
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 • 181 episodes
Inner Life, Talks and Thoughts
Latest Episodes
On the Right Track. Liberty from left-brained analysis. William Blake’s path of perceptual expansion
Acknowledging that there are complementary modes of perception has become commonplace. But left-hemisphere analysis can diagnose the problem without offering much sense of how better to incorporate the right.Which is where William Blake...
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Loosening the mind-forged manacles. William Blake in words and songs
A live conversation with Mark Vernon, Katy Carr and Dexter Bentley from the Hello Goodbye Show.Who was William Blake? What might his music have sounded like? What did he say about the imagination? Why might he understand our predicament...
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The saint who ripped reality and rose like a sun. Francis and the apocalyptic fears of chaotic times
Saint Francis was born into a world in a panic. The stabilities of the feudal world had collapsed with the rise of mercantilism. The gap between rich and poor was unsustainable and a new underclass was tearing apart the fabric of society. <...
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Does nature really obey laws? A dialogue with Rupert Sheldrake
The conviction that the natural world is obedient, adhering to laws, is a widespread assumption of modern science. But where did this idea originate and what beliefs does it imply? In this episode of the
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"Enemies of the Human Race" William Blake on the disaster of atheism
William Blake opens the third part of his epic poem, Jerusalem: the Emanation of the Giant Albion, with an astonishing remark. “He never can be a friend of the Human Race who is the Preacher of Natural Morality or Natural Religion.”
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