For centuries, standardized, mechanized time has imposed a sense of order on the world around us. A tool to control direction, production, and progress, this conception of time has become the backbone of our reality, placing history behind us and entraining our consciousness toward bounded futures. Clutched by the minute hand, swallowed by hours, we have become divorced from the rhythms of Earth, from the possibility inherent in every moment.
Join Sufi teacher, filmmaker, and Emergence Magazine founder and executive editor Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee in this 4-day retreat and consider how we can step out of the time-bound consciousness of control, separation, and linearity we have created, and transition toward a different kind of time in which we are attentive to our present moment of ecological crisis and transformation.
Building from Emergence's forthcoming print edition, Vol 5: TIME, this event introduces participants to the ways in which the principles of spiritual ecology—reverence, interconnectedness, and kinship—can open us to see beyond the constraints of mechanized time and experience the fullness of the present moment. Through talks, writing workshops, storytelling, meditation, and nature connection practices, we attune to a sense of time rooted in the living world.
