
The Souls of Plants
A conversation with Rupert Sheldrake
William Blake hands us the end of a golden string, to wind into a ball and, thereby, find heaven's gate. Here we explore what he and other mystics and guides might mean and why that matters today.
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A conversation with Rupert Sheldrake

This is the script of my Thought For The Day broadcast on BBC Radio 4 this morning.

Odysseus conversing with Athena is a perception shared by ancient Greeks and Hebrews

The spiritual way was the original way of reading Homer's tale of homecoming
A Dialogue between Rupert Sheldrake and Mark Vernon

On ancient Greek tales of sexual misadventure and priestly election

When Eros was an infant, his mother, Aphrodite grew troubled…

The public mood is discordant, politics chaotic, a wider imagination lost, though it can be refound

Non-attachment and attention in the present moment

The Pope knows anthropology is key to contemporary troubles because Christianity redefined what it means to be human