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 • 175 episodes
Inner Life, Talks and Thoughts
Latest Episodes
The Unity of Being and the very great things Ibn ‘Arabi made of it
Ibn ‘Arabi is arguably the greatest philosopher in the Islamic world, though controversial; Seal of the Mohammedan Saints, as he is known, alongside Shaykh al-Akbar, he is becoming more important again, especially against a backdrop of fundamen...
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Jesus is the only God. And so am I and so are you. William Blake’s mystical Christianity
The first in a series of talks I’ll be posting in anticipation of my new book, Awake! William Blake and the Power of the Imagination, out in June/Sept (UK/US).Do consider pre-ordering! (Thanks: it really helps early sales and so booksho...
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Andalusia and machine anxiety. How new technology in Moorish Spain sparked insights that help us now
The extraordinary spread of Islam after 632 - from Central Asia to North Africa in a century - reached Europe from the eighth century, generating issues still energising to this day. Not ones of religion, though, but of technology.Withi...
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Christ the turning point. Owen Barfield in a secular age. A conversation with Ashton Arnoldy
Owen Barfield was the genius Inkling, said CS Lewis and JRR Tolkien. But why does he so much matter today?They consider how Owen Barfield addresses the idea of secularism developed by Charles Taylor and why that might matter in...
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Living in an Age of Spiritual Crisis. A conversation with Rupert Sheldrake & Mark Vernon
Much of the modern world has become uncoupled from the transcendent in a cultural experiment Nietzsche called the death of God. But might this spiritual crisis prove to be a time of rebirth? In this episode of the Sheldrake-Vernon Dial...
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