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
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Episodes (206)
0:00 / 19:22 What did Socrates teach? Or why you only understand Plato if he i...
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To see a world in a grain of sand. Poetry & philosophy for a civilisation in dis...
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Hallam v the State, and free speech. The Just Stop Oil desecrations are calling...
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Chance and accidents, indeterminism and prayer. A conversation with Rupert Sheld...
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Cultural Christianity kills. Taking Blake's Christianity seriously. William on J...
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Trans activism, transhumanising, economic transition. Proxies for vision & the l...
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Cut off in the literal age. Owen Barfield & Carl Jung on alienation and politica...
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To Generalise is to be an Idiot. William Blake on politics, disillusionment and...
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God, sexuality & the psyche. CS Lewis and Sigmund Freud tabletalk. Thoughts on F...
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The fullness of life. A conversation with Rupert Sheldrake
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Rendering to Caesar. Jesus on politics and the kingdom that is within
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Ethics and the failure of politics, or why ethics is part of the problem. A disp...
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Beauty and the failure of politics. An election dispatch from ancient Athens
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Force Fields. Behind the fog of maths. A conversation with Rupert Sheldrake
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The enchanted vision. An invitation to read about love
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Matter is frozen light. A conversation with Rupert Sheldrake & Mark Vernon
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Whose revival? Which Christianity? CS Lewis & Owen Barfield on the renewed inter...
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Strangeness is the new real. Martin Shaw & Mark Vernon in conversation
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Christspiracy. The documentary's claims about Jesus & Christianity put to the te...
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The Nature of Energy. A conversation with Rupert Sheldrake & Mark Vernon
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Participation renewed. Discussing The Riddle of the Sphinx, new essays from Owen...
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Apocalypse? It's now! Good news & secular salvation, climate crisis & time. With...
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Practicing paradise, or refusing wretchedness in Lent
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The Speed of Gravity. A conversation with Rupert Sheldrake
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How rituals of love can aid death and dying. A conversation with Madeleine Penni...
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Nondualism & enchantment, acting & UFOs (Rupert Spira & Meister Eckhart too). Ta...
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Love at the meeting of cultures. A conversation with Chine McDonald
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Humanity’s role in nature. Are we more than just a problem? A conversation with...
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On the Incarnation or the real meaning of Christmas. Conversation with Russell J...
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Loving and knowing in indigenous ways of life. A conversation with Melissa Nelso...
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What can love look like in an era of crisis and fear? With Clare Martin, St Ethe...
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Jesus the Imagination. Taking William Blake’s Christianity seriously. Essay at b...
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Love, power and public life. A conversation with Claire Gilbert & Mark Vernon
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Principles of love and the wisdom of constellations. With Robert Rowland Smith &...
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The extension of mind through space and the sense of being stared at. Conversati...
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How to make friendship work. A conversation with Robin Dunbar
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Desire is the way. Thoughts on Bishop Barron at ARC in London
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Faith & responsibility or love & response. Thoughts on Jordan Peterson at ARC in...
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Loving AIs. Reducing risk & building intelligence. Mark Vernon talks with Eve Po...
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Can we do without organised religion? A conversation with Rupert Sheldrake
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A Thought on Comedy in a Time of Tragedy
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Christ consciousness and final participation. Max Leyf, Landon Loftin & Mark Ver...
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Love and Attachment Styles. A conversation with Robert Rowland Smith & Mark Vern...
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Heaven in a Wild Flower. Plato, Cusa, Shakespeare & Blake. Valentin Gerlier & Ma...
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The Unconscious. A conversation with Mark Vernon & Robert Rowland Smith
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How to teach prayer. A conversation with Rupert Sheldrake
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Falling in love with your therapist. On transference & countertransference
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10 ways to understand AI
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Narcissism. Good and Bad Therapy. A series of conversations with Robert Rowland...
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The Scandalous Radicality of Owen Barfield’s Thought. Landon Loftin, Max Leyf &...
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