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Emergence Magazine

Ecology, Culture, and Spirituality

Note from the Editor

During this pandemic, we are publishing new content that explores the deeper themes and questions emerging at this time. These stories reveal new opportunities to deeply connect with each other and the living world—in the midst of this crisis and beyond.

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Print Edition Vol. 2

Now available for pre-order. Volume II of our print edition speaks to the multiple crises and opportunities unfolding around us: plague, extinctions, and loneliness grip us ever tighter even as they affirm our connection with the living world.

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Language Keepers Podcast Series

Adapted from our award-winning multimedia story, “Language Keepers,” this six-part podcast series explores the struggle for Indigenous language survival in California. Along this journey, we meet and learn from Tolowa Dee-ni’, Karuk, Wukchumni, and Kawaiisu communities who are working to revitalize their Native languages and cultures in order to pass them on to the next generation.

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Featured Stories

The Atomic Tree

by Adam Loften & Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee

The Atomic Tree is a virtual reality journey into the memories of a 400-year-old Japanese white pine bonsai that survived the atomic blast in Hiroshima.

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Shikoku Pilgrimage

an Emergence Magazine Production

A route of eighty-eight Buddhist temples in Japan, the Shikoku Pilgrimage takes modern-day pilgrims across an ancient, storied landscape, inviting us to reflect on the relevance of the spiritual quest today.

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Language Keepers

an Emergence Magazine Production

Losing a language means more than the disappearance of words. This six-part film and multimedia experience follows four Indigenous communities who are revitalizing their languages and cultures.

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Seasons of the Monastic Table

an Emergence Magazine Production

Inspired by monastic cuisine, this cookbook honors the seasons with twenty-eight recipes to celebrate spring, summer, autumn, and winter.

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Forest

by Forrest Gander & Katie Holten

In this multimedia piece, poet Forrest Gander and artist Katie Holten collaborate to evoke a language of the redwood forests of Northern California. Forrest’s words are translated into an alphabet of sprouting seeds and growing spores.

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Papas Nativas

by Bram Broerse & Eva van Esschoten

Following a month-long journey through the Andes Mountains in Peru, this multimedia travelogue explores the flavors, varieties, and cultural significance of Peru’s native potatoes, papas nativas.

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Fiction

Thylacine

by Lydia Millet

In the first installment of our apocalyptic short stories series, Lydia Millet explores the loss of extinction as a man seeks the company and friendship of the last Tasmanian tiger, housed in a failing zoo.

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Fiction

Ink

by Sjón

Born with the gift of second sight, Valur Sveinsson encounters supernatural beings called the Inkborn and witnesses their telling of an apocalyptic vision of the future.

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Fiction

And Peace Shall Return

by Ben Okri

Twenty thousand years into the future, an exploration of the Earth uncovers the final notes and unfinished stories left behind by the last sentient human beings in the twilight of their history.

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Fiction

The Basilisk

by Paul Kingsnorth

In an exchange of letters between an uncle and a niece—a demonologist and a mother—two members of a family respond to our addiction to technology as they divulge their thoughts about the otherworld, possession, and fatal temptation.

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Practices

Being with the Dark

by Chelsea Steinauer-Scudder

In five steps, this practice invites you to immerse yourself in nightfall. Whether you live in the city or in a place where the outdoors is more accessible, this practice is a guide for settling into the expansive wonder of the dark.

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Practices

The Aromas of Trees: Five Practices

by David G. Haskell

Aroma is the primary language of trees. They talk with molecules, conspiring with one another, beckoning fungi, scolding insects, and whispering to microbes.

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Practices

Five Practices for Listening to the Language of Birds

by David G. Haskell

Created by David G. Haskell, these practices invite you to open yourself up to the sensory experience of listening to bird language.

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Practices

Arriving with Every Step

by Chelsea Steinauer-Scudder

This pilgrimage practice invites you to embark on a journey to a sacred site, beginning where you are and arriving with every step.

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Listening For Silence

Adam Loften & Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee

What is at stake in a world where silence has gone extinct?

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