Channel Title: Emergence Magazine Channel Description: Emergence Magazine is an award-winning magazine and creative production studio that explores the threads connecting ecology, culture, and spirituality. Our work gathers voices—both human and more-than-human—with the potential to shift ways of thinking and being in relationship to the living world. Widening the frame of what a magazine can be, we offer storytelling and art across traditional and emerging mediums, from the dynamic and digital to the physical and intimate. Bearing witness to the change, loss, and possibility of our time, Emergence Magazine illuminates the ways in which humans are continuous with—and wholly dependent on—the living Earth. <video> Time and Place - A Talk by Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee Description: Through the concept of “space-time” we can understand how the movement of time is fused with physical space into a continuum. But what are the nuances of this relationship, in which time imprints place with meaning, and vice versa? This week’s podcast is the second of three talks given at our Remembering Earth Time retreat earlier this year in Devon, England. Picking up the thread laid out in the previous talk on working with the love that runs through time, Emergence executive editor and Sufi teacher Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee speaks about how the intimate relationship between time and place, expressed through the cycles ever-present in our landscapes, can help us form ties of kinship with the Earth. When time becomes rooted rather than abstract, he says, we can once again find ourselves a participant in the mystery and magic of creation. Listen and subscribe to the Emergence Magazine Podcast: https://emergencemagazine.org/podcast/ Photo: Carl Ander / Connected Archives </video> <video> Unborn and Undying – Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee Description: Our inner and outer worlds, while constantly changing, feed into each other, mirror each other, and both carry an imprint of what is eternal. In this narrated essay, author and Sufi mystic Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee shows us how the sacred dimension of time, where the linear is absent, can lead us inwards to silence and emptiness; and outwards, towards a pure sensory awareness of the sights, sounds, and rhythms of the Earth. Sharing that time and timelessness “are not separate but part of a living structure that includes a mayfly that lives for a day and a thousand-year-old sequoia,” Llewellyn calls us to regain a relationship with time beyond numbers and schedules; to remember that time belongs to the deeper patterns of life. Listen and subscribe to the Emergence Magazine Podcast: https://emergencemagazine.org/podcast/ Artwork by Laura Dutton. Discover more stories from our latest print edition, Volume 5: Time: https://store.emergencemagazine.org/products/volume-5-time </video> <video> Practical Reverence – A Conversation with Robin Wall Kimmerer Description: In this week’s podcast, Potawatomi botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer celebrates the serviceberry—both as a plant of joyous generosity, and as a living model for a gift economy that recognizes the sacred nature of the Earth. Delving into her latest book, which elaborates on an essay she wrote for us in 2020, Robin speaks about how a sense of “enoughness” can radically shift our habits of consumption; and how the ethical and pragmatic principles of the Honorable Harvest can invite us to honor a currency of relationship over a currency of money, helping us embody a practical reverence for the Earth and Her abundance. Listen and subscribe to the Emergence Magazine Podcast: https://emergencemagazine.org/podcast/ Photo courtesy of MacArthur Foundation. </video> <video> The World Is a Prism, Not a Window – A Conversation with with Zoë Schlanger Description: In this episode, climate journalist Zoë Schlanger speaks about her book The Light Eaters and explores what it might mean if we embraced plant intelligence within the frame of Western science. She shares a smorgasbord of new findings around the capabilities of plants—from roots that can sense the sound of running water to flowers memorizing the timing of pollinators’ visits—and wonders how a growing awareness of more-than-human intelligence can upend the structures and hierarchies we have placed around living beings, ourselves included. Talking about the politics of language in the field of botany, shedding her own plant blindness, and how we can widen our scientific imaginations to perceive intelligence in beings without brains, Zoë probes what it will take for us to let plants into the realm of our ethical consideration. Listen and subscribe to the Emergence Magazine Podcast: https://emergencemagazine.org/podcast/ Photo by Yael Malka. </video> <video> The Serviceberry – Robin Wall Kimmerer Description: In our last podcast episode of the year, we return to one of our most cherished stories: “The Serviceberry,” by Potawatomi botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer. Exploring how we can move away from an economy of scarcity to one rooted in relationship and gratitude, she draws our attention to the gift economies flourishing all around us to affirm that it is entirely within our power to create webs of interdependence outside the market economy. When we find the courage to honor the gifts given by the living world, the outcome, she says, is not only material, but spiritual. Listen and subscribe to the Emergence Magazine Podcast: https://emergencemagazine.org/podcast/ Artwork by Studio Airport. </video> <video> Remembering Earth Time - A Talk by Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee Description: This third and final talk from a series by Emergence executive editor and Sufi teacher Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee weaves together ideas from the previous two, exploring how time and place, love and kinship, the cycles and rhythms of creation, all flow in concert as an expression of the Earth. Offering a way to understand Earth Time through the principles and practices of spiritual ecology, Emmanuel speaks to how we might let go of mechanized time by connecting our inner and outer senses with the cycles that live and spin around and within us. When we reorient ourselves to be in relationship with the essential rhythms of life, we can come to know time as an animate, alive, and sacred expression of the love that runs through all things. Listen and subscribe to the Emergence Magazine Podcast: https://emergencemagazine.org/podcast/ Photo by Alecio Ferrari / Connected Archives </video> <video> Emergence Magazine Volume 5: Time Description: Separated from the fabric of the cosmos, the vast mystery of Time has been distilled into a tool of control. But what kind of Time listens and moves in tune with the Earth; travels not in a straight line, but in a circle? Journeying through its many landscapes—deep time, geological time, kinship time, ancestral time, and sacramental time—Volume 5: Time, our first hardcover edition, asks: If we can recognize a different kind of Time, can we come to dwell within it? </video> <video> Dendrochronology — Robert Moor Description: In this narrated essay, writer Robert Moor journeys to Haida Gwaii, an island chain in British Columbia, for the anniversary of a historic agreement between the Haida Nation and the Canadian government that protects the landscape’s last remaining old-growth forests after decades of logging. As he walks through forest stewarded for generations by Haida, Robert begins to see the tangle of Sitka spruces and cedars, mosses and lichens, not as a site of slow decay, but of ongoing growth. How can being in the presence of ancient trees, he asks, help us feel, rather than intellectualize, not only the deep past, but also our responsibility to the future? Listen and subscribe to the Emergence Magazine Podcast: https://emergencemagazine.org/podcast/ Discover more stories from our latest print edition, Volume 5: Time: https://store.emergencemagazine.org/products/volume-5-time </video> <video> Join us at Offprint Paris Description: Join us at the Pavillon de l'Arsenal in Paris for four days of sharing and celebrating creativity within the publishing community. The annual Offprint Paris book fair gathers independent, experimental, and socially engaged publishers in the fields of art, architecture, design, humanities, and visual culture. From Thursday to Sunday, November 7-10, we will be offering our collection of publications, including Volume 5: Time, and A Practice in Time. Come and browse our latest releases, begin or expand your own Emergence library, and connect with readers, artists, and publishers who are exploring the power of storytelling in print. Offprint Paris 7–10 November 2024 Pavillon de l'Arsenal, 21 Boulevard Morland, 75004 Paris Learn more: https://www.offprint.org/en/index.php </video> <video> Wrinkled Time: The Persistence of Past Worlds on Earth – Marcia Bjornerud Description: The Earth has a story that far precedes ours. Before we arrived on the scene, the Earth was already ancient beyond belief, shaped and reshaped by tectonic upheavals, climate changes, and mass extinctions—an evolution She has meticulously archived in the strata and sediment beneath our feet. In this narrated essay, author and geologist Marcia Bjornerud orients us to read these many-volume memoirs of our planet. Celebrating the deep time-fulness of Earth—the four billion years of dynamism that have made this moment possible—she wonders what might happen to our understanding