
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 • 191 episodes
Inner Life, Talks and Thoughts
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William Blake’s spiritual analysis of our times. A conversation with Jason Whittaker and Mark Vernon
I very much enjoyed speaking with Jason Whittaker, a profound lover of Blake, because we have our differences about how Blake speaks to us and, I hope, that is illuminating.We discussed Blake the visionary and mystic, and resisting forc...
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Poetry Fetter’d Fetters the Human Race! William Blake on an antidote to the mechanistic imagination
Why is the mechanical view of reality so strong? Why does billiard-ball atomism remain the default popular metaphysics? William James was horrified by such “nothing buttery” and the way it substituted bare concepts for rich phenome...
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William Blake and the Power of the Imagination. A talk at L'Abri, Sussex, England
Mark Vernon provides a fresh route into Blake, taking him at his word. Exploring his writings, artwork and life, Vernon illuminates Blake’s vivid worldview and shows how his thinking is still relevant for us today.Please note that th...
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What is really known about consciousness? A conversation with Rupert Sheldrake & Mark Vernon
You may agree that the so-called hard problem of consciousness exposes the deep inadequacies of a materialist worldview. But the alternatives - various forms of panpsychism, panentheism and idealism - raise rich and fascinating ques...
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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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