Mark Vernon - Spiritual Intelligence (N289)
Nomad Podcast
Tim Nash
4.7 • 658 Ratings
🗓️ 24 January 2023
⏱️ 130 minutes
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Summary
Psychotherapist and philosopher Mark Vernon chats with us about his evolving faith journey, and his conviction that nurturing our spiritual intelligence is crucial if we are to survive and thrive in these troubled times. Known by many names, spiritual intelligence, Mark contends, is the foundation of who we are and the foundation of peace, purpose and solidarity.
After the interview, Nomad hosts Anna Robinson, Joy Brooks and Tim Nash reflect on the framing of spirituality as an intelligence and ponder which of Mark’s observations might help shape their ongoing spiritual evolution.Â
Interview starts at 23m 31s
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| 0:00.0 | The |
| 0:07.0 | The Welcome back to Nomad podcast. I'm your host Tim Nash and this is my friend and colleague Joy Brooks. |
| 0:42.4 | Hello. |
| 0:43.2 | Although we're deep into January now, Joy, New Year's greetings to you. |
| 0:47.4 | Thank you. |
| 0:48.0 | Did you have a nice Christmas and New Year? |
| 0:49.8 | I did have a very nice Christmas a New Year. It would be better if our relatives weren't in |
| 0:54.5 | Guilford and Edinburgh respectively. I thought you'd say it'd be better if we hadn't seen our |
| 0:58.9 | relatives. Well, there would have been less travelling. So yeah, quite a bit of travelling fitted |
| 1:04.8 | into one week, but it was all very pleasant and lots of lovely food was eaten. Were there any |
| 1:10.2 | awkward nomad related conversations that you had to stamp on? |
| 1:13.5 | No, I don't think any of my wider family listened to nomad. |
| 1:17.6 | Oh, so blessed. |
| 1:18.7 | So blessed. |
| 1:19.2 | Or if they do, they stay very quiet about it. |
| 1:21.8 | So, yeah, it's all good. |
| 1:23.7 | In fact, I don't think there were any particularly awkward conversations at all, which, |
| 1:29.0 | yeah, that's got to be a result, hasn't it? Yeah, I had one or two nomad-related ones where I had to |
| 1:34.0 | kind of say, look, can we just drop this? It's Christmas. Let's have a drink. See, I want more |
| 1:38.0 | details now, Tim, but I'm not sure you're going to give those on air, are you? Give them to you over lunch. Okay, that's all right. Can I tell you about my most amazing Christmas present, though? |
| 1:45.6 | It's a heated throw. |
| 1:47.5 | So it's like a fluffy blanket that you just plug it in and it warms up. |
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