Welcome to Emergence Magazine's podcast.

I'm Emanuel Vaughn Lee, executive editor of Emergence Magazine,

located on the unseated ancestral lands of the Coast Meawak people of present-day, Mering County.

Each week we feature a new interview, narrated essay, or story, exploring the threads connecting

ecology, culture, and spirituality.

Machines and computers have transformed how we absorb meaning from our realities.

Speeding us up far beyond our natural pace of moving through the day,

modern technology dissects time into smaller and smaller units,

dispersing it into the consumable, atomized portions that can hardly be felt,

let alone truly and deeply experienced. What might happen if we kept time by listening

to the primordial metronomes that remain both in our physical bodies and the greater body

of the earth? What if we embodied a kind of time that allowed us to be deeply inward and profoundly

attentive to the world around us.

Recently, I spoke with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Paul Salopek,

who was a decade into a remarkable journey, retracing on foot,

the migration pathway taken by the first humans out of Africa

tens of thousands of years ago.

Speaking to me from Northeastern China, he shares how moving at three miles per hour

has deepened his personal relationship to time.

As Paul becomes attuned to what he terms sacramental time, the boundaries between the physical

and metaphysical begin to blur into an expansive

experience of timelessness.

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