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Mark Vernon

Mark Vernon is a a psychotherapist and writer. He contributes to and has presented a number of programs on the radio and writes as a journalist, with my work published by the BBC, Aeon, Church Times, and elsewhere, including The Idler, where he writes a regular column and contributes in a variety of other ways. His most recent books are on spiritual intelligence, Dante’s Divine Comedy and Christianity, as understood by the Oxford Inkling and friend of C.S. Lewis, Owen Barfield.

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Remembering William Blake on our Relationship with Nature in an Age of Environmental Degradation

Remembering William Blake on our Relationship with Nature in an Age of Environmental Degradation

Mark Vernon

Excerpt from Mark Vernon, Awake! William Blake and the Power of the Imagination (London: Hurst, 2025): We are inclined to forget that this world is a home, not only physically, in the sense that we depend upon planet Earth and its intricate chains of living interaction, but psychologically. We are a part of a totality […]

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