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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Sanctuaries of Silence - A Listening Journey
Equipped with his binaural microphone system, acoust...
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Apr 16 2024 14m
Chapter 1 13 mins
Listening to the Earth's Silence
Fermentation as Metaphor - A Conversation with Sandor Katz
How can we repair our connection with what we eat, r...
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Apr 9 2024 47m
Chapter 1 13 mins
Cultivating Connection Through FermentationChapter 2 11 mins
The Mystical Significance of FermentationChapter 3 14 mins
The Resurgence of FermentationChapter 4 6 mins
Benefits of Fermentation in Modern LifeChapter 5 37 sec
Exploring Ecology, Culture, and Spirituality
Earth as Koan, Earth as Self – A Conversation with Susan Murphy Roshi
Spending time with a landscape opens us to the langu...
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Apr 2 2024 1h 6m
Chapter 1 8 mins
Exploring Zen Koans Amid CrisisChapter 2 19 mins
Exploring Koans for Healing and UnderstandingChapter 3 16 mins
Embracing Uncertainty and RegenerationChapter 4 8 mins
The Koan of Form and EmptinessChapter 5 13 mins
Reconciliation With Earth Through Spirituality
Reading the Rocks – Jenny Odell
Spending time with a landscape opens us to the langu...
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Mar 26 2024 27m
Chapter 1 15 mins
Exploring Nature's Language Through GeologyChapter 2 10 mins
Geology and Deep Connection to EarthChapter 3 28 sec
Exploring Ecology, Culture, and Spirituality
Holy Terroir: Finding Taste in an Edge-Place – by Lily Kelting
How do we taste a landscape? In this narrated essay,...
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Mar 19 2024 36m
Chapter 1 17 mins
Cultivating Terroir in Urban SpacesChapter 2 17 mins
The Taste of Indian MilkChapter 3 1 min
Cities of the Future
Enraptured with Earth – Two talks by Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee
At our Shifting Landscapes retreat held at Sharpham ...
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Mar 12 2024 56m
Chapter 1 10 mins
Becoming a Lover of the EarthChapter 2 22 mins
Exploring Love and TendernessChapter 3 22 mins
Embracing Connection With NatureChapter 4 37 sec
Exploring Ecology, Culture, Spirituality With Emergence
Chasing Cicadas – Anisa George
In anticipation of this year’s massive cicada emerge...
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Mar 5 2024 37m
Chapter 1 17 mins
CicadasChapter 2 18 mins
Emerging Belonging and Identity GrowthChapter 3 37 sec
Exploring Ecology, Culture, and Spirituality
Finding Joy in the Unknown – A Conversation with Dara McAnulty
Envisioning a future colored by a worsening ecologic...
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Feb 27 2024 43m
Chapter 1 10 mins
"Exploring Joy and Connection With Nature"Chapter 2 4 mins
Family, Nature, and Finding BalanceChapter 3 14 mins
Challenging Notions of Joy and AutismChapter 4 11 mins
Unveiling Confidence Through SeasonsChapter 5 2 mins
Exploring Nature's Spiritual Connections
Deep Time Diligence – An Interview with Tyson Yunkaporta
What would it mean to operate from a place of deep t...
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Feb 20 2024 39m
Chapter 1 13 mins
Exploring Time and Place RelationsChapter 2 7 mins
Emergence, Technology, and Deep TimeChapter 3 15 mins
The Power of Interconnected StoriesChapter 4 2 mins
Living in Harmony With the Land
Mycelial Landscapes – A Conversation with Merlin Sheldrake and Barney Steel
Recorded live at our Shifting Landscapes exhibition ...
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Feb 13 2024 1h 6m
Chapter 1 17 mins
Science and Art in Understanding FungiChapter 2 9 mins
Exploring Boundaries and Mysteries in RelationshipsChapter 3 10 mins
Exploring the Mysteries of Fungal LifeChapter 4 7 mins
Exploring Process vs Substance in PhilosophyChapter 5 12 mins
Rethinking Intelligence and Relationships With NatureChapter 6 7 mins
The Power of Symbiotic RelationshipsChapter 7 37 sec
The Origins Magazine and Its Initiatives
Glacial Longings – Elizabeth Rush
Taking us to the collapsing face of Thwaites Glacier...
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Feb 6 2024 34m
Chapter 1 15 mins
Exploring the Thwaites Glacier in AntarcticaChapter 2 17 mins
Antarctica's Ice Sheet Withdrawal ImpactChapter 3 1 min
Exploring Connections
Seeds of Reciprocity – A Panel Discussion with Kalyanee Mam, Joycelyn Longdon, and Sam Lee, moderated by Emmanuel V...
Held at our Shifting Landscapes exhibition in Decemb...
