What is spiritual intelligence? Introducing my new book, Spiritual Intelligence in Seven Steps
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- We live in an age of emergency, exacerbated by a collapse of meaning. Writer and psychotherapist, Mark Vernon, examines the type of intelligence that, whilst often dismissed and overlooked, is crucial to understand and cultivate if we are to survive and thrive in our times.
Spiritual intelligence is the foundation of who we are and our particular type of consciousness. It is the perception identified across wisdom and religious traditions, and known by many names, which can be summarised as the awareness of awareness, and so of being itself. It is the foundation of peace, even in the face of death, as well as purpose and solidarity. The challenge today is to recover and live according to that knowledge.
Examining themes from the nature of consciousness to the experience of time, the emergence of our species and the teaching of spiritual adepts, the book is an antidote to rampant AI and a complement to emotional intelligence. It is written without presuming religious commitments in readers and draws on a mix of sources, from the writings of mystics to the films of Pixar, the work of scholars including Iain McGilchrist and Robin Dunbar, and experience gained from the author's own practices, particularly psychotherapy. It advocates pilgrimage and improvisation, virtues over morality, and big histories that do not turn the story of our species into a bleak struggle for survival.
The seven steps will help readers identify spiritual intelligence within themselves, unpack why it matters, and suggest how a wider trust in it may be revived. Each chapter ends with a short practice or question.
"In Spiritual Intelligence in Seven Steps, Mark Vernon draws on the understanding of numerous individuals and cultures, weaving them into a text that leads the reader on a journey into the very heart of their self and, at the same time, to the reality that lies behind and is expressed as the world. Each chapter guides us more and more deeply into the perennial understanding that lies at the foundation of our civilisation." Rupert Spira
ISBN 978-1-80341-032-6
Published by Iff Books
For more on Mark - www.markvernon.com - Zábava
“The realization lies in the recognition, not the definition” ❤️
that phrase stood for me also....experiential
Looking forward to the audiobook! Always feel like I learn something new when I listen to your podcasts. And of course, your commentary on Dante's Divine Comedy is my favorite.
This sounds SO interesting! Thank you so much for daring address matters that are at the very core of our humanity yet are nowadays so carefully avoided or muted in churches, schools, universities & mainstream discourse. Can't wait!
Profoundly necessary. Sincere thanks for this Mark. I will definitely check this out.
You have guided and taught me a lot Mark Vernon. I look forward to this book.
Remarkable ideas. I’ve never thought about such things in this way. Looking forward to the book.
Sounds wonderful Mark. I am really looking forward to this book!
I'm taking your book on a trip... much looking forward to reading.
This is FANTASTIC......I can't wait to read it....❤🙌🏽🙏🏽
LITERALLY fantastic. 😉
Beautiful Mark, I will be purchasing. Thanks!
Wonderfully rich video… excited for the book
Not until January 1 here in America, but I put it on my wishlist!
Thx you looking forward to read it.
You taught me a while back that ‘Spiritual is a much better word than Religious’ and now I’m happier for this understanding😺
I don’t think we have to worry about ai,🤖 because they will never know Compassion!
Thank you Mark🙏
spirit/Spirit: This term is generally used in reference to the ESSENTIAL nature of a human being (and also of animals or even of plants, in some religious and metaphysical traditions). Although some theologians use the terms “soul” and “spirit” interchangeably, those from the Abrahamic traditions usually consider soul to be a living being (a human person) while spirit is that part of the person which is non-temporal (the essential self).
The lower case form of these words (spirit, or soul) is approximately equivalent to the lower case form of the Sanskrit word “ātman”, and obviously, the upper-case form (Soul) refers to “Ātman” or “Paramātman” (Supersoul, in English).
Therefore, in the considered opinion of this author, the various terms denoting the realm of eternality, such as “The Ground of Being”, “The Unified Field”, “Ultimate Reality”, “Brahman”, and “The Tao”, are fundamentally SYNONYMOUS with those terms referring to the essence of the human being, such as “soul”, “spirit”, “self/Self”, and as mentioned already, “ātman/Ātman”, and “Paramātman”. In fact, one of the four so-called “Great Sayings” (“mahāvākya”, in Sanskrit) of the Upanishads, “ayam ātmā brahma”, very succinctly says as much: “this self is The Unlimited”, or “the soul is The Supersoul”, or “the person is The Totality of Existence”.
However, it seems that the overwhelming majority of religionists who use the words “spirit” or “soul”, use them to refer to a separate OBJECT (e.g. “The spirit of man”, “The human spirit”, “We are spirits in the material world”, “I am not a body, but a spirit/soul”).
According to my research, most religionists believe that this object (call it what you will) joins with a human body at the time of conception (or sometimes at birth) and that, upon the demise of the body, this object travels to another location (either heaven, hell, or purgatory) or else enters into the body of another living being (either a human, non-human animal, or a plant). Some theologies postulate that the soul and/or the spirit may be mortal and, depending on the moral disposition of the particular person in question, can perish at the time of death (or even during one’s lifetime, known as a spiritual death, or sometime after death, known as death by hellfire). Depending on their theology, religionists assume that this object is located in various places in the human body, even though at conception, there are no developed body parts in which this fictitious object could possibly be positioned! Some believe that the entire body is pervaded by the soul/spirit, some that it is located in the pituitary gland, or situated in the heart.
