Inner Life, Talks and Thoughts
By Mark Vernon
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Reflections from Mark Vernon on soulful matters including spirituality and psychotherapy, science and religion, consciousness and the divine. For more on see www.markvernon.com
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The Awakening to Eternal Life! How to read William Blake's "Jerusalem the Emanation of the Giant Albion"
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May 24, 2026 |
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Making Sense of the Resurrection of the Body. A conversation with Rupert Sheldrake & Mark Vernon
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May 05, 2026 |
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The King's Philosophy of Harmony: Explained. A Conversation with Rupert Sheldrake and Mark Vernon
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Feb 17, 2026 |
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Sexual drives wreck lives. And yet, the erotic opens paths to paradise, shows Dante's Divine Comedy
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Feb 15, 2026 |
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Patron Saints and Genii Locorum. My 99th conversation with Rupert Sheldrake, plus details of the live 100th!
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Jan 23, 2026 |
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Middle-earth and Modern Meaning: Tolkien, Barfield, and the Soul of Story
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Jan 23, 2026 |
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Ramana Maharshi in the West and Transcendence Revisited. A conversation with Clare Carlisle
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Jan 15, 2026 |
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New Born Wonder. Jesus, Owen Barfield, William Blake
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Dec 19, 2025 |
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The Quiet Revolution and the New Theism. A conversation with Rupert Sheldrake
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Nov 23, 2025 |
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Tantric Blake. The magic and the mysticism of William Blake
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Nov 20, 2025 |
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Cleansing the Doors of Perception. William Blake, Romanticism and the Meaning Crisis
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Nov 14, 2025 |
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Ode to Joy Podcast. A conversation with Paul Wilkinson and Mark Vernon. Music That Shapes Us podcast
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Oct 27, 2025 |
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William Blake Masterclass at the Unherd Club. With Esmé Partridge, Mark Vernon and Florence Read
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Oct 27, 2025 |
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Rouze Up Souls of the New Age! A conversation with Malcolm Guite on William Blake
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Sep 27, 2025 |
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The Wisdom of the Imagination. A conversation with Rupert Sheldrake
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Sep 24, 2025 |
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Full-strength imagination. Romanticism come of age. Mark Vernon & Robert Rowland Smith talk Blake
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Sep 01, 2025 |
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William Blake’s spiritual analysis of our times. A conversation with Jason Whittaker and Mark Vernon
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Aug 24, 2025 |
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Poetry Fetter’d Fetters the Human Race! William Blake on an antidote to the mechanistic imagination
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Aug 23, 2025 |
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William Blake and the Power of the Imagination. A talk at L'Abri, Sussex, England
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Aug 04, 2025 |
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What is really known about consciousness? A conversation with Rupert Sheldrake & Mark Vernon
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Jul 26, 2025 |
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Awake! William Blake and the Power of Imagination. A conversation with Jane Clark and Nikos Yiangou
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Jul 15, 2025 |
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An Implosion of Light. Talking mystical experiences with James Harpur and Mark Vernon
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Jul 06, 2025 |
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The most insightful poet that ever lived. Iain McGilchrist & Mark Vernon on William Blake
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Jun 24, 2025 |
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How to Live like William Blake!
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Jun 13, 2025 |
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Awake! Albion awake! And let us awake up together!
