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  • Remembering Earth Time – A Talk by Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee

    Remembering Earth Time – A Talk by Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee
    2024/10/22
    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 分
  • Time and Place – A Talk by Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee

    Time and Place – A Talk by Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee
    2024/10/15
    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 分
  • The Axis of All Things – A Talk by Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee

    The Axis of All Things – A Talk by Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee
    2024/10/08
    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 分
  • ស្គាល់ មជាតិ Knowing Your Taste – Kalyanee Mam

    ស្គាល់ មជាតិ Knowing Your Taste – Kalyanee Mam
    2024/10/01
    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 分
  • Beings Seen and Unseen – A Conversation with Amitav Ghosh

    Beings Seen and Unseen – A Conversation with Amitav Ghosh
    2024/09/24
    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 all the beings seen and unseen that inhabit a living Earth,”—seeding a shift in consciousness begins with the stories we tell. In this wide-ranging interview from our archives, Amitav explores the themes of his recent work, including the insidious philosophy that the Earth is inert and how this belief paved the way for the implementation of violent projects around the globe, such as the genocide of Indigenous people and the monolith of capitalism. Unpacking the rise and legacy of an ideology of mastery, Amitav asks, if such conquests were made possible by the narrative of an inanimate Earth, what stories can now be imagined to help us recognize the world as sacred and alive? Read the transcript Photo by Sumit Dayal. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    44 分
  • Thylacine – Lydia Millet

    Thylacine – Lydia Millet
    2024/09/17
    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 pain of loss, how can we hold and work with the seeds of despair, but also love, that flood into that space? This week, we revisit “Thylacine,” a short story by American novelist and Pulitzer Prize finalist Lydia Millet that imagines the twilight of the last remaining Tasmanian tiger, a creature caught in the crosshairs of Australia’s violent colonization. As a man mourns the death of his mother, he seeks the company of the tiger housed in a failing zoo. Turning to face the loss that begins to swell through the zoo like a plague, he summons the courage to care for what remains amid an overwhelming sorrow for what will inevitably disappear. Read the story Find “Thylacine” and other Short Stories of Apocalypse, in our inaugural print fiction collection. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    25 分
  • Documenting Shifting Landscapes – A Conversation with Kalyanee Mam

    Documenting Shifting Landscapes – A Conversation with Kalyanee Mam
    2024/09/10
    In December last year, Cambodian-American filmmaker Kalyanee Mam’s short film Lost World screened at our Shifting Landscapes exhibition in London. Kalyanee’s films tenderly document the changing cultural and ecological landscapes of her homeland, and in Lost World she shares the story of a community in Koh Sralau whose livelihoods are threatened as the mangrove forests they depend on are ruthlessly mined for sand to build an “eco-park” in Singapore. In this conversation, recorded live at the exhibition, Emergence executive editor Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee speaks with Kalyanee about her years-long process of creating the film, and the intimate relationships she holds with people and land that allow her to tell powerful, and often heartbreaking, stories of changing landscapes from a place of humility and connection. Read the transcript Watch Kalyanee’s short film Lost World and read her companion essay Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 時間 4 分
  • Memory, Praise, and Spirit – A Talk by Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee

    Memory, Praise, and Spirit – A Talk by Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee
    2024/09/03
    This talk was a keynote given by Emergence executive editor and Sufi teacher Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee during a conference on spiritual ecology and peace building at St. Ethelburga’s Centre for Reconciliation and Peace in July. It explores how spiritual ecology is fundamentally a memory of living in kinship with the Earth that must be reawakened if we are to embody a spiritual connection with the living world. Turning to praise and prayer, and the many forms they take, as ways to return to this sacred relationship, Emmanuel calls us to sweep the dust of our forgetfulness and hold the Earth in our hearts with love Read the transcript. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    30 分