New Born Wonder. Jesus, Owen Barfield, William Blake

About this episode

The episode explores the concept of salvation history and the spiritual developments in contemporary times through the insights of Owen Barfield and Rudolf Steiner.

How can we understand what is happening today from the perspective of what is sometimes called salvation history? What might be struggling to be born in our times? Why is a spiritual analysis - an unfolding of consciousness - key? The talk was delivered at The School of Myth, “Wild Christ”, weekend with Martin Shaw, Rowan Williams, Heather Pollington and others. I use the insights of Owen Barfield and Rudolf Steiner, to interpret developments across 3000 years of Christianity, given the mov...

People in this episode

Host: Mark Vernon

Topics covered

• salvation history
• spiritual analysis
• unfolding of consciousness
• Christianity
• Owen Barfield
• Rudolf Steiner
• mythology

Keywords

• salvation history
• spiritual analysis
• Owen Barfield
• William Blake
• Christianity
• Rudolf Steiner
• consciousness

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: The School of Myth

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