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Jun 12, 2025 |
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Top 10 William Blake quotes! The full countdown
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Jun 12, 2025 |
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On the Right Track. Liberty from left-brained analysis. William Blake’s path of perceptual expansion
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Jun 08, 2025 |
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Loosening the mind-forged manacles. William Blake in words and songs
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Jun 01, 2025 |
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The saint who ripped reality and rose like a sun. Francis and the apocalyptic fears of chaotic times
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May 25, 2025 |
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Does nature really obey laws? A dialogue with Rupert Sheldrake
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May 20, 2025 |
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"Enemies of the Human Race" William Blake on the disaster of atheism
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May 17, 2025 |
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Merely Christianity? Discerning the Spirit of a Revival. A conversation with Elizabeth Oldfield
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May 09, 2025 |
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The Unity of Being and the very great things Ibn ‘Arabi made of it
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Apr 23, 2025 |
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Andalusia and machine anxiety. How new technology in Moorish Spain sparked insights that help us now
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Apr 20, 2025 |
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Jesus is the only God. And so am I and so are you. William Blake’s mystical Christianity
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Apr 20, 2025 |
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Christ the turning point. Owen Barfield in a secular age. A conversation with Ashton Arnoldy
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Mar 21, 2025 |
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Living in an Age of Spiritual Crisis. A conversation with Rupert Sheldrake & Mark Vernon
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Mar 05, 2025 |
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The Abolition of Man, That Hideous Strength, Till We Have Faces. CS Lewis as prophet of dark times
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Feb 14, 2025 |
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Evolution. From natural selection to omega point. A conversation with Rupert Sheldrake
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Jan 29, 2025 |
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Physics and reality. Francis Lucille on the nature of matter, the flaws of panpsychism & God
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Jan 23, 2025 |
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On Mysticism. With Simon Critchley on his new book, inc. figures from Mother Julian to Annie Dillard
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Jan 17, 2025 |
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In Search of Wild Gods. Reflections on Nick Cave and Tom Holland in conversation about Christianity
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Jan 11, 2025 |
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Meister Eckhart's Christmas Sermon One. Where is the Word born and how?
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Dec 14, 2024 |
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Forms and the Reformation of Science. A conversation with Rupert Sheldrake
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Dec 06, 2024 |
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"Enemies of the Human Race." William Blake on how to know God
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Nov 29, 2024 |
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The gospel, sexual desire and the abuse scandals in the church. What has the erotic to do with God?
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Nov 21, 2024 |
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The Turn of the Tide. Martin Shaw & Mark Vernon talk about discerning the New Christian moment
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Nov 01, 2024 |
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Purposes in nature and minds. A conversation with Rupert Sheldrake
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Oct 25, 2024 |
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Does the Consolation of Philosophy offered by Boethius, still work, 1500 years on?
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Oct 22, 2024 |
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All Things Are Full Of Gods by David Bentley Hart. A summary and discussion
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Oct 06, 2024 |
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How does memory work? A conversation with Rupert Sheldrake
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Sep 16, 2024 |
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0:00 / 19:22 What did Socrates teach? Or why you only understand Plato if he is decolonised
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Aug 26, 2024 |
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To see a world in a grain of sand. Poetry & philosophy for a civilisation in distress. A conversation with Valentin Gerlier
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Aug 09, 2024 |
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Hallam v the State, and free speech. The Just Stop Oil desecrations are calling to our humanity
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Jul 21, 2024 |
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Chance and accidents, indeterminism and prayer. A conversation with Rupert Sheldrake
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Jul 18, 2024 |
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Cultural Christianity kills. Taking Blake's Christianity seriously. William on Jesus
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Jul 04, 2024 |
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Trans activism, transhumanising, economic transition. Proxies for vision & the lost soul of politics
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Jul 03, 2024 |
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Cut off in the literal age. Owen Barfield & Carl Jung on alienation and political disillusionment
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Jun 25, 2024 |
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To Generalise is to be an Idiot. William Blake on politics, disillusionment and abstraction
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Jun 21, 2024 |
