New episode of @philosophy_slam. Two random words that take @RobRowlandSmith and me in directions previously untold… youtu.be/EBqjJCTMvW0

Angels appear particularly at this time of year. But how to see them? New essay at my Substack, A Golden String. markvernon942268.substack.com/p/cosmic-vit...

Hope for #WilliamBlake. Hope at #Christmas. (The plate comes from Blake’s pamphlet, “There is No Natural Religion”.)

Glad to contribute to @bbcradio4 #moralmaze programme, going out tonight. The issue for me was not whether anyone knows the truth. But whether we love it, submit to it, look towards its divine horizon. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

The heart of Awake! is that #williamblake is a mystic. He doesn't just inspire or console, thought he does, but transforms perceptions. So I was very glad to talk with @seeker2seeker. youtu.be/j17jn9EdGHQ?...

The great pause. #wintersolstice #williamblake

New episode of #philosophyslam! Two random words. @RobRowlandSmith and I riff. You’ll be surprised where that takes us. Conflict & Injection: The Energies That Enter Us youtu.be/h1zMXeF8Ni0

“If Moral Virtue was #Christianity / Christ’s Pretensions were all Vanity. / The Moral Christian is the Cause / Of the Unbeliever & his Laws. / For what is Antichrist but those / Who against Sinners Heaven close.” #WilliamBlake New essay at my Substack - markvernon942268.substack.com/p/albion-is-...

Your gift quest is almost over. #williamblake

My talk at The School of Myth, “Wild Christ”, weekend with Martin Shaw, Rowan Williams, Heather Pollington and others is online here youtu.be/sma45JzBoaE

Insights that dwell in the depths of thought are ill-adapted to confrontations in the shallows. "Submarines rarely engage one another in battle." #OwenBarfield

Vegetarian #WilliamBlake? Or something subtler? Because to trap is to grab, to possess, to consume. Whereas to track is to seek, to understand, to grow.

Two random words. We riff. You’ll be surprised where that goes… #philosophyslam @RobRowlandSmith and Mark Vernon youtu.be/gWWS_-wG9i0?...

“A sense of divine ground transforms everything. The apophatic path, as the decreating process is also called, morphs into the cataphatic: a realisation that all creation is divine.” A new essay at my Substack, A Golden String. open.substack.com/pub/markvern...

Shopping today? #williamblake

Thought from a wonderful Wild Christ weekend with Martin Shaw

🎄 Need inspiration for the book lover in your life? Check out our award winners & recent titles. Order by midnight December 15th to guarantee UK Christmas delivery. 👉 hurstpublishers.com @fieryparticle.bsky.social @shafikmeghji.bsky.social @askwilliamblake.bsky.social

Lucy, saint of light, carries #Dante up Mount Purgatory during the night, by #WilliamBlake. The Uncreated Light. Never not available.

Abundance! A thought on the responses to reactionary Christian nationalism.

Many thanks @blackwells.bsky.social for including "Awake!" in Best Non-Fiction Books of 2025! Top in June when published. @hurstpublishers.bsky.social #williamblake

Philosophy Now magazine, @philosophynow.bsky.social, out now - with an article in which I argue #WilliamBlake would have found allies in philosophers of science from #DavidHume to #WernerHeisenberg…

Released today! The audiobook of “Awake! William Blake and the Power of the Imagination”. Available on all usual audiobook platforms. @tantoraudio #WilliamBlake #imagination #audiobooks

Very excited to have launched this development of Philosophy Slam! Robert Rowland Smith and I take a couple of words, usually from a random world generator, and riff. We never cease to be surprised where the genius of words takes us. Available at YouTube…

A thought for your Christmas shopping…

“He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star,” Blake wrote. Remember that when you catch your reflection in the glassy, dead eye of an elegant android. And then be in presence. New essay at my Substack, A Golden String, on #WilliamBlake and #AI. open.substack.com/pub/markvern...

A second conversation with John Butler, Spiritual Unfoldment, recorded Broughton Sanctuary, which considers questions never far from contemplative practices. But what about action, words, worldview, nature... youtu.be/zs-h5jloXiE

Wonderful to hear about the basics from John Butler… youtu.be/kRDY1UsS42E

My home county. #WilliamBlake #Durham #BlakeFriday

A thought for #WilliamBlake’s birthday. And with #BlakeFriday also being #BlackFriday, 50% discount on “Awake! William Blake and the Power of the Imagination” when ordered from Hurst (mail [email protected]). markvernon942268.substack.com/p/the-infini...

Born on this day, 28th November 1757, #BlakeFriday, #blackfriday

#WilliamBlake, born 28th November 1757

Practicing the fantastic idea of Mark Vernon @askwilliamblake.bsky.social , and preparing for #blakefriday !

Don't forget #BlakeFriday this week!

Luna. Waxing. Beautiful.

The Quiet Revolution and the New Theism. A conversation with Rupert Sheldrake - at youtu.be/26uhO7W2fIA

A paradox to note. As technologists panic a machine is about to wake up, scientists conclude the machine paradigm is bust. Instead, Platonism, intelligence, universal mind are in the frame. And that’s coming from biology, too, not just quantum-bamboozled physics. substack.com/@markvernon9...

Great talking with Adam Walker at @harvarddivinity.bsky.social. We got onto #WilliamBlake and the Gita, the Infinite, nondualism… youtu.be/j4PQ8ANdS70?...

The energetics of organisations - their soul, you can say - are hard to work with, though determine almost everything. Juliette Otterburn Hall has a way… fetzer.org/case-study/t...

Charles Stang’s “Our Divine Double” is thrilling - treating the Platonic tradition as living, not as historic ideas to mine. So it was a joy to visit him at Harvard Divinity School and share another figure who knew Platonism’s active wisdom. William Blake. youtu.be/UtMG6X22AzQ?...

The Chapter House is not a lovely ruin at Saxon Bampfylde but a lively part of the business's life. As is the story of #Narnia See fetzer.org/case-study/b... Image: upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/co...

The Romantic movement is tragic because it failed in one crucial aspect: to make clear how it is a means of truth. Intense feeling became a proxy, feeding nationalism, fundamentalism, sentimentality, and the like. But the basic issue can yet be addressed. youtu.be/jtOi6Qmri7g

Off to Cambridge today to a place where #Plato and #WilliamBlake are good things! www.platonism.divinity.cam.ac.uk/news/talk-ma...

The dispute enjoyed by #CSLewis and #OwenBarfield, which they called their Great War, as explained by Barfield’s grandson. Issue #1 imagination.

One way of unlearning and so reimagining how Plato and ancient Greeks approached philosophy is to say that they didn’t think of or about death, nature, virtue etc, but that they thought death, nature, virtue etc. open.substack.com/pub/markvern...

New issue of @idler magazine released today. My thoughts this month are on bullshitters, whom #Dante placed in a very low circle of hell.

Talking #WilliamBlake tomorrow if you’re near Providence RI! Entry free but book discount here as well - www.eventbrite.com/e/author-eve...

Really stimulating speaking with Elizabeth Rovere @wonderstruckpod about our shared practice of psychotherapy and links to spiritual intelligence, as well as the golden string that links #Dante, #WilliamBlake and #Jesus. wonderstruck.org/episodes/psy...

Do come along if you’re in town! www.wayfaremagazine.org/p/the-power-...

Essential life hack, imho.