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 […]
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.