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Jan 30 2024 1h 9m
Chapter 1 14 mins
Exploring Connection and Reciprocity With EarthChapter 2 5 mins
Listening and Being in CommunityChapter 3 5 mins
Surrender and Listen for Powerful ResultsChapter 4 10 mins
Surrender and Ancient WisdomChapter 5 7 mins
Trust and Synchronicity in NatureChapter 6 7 mins
Surrender and Cultivation in Environmental ActivismChapter 7 17 mins
The Importance of Love and Connection
Widening Circles – a conversation with Joanna Macy
From her first experiences of heart connection with ...
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Jan 23 2024 34m
Chapter 1 12 mins
Joanna Macy Reflects on Earth's ConnectionChapter 2 10 mins
From Despair to ActionChapter 3 10 mins
Learning Deep Ecology, Listening, DiscoveringChapter 4 1 min
Emergence Magazine
An Offering of Remembrance – a talk by Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee
We have forgotten the covenant of primordial love an...
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Jan 16 2024 44m
Chapter 1 23 mins
Changing Landscapes, Our Relationship With EarthChapter 2 6 mins
Awakening the Love for the EarthChapter 3 10 mins
Power of Love and Sacred SpacesChapter 4 3 mins
The Importance of Creating Space
A Path Older Than Memory – a conversation with Paul Salopek
In this conversation, Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee speaks wi...
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Jan 9 2024 50m
Chapter 1 15 mins
Embodied TimeChapter 2 12 mins
Walking, Time, and the MetaphysicalChapter 3 9 mins
Walking With Local PeopleChapter 4 11 mins
Rediscovering the Handmade World
Valemon The Bear: Myth in the Age of the Anthropocene – featuring Martin Shaw
In an audio adaptation of our multimedia experience ...
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Jan 2 2024 15m
Chapter 1 13 mins
Valamon the BearChapter 2 1 min
Introduction to Emergence Magazine Initiative
Be Earth Now – Rainer Maria Rilke recited by Joanna Macy and Anita Barrows
In our final podcast of the year, a special selectio...
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Dec 19 2023 22m
Chapter 1 18 mins
Rilke's Poetry and Spiritual YearningChapter 2 4 mins
The Wisdom of Earth's Intelligence
Sanctuary – Camille T. Dungy
Witnessing the cry of the Earth, in its myriad permu...
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Dec 12 2023 5m
Chapter 1 5 mins
Tender Connections
And Peace Shall Return — Ben Okri
In this short story, Booker Prize–winning Nigerian a...
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Dec 5 2023 56m
Chapter 1 15 mins
Reflections on Humanity's Destruction and FutureChapter 2 15 mins
The Prophetic Genius of a ChildChapter 3 8 mins
The Harsh Realities of Climate ChangeChapter 4 15 mins
The World's EndChapter 5 1 min
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An Ecological Technology – a conversation with James Bridle
Interrogating where AI models originate from and who...
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Nov 28 2023 59m
Chapter 1 15 mins
Reimagining AI and Expanding IntelligenceChapter 2 4 mins
Embodied Intelligence and the Unknowable WorldChapter 3 7 mins
Reimagining Technology and Our RelationshipChapter 4 6 mins
Oracle Machines and Rethinking ComputationChapter 5 7 mins
Decentralization and Non-Binary Thinking in TechnologyChapter 6 5 mins
Challenging Domination and Embracing UnknowingChapter 7 6 mins
Including Non-Humans in PoliticsChapter 8 5 mins
Rebuilding Agency and Hope Through Action
Corn Tastes Better on the Honor System – Robin Wall Kimmerer
In one of our favorite stories, “Corn Tastes Better ...
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Nov 21 2023 58m
When You Could Hear the Trees – Kerri ní Dochartaigh
In this narrated essay, Kerri ní Dochartaigh’s exper...
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Nov 14 2023 35m
Chapter 1 16 mins
Transformative Experience of MotherhoodChapter 2 18 mins
Healing Power of Motherhood and Nature
The Stories I Haven’t Been Told – Jamie Figueroa
How do our inheritances shape our lives? In this wee...
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Nov 7 2023 50m
Chapter 1 15 mins
Exploring Inherited Trauma Through WritingChapter 2 15 mins
Navigating Identity and Cultural TraumaChapter 3 17 mins
Identity and Healing Through Personal NarrativesChapter 4 1 min
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Be Dammed – Laia Jufresa
This week, we share a short story by Mexican author ...
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Oct 31 2023 32m
Chapter 1 9 mins
Climate Change and Power of FaithChapter 2 12 mins
Hoping for a MiracleChapter 3 7 mins
Praying for the Bridge to OpenChapter 4 1 min
Special Exhibition
Portholes – Anna Badkhen
What can we learn from imprints in the earth about t...
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Oct 24 2023 31m
Chapter 1 19 mins
Unearthing Ecological Imprints and Ancient MemoriesChapter 2 10 mins
Tenderness for Prairie and Humanity TracesChapter 3 1 min
Emergence Magazine's Immersive Exhibition in London