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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…
1 day, 1 hour 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, 1 day 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, 1 day 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, 1 day 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