Breathing with the Forest
Open FeatureAn immersive experience of shared breath with the Amazon rainforest.
Emergence Magazine presents
Shifting Landscapes Film Series
Taste of the Land FilmNote 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
Taste of the Land
Documenting Shifting Landscapes
Memory, Praise, and Spirit
The Last Ice Age
Aloha ‘Āina
Sun House
The Nightingale’s Song
Time: A Conversation at London’s Architectural Association
Making the Invisible Visible
Breathing with the Forest
ChatGPT: A Partner in Unknowing
Earth as Koan, Earth as Self
Reading the Rocks
Holy Terroir
The Birdman of Old Delhi
Enraptured with Earth
Najin and Fatu
MOTH: Pushing the Boundaries of Legal Imagination
Chasing Cicadas
Deep Time Diligence
Honoring the Wild Proliferation of Earthly Perspectives
Mycelial Landscapes
Puffling
Glacial Longings
Seeds of Reciprocity
Exit 238
Desert, Fire, Flood
An Offering of Remembrance
A Path Older Than Memory
Poems from the Song Dynasty
Ten Love Letters to the Earth
The Stories I Haven’t Been Told
Otter
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
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?
Emergence Magazine, Vol. 5: Time
Podcast
Emergence’s weekly podcast features exclusive interviews, author-narrated essays, poetry, multipart series, and more.
This Week’s Podcast
ស្គាល់ មជាតិ Knowing Your Taste
Released this week, the final film in our Shifting Landscapes documentary film series, Taste of the Land, tells the story of Cambodian-American filmmaker Kalyanee Mam’s search for a spiritual relationship with her homeland. In this companion essay by Kalyanee, she delves deeper into her experiences of cheate—the Khmer word for “taste”—and how she came to understand that to truly know the essence of the land, one must know its taste. Tracing her life back to its very beginnings, she shares her first “land-taste”—the sweet flavor of Battambang oranges—and the many tastes that came after that slowly deepened the yearning in her heart to truly know the soils, waters, mountains, people, and plants of Cambodia. As she reflects on the spiritual fallout of her family’s severed relationship with their homeland, she also contemplates the essential connection that was kept alive through stories, language, and food shared by her parents.
This Week’s Podcast
Released this week, the final film in our Shifting Landscapes documentary film series, Taste of the Land, tells the story of Cambodian-American filmmaker Kalyanee Mam’s search for a spiritual relationship with her homeland. In this companion essay by Kalyanee, she delves deeper into her experiences of cheate—the Khmer word for “taste”—and how she came to understand that to truly know the essence of the land, one must know its taste. Tracing her life back to its very beginnings, she shares her first “land-taste”—the sweet flavor of Battambang oranges—and the many tastes that came after that slowly deepened the yearning in her heart to truly know the soils, waters, mountains, people, and plants of Cambodia. As she reflects on the spiritual fallout of her family’s severed relationship with their homeland, she also contemplates the essential connection that was kept alive through stories, language, and food shared by her parents.
Stories of Taste
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
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
ENGAGE
The Song of the Seasons
Devon, England
June 26 – 29, 2025
The Song of the Seasons
Whidbey Institute, Washington State, US
May 23 – 26, 2025
