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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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
3
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
9
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
10
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
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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
12
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
18
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
20
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
21
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
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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