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The first edition of this book fostered the emergence of the "Spiritual Ecology Movement," which recognizes the need for a spiritual response to our present ecological crisis. This second expanded edition offers new chapters, including two from younger authors who are putting the principles of spiritual ecology into action, working with their hands as well as their hearts.
Active Hope is about finding, and offering, our best response when facing concerns about our world situation. It offers tools that help us face the mess we’re in, as well as find and play our role in the collective transition, or Great Turning, towards a society and way of being that support the flourishing of life.
As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and animals are our oldest teachers. In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these two ways of knowledge together.
Indigenous Voices Introduce 28 Precepts for Rebalancing Life on Planet Earth
Selected speeches from Indigenous leaders around the world--necessary wisdom for our times, nourishment for our collective, and a path away from extinction toward a sustainable, interconnected future.
Drawing from his Zulu culture and his own yearning to better understand human’s relationship to nature, Sicelo has forged a new path, disrupting the conventional approach to nature with an immersive, respectful and transformative way of being in the wilderness. Both memoir and philosophical reflection, Black Lion - co-written with author and environmentalist Bridget Pitt - is his brilliant and profound account of life as a wilderness spiritual guide.
A remarkable journey of groundbreaking scientific discoveries & personal encounters with plants
In Interconnected, the Karmapa shows that the crucial next step is to move beyond theoretical understanding of our interconnectedness, to begin to actually feeling connected. The Karmapa urges us to move our understanding of interdependence from our head to our hearts and out to our hands. The book is structured in three parts—Seeing the Connection, Feeling the Connection and Living the Connection.
How do we love in a time of rage? How do we fix a broken world while not breaking ourselves? Valarie Kaur—renowned Sikh activist, filmmaker, and civil rights lawyer—describes revolutionary love as the call of our time, a radical, joyful practice that extends in three directions: to others, to our opponents, and to ourselves.
Buddhist teacher and anthropologist, Joan Halifax, delves into the shadow side of being, found in the root truths of Native religions, the fecundity of nature, and the stillness of meditation.
A simple but penetrating perspective on transforming our childhood pain and confusion into strength and clarity
In this in-depth interview, Suzanne Simard—the renowned scientist who discovered the “wood-wide web”—speaks about Mother Trees, kin recognition, and how to heal our separation from the living world.
In this article I draw on personal experience to explore the kinds of relationships that can develop between human and nonhuman animals. The first part of the article describes my encounters with wild baboons, whom I studied in East Africa over the course of many years. The second part of the article describes a mutual exploration of such possibilities in my relationship with my dog, Safi.
There is so much intelligence on this planet other than ours. Realising that will be key to adapting to climate breakdown
Emergence Magazine creates interactive spaces for exploring the connections between ecology, culture and spirituality. Our podcast features exclusive interviews, author-narrated essays, fiction, multipart series, and more.
Holding the Fire: Indigenous Voices on the Great Unraveling
Dr. Lyla June Johnston, who is of Navajo, Cheyenne, and European lineages, recently received her PhD from the University of Alaska Fairbanks’ Indigenous Studies Program, with a focus on Indigenous land stewardship.
Green Dreamer podcasts
What can we learn from marine mammals in their practices of echolocation? What is the difference between identification as a colonial tool of control and separation, versus identifying with as an invitation to expand and blur boundaries? In this episode, we are honored to welcome Alexis Pauline Gumbs, a Queer Black Feminist Love Evangelist, an aspirational cousin to all life, and the author of Undrowned and Survival is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde.
Spiritual
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NETHERLANDS