To deepen your relationship with the trees in your own surroundings, this practice prompts you to encounter a tree through the senses, illuminating the threads linking one sentient being to another. Begin the practice, “Encountering Trees.” https://emergencemagazine.org/practice/encountering-trees/
Urging us to reweave mind and landscape, David Hinton offers an ethics tempered by love and kinship as a way to navigate our era of disconnection. Listen to “An Ethics of Wild Mind,” a conversation with David Hinton. https://emergencemagazine.org/podcast/
“What causes us to recoil, strike, and retreat is also what allows us to reach out from the anxiety of unknowing and dare to trust what is to come.” —Terry Tempest Williams https://emergencemagazine.org/essay/unraveling-ttw/
“Winter is a kind of pregnant emptiness. Spring emerges out of that—it flourishes. And life flourishes in summer and then dies back into that emptiness of winter.”
@NatureMC That’s a good question! On any podcasting app you can find the Emergence Magazine podcast, yet the Emergence Magazine Listening Hour currently is only available as a show on public radio that you can listen to live or online. KALW however, publishes each episode on its site to listen to following each broadcast. Follow this link to listen to those: https://www.kalw.org/show/emergence-magazine-listening-hour
This week, we invite you to journey with us across the landscapes of Slovenia, where beekeeping has deep, traditional roots and pollinators are at the heart of daily life.
“The Pollinators of Slovenia,” an interactive documentary by Studio Airport. https://emergencemagazine.org/feature/pollinators-of-slovenia/
In this week’s podcast, acoustic ecologist Gordon Hempton listens for the sounds that emerge in the absence of noise. Listen to “Sanctuaries of Silence: A Listening Journey,” by Adam Loften & Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee. https://emergencemagazine.org/podcast/
When did the living Earth first start to sing? In this immersive sonic journey, biologist and acclaimed author David George Haskell opens our senses to the joy and wonder of sound on Earth.
Listen to “When the Earth Started to Sing” by David G. Haskell. https://emergencemagazine.org/audio-story/when-the-earth-started-to-sing/ Illustration by Daniel Liévano.
In this week’s film, the forest becomes part of the church itself, and tree and prayer begin to soften into one as reverence and devotion are extended beyond human spaces. Watch “The Church Forests of Ethiopia” by Jeremy Seifert. https://emergencemagazine.org/film/the-church-forests-of-ethiopia/
“The fundamental koan is the Earth.”
Delving into the power of the not-knowing mind, Susan Murphy Roshi presents Zen koan as a gateway to truly connecting with the world around us.