Beste Talks & Thoughts podcaster (2024)

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The enchanted vision. An invitation to read about love 5:27

14d ago5:27

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To read the essay, go to Aeon magazine's website, or https://aeon.co/essays/in-the-beginning-there-was-love-we-can-move-with-its-powerAv Mark Vernon

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Episode 4 26:37

21d ago26:37

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What’s your favorite clothing brand? What stores do you shop in? Does your style match your personality? Plus Y2K fashion critiques, celebrity looks, and more.Av New York Edge

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Episode 3 25:19

21d ago25:19

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If you could meet any singer—alive or dead—who would it be? Special guests join Talks and Thoughts for a discussion about Bob Marley’s legacy, reggae’s influence on other artists, reasons why people should give other music genres a chance, who Bob Dylan is, live performances vs studio tracks, and more.…

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Episode 2 17:32

21d ago17:32

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What’s your favorite song? Students at CSSJ discuss Beyoncé and country music, Tyler, the Creator’s Grammy performance, Rihanna at the VMAs, Ariana Grande’s tongue, larynx control, live performances vs studio tracks, and more.Av New York Edge

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Episode 1 18:53

21d ago18:53

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Should students’ phones get taken away at school? A conversation that looks at the reasons and impact of phone policies, including both student and staff perspectives.Av New York Edge

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Season 2 Trailer 1:37

21d ago1:37

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A look at the what’s ahead on Talks and Thoughts: Season 2.Av New York Edge

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Matter is frozen light. A conversation with Rupert Sheldrake & Mark Vernon 40:07

24d ago40:07

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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…

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Whose revival? Which Christianity? CS Lewis & Owen Barfield on the renewed interest of belief in God 41:05

25d ago41:05

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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 discus…

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Strangeness is the new real. Martin Shaw & Mark Vernon in conversation 1:14:26

1M ago1:14:26

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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 - https://youtu.be/8luN8bDDRBs?si=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 …

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Christspiracy. The documentary's claims about Jesus & Christianity put to the test, w Kameron Waters 1:34:11

2M ago1:34:11

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The makers of Seaspiracy and Cowspiracy are back. Christspiracy is another profoundly disturbing film detailing the industrial abuse of our animal kin. Expect more horrific carelessness and exploitation on a mass scale. Only this time, Kip Andersen and Kameron Waters not only go global but look back in time. “This is plausibly the most significant …

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The Nature of Energy. A conversation with Rupert Sheldrake & Mark Vernon 36:31

2M ago36:31

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Energy is a key organising principle in modern science, the conversation of energy being a grounding and universal law. But what is energy? In this episode of the Sheldrake-Vernon Dialogues, Rupert Sheldrake and Mark Vernon examine the history of the idea and the word. In science, energy is a relatively recently notion, emerging in its current form…

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Participation renewed. Discussing The Riddle of the Sphinx, new essays from Owen Barfield 1:20:51

2M ago1:20:51

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I talk again with Landon Loftin and Max Leyf about the genius insight of Owen Barfield. The Riddle of the Sphinx (Barfield Press) is a new collection of talks and essays about the great friend of CS Lewis and JRR Tolkien. We discuss Barfield's take on analysis and analogy, Darwinian and other kinds of evolution, the significance of Rudolf Stein, an…

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Apocalypse? It's now! Good news & secular salvation, climate crisis & time. With Gunnar Gjermundsen 1:23:09

2M ago1:23:09

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How can Christianity address the climate crisis? Isn’t the objectifying of nature and the drive to improve our lot a secular legacy of Christendom? And isn’t individual conversion more or less irrelevant in a time of systemic crisis? I was delighted to be sent an essay by Gunnar Gjermundsen that asks these questions and more. His insights are wide-…

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Practicing paradise, or refusing wretchedness in Lent 7:46

3M ago7:46

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Western liturgies are obsessed with sin. "There is no health in us", or words to that effect, begin and end most services, particularly in Lent. Jesus's wilderness experience was actually about something else - practicing paradise, to use to the phrase of Douglas Christie. It's a time to reorientate attention, not wallow in guilt and re-embed shame…

