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Seven Steps in seven minutes. Moves for recovering spiritual intelligence

More about the book here.

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Spiritual Intelligence in Seven Steps. New book available now!

Spiritual Intelligence in Seven Steps was released yesterday. The audiobook should be online within a week. QnA How is spiritual intelligence different from artificial intelligence (AI) and emotional intelligence? In short, it’s the reflective awareness of actually having thoughts and

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Humanism as Heresy. Testing the thesis of Tom Holland. A conversation with Rupert Sheldrake

An audio version of this talk is at my podcast, Talks and Thoughts, available via podcast feeds. The secular historian, Tom Holland, has made the case that atheistic humanism is, at heart, an off-shoot of Christianity. In this episode of

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Take No Bag For The Road. Nature, the Climate Crisis & Christianity. A talk with Peter Owen Jones

An audio version of this talk is at my podcast, Talks and Thoughts, available on podcast feeds. Peter Owen Jones is a writer, broadcaster and priest. His new book is Conversations With Nature. We discuss falling in love with the

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William Blake on the Last Judgement, Apocalypse & Final Things. #secondcoming #advent

An audio version of this talk is at my podcast, Talks and Thoughts, available via podcast feeds. The Last Judgement, William Blake argued, is not a terrifying forthcoming rapture but an awakening present moment, “Whenever any Individual Rejects Error &

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Against Moral Tales! Jesus’s Parables. A thought from Owen Barfield. A poem from John-Paul Flintoff

An audio version of this talk is at my podcast, Talks and Thoughts, available via podcast feeds. For more on John-Paul Flintoff – https://flintoff.org. And his latest book – https://spckpublishing.co.uk/london-psalms. For more on Mark Vernon & Owen Barfield – https://www.markvernon.com/consciousness.

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Introducing my new book, Spiritual Intelligence in Seven Steps

An audio version of this talks is at by podcast channel, Talks and Thoughts, available via podcast feeds. The text of the talk is below. My new book is Spiritual Intelligence in Seven Steps. And I would like to introduce

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The Veiling of Things. Rishi Sunak, William Blake and the Bhagavad Gita.

The appointment of the UK’s latest Prime Minister has prompted much comment, not least because Rishi Sunak is Britain’s first Hindu leader. He was sworn in as an MP with his hand placed upon the Bhagavad Gita, not the Bible.

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Circling Jesus: What’s afoot with the new interest in Christianity? Elizabeth Oldfield & Mark Vernon

An audio version of this conversion is at my podcast Talks and Thoughts, available via podcast feeds. A number of public figures, in literature and ideas, have recently been talking about discovering Christianity, or perhaps it’d be better to say,

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The Weirdness of Christianity. C.S. Lewis & Owen Barfield, with Jason Baxter & Mark Vernon

An audio version of this conversion is on my podcast, Talks and Thoughts, available via podcast feeds. C.S Lewis is not the apologist and writer you might assume, if Jason Baxter is right. Plato, Boethius and Dante mattered immensely to

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