Remembering Earth through Embodied Spiritual Ecology
An Evening with Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee at CIIS in San Francisco
In a time of great ecological and cultural crises, in which we have forgotten our place within the more-than-human world, how can an embodied spiritual ecology lead us towards remembrance of our primordial bond with the Earth?
This July, join Sufi teacher, author, and Emergence Magazine founder and executive editor Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee for a conversation at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco exploring how we can engage with the Earth as an animate and alive being. Drawing on the reflections and practices within his new book, Remembering Earth, Emmanuel will speak about how remembrance, prayer, praise, and intimacy with the living world can guide us back to honoring the sacredness of creation, offering grounded ways we can move from ideas into a lived experience of radical belonging, from observer to participant in the sacred web of life.
ABOUT EMMANUEL VAUGHAN-LEE
Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee is an author, Emmy- and Peabody Award–nominated filmmaker, and a Sufi teacher. He has directed more than twenty documentary films, including Taste of the Land, The Last Ice Age, Aloha Āina, The Nightingale’s Song, Earthrise, Sanctuaries of Silence, and Elemental, among others. His films have been screened at New York Film Festival, Tribeca Film Festival, SXSW, and Hot Docs, exhibited at the Smithsonian Museum and London’s Barbican, and featured on PBS POV, National Geographic, The New Yorker, and The New York Times Op-Docs. His new book, Remembering Earth: A Spiritual Ecology, is forthcoming from Shambhala in summer 2026. He is the founder, podcast host, and executive editor of Emergence Magazine.
DETAILS
Date: July 30, 2026 6pm–7:30pm
Location: California Institute of Integral Studies – Main building
Tickets: $11–$32