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Rozay Rantz Part I 41:56

3M ago41:56

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This is a new segment on the show where I talk about everything I hate. This is a space to rant, vent, complain and share all my unpopular opinions. After we are done ranting, we let go. We cover topics from Nicki Minaj and Megan, influencer culture, AI, Drake leaks, omajuices, movies, moral agents, valentines and everything in between. I hope you …

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The Speed of Gravity. A conversation with Rupert Sheldrake 32:23

3M ago32:23

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Isaac Newton is best known for his theory of gravity. And yet, the great scientist also insisted: "ye cause of gravity is what I do not pretend to know.” In other words, notions like gravity, and force in general, are deeply mysterious phenomena. In this episode of the Sheldrake-Vernon Dialogues, Rupert Sheldrake and Mark Vernon ask just what gravi…

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How rituals of love can aid death and dying. A conversation with Madeleine Pennington 42:24

3M ago42:24

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The rituals around death and dying are changing in the UK and across the developed world. Medical care advances, which is for the good, though can mean to a loss of other kinds of wisdom about this facet of life. People’s beliefs and convictions about death are also in a state of flux. The think tank, Theos, has extensively researched this changing…

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Nondualism & enchantment, acting & UFOs (Rupert Spira & Meister Eckhart too). Talk with Jamie Robson 1:04:16

3M ago1:04:16

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A conversation with actor, Jamie Robson, whom I met through the work of Rupert Spira. 00:00 Meeting through Rupert Spira 03:26 Nondualism and Christian mysticism 06:02 Nondualism and acting 15:00 Being and doing 19:40 Detachment and Meister Eckhart 26:48 Two modes of perception in Iain McGilchrist and others 32:43 Double vision and a re-enchanted w…

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Love at the meeting of cultures. A conversation with Chine McDonald 23:05

4M ago23:05

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Born in Nigeria and raised in the UK since the age of 4, Chine McDonald is well placed to explore love in different cultural contexts, and what happens when differences meet. We talked about how differences show up particularly in relation to the practicalities of loving, from house design to how people talk at funerals, as well as wider questions …

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Mindset 28:31

4M ago28:31

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Hey, kings and queens. Sorry for the weird echo in the audio but we're back again after the holidays. We hope you guys had a great Christmas and a happy new year. We come to bless your ears once again but this time, we're talking about mindset. We'll let you make the decision yourself after you listen. Also, we please, please, please ask that you c…

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Episode 10 FOMO 29:03

4M ago29:03

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FOMO is the fear of missing out. It is self pressure amongst peers. It can be good or bad. Intro track: Lola Brooke- It's me again Outro track: Megan Thee Stallion ft Rico Nasty- Scary

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Humanity’s role in nature. Are we more than just a problem? A conversation with Rupert Sheldrake 35:47

5M ago35:47

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Environmental degradation caused by technological progress is in the news almost everyday. So can any sense be made of an ancient intuition that human beings are not just part of nature but have a distinctive and positive role to play in nature? In this episode of the Sheldrake-Vernon Dialogues, Rupert Sheldrake and Mark Vernon discuss issues from …

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On the Incarnation or the real meaning of Christmas. Conversation with Russell Jefford & Mark Vernon 57:13

5M ago57:13

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Christmas risks losing its meaning not only because of the commercial frenzy but because of the way it is talked about in churches. In this conversation, Russell Jefford talks about his discovery of the understanding of the incarnation conveyed in the writings of the early church fathers. They were unknown to him as an evangelical Christian and hav…

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Episode 2 18:00

5M ago18:00

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The ups and downs of social media.Av New York Edge

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Episode 1 12:36

5M ago12:36

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How technology (phones, internet, etc.) has changed the world, affects daily life. Has technology had positive or negative effect on humanity, and could we live without it?Av New York Edge

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Loving and knowing in indigenous ways of life. A conversation with Melissa Nelson 42:45

5M ago42:45

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“A worldview that understands indigeneity is a paradigm of regeneration, a worldview rooted in enduring values in what we call our original instructions, common themes of reciprocity, of gratitude, of responsibility, of generosity, of forgiveness, of humility, of courage, of sacrifice, and of course love. But these values are not just words, we nee…

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What can love look like in an era of crisis and fear? With Clare Martin, St Ethelburga's Centre, London 49:56

