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 • 187 episodes
Inner Life, Talks and Thoughts
Latest Episodes
Awake! William Blake and the Power of Imagination. A conversation with Jane Clark and Nikos Yiangou
In my book, I want to draw out two facets of William Blake, which I think get routinely sidelined now. My conversation with Jane Clark and Nikos Yiangou enabled us to explore these dimensions.One is that Blake was a very sharp thinker. ...
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An Implosion of Light. Talking mystical experiences with James Harpur and Mark Vernon
James Harpur’s new book, "Dazzling Darkness: The Lives and Afterlives of the Christian Mystics", begins with an account of a mystical experience that happened to him - “an implosion of light”, as he describes it. That led to his book, Dazzling ...
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The most insightful poet that ever lived. Iain McGilchrist & Mark Vernon on William Blake
Iain McGilchrist calls William Blake “the least cosy of poets and one of the most insightful that ever lived.” Blake is cited more often than most figures in Iain’s great book, "The Matter With Things".So what did Blake express that mig...
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