Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchRouze Up Souls of the New Age! A conversation with Malcolm Guite on William Blake
“Man has no Body distinct from his Soul,” declared William Blake. “Nature is imagination itself!” The human face is the “countenance divine”.
Inspiring, yes. But what can we make of his sayings?
Mark V…
Published on 11 hours ago
The Wisdom of the Imagination. A conversation with Rupert Sheldrake
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The imagination is often regarded as a valuable but fanciful capacity. But what if imagination were not an optional ex…
Published on 3 days, 8 hours ago
The Wisdom of the Imagination. A conversation with Rupert Sheldrake
The imagination is often regarded as a valuable but fanciful capacity. But what if imagination were not an optional extra, or even the possession of human beings alone, but a fundamental feature of r…
Published on 4 days ago
Full-strength imagination. Romanticism come of age. Mark Vernon & Robert Rowland Smith talk Blake
Awake! William Blake and the Power of the Imagination is now available worldwide.
To celebrate, Mark Vernon and Robert Rowland Smith discuss all things Blake from angels and images, to poetry and prop…
Published on 3 weeks, 4 days ago
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 vis…
Published on 1 month ago
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 substitute…
Published on 1 month ago
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 relevan…
Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago
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 …
Published on 2 months ago
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 …
Published on 2 months, 1 week ago
An Implosion of Light. Talking mystical experiences with James Harpur and Mark Vernon
James Harpur’s new book, "Dazzling Darkness: The Lives and Afterlives of the Christian Mystics", begins with an account of a mystical experience that happened to him - “an implosion of light”, as he …
Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago