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Cut off in the literal age. Owen Barfield & Carl Jung on alienation and political disillusionment
There is a link between rising levels of mental-ill health and political disillusionment. Feeling cut off is not just an economic and psychological problem, but is a symptom of a wider alienation arising from modern consciousness.
Owen Barfield argued that contemporary political problems are fundamentally due to estrangement not only from others but from ourselves, due to a loss of soul and spirit to materialism and literalism.
As Carl Jung put it, the gods have become diseases - diseases of the collective as well as individual psyche. The pre-political must address this crisis of anthropology if politics is to be restored.
This is the sixth thought in which I’ve turned to a guide to illuminate the overwhelming feeling of malaise in this democratic year.
Look at others on my UA-cam channel: Plato on beauty, Aristotle on ethics, Jesus on being in the world but not of it, Dante and civilisational decline, and William Blake on the rise of abstraction.
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To Generalise is to be an Idiot. William Blake on politics, disillusionment and abstraction
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William Blake lived during the period in which the modern world was born. A prophet, he detected the tendencies that now powerfully shape our age. The love of abstraction was high on his list of troubles. Such generalisations profoundly shape politics today. Politicians sell themselves on whether they will boost the economy, drive up growth, fight inflation, and I think the rhetoric is itself a...
Dante and civilisational decline. Another dispatch on disillusionment in politics
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Dante lived through a period of almost total social collapse. Civil war and city-state terror, practiced by the church as much as secular powers, drove him into exile for the last 20 years of his life. For a while, he lost everything. But then, through the trauma, he regained a ground and rediscovered the fullness of life. The Divine Comedy is the product of that transformation. The journeys th...
God, sexuality & the psyche. CS Lewis and Sigmund Freud tabletalk. Thoughts on Freud’s Last Session
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The new movie Freud’s Last Session is well worth a watch, particularly if either man is of interest. The issues you might expect are aired between them, not least belief in God. But also the more shadowy sides to their lives - Lewis’s relationship with Janie Moore, Freud’s with his daughter Anna. I enjoyed it, though also wondered if they might have discussed other things and found common groun...
The fullness of life. A conversation with Rupert Sheldrake
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At school, we learn that being alive is to possess certain functions, from respiration to reproduction. But what is life and why can the word “life” be used more widely than referring only to biological life? In the latest episode of the Sheldrake-Vernon Dialogues, Rupert Sheldrake and Mark Vernon consider the meaning of saying that stars have a lifecycle, and that rocks and atoms can be ascrib...
Rendering to Caesar. Jesus on politics and the kingdom that is within
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I've been thinking about politics and disillusionment that seems most characteristic of now, in the West at least, and thinking about the prepolitcal - what politics needs to work well. I've thought about Plato on beauty and Aristotle on ethics in previous posts. Now a third guide, Jesus on... which isn't immediately easy to say. And that's the point. Some would say that Jesus and politics is e...
Ethics and the failure of politics, or why ethics is part of the problem. A dispatch from Athens
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Disillusionment with politics is probably the most obvious feature of the current mood. This is, in part, because politics has collapsed onto anxiety about material improvement and lost sight of much more. In a secular society in which this facet of wellbeing is increasingly hard to deliver, politics appears therefore to be failing. So now is a good moment to consider what is sometimes called t...
Beauty and the failure of politics. An election dispatch from ancient Athens
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Disillusionment with politics is probably the most obvious feature of the current mood. This is, in part, because politics has collapsed onto anxiety about material improvement and lost sight of much more. In a secular society in which this facet of wellbeing is increasingly hard to deliver, politics appears therefore to be failing. So now is a good moment to consider what is sometimes called t...
Force Fields. Behind the fog of maths. A conversation with Rupert Sheldrake
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Einstein remarked that there was physics before Maxwell and physics after Maxwell, the difference being the introduction of field theory. So what difference did fields make and, more to the point, what are they? In this episode of the Sheldrake-Vernon Dialogues, Rupert Sheldrake and Mark Vernon explore how electromagnetic, gravitational and quantum fields shape modern science. Together with Rup...
Materialism and the Divine Mother. Reflections on Piero’s Madonna del Parto
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Piero della Francesca’s Madonna del Parto hangs in a dedicated museum in the Tuscan village of Monterchi.
The Realisation Festival 2024. An introduction
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The Reasliation Festival is a gathering for the soul, at the lovely St Giles House, Wimborne in Dorset. I am one of the directors of the gathering. Speakers this year include Rowan Williams, Ayisha Siddiqa and Bettany Hughes. Do have a look at this introductory presentation for what we’re about and hoping to achieve. The weekend is a weave of talk and music, space and friendship, and much more ...
The enchanted vision. An invitation to read about love
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To read the essay, go to aeon.co/essays/in-the-beginning-there-was-love-we-can-move-with-its-power
Matter is frozen light. A conversation with Rupert Sheldrake & Mark Vernon
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The everyday stuff called matter turns out to be both more fascinating and stranger than we usually assume. In this episode of the Sheldrake-Vernon Dialogues, Rupert Sheldrake and Mark Vernon ask just matter is, beginning with contemporary ideas from quantum physics, in which matter is frozen light, as the physicist David Bohm put it. They consider the relationship between matter and gravity, a...
Whose revival? Which Christianity? CS Lewis & Owen Barfield on the renewed interest of belief in God
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There is much talk of a revival of Christianity amongst secular intellectuals, at least in my cultural bubble. That may or may not be sociological significant and church attendence figures stay in marked decline. But what interests me is not so much the numbers as the spirit of the renewed interest. What is the feel of the Christianity being discussed, what attitudes does it embody, what spirit...
Strangeness is the new real. Martin Shaw & Mark Vernon in conversation
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A couple of years back, Martin Shaw had a visionary experience that led him to Christianity. We talked about it as the Mossy face of Christ - ua-cam.com/video/8luN8bDDRBs/v-deo.htmlsi=c7jHUt-Ih5xKlVWq So it was great to talk again about what's been happening. Which is much. The conversation ranges over what might be happening now with Christianity, Martin's recent participation in the Symbolic ...
Christspiracy. The documentary's claims about Jesus & Christianity put to the test, w Kameron Waters
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Christspiracy. The documentary's claims about Jesus & Christianity put to the test, w Kameron Waters
The Nature of Energy. A conversation with Rupert Sheldrake & Mark Vernon
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The Nature of Energy. A conversation with Rupert Sheldrake & Mark Vernon
Participation renewed. Discussing The Riddle of the Sphinx, new essays from Owen Barfield
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Participation renewed. Discussing The Riddle of the Sphinx, new essays from Owen Barfield
Apocalypse? It's now! Good news & secular salvation, climate crisis & time. With Gunnar Gjermundsen
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Apocalypse? It's now! Good news & secular salvation, climate crisis & time. With Gunnar Gjermundsen
We're all getting angrier, right? I don't think so. Rather, dumbed down by psychology.
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We're all getting angrier, right? I don't think so. Rather, dumbed down by psychology.
Practicing paradise, or refusing wretchedness in Lent
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Practicing paradise, or refusing wretchedness in Lent
The Speed of Gravity. A conversation with Rupert Sheldrake
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The Speed of Gravity. A conversation with Rupert Sheldrake
How rituals of love can aid death and dying. A conversation with Madeleine Pennington
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How rituals of love can aid death and dying. A conversation with Madeleine Pennington
Nondualism & enchantment, acting & UFOs (Rupert Spira & Meister Eckhart too). Talk with Jamie Robson
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Nondualism & enchantment, acting & UFOs (Rupert Spira & Meister Eckhart too). Talk with Jamie Robson
Love at the meeting of cultures. A conversation with Chine McDonald
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Love at the meeting of cultures. A conversation with Chine McDonald
Humanity’s role in nature. Are we more than just a problem? A conversation with Rupert Sheldrake
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Humanity’s role in nature. Are we more than just a problem? A conversation with Rupert Sheldrake
On the Incarnation or the real meaning of Christmas. Conversation with Russell Jefford & Mark Vernon
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On the Incarnation or the real meaning of Christmas. Conversation with Russell Jefford & Mark Vernon
Loving and knowing in indigenous ways of life. A conversation with Melissa Nelson
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Loving and knowing in indigenous ways of life. A conversation with Melissa Nelson
What can love look like in an era of crisis and fear? Clare Martin, St Ethelburga's Centre, London
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What can love look like in an era of crisis and fear? Clare Martin, St Ethelburga's Centre, London
Jesus the Imagination. Taking William Blake’s Christianity seriously. Essay at blakesociety.org
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Jesus the Imagination. Taking William Blake’s Christianity seriously. Essay at blakesociety.org

КОМЕНТАРІ

  • @jamesblack8173
    @jamesblack8173 3 години тому

    This has really helped me make sense of where we're at what we need. Thank you.

  • @treebardgenealogysoftware2577
    @treebardgenealogysoftware2577 13 годин тому

    You said 3ness. I heard that.

  • @holgerjrgensen2166
    @holgerjrgensen2166 20 годин тому

    Life is the Eternal Existing Something, there Is, X0 Basic analyse is X1, X2 X3, The Living Being, Consciousness, and Stuff-side. Life is a Life-Unit, all Life-Unit's is Rainbows, in Basic, Whole-Sexe by Nature. No one Created Life, Life is Creator, all creations is of temporary nature. Consciousness is 100% Electric.

  • @Matt.Hurley
    @Matt.Hurley День тому

    Would love to hear your thoughts on Jordan Peterson he was a big part of my introduction to Jung and Nitchze like 10 years ago I think he really played into that sense of disillusionment on his rise to fame. I dont listen to him anymore because he chose some weird hills to die on but I cant help but get the sense that there is something key in understanding how we are all disconnected in a time of technologic interconnectedness and how people in the past still faced the same issues despite different circumstances.

  • @elizadaphne5501
    @elizadaphne5501 День тому

    The flight of the kestrel and Iris Murdoch…. So beautiful The flight of the cranes against a darkened sky as seen by Ramakrishna and falling into samadhi….

  • @johnmacgregor324
    @johnmacgregor324 День тому

    Didn't Jung say that the mosaics had physically existed at some time in the past? I.e. he saw something which had once existed.

  • @margueritespringer3687
    @margueritespringer3687 День тому

    Thank you. Personally most helpful

  • @thehypest6118
    @thehypest6118 День тому

    We? Where's this "we" coming from, I don't feel any guilt at all, you've fallen for it by the labguage you use, Rand addresses this phenomenon in his book Anthem

  • @17630973
    @17630973 День тому

    Talk about the speed.of love! You need the help of a mental health practitioner.

  • @satanslayer9320
    @satanslayer9320 День тому

    If God created man to live on plants only, he wouldn't have made man dependent on B12. END OF STORY!

  • @allanmckone8853
    @allanmckone8853 2 дні тому

    High Energy = High Vibrational Frequency..... Low Energy = Low Vibrational Frequency.

  • @allanmckone8853
    @allanmckone8853 2 дні тому

    Energy = Vibrational Frequency.

  • @WolfHeadedDragonQueen
    @WolfHeadedDragonQueen 2 дні тому

    Belief in words and narratives is also frozen light and stores up in the Ida, and this can block a person from Heaven. Denounce words to find the Sun of God - denounce 'woman' and then 'man', reverse order as we created them. We are beings of energy and may not be bound by words.

  • @flow963
    @flow963 2 дні тому

    Very insightful. Very appreciated. Thank you Mark

  • @cameddy4081
    @cameddy4081 3 дні тому

    Great to see the wonderful Owen Barfield being celebrated !! One of the inklings !! 🙏👏👏👏👏🙏🌏✌️

  • @chrisallard1819
    @chrisallard1819 3 дні тому

    Fabulous as ever - many thanks

  • @JeremyHelm
    @JeremyHelm 3 дні тому

    2:40 2:46 when a measure becomes a target, in fashion! 3:19 3:22 alienating - 3:30 3:32 a lie worth telling?

  • @johndavis2399
    @johndavis2399 3 дні тому

    Brilliant synthesis.

  • @michaelmartinserafin2029
    @michaelmartinserafin2029 3 дні тому

    Here in the US, as you are probably aware, politics here are downright nauseating! No one reads, no one reflects, everyone just knee-jerk reacts. I am reading "The Divine Comedy", for the first time, at age 64, the Mark Musa translation, and your companion book of Canto commentaries, and your companion podcast on Audible. Hoping Dante will help me make sense of my life and my country. Thank you for your good work, both in print and here on UA-cam. BTW, are you a Jungian psychotherapist?

  • @ralphjenkins1507
    @ralphjenkins1507 3 дні тому

    Mark, you are an excellent author and narrator.

