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... more
In this narrated essay, writer Robert Moor journeys to Haida Gwaii, an island chain in British Columbia, for the anniversary... more
The Earth has a story that far precedes ours. Before we arrived on the scene, the Earth was already ancient... more
Our inner and outer worlds, while constantly changing, feed into each other, mirror each other, and both carry an imprint... more
Jane Hirshfield’s poetry is both mystical and deeply rooted in physical life, opening our eyes and hearts to what lies... more
This third and final talk from a series by Emergence executive editor and Sufi teacher Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee weaves together ideas... more
Through the concept of “space-time” we can understand how the movement of time is fused with physical space into a... more
In this first talk in a series that brings together many of the themes explored in our latest print edition, Emergence executive... more
Released this week, the final film in our Shifting Landscapes documentary film series, Taste of the Land, tells the story... more
In his book The Nutmeg’s Curse, scholar Amitav Ghosh writes, “the planet will never come alive for you unless your... more
How can we learn to be with the grief that arises within as we witness the destruction being wrought upon... more
In December last year, Cambodian-American filmmaker Kalyanee Mam’s short film Lost World screened at our Shifting Landscapes exhibition in London.... more
This talk was a keynote given by Emergence executive editor and Sufi teacher Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee during a conference on spiritual... more
This short story, written by Andri Snær Magnason for our third print edition, follows an architect in Reykjavík grappling with... more
The warming of the planet is ushering in changes on a mythological scale. Oceans heat up, ice shelves melt, great... more
ChatGPT has divided opinion on how artificial intelligence might shape our future: Is it a harbinger of our demise? Or... more
Last week we released Aloha ‘Āina, the second film in our Shifting Landscapes documentary film series, which tells the story... more
Although the ecological sphere has long declared the need for a shift in consciousness if we are to survive the... more
This month we released the first film in our new four-part Shifting Landscapes documentary film series exploring the role of... more
In this conversation, held in May at the Architectural Association in London, Emergence executive editor Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee and architect, artist,... more
In this conversation from our Shifting Landscapes exhibition, Emergence executive editor Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee is joined by Marshmallow Laser Feast creative... more
When we step into a forest aware and listening to what surrounds us—remembering that the living world is just as... more
How would our response to the ecological crisis be different if we understood that our own consciousness is as wild... more
How did the vast and varied chorus of modern sounds—from forests to oceans to human music—emerge from within life’s community?... more
Equipped with his binaural microphone system, acoustic ecologist Gordon Hempton has spent the last forty years traveling the world documenting... more
How can we repair our connection with what we eat, rejoining the biological web that we are a part of?... more
What becomes possible, especially in the face of crisis, when we orient our consciousness towards uncertainty, emptiness, and a sense... more
Spending time with a landscape opens us to the language it speaks. Can we quiet our own voices enough to... more
How do we taste a landscape? In this narrated essay, food and culture scholar Lily Kelting immerses us in the... more
At our Shifting Landscapes retreat held at Sharpham Trust in Devon last summer, Emergence executive editor Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee gave two talks that... more
In anticipation of this year’s massive cicada emergence, we revisit a story from Anisa George, where she calls us into... more
Envisioning a future colored by a worsening ecological crisis makes for a despairing picture, but how can we find ways... more
What would it mean to operate from a place of deep time diligence? In this conversation, Tyson Yunkaporta, an Aboriginal... more
Recorded live at our Shifting Landscapes exhibition in London last December, this conversation between Emergence Magazine executive editor Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee,... more
Taking us to the collapsing face of Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica, author Elizabeth Rush works to free the ice’s agency... more
Held at our Shifting Landscapes exhibition in December last year, this panel discussion, moderated by Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee, brought together environmental... more
From her first experiences of heart connection with the living world on her grandfather’s farm in upstate New York to... more
We have forgotten the covenant of primordial love and reciprocal care with the Earth that existed from the beginning in... more
In this conversation, Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee speaks with Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Paul Salopek, who is a decade into a remarkable journey... more
In an audio adaptation of our multimedia experience “Valemon the Bear: Myth in the Age of the Anthropocene,” mythologist Martin... more
In our final podcast of the year, a special selection of Rainer Maria Rilke’s poetry offers nourishment for heart and... more
Held at our Shifting Landscapes exhibition in December last year, this panel discussion, moderated by Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee, brought together environmental justice activist... more