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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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
2
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
3
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
4
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
5
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
9
In the Wake of the Sandbound – Nick Hunt
36 min
10
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
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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
12
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
13
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
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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
15
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
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Another Kind of Time – A Conversation with Jenn...
In this sweeping interview, Jenny Odell, artist and author of “Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock,” invites us to embrace ways of relating to time that are tuned to the rhythms and patterns of the Earth.
63 min
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Coming Home to the Cove: A Story of Family, Mem...
The new episode of our “Coming Home to the Cove” audio series explores the impact of Theresa Harlan’s vision to re-Indigenize both the history and future of her Coast Miwok family’s ancestral home.
59 min
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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
22
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
23
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