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God, sexuality & the psyche. CS Lewis and Sigmund Freud tabletalk. Thoughts on Freud’s Last Session
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Jun 12, 2024 |
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The fullness of life. A conversation with Rupert Sheldrake
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Jun 07, 2024 |
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Rendering to Caesar. Jesus on politics and the kingdom that is within
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Jun 07, 2024 |
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Beauty and the failure of politics. An election dispatch from ancient Athens
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May 31, 2024 |
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Ethics and the failure of politics, or why ethics is part of the problem. A dispatch from Athens
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May 31, 2024 |
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Force Fields. Behind the fog of maths. A conversation with Rupert Sheldrake
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May 09, 2024 |
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The enchanted vision. An invitation to read about love
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Apr 19, 2024 |
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Matter is frozen light. A conversation with Rupert Sheldrake & Mark Vernon
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Apr 09, 2024 |
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Whose revival? Which Christianity? CS Lewis & Owen Barfield on the renewed interest of belief in God
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Apr 08, 2024 |
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Strangeness is the new real. Martin Shaw & Mark Vernon in conversation
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Mar 28, 2024 |
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Christspiracy. The documentary's claims about Jesus & Christianity put to the test, w Kameron Waters
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Mar 12, 2024 |
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The Nature of Energy. A conversation with Rupert Sheldrake & Mark Vernon
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Mar 01, 2024 |
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Participation renewed. Discussing The Riddle of the Sphinx, new essays from Owen Barfield
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Feb 26, 2024 |
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Apocalypse? It's now! Good news & secular salvation, climate crisis & time. With Gunnar Gjermundsen
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Feb 22, 2024 |
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Practicing paradise, or refusing wretchedness in Lent
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Feb 15, 2024 |
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The Speed of Gravity. A conversation with Rupert Sheldrake
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Jan 26, 2024 |
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How rituals of love can aid death and dying. A conversation with Madeleine Pennington
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Jan 25, 2024 |
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Nondualism & enchantment, acting & UFOs (Rupert Spira & Meister Eckhart too). Talk with Jamie Robson
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Jan 22, 2024 |
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Love at the meeting of cultures. A conversation with Chine McDonald
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Jan 18, 2024 |
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Humanity’s role in nature. Are we more than just a problem? A conversation with Rupert Sheldrake
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Dec 20, 2023 |
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On the Incarnation or the real meaning of Christmas. Conversation with Russell Jefford & Mark Vernon
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Dec 19, 2023 |
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Loving and knowing in indigenous ways of life. A conversation with Melissa Nelson
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Dec 09, 2023 |
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What can love look like in an era of crisis and fear? With Clare Martin, St Ethelburga's Centre, London
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Dec 01, 2023 |
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Jesus the Imagination. Taking William Blake’s Christianity seriously. Essay at blakesociety.org
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Nov 29, 2023 |
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Love, power and public life. A conversation with Claire Gilbert & Mark Vernon
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Nov 23, 2023 |
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Principles of love and the wisdom of constellations. With Robert Rowland Smith & Mark Vernon
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Nov 21, 2023 |
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The extension of mind through space and the sense of being stared at. Conversation with Rupert Sheldrake
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Nov 10, 2023 |
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How to make friendship work. A conversation with Robin Dunbar
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Nov 10, 2023 |
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Desire is the way. Thoughts on Bishop Barron at ARC in London
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Nov 05, 2023 |
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Faith & responsibility or love & response. Thoughts on Jordan Peterson at ARC in London
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Nov 03, 2023 |
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Loving AIs. Reducing risk & building intelligence. Mark Vernon talks with Eve Poole
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Nov 02, 2023 |
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Can we do without organised religion? A conversation with Rupert Sheldrake
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Oct 21, 2023 |
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A Thought on Comedy in a Time of Tragedy
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Oct 18, 2023 |
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Christ consciousness and final participation. Max Leyf, Landon Loftin & Mark Vernon. #OwenBarfield
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Oct 07, 2023 |
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Love and Attachment Styles. A conversation with Robert Rowland Smith & Mark Vernon
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Oct 07, 2023 |
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Heaven in a Wild Flower. Plato, Cusa, Shakespeare & Blake. Valentin Gerlier & Mark Vernon