The word "spirit", along with the terms "soul”, “truth”, “ego”, and “love” (among others) is undoubtedly one of the most misunderstood and misused word in the English language.
It simply refers to the SUBJECT, as opposed to objective reality, and more accurately, the Subject of all subjects (and objects).
@@SpiritualPsychotherapyServices Thanks for sharing 💜☸💟
🙌😁🙏❣️thank you Mark 😊 📖
wonderful. thank you
Wonderful, Mark. 🤗
4:27 - 4:37 “spiritual intelligence turns to the steady presence that runs through, above, and under it all”
Or as Rob Bell says: “the thing behind the thing, behind the thing” (and above and in and through)
I’m planning to reread Dante’s Divine Comedy as a spiritual practice in the period between Christmas and Easter (or rather, winter solstice and spring equinox), going through your videos thereof as I go along (naturally). Will have to incorporate this book into that period now too, I think 🙂
Preordered.
I've been pushing virtue over rule ethics for years.
Bravo on the entire project.
Thank you. Totally with you.
Lovely presentation as always! I am much looking forward to listening to the audiobook.
I suppose its like beingness (existence) we presuppose as universal and fundamental yet can neither be quantified nor qualitified. Given beingness is not itself a being.
One of my favourite thoughts at the moment: “The one who knows themselves, knows their being is not their being, not other than their being, but is the very being of God.” Balyani
@@PlatosPodcasts 😍
As a rule, I eschew all books with titles starting with "The Five...", "The Four...", "The Seven..." and anything ending in "...Journey".
This will be the second time I will have eat humble pie as I insist that my local library purchase one of your books. Did you not say that you were going to publish a book on Blake? I have been brushing up on Blake in anticipation - with Northrop Frye's "Fearful Symmetry" top of my reading list.
Am working on whether I can write a book about Blake, yes. Frye is great. Don’t forget Kathleen Raine.
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Not that I’m disagreeing with you, but a lot of these AI conversations are really interesting.
Just out of curiosity, you might want to check out AI that try to imitate people with enough of an online foot print, usually but not necessarily famous people.
I wonder how a conversation between an AI Mike Vernon and the real Mike Vernon would look like.
Agreed. I've pretended to be an AI in a series of trials as well, what is known in the trade as being "a wizard".
did anyone try recently to listen to this presentation of Mark or maybe other presenations of him? It seems that he is banned or at least just a little sabotage 🤔..... Which does not surprise me at all considering the quantity and quality of information he delivers....
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Don't believe everything you THINK. 🧠
Excellent
In the Bible stories there is always the issue of Idolatry.
I think the idols represent materialism. The people of God are guided by an invisible transcendent force, while the "pagans" can only be guided by what they see, hear, touch...
Seems like we've abandoned our divine intuition to "worship" logic and Science, reducing ourselves to machines.
So basically more unsubstantiated vague generalities, that explain nothing in particular, and rely on verbal word-salads to get there? There's a reason why such highly subjective biases based on nothing but feelings, are considered Woo, as they're mired in the same superstitious foundations and mentality as religiosity.
How dare logic, reason and scientific scrutiny criticise these fantastical speculations, with it's "sniffy" cold materialism.
True. It’s hard to talk about. But talking about, including logic, reason etc, presume a reality that logic etc can have some kind of purchase on, or be a reflection of…
@Stee Physicalists?🤦♂️
You mean those with a coherent grasp on reality? Also, socially ostracised ?
I don't know, you might want to ask a Woo merchant.
And lastly, weirdos? Oh my word, but the irony frigging abounds.
@@PlatosPodcasts There's nothing presumptuous about it, beyond mere hypothesis. Logic, science and the epistemological foundations that comprise their basis, are by far the best tools with which to discern that reality and the only way anything of substance has been derived. Vacuous terms like "spirituality" can only play amidst the the fantastical and supposed metaphysical, always out of reach of being anything even remotely substantial. Any baseless nonsense can be mentally constructed from it, and unfortunately, regularly is.
@Stee Damn, you fruitcakes really do love clueless word-salads to project your idiocy. Anything that's factually descriptive must be "dem wurd simantik thingies juss tu hard"?
Wow, you really told me, didn't you?
@@skateboardingjesus4006 I can relate to everything you say, at the same time realizing that the scientific perspective is a gods-eye perspective. There is no "me" in this perspective, only "he". I have a traditional university (philosophy) education but in everyday life I am engulfed in "me"'. More and more the objective (intersubjective) scientic perspective on reality creates a contrast with my unique experience, perspective and place in reality. I will not slide into any religious practice, because that is just another atempt to objectivize "me'". There is a kind of awareness growing next to the scientific perspective. Not sure religious is the proper word because of all the connotations that are sticking to it.