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.

Across the many spiritual traditions of the world,

there's a common understanding of form and emptiness as central to existence.

Our inner and outer worlds, while constantly changing, feed into each other, mirror each other,

and both carry an imprint of what is eternal.

In my own Sufi tradition, it is love that binds these seen and unseen worlds, existence

and non-existence together.

And it is what lies at the foundation of all life.

It is love that is the axis of all things.

In this essay, my father, Sufi teacher and author Llewellyn Vaughn Lee, invites us into the mystical

dimension of timelessness, in which time in its linear form is absent, and what is essential

and elemental is present instead.

This deeper reality, to which we all belong, has been forgotten amid the 10,000 distractions of modern life.

And yet it remains, connecting all levels of creation,

and can be experienced in each breath and each heartbeat.

Writing that time and timelessness are not separate

a part of a living structure that includes a mayfly that lives for a day

and a thousand-year-old Sequoia. Loewan calls us to regain a relationship with time beyond numbers

and schedules, and to remember that time belongs to the deeper patterns and rhythms of life.

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