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Aug 20, 2023 |
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The Unconscious. A conversation with Mark Vernon & Robert Rowland Smith
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Aug 11, 2023 |
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How to teach prayer. A conversation with Rupert Sheldrake
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Aug 01, 2023 |
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Falling in love with your therapist. On transference & countertransference
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Jul 18, 2023 |
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10 ways to understand AI
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Jul 10, 2023 |
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Narcissism. Good and Bad Therapy. A series of conversations with Robert Rowland Smith & Mark Vernon
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Jun 15, 2023 |
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The Scandalous Radicality of Owen Barfield’s Thought. Landon Loftin, Max Leyf & Mark Vernon
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Jun 06, 2023 |
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End of Life Experiences. A conversation with Rupert Sheldrake
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Jun 02, 2023 |
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What makes a place safe to talk? Psychotherapy and the frame. Robert Rowland Smith & Mark Vernon
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May 19, 2023 |
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How Jesus can save us from AI
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May 14, 2023 |
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Monarchy, diversity & William Blake. An Idler Drinks thought
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May 11, 2023 |
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Good & Bad Therapy. Or, have we reached "peak trauma"? A conversation with Robert Rowland Smith
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Apr 13, 2023 |
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In Praise of Praise. A conversation with Rupert Sheldrake
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Mar 28, 2023 |
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Synchronicity and Carl Jung’s metaphysics. #CollectiveUnconscious #GermanIdealism #BernardoKastrup
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Mar 20, 2023 |
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Carlo Rovelli is interestingly, importantly wrong about Anaximander
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Feb 24, 2023 |
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Freeing Perception. 10 Ways of Living Iain McGilchrist's Work
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Jan 28, 2023 |
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What is objectivity? A conversation with Rupert Sheldrake & Mark Vernon
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Jan 14, 2023 |
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Harry & Psychotherapy. British & American traditions. Reflecting on differences, conflicts, tensions
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Jan 07, 2023 |
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A New Axial Age? A conversation with Beth Macy & Mark Vernon
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Dec 22, 2022 |
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Spiritual Intelligence in Seven Steps. Step One - Telling Our Story
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Dec 13, 2022 |
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Spiritual Intelligence in Seven Steps. Step Two - Discovering Freedom
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Dec 13, 2022 |
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Spiritual Intelligence in Seven Steps. Step Three - See Reality Is Simple
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Dec 13, 2022 |
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Spiritual Intelligence in Seven Steps. Step Four - Settling The Soul
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Dec 13, 2022 |
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Spiritual Intelligence in Seven Steps. Step Five - Learning To Die
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Dec 13, 2022 |
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Spiritual Intelligence in Seven Steps. Step Six - Resonating With Reality
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Dec 13, 2022 |
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Spiritual Intelligence in Seven Steps. Step Seven - Befriending Irruptions
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Dec 13, 2022 |
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Seven Steps in seven minutes. Moves for recovering spiritual intelligence as explored in my new book
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Dec 11, 2022 |
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Take No Bag For The Road. Nature, the Climate Crisis & Christianity. A talk with Peter Owen Jones
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Dec 06, 2022 |
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Humanism as Heresy. Testing the thesis of Tom Holland. A conversation with Rupert Sheldrake
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Dec 06, 2022 |
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William Blake on the Last Judgement, Apocalypse & Final Things. #secondcoming #advent
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Nov 27, 2022 |
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Against Moral Tales! Jesus’s Parables. A thought from Owen Barfield. A poem from John-Paul Flintoff
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Nov 21, 2022 |
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What is spiritual intelligence? Introducing my new book, Spiritual Intelligence in Seven Steps
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Nov 06, 2022 |
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The Veiling of Reality. Rishi Sunak, William Blake and the Bhagavad Gita
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Oct 29, 2022 |
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Circling Jesus: What's afoot with the new interest in Christianity? Elizabeth Oldfield & Mark Vernon
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Oct 25, 2022 |
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The Weirdness of Christianity. C.S. Lewis & Owen Barfield, with Jason Baxter & Mark Vernon
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Oct 21, 2022 |
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The New Christians, Rewilding Christianity. A dialogue with Rupert Sheldrake and Mark Vernon
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Oct 07, 2022 |
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Full strength Christianity. What might that be?
