Wonderstruck® is a podcast about awe and wonder that includes the profoundly moving, the humbling, and the uncanny. Hosted by psychologist, yoga teacher, and seeker Elizabeth Rovere, it explores experiences that bring us to the very edges of what we can explain, and beyond.
Join us every month for conversations with scientists and shamans, philosophers and poets, mystics and experiencers. We ask what we can learn from those moments that often lack explanations. We ask deeper questions about consciousness, being, and reality. We look at mystery not as something to solve, but as a place where transformation can occur. And along the way, we glimpse a world wilder, stranger, and more Real than we ever imagined.
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Wonderstruck® is a podcast about awe and wonder that includes the profoundly moving, the humbling, and the uncanny. Hosted by psychologist, yoga teacher, and seeker Elizabeth Rovere, it explores experiences that bring us to the very edges of what we can explain, and beyond.
Join us every month for conversations with scientists and shamans, philosophers and poets, mystics and experiencers. We ask what we can learn from those moments that often lack explanations. We ask deeper questions about consciousness, being, and reality. We look at mystery not as something to solve, but as a place where transformation can occur. And along the way, we glimpse a world wilder, stranger, and more Real than we ever imagined.
http://newsletter.wonderstruck.org
https://www.youtube.com/@wonderstruckpod
https://www.instagram.com/wonderstruckpod/
Presented by Creative Visions and Striking Wonder Productions™
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mark Vernon is a former priest turned psychotherapist who has spent the last 30 years exploring one central question: how do we find meaning in a secular age?
After a crisis of faith pulled him away from the Church’s inner sanctum in his youth, Mark turned to Plato and Jung in pursuit of a deeper understanding of purpose, connection, and the soul. Today, his writing bridges ancient philosophy, religion, and modern psychology, a powerful triad he also applies to his work as a therapist.
In this episode, we discuss:
✦ The overwhelm of conflicting meanings and remembering the sacred
✦ The spiritual thread connecting Dante, William Blake, and Jesus
✦ How wonder helps us access the divine
✦ Why psychotherapy is a path for ‘spiritual intelligence’
Mark's work invites us into the depths of wonder and spirituality as a necessity for the soul.
Chapters
0:00 Intro: The modern crisis of meaning
5:08 Psychotherapy and the vertical dimension of life
11:25 The cloud of unknowing and mystical experiences
18:19 Kairos time: Moments of spiritual significance
23:01 William Blake on joy and eternity
27:04 Death as a transcendent and transformative experience
33:08 Early Christianity's deeper mysteries and meanings
40:44 Humility as an expansive spiritual virtue
50:56 Owen Barfield and the evolution of consciousness
57:35 Ontological shocks and transformative experiences
1:02:41 Outro: The importance of sacred experiences
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YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@PlatosPodcasts
Awake! William Blake and the Power of the Imagination: https://www.hurstpublishers.com/book/awake/
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