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
Podcasting since 2020 • 205 episodes
Inner Life, Talks and Thoughts
Latest Episodes
The King's Philosophy of Harmony: Explained. A Conversation with Rupert Sheldrake and Mark Vernon
For the 100th episode of The Sheldrake-Vernon Dialogues, Rupert Sheldrake and Mark Vernon considered the role of harmony, wholeness and hope in the modern world. The event was held in-person as well as streamed online.The evening took a...
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Sexual drives wreck lives. And yet, the erotic opens paths to paradise, shows Dante's Divine Comedy
Christianity doesn’t do well with erotic love. The unease stems, in part, from the fact that the word “eros” doesn’t appear in the New Testament. The lacuna means that points of reference for discussions about sex are typically inadequate and t...
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Middle-earth and Modern Meaning: Tolkien, Barfield, and the Soul of Story
In this conversation, psychotherapist and writer Dr Mark Vernon is joined by philosopher Dr Robert Rowland Smith to explore the imaginative world of J.R.R. Tolkien and the often-overlooked influence of Owen Barfield - friend of C.S. Lewis and a...
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Patron Saints and Genii Locorum. My 99th conversation with Rupert Sheldrake, plus details of the live 100th!
Saints, bodhisattvas and genii locorum, or spirits of place, are the names in various wisdom traditions given to guardian beings who protect, assist and inspire. So what does it mean to call on these sacred beings? In this episode o...
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Ramana Maharshi in the West and Transcendence Revisited. A conversation with Clare Carlisle
What is the meaning of religious experience? What do spiritual questers from the West find in India? Just what happened to Ramana Maharshi and others who are said to have awakened? And how does this fit with Christian teaching and belief?
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