Emergence Magazine Podcast

Song of the Seasons: A Meditation on Cycles, Story, and Humility – by Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee

14 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

This special episode features the audio edition of our new pocket book, Song of the Seasons, by Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee, which offers a meditation on how...

Wildflower Beauty and the Search for Home – by David George Haskell

07 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

This week, biologist David George Haskell brings us into the tangled histories and biological rhythms of four wildflowers that grow around his home in...

Making Light: An Invitation… – by Kerri ní Dochartaigh

31 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Irish author Kerri ní Dochartaigh offers an evocation on how we might hold the duality of lightness and darkness in a world increasingly d...

A Thousand Ways to Live Within the Seasons — A Conversation with David G. Haskell, Dara McAnulty, and Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee

24 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In this second episode of our seasons conversation series, Volume 6 contributors David G. Haskell and Dara McAnulty explore how our senses shape myria...

Summer Light: A Failed Essay in Four Parts – Jake Skeets

17 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Diné poet Jake Skeets brings us into the rising dust, big sky, and bent light of summers on the Navajo Nation, and explores how the body i...

On the Road with Thomas Merton - Fred Bahnson

10 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

For Christian mystic Thomas Merton, the sacred and the profane were continuous: all was alive with divine presence. Stands of redwoods were his cathed...

The Springing Time - Melanie Challenger

03 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Can we learn from more-than-human beings how to bring our bodies into a more direct conversation with the seasons? In this week’s story, bioethics a...

Echoic Memory - CMarie Fuhrman

24 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

This week, author and poet CMarie Fuhrman listens to the forest speak its old stories through the roll of thunder, the river emptied of salmon, and th...

A Hollow Bone - Terry Tempest Williams

17 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In a season of loss, how does absence offer a greater understanding of presence? This week, Terry Tempest Williams brings us into her love affair with...

Tortoise Station – Lydia Millet

10 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Depicting a distant age in which river guardians, mothmen, and condor trackers strive to protect a dying world, novelist Lydia Millet asks whether we ...

Memory of Winter - Zoë Schlanger

03 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

For plants, the moment of spring emergence is the gamble of their lives, says journalist Zoë Schlanger. They rely on a convergence of genetic instruc...

Theia - Brian Isett

27 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In this week’s story, biologist Brian Isett ponders the age-old question his young daughter will inevitably ask — Where did the Moon come from? —...

The Heart of Requiem — A Conversation with Susan Murphy Roshi, Terry Tempest Williams, and Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee

20 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Sharing a depth of attention for what stands to be lost in our relationship with the seasons, Volume 6 contributors Terry Tempest Williams and Susan M...

Learning to Listen to Plants – A Conversation with Monica Gagliano

13 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

How might our understanding of plants transform if it embraced the voices of plants themselves? In this conversation, research scientist Monica Gaglia...

A River Reborn: Eco-Cultural Revitalization on the Klamath – Ben Goldfarb

06 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Journalist Ben Goldfarb follows the winding course of the Klamath River, from Oregon’s high desert plateaus to the Pacific Ocean in Northern Califor...

Be Earth Now – Rainer Maria Rilke recited by Joanna Macy and Anita Barrows

16 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Earlier this year, the remarkable eco-philosopher Joanna Macy passed away at age ninety-six. Among her many gifts, she was a seminal translator of the...

Alive in the Skin of a River’s Flow – Susan Murphy Roshi

09 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this week’s story, Australian writer and Zen roshi Susan Murphy explores how haiku’s reflections of the seasons are being disrupted by the clim...

The Substrate of Mystery: Mycelial Networks, Mutualism, and Symbiosis – A Conversation with Merlin Sheldrake

02 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Fungi are veteran survivors of ecological disruption, and they demonstrate a radically different approach to crisis and decision-making than we do. Wh...

Practical Reverence – A Conversation with Robin Wall Kimmerer

25 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This Thanksgiving holiday, we return to a conversation with Potawatomi botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer, where she talks about her new book The Serviceber...

Seasons: A Conversation at the Tate Modern – with Melanie Challenger, Sam Lee, Dara McAnulty, Kerri ní Dochartaigh and Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee

18 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In November, we celebrated the launch of our latest print edition, Seasons, at the Tate Modern in London. Recorded live at the event, this conversatio...

Earth as Koan, Earth as Self – A Conversation with Susan Murphy Roshi

11 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this conversation from our archive, Australian writer and Zen roshi Susan Murphy immerses us in the ancient tradition of koan and the power of the ...

On Time, Mystery, and Kinship – A Conversation with Jane Hirshfield

04 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We return to one of our most in-depth interviews this week: a conversation with poet Jane Hirshfield, who has contributed a new poem to our latest pri...

Strange New World - Roy Scranton

28 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Probing the flatness of his Midwestern landscape, Roy Scranton challenges us to peer beyond what meets the eye to engage more thoughtfully with a plac...

