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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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
2
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
3
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
4
Listening for Silence — an Emergence Magazine ...
Discover how the simple act of deep listening can change your relationship to the living world.
15 min
5
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
6
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
7
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
8
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
9
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
10
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
11
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
12
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
13
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
14
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
15
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
16
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
17
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
18
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
19
In the Wake of the Sandbound – Nick Hunt
36 min
20
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
21
A Special Celebration of the Earth’s Sounds and...
In celebration of Earth Day, this episode invites you to offer your ears to the polyphony of sounds and silences that give the planet Her voice with two of our most cherished audio stories.
70 min
22
The Fault of Time – Erica Berry
Grappling with the impermanence of landscape, made evident in Montana’s wildfires and the Cascadia earthquake, Erica Berry tries to hold the shifting lands she loves.
25 min
23
Telling the Bees – Emily Polk
Bees have long been witness to human grief, carrying messages between the living and the dead. Finding solace in the company of bees, Emily Polk opens to the widening circles of loss around her and an enduring spirit of survival.
28 min
24
Song of the Cedars – A Conversation with Giulia...
Bringing in the voice of the forest, four members of the More Than Human Life Collective share the story of co-composing a song with the Los Cedros cloud forest in Ecuador and explore how its authorship might be legally recognized.
54 min
25
The Time Traveler’s Wife’s Husband – Tyson Yunk...
Using the connective power of love magic and a traditional boomerang encoded with relational knowledge, Aboriginal scholar Tyson Yunkaporta throws “spears” at the arrow of linear time.
30 min