Mark Vernon: Seeing the Infinite

Описание: In this episode, I speak with psychotherapist, writer, and former Anglican priest Mark Vernon about his new book on William Blake, exploring the visionary poet’s mystical worldview and its profound psychological and spiritual implications. We also delve into Dante's Divine Comedy, reflecting on its enduring power as a map of the soul’s journey, and discuss how both Blake and Dante illuminate the transformative power of the imagination—not as fantasy, but as a means of perceiving truth.

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00:30- Who was William Blake
03:30 the imagination
05:30 The imagination and consciousness
06:30 Mental Illness and Privatised imagination
07:15 Developing as people with the imagination
09:30 Imagination vs Fantasy
12:00 Iain McGilchrist and Neuroscience
13:00 Neuroimaging and the Brain
16:00 William Blake and Consciousness
18:00 Crisis and Expansion
20:30 Too religious for the Church
23:30 Thirsting for the Divine through William Blake
24:30 Imagining you are a machine
26:25 William Blake and Angels
29:20 Psychodynamics and the porous
30:20 Historical figures who lived with intelligences
33:00 Socrates and Daemon
38:00 Embodied intelligence
39:30 William Blake in the 21st Century
44:30 Imagination and psychotherapy
46:10 Dante and Blake
49:30 Dante on life and life after death
51:20 The Divine Comedy as an inspired text
56:25 Psychologising mysticism
57:20 Jung and the Red Book
1:00:40 How to be in the world
1:04:00 AI and imagination
01:07:00 Dialoguing and Podcasting
01:08:10 Mark Vernon Books