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Mary Jane Rubenstein: Pantheism and the Godness of Nature
Season 1 Episode 10
What if nature isn’t just alive—but divine? Pantheism, once branded heresy, is finding new adherents among those who don’t consider themselves religi…
14 hours ago
Dekila Chungyalpa on the Sacred Feminine and the Living Earth
Season 1 Episode 9
Imagine growing up believing that at the heart of existence is a Primordial Mother—and that She is the Earth.
For Dekila Chungyalpa, that idea is not …
1 week ago
Manvir Singh: Was Shamanism the First Religion?
Season 1 Episode 8
Shamanism may be humanity’s oldest religion – a tradition found across cultures, where healers slip into unseen realms, speak with spirits, and bring…
2 weeks ago
David George Haskell: Flowers and the Revolutionary Power of Beauty
Season 1 Episode 7
For thousands of years, flowers have threaded themselves through human life—into our rituals, our art, our language, even our names. We decorate our …
3 weeks ago
Robert Macfarlane: The Soul of Rivers and the Rights of Nature
Season 1 Episode 6
What if a river is alive–but we’ve forgotten how to recognize it?
This is the radical idea at the heart of the global “rights of nature” movement, whi…
1 month, 1 week ago
Renee Bergland: The Enchanted Science of Emily Dickinson and Charles Darwin
Season 1 Episode 5
Emily Dickinson and Charles Darwin both saw nature as alive with mystery – and treated wonder as a way of knowing. Literary scholar and science histo…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
George Saunders: Angels, Ghosts and the Moral Imagination
Season 1 Episode 4
What if dying is not an ending, but a moment of radical clarity? In his new novel "Vigil," George Saunders conjures a strange and often comic world o…
1 month, 4 weeks ago
Rebecca Solnit: Hope After the End
Season 1 Episode 3
How do you deal with the emotional toll of living in a time of dissolution? Social scientists use the term "polycrisis" to describe the kind of casca…
2 months ago
Carlo Rovelli: Cosmic Mysteries and the Politics of Wonder
Season 1 Episode 2
Carlo Rovelli’s quest to understand the nature of reality began not in a physics lab, but in youthful experiments with consciousness, political prote…
2 months, 1 week ago
Sophie Strand: Ecological Storytelling and Mythic Imagination
Season 1 Episode 1
Writer and ecologist Sophie Strand thinks at a scale that can feel dizzying—in the best way. In a single conversation, she can move from the chemical…
2 months, 2 weeks ago