Offering Our Attention with Humility – A Talk by Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee

21 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this final talk of a three-part series, Emergence executive editor and Sufi teacher Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee speaks about two essential elements needed...

A Story of Requiem, Invitation, and Celebration – A Talk by Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee

14 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We are in need of stories that can help us navigate the complexity of our moment: both the unfolding ecological catastrophe and the love we feel for o...

Unfurling the Spiral – A Talk by Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee

07 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

As an introduction to the themes within our latest print volume, Seasons, we’re sharing a series of talks over the next few weeks given by Emergence...

Thin White Line – Maya Pace

30 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

After the destructive fires of 2020, writer and facilitator Maya Pace awakens to how California’s essential dry, scorched nature has been repressed ...

Making the Invisible Visible – A Conversation with Ersin Han Ersin

23 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A companion to our Breathing with the Forest feature, this conversation from our 2023 Shifting Landscapes exhibition with Marshmallow Laser Feast dire...

Museum of Color – Stephanie Krzywonos

16 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Nonfiction writer Stephanie Krzywonos opens a door into the histories of our most iconic and desired pigments, from ochre to bone black, lapis lazuli ...

Thirty Years – Annabel Howard

09 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

What if we had only decades left before the final harvest capable of feeding the world? Accustomed to Earth’s abundance year after year, can we imag...

Widening Circles — A Conversation with Joanna Macy

02 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In honor of the recent passing of the eco-philosopher, Buddhist scholar, and dear friend Joanna Macy, we return to our interview with her from 2018. I...

Being with the Dark — an Emergence Magazine Practice

26 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We’re living in a world that is perpetually bathed in artificial light. We repel the dark. Yet, we live in the midst of what is often referred to as...

Listening for Silence  — an Emergence Magazine Practice

19 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

What does it mean to listen without judgement, allowing your ears to be present, open, and curious? Inspired by our virtual reality film Sanctuaries o...

Listening to the Language of Birds — A Practice by David G. Haskell

12 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Biologist David G. Haskell calls the practice of listening to other species the original “augmented reality.” In opening our minds to the language...

Encountering Trees — an Emergence Magazine Practice

05 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We continue our summer of practice with a second series of audio practices throughout August. In this episode, you are encouraged to respond to the wa...

Ledgers in the Land — an Emergence Magazine Practice

29 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, we bring you the final Time audio practice—the fourth in a series exploring how we can come to dwell within a kind of time that is ...

Meeting Kairos — an Emergence Magazine Practice

22 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In Ancient Greek mythology, the old and powerful god Chronos oversaw the linear progression of time. Kairos, the youthful, wing-footed god of opportun...

Walking Out of Time — an Emergence Magazine Practice

15 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This summer, we’re sharing a series of audio practices—each inviting you into an experience of Earth time. This episode orients you towards one of...

Kinship Time — an Emergence Magazine Practice

08 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

What happens when we’re able to inhabit time—even if momentarily—in an entirely new way? And how could this shift the way we relate and engage w...

Becoming Earth: An Experimental Theology – Robin Wall Kimmerer

01 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Potawatomi botanist and author Robin Wall Kimmerer visits the Andrews Experimental Forest in Oregon, where over the course of two centuries scientists...

Is Paddy Heneghan Dead? – Liam Heneghan

24 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this third story we’re sharing in partnership with the Center for Humans and Nature, ecosystem ecologist Liam Heneghan turns to a council of phil...

Fire in the Belly — Tyson Yunkaporta

17 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The second in a series of stories we’re sharing in partnership with the Center for Humans and Nature, this narrated essay by Aboriginal scholar Tyso...

Supracellular: A Meditation – Sophie Strand

10 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Over the next month we'll be sharing four stories in partnership with the Center for Humans and Nature. In this first one, author Sophie Strand uses h...

Sun House – A Conversation with David James Duncan

03 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

What does it mean to search for transcendence in a world going completely out of balance? From our archive, this interview with acclaimed author David...

The Ethics of Listening to Whales – A Conversation with James Bridle, Rebecca Giggs, César Rodríguez-Garavito, and Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee

27 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

What if we listened to the complex clicks of whales and could understand their meanings? What would we hear and how might we respond? More-Than-Human ...

Is a River Alive? – A Conversation with Robert Macfarlane

20 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this conversation, acclaimed author Robert Macfarlane asks the ancient and urgent question: is a river alive? Understanding rivers to be presences,...

A Small King – Nicholas Triolo

13 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Writer Nicholas Triolo walks the length of the Rio Côa in central Portugal with a book by Christian mystic Thomas Merton in his pack. For Merton, the...

In the Wake of the Sandbound – Nick Hunt

06 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Nick Hunt traverses the spine of the Curonian Spit in the Baltic Sea, and learns how its sands—anchored by forest roots for millennia—began to mov...

