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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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
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Memory, Praise, and Spirit – A Talk by Emmanuel...
Given at St Ethelburga’s Centre for Reconciliation and Peace in London, this talk by Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee explores how praise and prayer in all forms can be pathways to remembering and embodying our spiritual connection with the Earth.
29 min
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Giantstone – Andri Snær Magnason
In this short story by Andri Snær Magnason, time expands and collapses as an architect in Reykjavík struggles against the soulless design of urban landscapes in the Anthropocene.
51 min
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On Time and Water – A Conversation with Andri S...
In this interview, Icelandic writer and documentary filmmaker Andri Snær Magnason discusses our relationship to time in an age of ecological crisis.
61 min
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ChatGPT: A Partner in Unknowing – Dana Karout
Poking fun at how ChatGPT mirrors our limited ways of thinking, Dana Karout challenges our “default programming”, and asks what true creativity, what real responses to our moment of crisis, might emerge from our unknowing?
58 min
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Born was the Mountain – Chelsea Steinauer-Scudder
In this essay Chelsea Steinauer-Scudder explores a collision of values on the summit of Mauna Kea, the proposed site of the world’s largest telescope.
79 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.
71 min
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The Nightingale's Song – A Conversation with Sa...
Singer Sam Lee speaks about the transformative experience of creating songs in collaboration with nightingales and the space for communion that is opened with silence.
53 min
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Time: A Conversation at London’s Architectural ...
Exploring the vision behind Emergence to reweave ecology, culture, and spirituality, Emergence executive editor Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee and architect, artist, and journalist Marko Milovanovic discuss Time, our fifth annual print edition.
42 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
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A Forest Walk – A Guided Practice by Kimberly R...
For Kimberly Ruffin, faith is an experience that is palpable among trees. In this audio practice, she guides you on a sensory walk through the forest.
47 min
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An Ethics of Wild Mind – A Conversation with Da...
In this conversation, poet, translator, and author David Hinton calls for a radical reweaving of mind and land, drawing on Tao and Ch’an Buddhist philosophy to help us navigate the sixth extinction with an ethics tempered by love.
41 min
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When the Earth Started to Sing – David G. Haskell
This sonic journey written and narrated by David G. Haskell brings us to the beginning of sound and song on planet Earth.
42 min
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Sanctuaries of Silence - A Listening Journey
In this immersive listening journey, acoustic ecologist Gordon Hempton guides us into the Hoh Rain Forest, one of the quietest places in North America.
14 min
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Fermentation as Metaphor - A Conversation with ...
In this interview, Sandor Katz, an expert in fermented foods, considers the liberating and connective experience that engagement with microbial communities offers.
47 min
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Earth as Koan, Earth as Self – A Conversation w...
Immersing us in the ancient tradition of Zen koan, Australian writer and Zen teacher Susan Murphy Roshi shares the power of the not-knowing mind to open a treasury of resources for navigating the climate crisis.
66 min
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Reading the Rocks – Jenny Odell
Taking us on a walk through the folds and furrows of her Oakland neighborhood, Jenny Odell steps into the age-old conversation between rocks and water, attuning to a larger narrative of deep, geological time.
27 min
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Holy Terroir: Finding Taste in an Edge-Place – ...
Savoring the complex flavor of milk from local cows who graze on scraps and trash at the outskirts of Pune, India, Lily Kelting contemplates the terroir of an “edge-place” shaped by urbanization, pollution, and a colonial history.
36 min
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Enraptured with Earth – Two talks by Emmanuel V...
Given at our Shifting Landscapes retreat in Devon last year, these two talks by Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee invite us to become enraptured with the Earth again and expand our love to embrace Her in every moment and landscape.
56 min
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Chasing Cicadas – Anisa George
Amid the cacophony of a cicada emergence, Anisa George reflects on her choice to leave the Bahá’í faith. Following her own rhythms of becoming, she seeks unity in a new chorus of voices.
37 min
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Finding Joy in the Unknown – A Conversation wit...
In this interview 17 year-old Dara McAnulty—author and naturalist—speaks about his identity as an autistic person, his award-winning book, and the necessity of staying rooted in joy.
43 min