5M ago49:56

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Clare Martin is co-director of the St Ethelburga’s Centre for Reconciliation and Peace, located in the heart of the City of London. In this conversation, we spoke about what love can look like in the public square, particularly in contexts of crisis and conflict, and how encounters between peoples can be designed so as to foster love as a resource …

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Jesus the Imagination. Taking William Blake’s Christianity seriously. Essay at blakesociety.org 8:49

5M ago8:49

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VALA can be downloaded as a pdf here - https://blakesociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/VALA-04.pdf My essay is at p60 For more on Mark - www.markvernon.comAv Mark Vernon

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Love, power and public life. A conversation with Claire Gilbert & Mark Vernon 41:49

5M ago41:49

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What is the role of love in public life? Can it have a place given the scrutiny faced by leaders and the processes of bureaucracies? Or is love what we need to face the huge challenges of today, from distrust of public institutions to the environmental crisis? Claire Gilbert is the author of several books, a fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge, has …

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Principles of love and the wisdom of constellations. With Robert Rowland Smith & Mark Vernon 39:42

5M ago39:42

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Constellations, also called family systems, is a way of visualising the dynamics of love that operate in any group that has to do with creativity or life. A constellation workshop brings people together to look at predicaments with which people are wrestling, be they personal or organisational. The goal is to find a design that releases and acknowl…

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The extension of mind through space and the sense of being stared at. Conversation with Rupert Sheldrake 42:37

6M ago42:37

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Do our minds reside solely inside our heads, or perhaps bodies? Or do they extend into the wider world, perhaps even reaching to the stars? In this episode of the Sheldrake-Vernon Dialogues, Rupert Sheldrake and Mark Vernon discuss the extended mind theory, taking a lead from recent work of Rupert’s on the sense of being stared at, and also the pro…

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How to make friendship work. A conversation with Robin Dunbar 1:14:03

6M ago1:14:03

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Robin Dunbar is an Oxford evolutionary psychologist who has written extensively about friendship, amongst other things, not least in relation to “Dunbar’s Number”. We talked about what friendship is, and how it differs from other loves. We explored the varieties of friendship that people experience, and why metaphors such as “circles of friends” ar…

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Desire is the way. Thoughts on Bishop Barron at ARC in London 9:46

6M ago9:46

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Bishop Barron is another figure I think worth listening to, who spoke at ARC in London, alongside Jordan Peterson. Like Peterson, he simultaneously leaves me as wary as enthused. I’ve explained where that took me with Peterson in another short talk. Here’s where I’ve ended up in response to Barron, which interesting is also, in my view, with a rich…

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Faith & responsibility or love & response. Thoughts on Jordan Peterson at ARC in London 9:37

6M ago9:37

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All in all, there is much to consider in Jordan Peterson’s latest passionate suggestions. I think he is right to present a vision of the human good coming from the future, thereby calling us and shaping a meaningful life now. The human self needs a sense of itself that exceeds an otherwise atomised, lonely individualism. However, in may view, Peter…

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Loving AIs. Reducing risk & building intelligence. Mark Vernon talks with Eve Poole 45:25

6M ago45:25

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Thinking carefully, not just apocalyptically, about AIs requires a combination of skills - technological, sociological, psychological, philosophical, organisational. So I was delighted to talk with Eve Poole, who is a rare individual capable of bringing all these elements into her work. Our central question was how to build AIs so as to design out …

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Can we do without organised religion? A conversation with Rupert Sheldrake 37:59

7M ago37:59

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Churches are in decline, certainly in the western world. People tend not to think to turn to a priest for spiritual insight or advice. But is a lived relationship with the sacred and wisdom traditions denuded as organised religion disappears? In this Sheldrake-Vernon Dialogue, Rupert Sheldrake and Mark Vernon talk about religious institutions for g…

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A Thought on Comedy in a Time of Tragedy 5:41

7M ago5:41

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At the beginning of Idler Drinks (see www.idler.co.uk), I offer a thought. Here's the one from this week.Av Mark Vernon

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BIrthday Love | Chocolate Talk Chocolate Thoughts 9:27

7M ago9:27

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When you celebrate how do your celebrate? Who is invited? is there a such tnig as too much? --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jeffreyadamsthepodcast/messageSupport this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jeffreyadamsthepodcast/support

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Christ consciousness and final participation. Max Leyf, Landon Loftin & Mark Vernon. #OwenBarfield 1:08:20

