Mark Vernon
@askwilliamblake.bsky.social
Writer, psychotherapist, lover of William Blake - Plato, Dante and Owen Barfield, too. For more see www.markvernon.com
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"The best book on Blake out there!" With thanks to Robert Rowland Smith.
#WilliamBlake, born 28th November 1757
November 27, 2025 at 10:57 AM
#WilliamBlake, born 28th November 1757
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Practicing the fantastic idea of Mark Vernon @askwilliamblake.bsky.social , and preparing for #blakefriday !
November 26, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Practicing the fantastic idea of Mark Vernon @askwilliamblake.bsky.social , and preparing for #blakefriday !
Don't forget #BlakeFriday this week!
November 26, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Don't forget #BlakeFriday this week!
Luna. Waxing. Beautiful.
November 25, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Luna. Waxing. Beautiful.
The Quiet Revolution and the New Theism. A conversation with Rupert Sheldrake - at youtu.be/26uhO7W2fIA
November 23, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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.
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The Quiet Revolution And The New Theism
A Conversation with Rupert Sheldrake
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November 22, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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...
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?...
William Blake and the Imagination | Interview with Mark Vernon
YouTube video by Adam Walker - Close Reading Poetry
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November 21, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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…
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The Soul of Business: Why Companies Transform When Rooted Not Only in Ethics, But the Sacred
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November 20, 2025 at 8:36 AM
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...
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?...
William Blake and The Power of Imagination: Mark Vernon & Charles Stang at Harvard Divinity School
YouTube video by The Wonderstruck Podcast with Elizabeth Rovere
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November 19, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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
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See
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Image: upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/co...
November 18, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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...
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
Cleansing the Doors of Perception. William Blake, Romanticism and the Meaning Crisis
YouTube video by Mark Vernon
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November 12, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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...
www.platonism.divinity.cam.ac.uk/news/talk-ma...
Talk | Mark Vernon, 'William Blake and Neoplatonism' | 11th November 2025 | The Cambridge Centre for the Study of Platonism
On Tuesday 11th November, Dr Mark Vernon will speak at the Centre on 'William Blake and Neoplatonism'. This event will take place in the Runcie Roon of the Faculty of Divinity, beginning at 5 pm. The ...
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November 11, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Off to Cambridge today to a place where #Plato and #WilliamBlake are good things!
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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.
November 10, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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.
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To Philosophize Is To Learn To Die. Part 2
Reading Plato’s Phaedo. Death is a Guru
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November 8, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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...
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.
November 6, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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...
November 5, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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...
Psychotherapist Mark Vernon on the Meaning Crisis and Rediscovering the Sacred - Wonderstruck Podcast
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 f...
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November 5, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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-...
November 4, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Do come along if you’re in town! www.wayfaremagazine.org/p/the-power-...
Essential life hack, imho.
November 1, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Essential life hack, imho.
Justin Martyr regarded Socrates as a “Christian before Christ”. On #AllSaints day, the death of the Athenian sage, as Plato presents it in the Phaedo, offers a fresh way of contemplating the meaning of death. open.substack.com/pub/markvern...
To Philosophise Is To Learn To Die
Reading Plato’s Phaedo. The Hemlock Approaches
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November 1, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Justin Martyr regarded Socrates as a “Christian before Christ”. On #AllSaints day, the death of the Athenian sage, as Plato presents it in the Phaedo, offers a fresh way of contemplating the meaning of death. open.substack.com/pub/markvern...
Big thanks Virginia Theological Seminar rare books library for showing me this gorgeous 15th century Flemish book of hours. The glint of the goldleaf and brilliance of the colours is like a wormhole in time, as Catherine Clarke, our guest Idler drinks, pointed out in the discussion that followed.
October 30, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Big thanks Virginia Theological Seminar rare books library for showing me this gorgeous 15th century Flemish book of hours. The glint of the goldleaf and brilliance of the colours is like a wormhole in time, as Catherine Clarke, our guest Idler drinks, pointed out in the discussion that followed.
October 30, 2025 at 10:54 AM
If you’re in Chicago on Friday! @seminarycoopbookstores www.semcoop.com/event/
Upcoming Events | Seminary Co-op Bookstores
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October 30, 2025 at 1:29 AM
If you’re in Chicago on Friday! @seminarycoopbookstores www.semcoop.com/event/
The symposium on #OwenBarfield is a week Sunday, 9th Nov, at Rudolf Steiner House, London. Book tickets at Temenos Academy website.
October 28, 2025 at 1:31 PM
The symposium on #OwenBarfield is a week Sunday, 9th Nov, at Rudolf Steiner House, London. Book tickets at Temenos Academy website.
Hugely looking forward to this #OwenBarfield event. If you're remotely interested in his genius, and why #CSLewis and #Tolkien were in awe, do come along!
October 27, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Hugely looking forward to this #OwenBarfield event. If you're remotely interested in his genius, and why #CSLewis and #Tolkien were in awe, do come along!