Inner Life, Talks and Thoughts
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
Inner Life, Talks and Thoughts
Latest Episodes
Unveiling Transcendence. William Blake and the Book of Daniel
What if apocalyptic biblical literature is not best interpreted through historical events, though they certainly have a bearing, nor through the symbolic, as if the imagery should be decoded? Instead, these texts are educations in imagination, ...
The Souls of Plants. A conversation with Rupert Sheldrake
An ancient intuition is that plants have souls and even participate in the life of God by virtue of being alive. But what sense can be made of that today? In this episode of the Sheldrake-Vernon Dialogues, Rupert Sheldrake and Mark ...
Homer's Odyssey, Nolan's telling. Crucial losses in the movie version of nostos, homecoming
The Odyssey movie is brilliant. The combination of spectacle and seriousness that characterises Christopher Nolan’s film-making makes this one a must-see. I can wholeheartedly recommend it.However, this telling is Nolan's telling. The o...
nd the Sacred Today. A dialogue between Rupert Sheldrake & Mark Vernon
Does art need to have a sacred dimension to be art at all? What are the sources of inspiration?In this dialogue, which is the 102nd in the series, Rupert Sheldrake and Mark Vernon, explore how meaning and beauty, truth and connection mi...
The Awakening to Eternal Life! How to read William Blake's "Jerusalem the Emanation of the Giant Albion"
Susanne Sklar and Mark Vernon explore William Blake's late, great poem, "Jerusalem the Emanation of the Giant Albion""Of the Sleep of Ulro! and of the passage through Eternal Death! and of the awakening to Eternal Life," Blake tells us ...