The Aquarium – Daisy Hildyard read by Colin Salmon

29 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

English novelist Daisy Hildyard envisions the deep time evolution of the coastline of Scarborough, North Yorkshire: from a prehistoric meteor strike, ...

A Special Celebration of the Earth’s Sounds and Songs

22 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 t...

The Fault of Time – Erica Berry

15 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

As humans, we long for stability, yet the Earth tells us in many languages—erosion, ice melt, the seasons—that all is fleeting in an endless cycle...

Telling the Bees – Emily Polk

08 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In the tradition of telling the bees, beekeepers relay the news of a death in the family to each of their hives, oftentimes draping them in black mour...

Song of the Cedars – A Conversation with Giuliana Furci, Robert Macfarlane, César Rodríguez-Garavito, and Cosmo Sheldrake

01 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

On a field trip to Los Cedros cloud forest in Ecuador in 2022, mycologist Giuliana Furci, author Robert Macfarlane, legal scholar and More Than Human ...

The Time Traveler’s Wife’s Husband – Tyson Yunkaporta

25 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this experiential essay, Aboriginal scholar Tyson Yunkaporta breaks the constructs of linear time and storytelling with love magic—a connective s...

Another Kind of Time – A Conversation with Jenny Odell

18 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

From the archive, this week’s episode is a conversation with author and artist Jenny Odell. Speaking about her book Saving Time: Discovering a Life ...

Coming Home to the Cove: A Story of Family, Memory, and Stolen Land – Episode 4

11 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

What does a place, a community, look like when it welcomes home Indigenous presence? Recorded in January 2025, this new fourth episode of “Coming Ho...

Coming Home to the Cove: A Story of Family, Memory, and Stolen Land – Episode 3

04 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This audio series is the multigenerational story of a Coast Miwok family’s eviction from their home and one woman’s determination to bring the liv...

Coming Home to the Cove: A Story of Family, Memory, and Stolen Land – Episode 2

25 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This series tells the multigenerational story of a Coast Miwok family's eviction from their ancestral home on a cove in Tomales Bay in Northern Califo...

Coming Home to the Cove: A Story of Family, Memory, and Stolen Land – Episode 1

18 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This series tells the multigenerational story of a Coast Miwok family’s eviction from their ancestral home in Northern California, and one woman’s...

Deep Time Diligence – A Conversation with Tyson Yunkaporta

11 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this interview from the archive, Aboriginal scholar Tyson Yunkaporta invites us into an Indigenous understanding of time as inseparable from place....

Finding the Mother Tree – A Conversation with Suzanne Simard

04 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this archive conversation, forest ecologist Suzanne Simard speaks about her life’s work exploring tree intelligence and relationships, and her mo...

Wild Clocks – David Farrier

28 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

David Farrier examines how “wild clocks”—the biological and ecological rhythms that living beings use to coordinate their lives with the greater...

The Radical Intimacy of Spiritual Ecology – A Talk by Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee

21 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Given at St. Ethelburga’s Centre for Reconciliation and Peace in London in November 2024, this final talk in a series by Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee explor...

A Path Older Than Memory – A Conversation with Paul Salopek

14 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This week, we return to our interview with journalist Paul Salopek, who, for the last decade, has been on an epic journey retracing the migration path...

An Ecological Technology – A Conversation with James Bridle

07 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this expansive conversation from our archive, writer, artist, and technologist James Bridle looks at how the glorification of our own intelligence ...

The Serviceberry: An Economy of Abundance – Robin Wall Kimmerer

24 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, we return to one of our most cherished stories: “The Serviceberry,” by Potawatomi botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer. Exploring how we ...

When the Prince of Heaven Sleeps – Roger Reeves

17 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In a countermelody to the media’s persistent portrayal of Black bodies as working tirelessly, in constant motion, poet Roger Reeves centers images o...

Breath-Space and Seed-Time – David Hinton

10 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this narrated essay and six-poem sequence, acclaimed translator and poet David Hinton finds an uncannily literal translation of modern science’s ...

The World Is a Prism, Not a Window – A Conversation with Zoë Schlanger

03 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, climate journalist Zoë Schlanger speaks about her book The Light Eaters and explores what it might mean if we embraced plant intelli...

Practical Reverence – A Conversation with Robin Wall Kimmerer

26 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this conversation, Potawatomi botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer celebrates the serviceberry—both as a plant of joyous generosity, and as a living mode...

Dendrochronology – Robert Moor

19 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this narrated essay, writer Robert Moor journeys to Haida Gwaii, an island chain in British Columbia, for the anniversary of a historic agreement b...

Wrinkled Time: The Persistence of Past Worlds on Earth – Marcia Bjornerud

12 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 tect...

Unborn and Undying – Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

05 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

On Time, Mystery, and Kinship – A Conversation with Jane Hirshfield

29 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 bo...

