Cathar Lessons and the Albigensian Crusade

YouTube video by Mark Vernon

Blasphemy, Panics and the Power Of Words

We refer to “oxen” and “sheep” in the field, so why “beef” and “mutton” on the table? Owen Barfield’s fascinating reflection on the linguistic influx that followed 1066

The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Words in Machine Learning

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Ethics and identity, as liberals and nationalists respectively stress, miss the vastness of the human soul

YouTube video by Mark Vernon

Odysseus conversing with Athena is a perception shared by ancient Greeks and Hebrews

ALL beauty is an echo of God’s beauty. This statement and others like it have been made by Christians across the ages, alongside theists from other traditions. “Consider the lilies, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; and yet I say to you, ...

The spiritual way was the original way of reading Homer's tale of homecoming

A Dialogue between Rupert Sheldrake and Mark Vernon

On ancient Greek tales of sexual misadventure and priestly election

Matthew Sweet takes a sideways look at Englishness.

When Eros was an infant, his mother, Aphrodite grew troubled…

The public mood is discordant, politics chaotic, a wider imagination lost, though it can be refound

The Pope knows anthropology is key to contemporary troubles because Christianity redefined what it means to be human

YouTube video by The King's Foundation School of Traditional Arts

The Cloud of Unknowing and why all shall be well

YouTube video by Mark Vernon

Depth psychology illuminates modern phenomena from overwork to UFOs. But Jung's ambivalences need critique

AI hype and reality is confusing, but also an opportunity

Psychedelics dominate vegetal spirituality. But there is another herbaceous tradition

YouTube video by Philosophy Slam!

There is a field of existence maybe without solutions but with presence

The 2026 winner of the Templeton Prize and a fuller account of evolution

Apollo astronauts suffered much after their lunar encounter. Will those on Artemis?

YouTube video by Mark Vernon

The play of the medieval infinite scroll evoked divine presence. Might it do so again?

The Nostos Institute integrates ancient Western philosophical traditions with tools and practices from contemporary depth psychology and related mythopoetic disciplines to trace a living, spiritual de...

Widening the war in the time of mercurial Trump and the monstrous mullahs

In prison, in mourning, in war, The Divine Comedy inspires

Ways of affirmation and negation