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Oct 03, 2022 |
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Can the present shape the past? And other questions in physics. A conversation with Bernard Carr
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Sep 27, 2022 |
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Awakening in a Caroline Age. King Charles, William Blake & Kathleen Raine
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Sep 09, 2022 |
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Where is heaven? A response to Sam Harris & Jonathan Pageau
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Aug 25, 2022 |
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Nope. What's the movie about? With thanks to Carl Jung
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Aug 22, 2022 |
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Nature, politics, humanity. Three hard sayings of William Blake
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Aug 21, 2022 |
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Of Selfhood and Awakening. William Blake and the Book of Job
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Aug 02, 2022 |
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Spinoza's Nondualism. Clare Carlisle talks with Mark Vernon about her book, Spinoza's Religion
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Jul 27, 2022 |
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Carl Jung. An introduction to his insights, including dreams & archetypes, the Self & synchronicity
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Jul 22, 2022 |
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A Path Through Suffering
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Jul 16, 2022 |
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William Blake and the future of Christianity
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Jul 16, 2022 |
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Science with Soul. Reflecting on Rupert Sheldrake’s 80th Birthday Celebration
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Jul 14, 2022 |
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Freedom, power & the spiritual commons. More thoughts on The Dawn of Everything by Graeber & Wengrow
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Jul 10, 2022 |
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JERUSALEM. Lament, tragedy, invocation, cry? William Blake and the play that forgets his name
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Jun 28, 2022 |
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You Are Gods by David Bentley Hart. Reflections on Vedantic Christianity
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Jun 19, 2022 |
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The Mossy Face of Christ. Martin Shaw talks w Mark Vernon about an unexpected return to Christianity
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Jun 14, 2022 |
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Varieties of love in Plato, Jesus, Ibn 'Arabi and other mystics. Jane Clark & Mark Vernon
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Jun 02, 2022 |
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Monarchy and the emergence of consciousness
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Jun 01, 2022 |
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Love in a Time of Crisis because Crises are How Love Shows Up
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May 25, 2022 |
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William Blake and the Psychedelic Renaissance. Seven facets of cultural transformation
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May 24, 2022 |
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The Road of Excess Leads to the Palace of Wisdom. William Blake on desire, attention and wanting it all
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May 21, 2022 |
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Understanding the Hollywood Medium. Thoughts on Life After Death with Tyler Henry
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May 16, 2022 |
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Defending the Spiritual Commons. A short talk at Idler Drinks
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May 07, 2022 |
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Wrestling with Christianity. A Medicine Path podcast conversation with Brian James & Mark Vernon
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May 04, 2022 |
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The Spiritual Path of the Soul - a Stoic conversation with The Walled Garden
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Apr 28, 2022 |
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Forging Golgonooza. William Blake on how to do politics & religion
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Apr 25, 2022 |
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The Evolution of Religion - our shared sacred story. Interview with Robin Dunbar
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Apr 21, 2022 |
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The Attack On Life and Understanding Our Times. A conversation with Iain McGilchrist and Mark Vernon
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Apr 15, 2022 |
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How meaning might be found in suffering
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Apr 11, 2022 |
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Easter according to William Blake. Resurrection is neither miracle nor mystery
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Apr 10, 2022 |
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Mysticism in Christianity - a conversation with James Cooke & Mark Vernon
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Mar 30, 2022 |
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From Trance to Extraterrestrials: Developments in Human Evolution, Robin Dunbar, Simon Conway Morris
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Mar 16, 2022 |
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William Blake, Albion and War in Europe
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Mar 12, 2022 |
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The spiritual journey of individuals and humanity Pt 2
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Mar 11, 2022 |
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The spiritual journey of individuals and humanity
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Mar 10, 2022 |
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Spiritual freedom and the light in Ukraine
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Mar 04, 2022 |
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Contraries and Human Existence - William Blake and Cleansing the Doors of Perception
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Feb 28, 2022 |
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The Master and the Emissary - dualities in the philosophy of Iain McGilchrist
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Feb 28, 2022 |
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Stone Circles & Sun Disks - Alternative thoughts on #Stonehenge at the #BritishMuseum