of the past and the present if we remembered the stories that came before our humancentric one. Listen and subscribe to the Emergence Magazine Podcast: https://emergencemagazine.org/podcast/ Discover more stories from our latest print edition, Volume 5: Time: https://store.emergencemagazine.org/products/volume-5-time </video> <video> Emergence Magazine Volume 5: Time Description: To celebrate the season of gift-giving, we’re offering a 20% discount on this volume or any order from our store from now through New Year's Day. Journeying through its many landscapes—deep time, geological time, kinship time, ancestral time, and sacramental time—Volume 5: Time, our first hardcover edition, asks: If we can recognize a different kind of Time, can we come to dwell within it? Visit our store: https://store.emergencemagazine.org/ </video> <video> When the Prince of Heaven Sleeps — Roger Reeves Description: In a countermelody to the media’s persistent portrayal of Black bodies as working tirelessly, in constant motion, poet Roger Reeves centers images of Black men in postures of rest and repose. Evoking Muhammad Ali slumbering in a four-poster bed, John Coltrane washing dishes within the four walls of his house, DMX watering orchids, and Mike Tyson caring for his flock of pigeons, Roger reflects on the stillness and silence of their interior worlds as a protest against the control of capitalistic time. Listen and subscribe to the Emergence Magazine Podcast: https://emergencemagazine.org/podcast/ Photo by Gordon Parks: Muhammad Ali, Miami, Florida, 1970. Courtesy of and copyright The Gordon Parks Foundation. </video> <video> On Time, Mystery, and Kinship - A Conversation with Jane Hirshfield Description: Jane Hirshfield’s poetry is both mystical and deeply rooted in physical life, opening our eyes and hearts to what lies at the periphery—what is both ordinary and invisible amid the clamor of modern life—and reorienting us to engage from a space of wonder. In this expansive conversation, Jane recites several of her poems, including “Time Thinks of Time,” from our fifth print edition. Drawing on a lifelong relationship with Zen, she speaks about how a profoundly felt intimacy between self and world can recalibrate our ethics, helping us find both humility and an inner spaciousness that can lead us towards being in service to the Earth. Listen and subscribe to the Emergence Magazine Podcast: https://emergencemagazine.org/podcast/ Photo of Jane by Curt Richter. </video> <video> Listen to Breath Space and Seed Time – David Hinton Description: In this narrated essay and six-poem sequence, acclaimed translator and poet David Hinton finds an uncannily literal translation of modern science’s “space-time” in yü chou—one of ancient China’s most foundational cosmological concepts. He invites us to contemplate the fabric of time and space as a kind of primordial breath, drawing on the ideograms for yü chou to show that time is not a metaphysical river moving past, but an all-encompassing present that renders the Cosmos alive. An epilogue of poems delivers us into an elemental world where time is woven with the sacred. Listen and subscribe to the Emergence Magazine Podcast: https://emergencemagazine.org/podcast/ </video> <video> Detour - Short Film Excerpt Description: Watch the world premiere of the documentary short film “Detour,” by Tusharr Madhavv, produced in collaboration with If/Then Shorts (https://www.youtube.com/@FieldofVisionFilms) as part of our Shifting Landscapes documentary program. Online now on Emergence: https://emergencemagazine.org/film/detour/ Caught between his native forest in Central India, the city of Bhopal, and international museums, Pardhan Gond painter Jangarh Singh Shyam lost himself in the liminal space between worlds. Yet, the legacy of his art lives on. Depicting fearsome deities and the rich flora and fauna of Madhya Pradesh’s forests with striking color and animacy, Jangarh’s work gave birth to a new tradition of Gond visual art practice. Navigating landscapes, memories, and archives, this film traces his journey from India to France to Japan, and takes a detour into the spiritual realm of this artist’s soul—a meeting place of beauty and fear; the mythological and the human. CREDITS Directed and Produced by Tusharr Madhavv Executive Producers Caitlin Mae Burke, Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee, Jia Zhao Cinematography by Udit Khurana and Tusharr Madhavv Edited by Tusharr Madhavv Original Music by Sameer Rahat Subscribe: https://emergencemagazine.org/newsletter/ Share: https://www.instagram.com/emergencemagazine/ Emergence Magazine is an award-winning magazine and creative production studio that explores the threads connecting ecology, culture, and spirituality. </video>

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