Happy #Valentine’s Day. 'Tis crucial in tricky times to keep thinking about #love. New essay at my Substack, A Golden String - markvernon942268.substack.com/p/loves-know...

What is going wrong. What is striving to be born. The spiritual analysis of his times and ours. #WilliamBlake @commentmag comment.org/the-heart-is...

There is a wealth that can bought with just a few pounds. #truevalue

A fresh journey into the worlds of ideas Philosophy Slam with me and Robert Rowland Smith. Today's triangulation points: #dust and #inspiration. youtu.be/3D0RaUjzvfU?...

Both #OwenBarfield and #RudolfSteiner much valued #WilliamBlake and having the three in dialogue brings a real edge to Blake's value to us now... New talk at my Youtube channel. youtu.be/ah9kLwZyTSI?...

I much enjoyed this conversation, pressed to grapple with #WilliamBlake's phrases such as "kissing the joy as it flies" and whether there are, in fact, connections between Blake's sunrise and Nietzsche's ecstasy. youtu.be/Hi_qQQkRKQc?...

The Conversion of Saint Paul by #WilliamBlake - showing the inner drama of arguably one of the most consequential moments in western history, when on the outside, little to nothing might apparently have happened at all. #conversionofstpaul

But “might is right” and the rules-based order are both traps! The basic, transformational point is being missed. open.substack.com/pub/markvern...

I discuss with Rupert Sheldrake the role of the beings who are associated with churches and shrines, days and names. Plus details of tickets for the forthcoming 100th conversation - live on 15th February at 6.15pm, in-person and live-streamed. youtu.be/pKKBw5-9vrY

Great speaking with @Hermitix about the genius of #OwenBarfield, inspiration to #CSLewis and #JRRTolkien. I don’t know a figure better able to combine clear-sighted critique of modern life and awareness of the good modern life is midwifing. youtu.be/pq4pr8_bbP0

The 100th dialogue with @rupertsheldrake and myself is on 15th Feb. Do join us in person or online! Tickets at buytickets.at/thesheldrake...

Wonderful talking with Clare Carlisle on the back of her new book, Transcendence for Beginners. #RamanaMaharshi, #Jesus, #Jung and others in the mix. At my YouTube channel youtu.be/qKgIOumNG18.

The shift under #Galileo wasn’t really about heliocentrism but something more powerful and subtle… markvernon942268.substack.com/p/the-music-...

New conversation with myself and John Butler, Spiritual Unfoldment, at Broughton Sanctuary. youtu.be/MWwfBvcM0nw

The Adoration of the Magi by #WilliamBlake. Happy #Epiphany! One thought about the image. There are two sources of light: the star and the child. Only, that's really one. Mirrored by the magi, the star offers back its light to the one source, the uncreated light born of Mary. #Theophany.

New @philosophy_slam_ online! Two random words. @dr_robert_rowland_smith and I riff. The unexpected unfolds. Ep. 7 Adult & Soak: How We Absorb Life as We Grow youtu.be/lDCjFMNy1P8

A so-called natural cause is a special case of synchronicity. But the general organisation of nature is a product of patterns and relationships, resonances and harmonies. New post on Carl Jung’s notion of synchronicities, at my Substack, A Golden String. markvernon942268.substack.com/p/connecting...

A happy way to begin the new year! John Vervaeke and I explore what #Dante and #WilliamBlake celebrate. #Neoplatonism #participation #synchronicity youtu.be/m-gIaY5Iwa0

Blue is illuminated darkness, Goethe tells us. The blues are born out of the darkness with the help of light and draw us after them. Hence cold, spacious winter blue invites us into the New Year. #newyear

Hermes for the turn of the year - in the new Idler magazine. Out now! “Hermes is both herd and guide: sheep and shepherd. He confuses because the path he indicates is not the one expected. He comes, therefore, in a crisis, at the turning point.” #newyear

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

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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...