7M ago1:08:20

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Owen Barfield talked of an evolution of consciousness towards final participation. But what is that state or quality awareness? How does it relate to the life of Christ? How was it described by Rudolf Steiner? Can we see and know intimations of it now? In this second discussion with Landon Loftin and Max Leyf, we explore the ideas of freedom and in…

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Love and Attachment Styles. A conversation with Robert Rowland Smith & Mark Vernon 36:47

7M ago36:47

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Why do we love? Is love inevitably a foolhardy endeavour? Or does it lead to a knowledge of reality beyond reason? In this discussion, Robert Rowland Smith and Mark Vernon discuss the ideas of Freud and Lacan, Bowlby and Winnicott, who had differing ideas about the nature of love and where it leads. Is love the idealisation of another, which inevit…

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Heaven in a Wild Flower. Plato, Cusa, Shakespeare & Blake. Valentin Gerlier & Mark Vernon 1:11:44

9M ago1:11:44

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What golden thread might link these writers across the centuries? Why might each matter now? Taking a lead from Valentin’s book, Shakespeare and the Grace of Words, we explore how the finite and infinite meet in dialogue, analogy, play and contrary, arguing that Plato, Nicholas of Cusa, Shakespeare and William Blake directly address our times of cr…

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CTCT AUGUST EPISODE PART 1 16:57

9M ago16:57

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thoughts about life in general! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jeffreyadamsthepodcast/messageSupport this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jeffreyadamsthepodcast/support

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CHOCOLATE TALK CHOCOLATE THOUGHTS AUGUST PART 2 17:02

9M ago17:02

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thoughts about life in general! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jeffreyadamsthepodcast/messageSupport this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jeffreyadamsthepodcast/support

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Chocolate Talk Chocolate Thoughts AUGUST Part 3 19:57

9M ago19:57

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The Unconscious. A conversation with Mark Vernon & Robert Rowland Smith 41:51

9M ago41:51

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What is meant by the unconscious? Is it even a "thing"? Why does it seemingly originate with Freud? How useful is the concept? How can it be worked with? In this discussion, Robert Rowland Smith and Mark Vernon explore the history of this central notion in psychoanalysis. They look at the different articulations of it, particularly in Freud and Jun…

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How to teach prayer. A conversation with Rupert Sheldrake 38:20

9M ago38:20

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Prayer, alongside meditation, is an integral part of religious traditions. God can be prayed to but also saints and angels. In this episode of the Sheldrake-Vernon Dialogues, Rupert and Mark ask whether and why prayer is not widely discussed, how prayer can be practiced, and what prayer might be. They share personal practices of prayer and explore …

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Falling in love with your therapist. On transference & countertransference 43:14

10M ago43:14

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Robert Rowland Smith and Mark Vernon discuss these two dynamics of projection. Transference and countertransference have become core to psychoanalysis, though Freud and others were initially very wary of them. So what are the limits to using the feelings that fill a therapy room? How can the set-up of the room itself affect such things? How can tra…

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10 ways to understand AI 19:00

10M ago19:00

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AI can be understood by the many, not just the few. We don’t need to respond to technologist and media hype via fear and the call for another lockdown, this time on AI development. I hope ten points are illuminating. 1. The Turing test has been passed, but it never was a very good test to start with. 2. The AI industry thrives on the promise of tom…

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Narcissism. Good and Bad Therapy. A series of conversations with Robert Rowland Smith & Mark Vernon 33:53

11M ago33:53

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What exactly is narcissism? Why is it so debilitating and troubling? Must everyone face narcissistic impulses and needs? In this discussion, Robert Rowland Smith and Mark Vernon explore the origins of narcissism in ancient myth and contemporary psychoanalysis. They explore the variety of pathological narcissisms, how it can be treated and whether a…

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The Scandalous Radicality of Owen Barfield’s Thought. Landon Loftin, Max Leyf & Mark Vernon 1:18:19

11M ago1:18:19

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Owen Barfield was the friend of CS Lewis and JRR Tolkien. He championed the importance of imagination and poetry. But what can be missed is the transformative depth of his ideas. They can revolutionise our perception of everything. Landon Loftin and Max Leyf are the authors of What Barfield Thought: An Introduction to the Work of Owen Barfield. In …

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