  • @twinblessings2125
    @twinblessings2125 3 дні тому

    Brilliant critique

  • @oefischermusic
    @oefischermusic 3 дні тому

  • @Borsfrancis
    @Borsfrancis 3 дні тому

    Really enjoyed this Mark. Has our present King Charles got an eye on his calling as well as the exercise of his roll?

  • @Borsfrancis
    @Borsfrancis 3 дні тому

    Julian Assange has just gained freedom! Surely this is a cause for celebrating the spirit within all of us (positively manifesting in activists) striving for the good the true and the beautiful.

  • @dadsonworldwide3238
    @dadsonworldwide3238 3 дні тому

    You do such great work..but America is a simple path home "with selfless actors" who don't build rules or regulatory avalanche of technology and they properly innovate and follow the 3 lines of measure back to our founding in Jesus name . The only thing happening in America is that a bottom up rule triality of self liberal power In individuals, by for thru = saved reborn X,y,z manmade time hierarchy knowledge of good evil equations Fall in man.not nature 3 lines of measure = truest known standard tuned all precision instruments built.our world, fueled our mechanics into compute. 100 more or these alignment in call to arms ,1945s Smith_mundt act European solutions to deal with incoming catholic jew and reformed plus ,new nations drawing new borders we adopted European political scale top dualistic form and shape that everything starts in Greece revisionist history curriculum to make academic participatory. Granted all simplicity and unification to state & higher ed while pushing infinite sums of complexity upon many different diciplines and Americans. Now with peer review devices in hand for history of nations people places and things plus achievements of liberting all marginalized groups leaving only criminals or extremists individualized all 3rd nations. We are ready to return to greater system at large pragmatic common sense Christian objectivism with individual liberties & responsibilities of our sin ( not personal actors of response or human rights eurasian brands. ) Triality of self liberal entrepreneurship epistemology not oligarchy Bottom up rule economic & political order anti trust American capitalism private sector endowed by God freedoms tied to our cash money while computation eats public sector library agency and institution beaucracy that served it's functioning and ran it's course in human history

  • @ElizabethMohr
    @ElizabethMohr 4 дні тому

    This is beautifully explained, thank you. Helpful to look at deeper layers of meaning and to consider scale when working toward wellness, toward creativity moving forward.

  • @janchmiel7302
    @janchmiel7302 4 дні тому

    Totally brilliant. So clear. The distinctions made here are profound as they outline the fundamental differences in how Christianity is perceived too.

  • @holgerjrgensen2166
    @holgerjrgensen2166 4 дні тому

    As We is Eternal, we have NO age in real sense, the body We see in mirror, is Not older than 1½ year.

  • @Jakelefleur
    @Jakelefleur 4 дні тому

    Mark, I am loving these

  • @EbbandFlow1234
    @EbbandFlow1234 5 днів тому

    I adore William Blake. Chartered streets, wealthy, government. The constant reminder of the great divide. Walls built with wealth forged from the tilling of the common folks. Mind forged manacles are made through brainwashing and steering. Hope is a lighthouse that's casts light upon the shadows. The sun/ son. Have you seen the old man Outside the seaman's mission Memory fading with The medal ribbons that he wears? In our winter city The rain cries a little pity For one more forgotten hero And a world that doesn't care So, how can you tell me you're lonely And say for you that the sun don't shine? Let me take you by the hand And lead you through the streets of London I'll show you something to make you change your mind, R.M The wastes of the Moral Laws , the results of being spoonfed garbage. The halting of our soul's evolution and mass arrested development in the collective. Little light shining Little light will guide them to me My face is all lit up My face is all lit up If they find me racing white horses They'll not take me for a buoy Let me be weak, let me sleep and dream of sheep Tyger Tyger 🤩

  • @EbbandFlow1234
    @EbbandFlow1234 5 днів тому

    12 thousand subs 😮 You should have way more subs.

  • @pedrom8831
    @pedrom8831 5 днів тому

    Really interesting stuff. I like Blake but have a lot of religious anxieties regarding his being labelled a Satanist, along with Shelley. It freaks me out a fair bit if I’m honest. Can I ask what you make of it?

  • @user-rc2xs5ti2w
    @user-rc2xs5ti2w 5 днів тому

    Two entities from the 9th dimension incarnated in physical bodies exchanging their impressions about the 3rd dimension. Ok.

  • @WFPBFORLIFE
    @WFPBFORLIFE 5 днів тому

    where can we see the film?

