youtubeembedcode es add-link-Exchange youtubeembedcode.com/pl/ check this out In this new episode of The Sheldrake-Vernon Dialogues, Rupert Sheldrake and I discuss how psi experiences can best be understood. The evidence for these phenomena is dismissed by sceptics with increasingly dogmatic assertions. But that’s no surprise because the data in support of phenomena from telepathy to pre-sentience… Continue reading The front line of parapsychology
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Romanticism and the meaning crisis
The Toronto psychologist, John Vervaeke, has reached romanticism in his series, Awakening from the Meaning Crisis. He is moving into the area that Owen Barfield considered core. In this discussion, that ranges across the ideas of Kant, Romanticism, psychotherapy and Christianity, I sketch how Barfield’s notion of final participation offers a sense of the way… Continue reading Romanticism and the meaning crisis
Testing Christianity and the Evolution of Consciousness
A couple more podcast talks have been published. Skeptiko with Alex Tsakiris – a penetrating exchange considering not only the place of Christianity in the evolution of consciousness but the significance of everything from NDEs to UFO experiencers today, and how Owen Barfield’s ideas help illuminate them. Challenging Opinions with William Campwell – another feisty… Continue reading Testing Christianity and the Evolution of Consciousness
Living in an Age of Spiritual Crisis
Rupert Sheldrake and I have published the latest in our series of conversations, this time on Living in an Age of Spiritual Crisis. The depth of the environmental crisis is becoming clearer. Social crises are around us, too. But do these realities stem from a deeper spiritual crisis? We discuss whether we’ve become uncoupled from… Continue reading Living in an Age of Spiritual Crisis
Fossils of consciousness
I very much enjoyed this conversation with Paul VanderKlay, talking about Owen Barfield, CS Lewis, Christianity then and now…
How modern myths are subversive
This article was published in the Church Times. Here’s an excerpt. In short, modern myths celebrate what is proscribed in a secular age. The secret of their success is appealing to an inner awareness of energies that are not material. Further, the stories suggest that we can learn to relate to this dynamism, and not… Continue reading How modern myths are subversive
Celtic Christianity and nature
Anxiety about the natural world is high and with good reason. Surprisingly, perhaps, the earliest days of Christianity in the British Isles have something vital to teach us. In this new episode of The Sheldrake-Vernon Dialogues, Rupert Sheldrake and I take a lead from a wonderful new book, The Naked Hermit: A Journey Into the… Continue reading Celtic Christianity and nature
What Tolkien learnt from Owen Barfield
The biopic, Tolkien, opens this weekend. It doesn’t look like it gets to what I think was a key inspiration for the great author, namely the thought of his fellow Inkling, Owen Barfield. I’d wager that The Lord of the Rings would never have been all that it is without Barfield’s genius. More on films… Continue reading What Tolkien learnt from Owen Barfield
What I believe
This interview with Dan Koch at You Have Permission turned into something close to a What I Believe-type discussion.
Three ways to contemplate life and death
Three ways to contemplate that life may be bigger than death. (They’re not proofs but hinting analogies which Plato argued have an advantage over proofs: they can expand your sense of reality whilst indicating their truths, rather than just dotting i’s in the reality you already know.) 1. No scientist would write an equation unless… Continue reading Three ways to contemplate life and death