# A Golden String with Mark Vernon

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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## [The Souls of Plants](https://markvernon942268.substack.com/p/the-souls-of-plants)

_2026-08-18 · Mark Vernon_

A conversation with Rupert Sheldrake

## [August Angst and Infantilising, Frictionless Worlds](https://markvernon942268.substack.com/p/august-angst-and-infantilising-frictionless)

_2026-08-01 · Mark Vernon_

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

## [When Gods Walked Amongst Mortals And Mortals Loved Violence](https://markvernon942268.substack.com/p/when-gods-walked-amongst-mortals)

_2026-07-25 · Mark Vernon_

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

## [Sing For Our Time Too! The Divine Song Of The Odyssey](https://markvernon942268.substack.com/p/sing-for-our-time-too-the-divine)

_2026-07-16 · Mark Vernon_

The spiritual way was the original way of reading Homer's tale of homecoming

## [Art and the Sacred Today](https://markvernon942268.substack.com/p/art-and-the-sacred-today)

_2026-07-11 · Mark Vernon_

A Dialogue between Rupert Sheldrake and Mark Vernon

## [In Search of Lost Gods](https://markvernon942268.substack.com/p/in-search-of-lost-gods)

_2026-07-04 · Mark Vernon_

On ancient Greek tales of sexual misadventure and priestly election

## [Anteros: the forgotten brother of love](https://markvernon942268.substack.com/p/anteros-the-forgotten-brother-of)

_2026-06-27 · Mark Vernon_

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

## [The Art Of Dialogue. What would Plato say?](https://markvernon942268.substack.com/p/the-lost-art-of-dialogue-what-would)

_2026-06-20 · Mark Vernon_

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

## [“Take Therefore No Thought For The Morrow”](https://markvernon942268.substack.com/p/take-therefore-no-thought-for-the)

_2026-06-13 · Mark Vernon_

Non-attachment and attention in the present moment

## [Code Faster with Clear Tutorials (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/6e0xWiP1rOqi)

_2026-06-13 · **Sponsored**_

Short, step-by-step coding videos you can follow along

## [Magnifica Humanitas In Temporibus Anxietatis](https://markvernon942268.substack.com/p/magnifica-humanitas-in-temporibus)

_2026-06-06 · Mark Vernon_

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