Mark Vernon
@askwilliamblake.bsky.social
Writer, psychotherapist, lover of William Blake - Plato, Dante and Owen Barfield, too. For more see www.markvernon.com
Pinned
"The best book on Blake out there!" With thanks to Robert Rowland Smith.
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
Ep. 7 Adult & Soak: How We Absorb Life as We Grow
youtu.be/lDCjFMNy1P8
Adult & Soak: How We Absorb Life as We Grow (Philosophy Slam! Ep. 7)
YouTube video by Philosophy Slam!
youtu.be
January 4, 2026 at 2:17 PM
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
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...
Stranger Things
Synchronicities and Carl Jung’s connecting principle
markvernon942268.substack.com
January 3, 2026 at 8:34 AM
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...
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
youtu.be/m-gIaY5Iwa0
Dante, Blake, and the Power of the Imagination
YouTube video by John Vervaeke
youtu.be
January 1, 2026 at 7:51 AM
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
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
December 31, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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
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
“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
December 31, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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
“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
youtu.be/EBqjJCTMvW0
Forest and Alignment: How We Find Our Way (Philosophy Slam! Ep. 6)
YouTube video by Philosophy Slam!
youtu.be
December 30, 2025 at 8:58 AM
New episode of @philosophy_slam. Two random words that take @RobRowlandSmith and me in directions previously untold…
youtu.be/EBqjJCTMvW0
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...
Cosmic Vitality and the Activity of the Angels
Perceiving the divine intelligences at the turn of the year
markvernon942268.substack.com
December 27, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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...
Hope for #WilliamBlake. Hope at #Christmas. (The plate comes from Blake’s pamphlet, “There is No Natural Religion”.)
December 25, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Hope for #WilliamBlake. Hope at #Christmas. (The plate comes from Blake’s pamphlet, “There is No Natural Religion”.)
Glad to contribute to @bbcradio4 #moralmaze programme, going out tonight. The issue for me was not whether anyone knows the truth. But whether we love it, submit to it, look towards its divine horizon. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 4 - Moral Maze, What Is Truth?
Debate examining the question: what is truth?
www.bbc.co.uk
December 24, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Glad to contribute to @bbcradio4 #moralmaze programme, going out tonight. The issue for me was not whether anyone knows the truth. But whether we love it, submit to it, look towards its divine horizon. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
The heart of Awake! is that #williamblake is a mystic. He doesn't just inspire or console, thought he does, but transforms perceptions. So I was very glad to talk with @seeker2seeker. youtu.be/j17jn9EdGHQ?...
William Blake & the Divine Imagination | Mark Vernon
YouTube video by SEEKER TO SEEKER
youtu.be
December 23, 2025 at 11:16 AM
The heart of Awake! is that #williamblake is a mystic. He doesn't just inspire or console, thought he does, but transforms perceptions. So I was very glad to talk with @seeker2seeker. youtu.be/j17jn9EdGHQ?...
The great pause. #wintersolstice #williamblake
December 21, 2025 at 7:33 PM
The great pause. #wintersolstice #williamblake
New episode of #philosophyslam! Two random words. @RobRowlandSmith and I riff. You’ll be surprised where that takes us.
Conflict & Injection: The Energies That Enter Us
youtu.be/h1zMXeF8Ni0
Conflict & Injection: The Energies That Enter Us
youtu.be/h1zMXeF8Ni0
Conflict & Injection: The Energies That Enter Us (Philosophy Slam! Ep.5)
YouTube video by Philosophy Slam!
youtu.be
December 21, 2025 at 7:32 PM
New episode of #philosophyslam! Two random words. @RobRowlandSmith and I riff. You’ll be surprised where that takes us.
Conflict & Injection: The Energies That Enter Us
youtu.be/h1zMXeF8Ni0
Conflict & Injection: The Energies That Enter Us
youtu.be/h1zMXeF8Ni0
“If Moral Virtue was #Christianity / Christ’s Pretensions were all Vanity. / The Moral Christian is the Cause / Of the Unbeliever & his Laws. / For what is Antichrist but those / Who against Sinners Heaven close.” #WilliamBlake
New essay at my Substack - markvernon942268.substack.com/p/albion-is-...
New essay at my Substack - markvernon942268.substack.com/p/albion-is-...
