Remembering Earth

Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee offers a set of nature-based devotional practices aimed at renewing an old agreement between people and the living world, one built on reverence and love. The book treats our current ecological and cultural troubles as symptoms of something deeper: a shared forgetting, and the breaking of a primal bond with the Earth.

Vaughan-Lee draws on decades of Sufi teaching, a close personal relationship with the natural world, and the power of storytelling. He follows the intertwined threads of grief and love through this era of crisis, and argues that the same moment that feels like collapse also carries the seeds of transformation and regrowth.

Reflection and practical guidance go hand in hand here. The author looks at how remembrance, prayer, praise, and intimacy with Earth can heal our sacred relationship with the living world. The practices fall into six areas: Breath, Heart, Step, Listening, Time, and Prayer. Each one is meant as a doorway that moves the reader from idea to communion, from onlooker to participant in the sacred web of life.

The result is an embodied spiritual ecology that goes past concepts and into lived experience. For readers feeling the strain of a time of great unraveling, it sets out a path of remembrance and kinship that leads back to the sacredness of creation and our place within the more-than-human world.