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Where the Horses Sing – Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
Season 14
This week, as our journey into Initiation continues, Sufi teacher and author Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee invites us to cross a threshold. Witnessi…
3 years, 9 months ago
Widening Circles – a conversation with Joanna Macy
Season 14
In this interview from our archive, Buddhist eco-philosopher and author Joanna Macy discusses her life and work. From her anti-nuclear activ…
3 years, 9 months ago
The Creatures of the World Have Not Been Chastened – Lia Purpura
Season 14
In this narrated essay from our archive, poet and essayist Lia Purpura considers the processes which transform bodies from one state to anot…
3 years, 10 months ago
Navigating the Mysteries – Martin Shaw
Season 14
Initiation, chapter one of Living with the Unknown, begins where all inquiries into the unknown begin: with myth. In this narrated essay, Ma…
3 years, 10 months ago
The Nightingale's Song – a conversation with Sam Lee
Season 14
Sam Lee is a Mercury Prize–nominated folk singer, a song collector, and the author of The Nightingale: Notes on a Songbird. We spoke with Sa…
3 years, 10 months ago
Ancient Green: Moss, Climate, and Deep Time – Robin Wall Kimmerer
Season 14
Long, long ago—before there were trees, before there were flowers, before life existed outside of the churning oceans—mosses bravely venture…
3 years, 11 months ago
Finding the Mother Tree – a conversation with Suzanne Simard
Season 14
In honor of Earth Week we’re revisiting our conversation from last year with Dr. Suzanne Simard, the renowned scientist whose groundbreaking…
3 years, 11 months ago
Watering the Dead and the Unseen – Sumana Roy
Season 14
At her home in Siliguri, India, writer and poet Sumana Roy collects the trunks, roots, and branches of fallen trees and affectionately place…
3 years, 11 months ago
Saguaro, Free of the Earth – Boyce Upholt
Season 14
In this narrated essay, Boyce Upholt travels to the US-Mexico border, where the O’odham peoples have long revered the saguaro cactus as a be…
3 years, 11 months ago
The Eternal Tree – Jori Lewis
Season 14
In this narrated essay, Jori ventures out from her home in Dakar, Senegal, drawn to the wisdom and resiliency of Africa’s baobab trees: anci…
4 years ago