Remembering Earth

Discover nature-based devotional practices for rekindling humanity's ancient covenant with the living world-one rooted in reverence and love-and restoring our sacred bond with Earth. Drawing from decades of Sufi teaching, a deep relationship with nature, and the transformative power of story, Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee guides us beyond today's ecological and cultural crises to the heart of the matter: our collective forgetfulness and the severing of our primordial bond with Earth. Following the entwined threads of grief and love, he explains how this moment of crisis holds within it the seeds of transformation and regrowth. Remembering Earth blends reflection with practical guidance, exploring how remembrance, prayer, praise, and intimacy with Earth can restore our sacred relationship with the living world. Through a variety of practices in six key areas-Breath, Heart, Step, Listening, Time, and Prayer-the book guides you to an experience of radical belonging. Each practice is a doorway, inviting you from concept to communion, from observer to participant in the sacred web of life, offering an embodied spiritual ecology that moves beyond ideas into lived experience. In a time of great unraveling, Remembering Earth offers an embodied, spiritual path of remembrance and kinship, guiding us back to the sacredness of creation and our place within the more-than-human world.

EMMANUEL VAUGHAN-LEE is the founder and executive editor of Emergence Magazine, a Webby-winning and National Magazine Award-nominated publication exploring the intersections of ecology, culture, and spirituality. A Sufi teacher in the Naqshbandi tradition, Emmanuel leads retreats on Sufism and spiritual ecology worldwide. An Emmy and Peabody Award-nominated filmmaker, he has directed and produced over 20 documentaries, including Taste of the Land, The Last Ice Age, Aloha Aina, Earthrise, and Sanctuaries of Silence. His films have been screened at leading festivals such as NYFF, Tribeca, SXSW, and Hot Docs, exhibited at the Smithsonian and the Barbican, and featured by PBS, National Geographic, The New York Times, and The Atlantic. Before his work in film and media, he performed with renowned jazz artists and released two acclaimed records, Previous Misconceptions and Borrowed Time. His work invites a deeper relationship with the living world through story, practice, and devotion.