Yes, we're live again at the Cockpit Theatre on March 2nd!
Joining us: @natashadevon.bsky.social @johnmitchinson.bsky.social @askwilliamblake.bsky.social @mayeroflondon.bsky.social @jamesbloodworth.bsky.social
Tickets: www.thecockpit.org.uk/show/the_lur...
Featuring the Byline Times editorial team and:
Natasha Devon @natashadevon.bsky.social
John Mitchinson @johnmitchinson.bsky.social
Mark Vernon @askwilliamblake.bsky.social
Catherine Mayer @mayeroflondon.bsky.social
James Bloodworth @jamesbloodworth.bsky.social
If you can bring the light of understanding into the darkest realms and not be overcome, and if you can tolerate the radiance of the most wonderful truths and not be overwhelmed, you transhumanize.
New essay at my Substack, A Golden String. markvernon942268.substack.com/p/transhuman...
In the UK at least, there is, right now, really only one piece of news doing the rounds, which is the arrest of the former Prince Andrew. It set me thinking about why this is such momentous news.
In a way, that’s obvious. But there’s a subtler point...
www.markvernon.com/privileged-p...
The whole sculpture is a puzzle to me - I suspect a case of Blake not truly understood…
21.02.2026 14:52 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
One thing is necessary on any spiritual path, many traditions say. Or rather, that one thing is found in two ways which, at root, join together. The approaches are affirmation and negation. But which way is yours?
New essay at my Substack, A Golden String. open.substack.com/pub/markvern...
New episode @PhilosophySlam - turns out the roots of plagiarism are of civilisational significance...
19.02.2026 13:49 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
That moment of joy when the Idler magazine lands on the doormat. (It can land in your shopping basket in newsagents, too). My column: on the ethical invention that now divides the world.
19.02.2026 08:51 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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
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There is a wealth that can bought with just a few pounds. #truevalue
05.02.2026 12:43 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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?...
02.02.2026 12:32 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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?...
30.01.2026 15:59 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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?...
26.01.2026 12:15 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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
26.01.2026 08:51 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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...
19.01.2026 19:13 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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.
15.01.2026 15:13 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
The shift under #Galileo wasn’t really about heliocentrism but something more powerful and subtle… markvernon942268.substack.com/p/the-music-...
11.01.2026 08:40 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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...
03.01.2026 08:34 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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
31.12.2025 12:38 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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...
27.12.2025 08:56 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0