Remembering Earth Time – A Talk by Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee

22 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This third and final talk from a series by Emergence executive editor and Sufi teacher Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee weaves together ideas from the previous tw...

Time and Place – A Talk by Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee

15 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 nua...

The Axis of All Things – A Talk by Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee

08 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 tea...

ស្គាល់ មជាតិ Knowing Your Taste – Kalyanee Mam

01 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Released this week, the final film in our Shifting Landscapes documentary film series, Taste of the Land, tells the story of Cambodian-American filmma...

Beings Seen and Unseen – A Conversation with Amitav Ghosh

24 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In his book The Nutmeg’s Curse, scholar Amitav Ghosh writes, “the planet will never come alive for you unless your songs and stories give life to ...

Thylacine – Lydia Millet

17 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

How can we learn to be with the grief that arises within as we witness the destruction being wrought upon the Earth? When we are broken open by the pa...

Documenting Shifting Landscapes – A Conversation with Kalyanee Mam

10 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In December last year, Cambodian-American filmmaker Kalyanee Mam’s short film Lost World screened at our Shifting Landscapes exhibition in London. K...

Memory, Praise, and Spirit – A Talk by Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee

03 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This talk was a keynote given by Emergence executive editor and Sufi teacher Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee during a conference on spiritual ecology and peace b...

Giantstone – Andri Snær Magnason

27 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This short story, written by Andri Snær Magnason for our third print edition, follows an architect in Reykjavík grappling with the growing discord b...

On Time and Water – A Conversation with Andri Snær Magnason

20 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The warming of the planet is ushering in changes on a mythological scale. Oceans heat up, ice shelves melt, great floods swallow landscapes, ancient f...

ChatGPT: A Partner in Unknowing – Dana Karout

06 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

ChatGPT has divided opinion on how artificial intelligence might shape our future: Is it a harbinger of our demise? Or a friend, arrived just in time ...

Born was the Mountain – Chelsea Steinauer-Scudder

23 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Last week we released Aloha ‘Āina, the second film in our Shifting Landscapes documentary film series, which tells the story of how acclaimed Nativ...

Sun House – A Conversation with David James Duncan

02 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Although the ecological sphere has long declared the need for a shift in consciousness if we are to survive the myriad crises we’ve ignited, this co...

The Nightingale's Song – A Conversation with Sam Lee

18 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This month we released the first film in our new four-part Shifting Landscapes documentary film series exploring the role of art and the storyteller i...

Time: A Conversation at London’s Architectural Association – with Marko Milovanovic and Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee

04 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this conversation, held in May at the Architectural Association in London, Emergence executive editor Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee and architect, artist, a...

Making the Invisible Visible – A Conversation with Marshmallow Laser Feast’s creative director Ersin Han Ersin

21 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this conversation from our Shifting Landscapes exhibition, Emergence executive editor Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee is joined by Marshmallow Laser Feast cre...

A Forest Walk – A Guided Practice by Kimberly Ruffin

14 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

When we step into a forest aware and listening to what surrounds us—remembering that the living world is just as aware of our presence—a relations...

An Ethics of Wild Mind – A Conversation with David Hinton

30 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

How would our response to the ecological crisis be different if we understood that our own consciousness is as wild as the breathing Earth around us? ...

When the Earth Started to Sing – David G. Haskell

23 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

How did the vast and varied chorus of modern sounds—from forests to oceans to human music—emerge from within life’s community? When did the livi...

Sanctuaries of Silence - A Listening Journey

16 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Equipped with his binaural microphone system, acoustic ecologist Gordon Hempton has spent the last forty years traveling the world documenting the sou...

Fermentation as Metaphor - A Conversation with Sandor Katz

09 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

How can we repair our connection with what we eat, rejoining the biological web that we are a part of? In this conversation, fermentation expert Sando...

Earth as Koan, Earth as Self – A Conversation with Susan Murphy Roshi

02 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

What becomes possible, especially in the face of crisis, when we orient our consciousness towards uncertainty, emptiness, and a sense of relationship ...

Reading the Rocks – Jenny Odell

26 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Spending time with a landscape opens us to the language it speaks. Can we quiet our own voices enough to hear what the Earth has to say? This week, Je...

Holy Terroir: Finding Taste in an Edge-Place – Lily Kelting

19 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

How do we taste a landscape? In this narrated essay, food and culture scholar Lily Kelting immerses us in the sounds of construction, the presence of ...

Enraptured with Earth – Two talks by Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee

12 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

At our Shifting Landscapes retreat held at Sharpham Trust in Devon last summer, Emergence executive editor Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee gave two talks that ...

Chasing Cicadas – Anisa George

05 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In anticipation of this year’s massive cicada emergence, we revisit a story from Anisa George, where she calls us into the wonder of encountering th...