"Albion Is Sick"
William Blake on civilisational erasure and the divine vision of Christmas
markvernon942268.substack.com
December 21, 2025 at 7:55 AM
“If Moral Virtue was #Christianity / Christ’s Pretensions were all Vanity. / The Moral Christian is the Cause / Of the Unbeliever & his Laws. / For what is Antichrist but those / Who against Sinners Heaven close.” #WilliamBlake
New essay at my Substack - markvernon942268.substack.com/p/albion-is-...
New essay at my Substack - markvernon942268.substack.com/p/albion-is-...
Your gift quest is almost over. #williamblake
December 19, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Your gift quest is almost over. #williamblake
My talk at The School of Myth, “Wild Christ”, weekend with Martin Shaw, Rowan Williams, Heather Pollington and others is online here youtu.be/sma45JzBoaE
New Born Wonder. Jesus, Owen Barfield, William Blake
YouTube video by Mark Vernon
youtu.be
December 19, 2025 at 8:08 AM
My talk at The School of Myth, “Wild Christ”, weekend with Martin Shaw, Rowan Williams, Heather Pollington and others is online here youtu.be/sma45JzBoaE
Insights that dwell in the depths of thought are ill-adapted to confrontations in the shallows. "Submarines rarely engage one another in battle." #OwenBarfield
December 16, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Insights that dwell in the depths of thought are ill-adapted to confrontations in the shallows. "Submarines rarely engage one another in battle." #OwenBarfield
Vegetarian #WilliamBlake? Or something subtler? Because to trap is to grab, to possess, to consume. Whereas to track is to seek, to understand, to grow.
December 16, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Vegetarian #WilliamBlake? Or something subtler? Because to trap is to grab, to possess, to consume. Whereas to track is to seek, to understand, to grow.
Two random words. We riff. You’ll be surprised where that goes… #philosophyslam @RobRowlandSmith and Mark Vernon
youtu.be/gWWS_-wG9i0?...
youtu.be/gWWS_-wG9i0?...
Awake & Knee: What Wakes Us Up to Reality? (Philosophy Slam! Ep.4)
YouTube video by Philosophy Slam!
youtu.be
December 15, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Two random words. We riff. You’ll be surprised where that goes… #philosophyslam @RobRowlandSmith and Mark Vernon
youtu.be/gWWS_-wG9i0?...
youtu.be/gWWS_-wG9i0?...
“A sense of divine ground transforms everything. The apophatic path, as the decreating process is also called, morphs into the cataphatic: a realisation that all creation is divine.” A new essay at my Substack, A Golden String. open.substack.com/pub/markvern...
All Shall Be Well
The wisdom of words that come from silence
open.substack.com
December 14, 2025 at 7:18 AM
“A sense of divine ground transforms everything. The apophatic path, as the decreating process is also called, morphs into the cataphatic: a realisation that all creation is divine.” A new essay at my Substack, A Golden String. open.substack.com/pub/markvern...
Thought from a wonderful Wild Christ weekend with Martin Shaw
December 14, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Thought from a wonderful Wild Christ weekend with Martin Shaw
Reposted by Mark Vernon
🎄 Need inspiration for the book lover in your life? Check out our award winners & recent titles. Order by midnight December 15th to guarantee UK Christmas delivery.
👉 hurstpublishers.com
@fieryparticle.bsky.social @shafikmeghji.bsky.social @askwilliamblake.bsky.social
👉 hurstpublishers.com
@fieryparticle.bsky.social @shafikmeghji.bsky.social @askwilliamblake.bsky.social
December 13, 2025 at 9:19 PM
🎄 Need inspiration for the book lover in your life? Check out our award winners & recent titles. Order by midnight December 15th to guarantee UK Christmas delivery.
👉 hurstpublishers.com
@fieryparticle.bsky.social @shafikmeghji.bsky.social @askwilliamblake.bsky.social
👉 hurstpublishers.com
@fieryparticle.bsky.social @shafikmeghji.bsky.social @askwilliamblake.bsky.social
Lucy, saint of light, carries #Dante up Mount Purgatory during the night, by #WilliamBlake. The Uncreated Light. Never not available.
December 13, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Lucy, saint of light, carries #Dante up Mount Purgatory during the night, by #WilliamBlake. The Uncreated Light. Never not available.
Abundance! A thought on the responses to reactionary Christian nationalism.
December 13, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Abundance! A thought on the responses to reactionary Christian nationalism.