Our Sacred Earth: Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee

Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee grew up with a Sufi teacher living downstairs and fell in love with jazz at an early age. He is now a Sufi teacher himself, a filmmaker, and the founder of Emergence Magazine. His new book Remembering Earth asks what it would take to come back into relationship with the living world. We talk about silence, the primordial covenant, the eye of unity, walking as practice, dreams, and what it means to meet this moment without turning away from beauty.

Timestamps

00:00 Introduction

00:01 Growing up with a guru living downstairs

00:05 The silent Sufi path, and the space between the notes

00:09 What silence actually is

00:11 John Cage, Suzuki, and silence as expression

00:13 A deep ecology of consciousness

00:16 The primordial covenant

00:21 Nature communion, and a waterfall in Brazil

00:23 The eye of unity, and the subtle bodies of the heart

00:36 Listening walks, and walking slowly enough to be trusted