Podcast Episodes

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

Season 20

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 “not-knowing mind” to open a treasury of resource…

Published on 10 hours ago

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

Season 20

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 print edition, Volume 6: Seasons. Reciting several p…

Published on 1 week ago

Strange New World - Roy Scranton

Season 20

Probing the flatness of his Midwestern landscape, Roy Scranton challenges us to peer beyond what meets the eye to engage more thoughtfully with a place’s ecological, geological, and cosmological dime…

Published on 2 weeks ago

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

Season 20

In this final talk of a three-part series, Emergence executive editor and Sufi teacher Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee speaks about two essential elements needed if we are to tend to a relationship of reverence…

Published on 3 weeks ago

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

Season 19

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 our burning world. This second talk in a series gi…

Published on 4 weeks ago

Unfurling the Spiral – A Talk by Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee

Season 19

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 executive editor and Sufi teacher Emmanuel Vaughan…

Published on 1 month ago

Thin White Line – Maya Pace

Season 19

After the destructive fires of 2020, writer and facilitator Maya Pace awakens to how California’s essential dry, scorched nature has been repressed to realize a vision of economic and social prosperi…

Published on 1 month, 1 week ago

Making the Invisible Visible – A Conversation with Ersin Han Ersin

Season 19

A companion to our Breathing with the Forest feature, this conversation from our 2023 Shifting Landscapes exhibition with Marshmallow Laser Feast director Ersin Han Ersin explores the importance of i…

Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago

Museum of Color – Stephanie Krzywonos

Season 19

Nonfiction writer Stephanie Krzywonos opens a door into the histories of our most iconic and desired pigments, from ochre to bone black, lapis lazuli to mummy brown. In our earliest attempts to recre…

Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago

Thirty Years – Annabel Howard

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 imagine an end to something so eternal? In thirty short…

Published on 2 months ago