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 • 203 episodes
Inner Life, Talks and Thoughts
Latest Episodes
Middle-earth and Modern Meaning: Tolkien, Barfield, and the Soul of Story
In this conversation, psychotherapist and writer Dr Mark Vernon is joined by philosopher Dr Robert Rowland Smith to explore the imaginative world of J.R.R. Tolkien and the often-overlooked influence of Owen Barfield - friend of C.S. Lewis and a...
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Patron Saints and Genii Locorum. My 99th conversation with Rupert Sheldrake, plus details of the live 100th!
Saints, bodhisattvas and genii locorum, or spirits of place, are the names in various wisdom traditions given to guardian beings who protect, assist and inspire. So what does it mean to call on these sacred beings? In this episode o...
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Ramana Maharshi in the West and Transcendence Revisited. A conversation with Clare Carlisle
What is the meaning of religious experience? What do spiritual questers from the West find in India? Just what happened to Ramana Maharshi and others who are said to have awakened? And how does this fit with Christian teaching and belief?
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New Born Wonder. Jesus, Owen Barfield, William Blake
How can we understand what is happening today from the perspective of what is sometimes called salvation history? What might be struggling to be born in our times? Why is a spiritual analysis - an unfolding of consciousness - key?The ta...
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The Quiet Revolution and the New Theism. A conversation with Rupert Sheldrake
The mood has shifted. Subjects that were once taboo - like God - are now discussed openly. So if a new theism is abroad, what might it bring? In this episode of the Sheldrake-Vernon Dialogues, Rupert Sheldrake and Mark Vernon ask wh...
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