most iconic pigments, revealing how colors hold stories of both lightness and darkness.
47 min
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Thirty Years – Annabel Howard
Annabel Howard reaches for certitude amid a world aflame, only to glimpse the paradox of apocalypse: that in ending there lies beginning.
14 min
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Widening Circles — A Conversation with Joanna M...
In honor of the recent passing of the eco-philosopher, Buddhist scholar, and dear friend Joanna Macy, we return to our interview with her from 2018.
35 min
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Being with the Dark — an Emergence Magazine Pra...
Immerse yourself in nightfall and welcome the night as a window into mystery and awe.
15 min
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Listening for Silence — an Emergence Magazine ...
Discover how the simple act of deep listening can change your relationship to the living world.
15 min
10
Listening to the Language of Birds — A Practice...
Listen with attention and curiosity to consider what is at stake in a world where silence has gone extinct.
15 min
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Encountering Trees — an Emergence Magazine Prac...
Align your breath with the respiration of a tree, feeling the ways you are bound together in relationship.
15 min
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Ledgers in the Land — an Emergence Magazine Pra...
How is the Earth always recording and remembering? Travel through the past and future of your landscape with this practice that takes you on a journey through the enduring topography, ecosystems, and human imprints in your homeplace.
15 min
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Meeting Kairos — an Emergence Magazine Practice
How does your sense of time shape how you participate in the world? Exploring experiences of “Kairos time”—openings in time in the wake of change—this practice orients you to opportunities within the unpredictable.
16 min
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Walking Out of Time — an Emergence Magazine Pra...
Step into the expanse of the timeless by following the metronomic rhythm of your feet as you walk through bustling street or secluded woodland, opening to a simultaneous experience of deep inwardness and profound outer attentiveness.
16 min
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Kinship Time — an Emergence Magazine Practice
Experience the ways time is created together with the Earth with this practice that invites you to attune to the conversation between your body and the more-than-human beings in your ecosystem.
14 min
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Becoming Earth: An Experimental Theology – Robi...
Wandering among the ancient decomposing cedar trees of the Andrews Experimental Forest in Oregon, Potawatomi botanist and author Robin Wall Kimmerer wonders what they might teach us about the nature of our own afterlife.
29 min
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Is Paddy Heneghan Dead? – Liam Heneghan
Ecosystem ecologist Liam Heneghan, keeping vigil by his father’s bedside, glimpses how all life resides in the kingdom of decay.
26 min
18
Fire in the Belly — Tyson Yunkaporta
Probing the way we overthink and underfeel our existence, Aboriginal scholar Tyson Yunkaporta urges us to attend to a vital intelligence beyond the cerebral: the fire in our gut.
30 min
19
Supracellular: A Meditation – Sophie Strand
Opening up to “a supracellular state,” Sophie Strand uses her imagination to feel herself as part of the more-than-human: as river, as mycelial network, as the blood of a monarch butterfly.
19 min
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Sun House – A Conversation with David James Duncan
Ranging from mountains that move to the wisdom of the great mystics, author David James Duncan speaks about his new novel Sun House, an epic story offering an experiential model of contemplative inner life amid ecological unraveling.
70 min
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The Ethics of Listening to Whales – A Conversat...
If we came to translate the vowels, diphthongs, and tones within the clicks of whales, what might we hear? This conversation explores the ethical, legal, and relational implications of using AI to decode the language of sperm whales.
65 min
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Is a River Alive? – A Conversation with Robert ...
Listening for the voices of rivers, acclaimed author Robert Macfarlane finds himself in the depths of their mystery. Tracing his journeys with three willful waterways, he asks how we can remember rivers as spirited beings.
64 min
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A Small King – Nicholas Triolo
With a book of Thomas Merton’s writings in his pack, Nicholas Triolo walks the length of Portugal’s Rio Côa in search of what it means to rewild land and ourselves in a time of ecological collapse and despair.
45 min
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In the Wake of the Sandbound – Nick Hunt
36 min
25
The Aquarium – Daisy Hildyard read by Colin Salmon
Daisy Hildyard envisions the deep-time evolution of Scarborough’s coastline—from a prehistoric meteor strike to a future where humans have become marine hybrids. Created as part of Wild Eye and with vivid narration by Colin Salmon.
28 min