  • @bobs2809
    @bobs2809 6 днів тому

    But both Jung and his companion reported to have seen these mosaics that did not exist. Why would you not mention that?

  • @nurgahaditia
    @nurgahaditia 6 днів тому

    Very well said sir.... 😁👍

  • @chrisallard1819
    @chrisallard1819 6 днів тому

    Marvellous- many thanks

  • @robertcox14
    @robertcox14 6 днів тому

    I don't think "bathing" needs to be mythologized as "baptism." There is very little support in the Bible suggesting the ritual that so resembles cleansing oneself in available bodies of water, simply cleansing the material body is a "chore" in material existence. Carl Jung had a number of "spiritual visions," but I wonder if he shared Freud's use of cocaine.

  • @miguelangelous
    @miguelangelous 7 днів тому

    Thank you Mark 🙏🏼 I’m looking forward for your book on Blake 💯

  • @attackofthewindmills
    @attackofthewindmills 7 днів тому

    Im sorry, but I dont think the title statement is idiotic even if it claims to be

  • @larrysweeney6131
    @larrysweeney6131 7 днів тому

    Paul and Mark, please read anything by Walter Wink!!!! You have this amazing opportunity to influence so many people and there is a need to move inwatd through christian mysticism but that enlightenment must manifest itself in helping to bring the kingdom "on earth as it is in heaven."

  • @larrysweeney6131
    @larrysweeney6131 7 днів тому

    Its like neither of these brilliant fellows ever heard of Liberation Theology. Kingsnorth knows the Church has to be fighting against the cultural norm of environmental destruction. How does he not think this doesnt apply to war, poverty, political corruption, health care, fair labor practices, and all those other POLITICAL issues that are killing billions. To spiritualize trying to be the vanguard of the kingdom is heresy.

  • @joelhubeny7554
    @joelhubeny7554 7 днів тому

    You Do Know all them Space telescopes are using Radio ELF waves? That Radio signal is unseen. So visible Light isn't even Used by us in Long distance space. Because it's all Dark

  • @joelhubeny7554
    @joelhubeny7554 7 днів тому

    Not even watching because I know Your wrong. Matter Physical Atoms are not Light at all. Light Is a waste product of Energy. When the Negative charged electron it transferring into Positive Positrons. Photons Particals moving in waves is Left behind Radiation moving in Electromagnetic waves Effecting Matter with illumination so other Physical matter Can see it. Visiable Light is The smallest spectrum almost Insignificant to all the Cosmos and why it's Dark Black. Light doesn't matter to anything else besides Physical 4D matter. Basically it only Matters to Us.

  • @sofvandor6116
    @sofvandor6116 7 днів тому

    Thank you so much, Mark! I'm watching all your videos. Blake is my guide too, thanks to you 🙏💫

  • @Berend-ov8of
    @Berend-ov8of 8 днів тому

    Have a laugh. It does wonders to the mind.

  • @JohnnyTwoFingers
    @JohnnyTwoFingers 8 днів тому

    Great video 💯 Note: democracy is the biggest lie perpetrated on people.

  • @MendeMaria-ej8bf
    @MendeMaria-ej8bf 8 днів тому

    Love CAN be bribery, but of course that's not desirable.

  • @MendeMaria-ej8bf
    @MendeMaria-ej8bf 8 днів тому

    Technofeudalism as suggested by Yanis Varoufakis?

  • @NoeticEidetics
    @NoeticEidetics 8 днів тому

    Edmund Husserl’s philosophy was based on insights that saw this problem of idealization and abstractionism in human reasoning. He saw this problem as the problem of worldview building. According to Gadamer, Husserl saw Weltanschauungphilosophie as a second danger equal to naive and unreflective naturalism. There is a similarity with Husserl’s existential imperative in phenomenology with Kierkegaard’s philosophy of indirection. Anyway, this is very interesting point about Blake and I looked forward to your book. I am reading another book of similar concern at the moment called “Lost in Ideology: Interpreting Modern Political Life”. But I am also reminded by your talk of Charles Taylor’s new book just out called “Cosmic Connections: Poetry in the Age of Disenchantment” which I am very much looking forward to.

    • @JohnnyTwoFingers
      @JohnnyTwoFingers 8 днів тому

      This is an impressive comment! Anything more you can share on Husserl is welcome. 👍

    • @pedrom8831
      @pedrom8831 5 днів тому

      @@JohnnyTwoFingersyes please