Welcome to Emergence Magazine's podcast.

I'm Emanuel Vaughn Lee, host of this show, an executive editor of Emergence Magazine,

located on the unseated ancestral lands of the Coast Miwok people in present-day Marin County.

Each week we feature interviews, stories, poetry, and author-narrated essays, exploring the threads connecting

ecology, culture, and spirituality. In November, I gave a talk at St. Ethelberger's Center

for Reconciliation and Peace in London. Regular listeners will know that I give lectures there once or twice a year.

It's a beautiful space, a thousand-year-old church that sits among skyscrapers on a busy London

High Street, right by Liverpool Street Station.

In this talk, I returned to the very heart of our work at emergence, spiritual ecology,

and speak about an embodied practice of spiritual ecology,

where one awakens a primordial memory of the Earth as a divine being imbued with spirit,

and how this is a radical act amidst a culture that has forgotten the sacred

nature of our relationship with the earth.

It's my belief that the heart is a very powerful thing when it is awakened, and that it

can help keep an essential connection with the earth alive through our darkening days.

A remembrance of our intimate connection with the living world is, I feel, the spiritual

responsibility of our time.

And when our hearts recognize and hold this reality, we can offer a practice of love to the

earth in the midst of her suffering.

We can no longer wait for our systems and institutions to lead the way.

We must each engage in and embody our own spiritual ecology

so that a bridge between now and the future we know is possible can begin to form.

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