Emergence Magazine presents

Shifting Landscapes Film Series

Taste of the Land

by Adam Loften & Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee Film

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.

Recent Stories

Feature

SHIFTING LANDSCAPES

FILM SERIES

Emergence Magazine presents Shifting Landscapes, a documentary series, directed by Emmy- and Peabody-nominated filmmakers Adam Loften and Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee, exploring the power of art and story to orient us amid the darkness of our time.

Our Annual Print Edition

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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Breathing with the Forest

by Marshmallow Laser Feast Open Feature

An immersive experience of shared breath with the Amazon rainforest.

ENGAGE

Seeds of Radical Renewal: A hybrid in-person & online leadership course (UK)

Sharpham Trust, Devon, England

Online: April 30 – June 4, 2025
In-person: June 18 – 21, 2025
Admissions Open

Seeds of Radical Renewal: A hybrid in-person & online leadership course (US)

Whidbey Institute, Washington, US

Online: August 6 – September 10, 2025
In-person: September 25 – 28, 2025
Admissions Open

Podcast

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

The Axis of All Things

A Talk by Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee

In this first talk in a series that brings together many of the themes explored in our latest print edition, Emergence executive editor and Sufi teacher Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee offers a way to re-attune our sense of time to be in relationship with the cycles of the Earth—from the deep time movement of mountains, to the fleeting bloom and decay of cherry blossom. While we have stripped time down to a single expression, forgetting the axis of love that runs through it, Emmanuel talks about how inner cycles of breath and heartbeat can return us to a more expansive story of time in which spirit and matter are once again braided together.

This Week’s Podcast

In this first talk in a series that brings together many of the themes explored in our latest print edition, Emergence executive editor and Sufi teacher Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee offers a way to re-attune our sense of time to be in relationship with the cycles of the Earth—from the deep time movement of mountains, to the fleeting bloom and decay of cherry blossom. While we have stripped time down to a single expression, forgetting the axis of love that runs through it, Emmanuel talks about how inner cycles of breath and heartbeat can return us to a more expansive story of time in which spirit and matter are once again braided together.

ENGAGE

The Song of the Seasons

Devon, England

June 26 – 29, 2025
In-person Retreat
Registration Open

The Song of the Seasons

Whidbey Institute, Washington State, US

May 23 – 26, 2025
In-person Retreat
Registration Open
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