Episodes

  • Dendrochronology – Robert Moor

    Dendrochronology – Robert Moor
    Nov 19 2024
    In this narrated essay, writer Robert Moor journeys to Haida Gwaii, an island chain in British Columbia, for the anniversary of a historic agreement between the Haida Nation and the Canadian government that protects the landscape’s last remaining old-growth forests after decades of logging. As he walks through forest stewarded for generations by Haida, Robert begins to see the tangle of Sitka spruces and cedars, mosses and lichens, not as a site of slow decay, but of ongoing growth. How can being in the presence of ancient trees, he asks, help us feel, rather than intellectualize, not only the deep past, but also our responsibility to the future? Read the essay. Discover more stories from our latest print edition, Volume 5: Time. Artwork by Maurits Wouters. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    34 mins
  • Wrinkled Time: The Persistence of Past Worlds on Earth – Marcia Bjornerud

    Wrinkled Time: The Persistence of Past Worlds on Earth – Marcia Bjornerud
    Nov 12 2024
    The Earth has a story that far precedes ours. Before we arrived on the scene, the Earth was already ancient beyond belief, shaped and reshaped by tectonic upheavals, climate changes, and mass extinctions—an evolution She has meticulously archived in the strata and sediment beneath our feet. In this narrated essay, author and geologist Marcia Bjornerud orients us to read these many-volume memoirs of our planet. Celebrating the deep time-fulness of Earth—the four billion years of dynamism that have made this moment possible—she wonders what might happen to our understanding of the past and the present if we remembered the stories that came before our humancentric one. Read the essay. Discover more stories from our latest print edition, Volume 5: Time. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    34 mins
  • Unborn and Undying – Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

    Unborn and Undying – Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
    Nov 5 2024
    Our inner and outer worlds, while constantly changing, feed into each other, mirror each other, and both carry an imprint of what is eternal. In this narrated essay, author and Sufi mystic Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee shows us how the sacred dimension of time, where the linear is absent, can lead us inwards to silence and emptiness; and outwards, towards a pure sensory awareness of the sights, sounds, and rhythms of the Earth. Sharing that time and timelessness “are not separate but part of a living structure that includes a mayfly that lives for a day and a thousand-year-old sequoia,” Llewellyn calls us to regain a relationship with time beyond numbers and schedules; to remember that time belongs to the deeper patterns of life. Read the essay. Discover more stories from our latest print edition, Volume 5: Time. Artwork by Laura Dutton. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    25 mins
  • On Time, Mystery, and Kinship – A Conversation with Jane Hirshfield

    On Time, Mystery, and Kinship – A Conversation with Jane Hirshfield
    Oct 29 2024
    Jane Hirshfield’s poetry is both mystical and deeply rooted in physical life, opening our eyes and hearts to what lies at the periphery—what is both ordinary and invisible amid the clamor of modern life—and reorienting us to engage from a space of wonder. In this expansive conversation, Jane recites several of her poems, including "Time Thinks of Time," from our fifth print edition. Drawing on a lifelong relationship with Zen, she speaks about how a profoundly felt intimacy between self and world can recalibrate our ethics, helping us find both humility and an inner spaciousness that can lead us towards being in service to the Earth. Read the transcript. Read Jane’s poem "Time Thinks of Time." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 hr and 42 mins
  • Remembering Earth Time – A Talk by Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee

    Remembering Earth Time – A Talk by Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee
    Oct 22 2024
    This third and final talk from a series by Emergence executive editor and Sufi teacher Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee weaves together ideas from the previous two, exploring how time and place, love and kinship, the cycles and rhythms of creation, all flow in concert as an expression of the Earth. Offering a way to understand Earth Time through the principles and practices of spiritual ecology, Emmanuel speaks to how we might let go of mechanized time by connecting our inner and outer senses with the cycles that live and spin around and within us. When we reorient ourselves to be in relationship with the essential rhythms of life, we can come to know time as an animate, alive, and sacred expression of the love that runs through all things. Read the transcript Find out more about our latest print edition, Volume 5: Time. Credit: Photo by Alecio Ferrari / Connected Archives. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    54 mins
  • Time and Place – A Talk by Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee

    Time and Place – A Talk by Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee
    Oct 15 2024
    Through the concept of “space-time” we can understand how the movement of time is fused with physical space into a continuum. But what are the nuances of this relationship, in which time imprints place with meaning, and vice versa? This week’s podcast is the second of three talks given at our Remembering Earth Time retreat earlier this year in Devon, England. Picking up the thread laid out in the previous talk on working with the love that runs through time, Emergence executive editor and Sufi teacher Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee speaks about how the intimate relationship between time and place, expressed through the cycles ever-present in our landscapes, can help us form ties of kinship with the Earth. When time becomes rooted rather than abstract, he says, we can once again find ourselves a participant in the mystery and magic of creation. Read the transcript. Find out more about our latest print edition, Volume 5: Time. Photo by Carl Ander / Connected Archives. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    37 mins
  • The Axis of All Things – A Talk by Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee

    The Axis of All Things – A Talk by Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee
    Oct 8 2024
    In this first talk in a series that brings together many of the themes explored in our latest print edition, Emergence executive editor and Sufi teacher Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee offers a way to re-attune our sense of time to be in relationship with the cycles of the Earth—from the deep time movement of mountains, to the fleeting bloom and decay of cherry blossom. While we have stripped time down to a single expression, forgetting the axis of love that runs through it, Emmanuel talks about how inner cycles of breath and heartbeat can return us to a more expansive story of time in which spirit and matter are once again braided together. Read the transcript. Find out more about our latest print edition, Volume 5: Time. Photo by Dennis Eichmann / Connected Archives. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    51 mins
  • ស្គាល់ មជាតិ Knowing Your Taste – Kalyanee Mam

    ស្គាល់ មជាតិ Knowing Your Taste – Kalyanee Mam
    Oct 1 2024
    Released this week, the final film in our Shifting Landscapes documentary film series, Taste of the Land, tells the story of Cambodian-American filmmaker Kalyanee Mam’s search for a spiritual relationship with her homeland. In this companion essay by Kalyanee, she delves deeper into her experiences of cheate—the Khmer word for “taste”—and how she came to understand that to truly know the essence of the land, one must know its taste. Tracing her life back to its very beginnings, she shares her first “land-taste”—the sweet flavor of Battambang oranges—and the many tastes that came after that slowly deepened the yearning in her heart to truly know the soils, waters, mountains, people, and plants of Cambodia. As she reflects on the spiritual fallout of her family’s severed relationship with their homeland, she also contemplates the essential connection that was kept alive through stories, language, and food shared by her parents. Read the essay Watch the feature film Taste of the Land, by Adam Loften and Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee, the fourth in our four-part Shifting Landscapes documentary film series. Photo by Jeremy Seifert. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    38 mins