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Feb 20, 2022 |
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The Way of Love - Plato and participation in the good, beautiful and true
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Feb 10, 2022 |
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Christianity, Covid & Transformation – Paul Kingsnorth in conversation with Mark Vernon
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Feb 08, 2022 |
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William Blake and the Metaverse - The Mental Fight to be a Person
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Feb 05, 2022 |
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Love and Power - Making sense of science & statistics, control & conspiracies
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Jan 30, 2022 |
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From Ulro to Eternity - the place William Blake died. A walk and reflection
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Jan 28, 2022 |
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Living In Awareness - a conversation with Rupert Spira & Mark Vernon #nondualism #Blake #Rumi #Dante
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Dec 14, 2021 |
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Christmas according to William Blake - a warning
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Dec 09, 2021 |
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Dante on living in riven times. A thought
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Dec 01, 2021 |
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How to talk about God: on why God is not an object
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Nov 21, 2021 |
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Spiritual Intelligence: what it is, why it’s needed, how it might return
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Nov 11, 2021 |
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Plato, Eros & Beautiful Bodies. A critique of God: An Anatomy by Francesca Stavrakopoulou
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Nov 06, 2021 |
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Homo Sapiens? Mark Vernon & Charles Foster in conversation
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Nov 01, 2021 |
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Apocalypse Now: Arnold Toynbee, William Blake and our understanding times
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Oct 31, 2021 |
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The Tragedy of the Spiritual Commons: review of The Dawn of Everything by Davids Graeber and Wengrow
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Oct 25, 2021 |
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Climate crisis: spiritual crisis. Five principles as consciousness changing practices
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Oct 17, 2021 |
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Gnosticism, Then & Now - a conversation with Rupert Sheldrake
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Oct 06, 2021 |
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Know Thyself - Rupert Spira and Mark Vernon in conversation
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Sep 21, 2021 |
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What the West can learn from the East - a conversation between Mark Vernon & Rupert Sheldrake
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Aug 18, 2021 |
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Nondualism, Divine Life and Now - Looking East in Winter by Rowan Williams
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Aug 15, 2021 |
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Homo Spiritualis - The New Science of Human Evolution
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Jun 26, 2021 |
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"I give you the end of a golden string" - Blake, the Gita and God
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Jun 18, 2021 |
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Matters of Life and Death - a conversation between Mark Vernon & Rupert Sheldrake
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Jun 16, 2021 |
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On Physics, Evolution, Mind at Large & Projections - Bernardo Kastrup & Mark Vernon
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Jun 08, 2021 |
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Beauty’s Philosopher - Anthony Ashley Cooper
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Jun 07, 2021 |
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What is psychotherapy?
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May 25, 2021 |
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Animals That Talk - a conversation between Mark Vernon & Rupert Sheldrake
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Apr 23, 2021 |
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The Experience of Life and the Nature of the Afterlife
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Apr 18, 2021 |
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The Death of Princes and the Evolution of Consciousness
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Apr 10, 2021 |
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Billionaires, Brains and Beliefs - a conversation between Mark Vernon & Rupert Sheldrake
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Apr 09, 2021 |
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How to be a Christian - thoughts on Jordan Peterson & Jonathan Pageau
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Mar 03, 2021 |
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Freedom to be - on the dialogue between Iain McGilchrist & Rowan Williams
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Feb 26, 2021 |
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Panpsychism - a conversation between Mark Vernon & Rupert Sheldrake
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Feb 19, 2021 |
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What is life about? Reflections on the movie Soul, with Mark Vernon, Pippa Evans & Jonathan Rowson
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Jan 29, 2021 |
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Light - a conversation between Mark Vernon & Rupert Sheldrake
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Jan 15, 2021 |
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Artificial Intelligence - a conversation between Mark Vernon & Rupert Sheldrake
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Jan 08, 2021 |
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How To Read The Greatest Secret By Rhonda Byrne
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Dec 28, 2020 |
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The Meaning of Pixar's Soul
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Dec 28, 2020 |
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The Meaning of Christmas according to Owen Barfield
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Dec 28, 2020 |