Welcome to Emergence Magazine's podcast.

I'm Emanuel Von Lee, executive editor of Emergence Magazine.

Our podcast features in-depth interviews, narrated essays, and stories, exploring the threads, connecting ecology, culture, and spirituality.

For our inaugural issue of the magazine, we sat down for an interview with eco-philosopher and Tibetan Buddhist scholar Joanna Macy.

As an activist and pioneer in the field of deep ecology, Joanna has spent the last five decades working to bridge ecological awareness and spiritual values.

As the root teacher of the work that reconnects, Joanna created a groundbreaking theoretical

framework of personal and social change that has empowered people around the world. She has translated

the poetry of Reiner Maria Wilke, and is the author of numerous books, including World as Lover,

World of Self, and her memoir, widening circles.

I got a chance to sit down and speak with Joanna about her life and her work at her home

in Berkeley, California in October of 2017.

But I would like to begin with just centering a minute and a grateful prayer.

Beloved, mother, father, lover, earth, our larger self, our greater body

are so grateful to be granted

a human life right now

at this time of such

anguish turmoil

and so much suffering and loss is occurring.

And we're so grateful to be given human identity and a human voice

and so we can take part in human counsels

and help us to be ever more fully aware of the blessings of being part of your

intelligence. So be it. Okay.

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