When the Earth Started to Sing

by David G. Haskell Audio Story

Illustration by Daniel Liévano

Note from the Editors

It has always been a radical act to share stories during dark times. They are regenerative spaces of creation and renewal. As we experience a loss of sacred connection to the earth, we share stories that explore the timeless connections between ecology, culture, and spirituality.

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Our Annual Print Edition

Pre-order Emergence Magazine, Vol. 5: Time

Our first hardcover edition, Time: Volume 5 explores the vast mystery of Time, journeying through its many landscapes: deep time, geological time, kinship time, ancestral time, and sacramental time. If we can recognize a different kind of Time, can we come to dwell within it?

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ENGAGE

Volume 5: Time Launch at AA Bookshop in London

with Marko Milovanovic in conversation with Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee

MAY 15, 2024

Podcast

Emergence’s weekly podcast features exclusive interviews, author-narrated essays, poetry, multipart series, and more.
This Week’s Podcast

An Ethics of Wild Mind

David Hinton

How would our response to the ecological crisis be different if we understood that our own consciousness is as wild as the breathing Earth around us? In this conversation, poet, translator, and author David Hinton reaches back to a time when cultures were built around a reverence for the Earth and proposes that the sixth extinction we now face is rooted in philosophical assumptions about our separation from the living world. Urging us to reweave mind and landscape, he offers an ethics tempered by love and kinship as a way to navigate our era of disconnection.

This Week’s Podcast

How would our response to the ecological crisis be different if we understood that our own consciousness is as wild as the breathing Earth around us? In this conversation, poet, translator, and author David Hinton reaches back to a time when cultures were built around a reverence for the Earth and proposes that the sixth extinction we now face is rooted in philosophical assumptions about our separation from the living world. Urging us to reweave mind and landscape, he offers an ethics tempered by love and kinship as a way to navigate our era of disconnection.

Shikoku Pilgrimage

an Emergence Magazine Production Open Feature

Following the route of 88 Buddhist temples on the Shikoku Pilgrimage, this rich multimedia story brings you into an ancient landscape.

Earth Week Stories

Counter Mapping

by Adam Loften & Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee Open Film

Jim Enote, a traditional Zuni farmer and director of the A:shiwi A:wan Museum and Heritage Center, is working with Zuni artists to create maps that bring an indigenous voice and perspective back to the land.

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ENGAGE

Storytelling with ជាតិ Cheate and ចិត្ត Chett: Tasting the Land with an Open Heart

A Four-Part Course with Award-Winning Filmmaker Kalyanee Mam

October 8 – 29, 2024
Online Course
Registration Open

Puffling

by Jessica Bishopp Open Film

In this coming-of-age documentary, we follow two teenagers on a small island off the coast of Iceland who rescue young puffins while grappling with their own futures in a changing world.

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