The Sheldrake Vernon Dialogues
by Rupert Sheldrake and Mark Vernon
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Estimated from 7 chart positions in 7 markets.
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- 🇬🇧GB · Spirituality#1355K to 30K
- 🇯🇵JP · Spirituality#3730K to 100K
- 🇮🇳IN · Spirituality#6410K to 30K
- 🇸🇪SE · Spirituality#1801K to 10K
- 🇫🇮FI · Spirituality#3310K to 30K
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30K to 107K🎙 Weekly cadence·99 episodes·Last published 2d ago - Monthly Reach
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60K to 213K🇯🇵47%🇬🇧14%🇮🇳14%+4 more - Active Followers
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18K to 64K
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The Souls of Plants
Sep 1, 2026
44m 13s
Art & the Sacred Today
Jul 21, 2026
43m 25s
Making Sense of the Resurrection of the Body
May 7, 2026
35m 09s
Patron Saints
Jan 22, 2026
37m 59s
The Quiet Revolution
Nov 25, 2025
32m 33s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9/1/26 | The Souls of Plants | An ancient intuition is that plants have souls and even participate in the life of God by virtue of being alive. But what sense can be made of that today? In this episode of the Sheldrake-Vernon Dialogues, Rupert Sheldrake and Mark Vernon consider the Neoplatonic understanding that all living creatures, and perhaps all self-organising things, have a soul as part of their existence. But what does this imply about plant perception, plant intelligence, and plant awareness? Why do plants so inspi... | 44m 13s | ||||||
| 7/21/26 | artsacred+5 | — | — | — | artsacred+7 | — | 43m 25s | ||
| 5/7/26 | resurrectionafter-death communication+3 | — | Bible | — | resurrection of the bodyafter-death communication+3 | — | 35m 09s | ||
| 1/22/26 | patron saintsguardian beings+3 | Mark Vernon | SubstackPatron Saints | YouTube | patron saintsguardian beings+3 | — | 37m 59s | ||
| 11/25/25 | theismcultural critique+4 | — | SubstackYouTube+2 | — | theismcultural critique+6 | — | 32m 33s | ||
| 10/2/25 | imaginationWilliam Blake+3 | — | — | — | imaginationWilliam Blake+4 | — | 34m 58s | ||
| 8/6/25 | consciousnessmaterialism+4 | — | The Science of Consciousness Conference 2025 | BarcelonaIndia | consciousnessmaterialist worldview+5 | — | 47m 11s | ||
| 6/16/25 | natural lawsscience+4 | — | New Instrument of ThoughtNovum Organum+1 | — | natural worldlaws of nature+4 | — | 41m 52s | ||
| 3/5/25 | spiritual crisiswisdom traditions+3 | Mark Vernon | Temenos Academydeath of God+2 | — | spiritual crisistranscendence+3 | — | 52m 56s | ||
| 1/29/25 | evolutionDarwinism+4 | — | Evolution: From Natural Selection to Omega PointDarwinian evolution | — | evolutionnatural selection+4 | — | 35m 13s | ||
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| 12/6/24 | formsscience+3 | — | — | — | formsscience+5 | — | 39m 15s | ||
| 10/25/24 | naturepurposes+3 | — | — | — | purposes in naturemodern science+3 | — | 30m 06s | ||
| 9/17/24 | memoryepisodic memory+4 | — | — | — | memoryepisodic memory+5 | — | 39m 32s | ||
| 7/16/24 | Randomness and Indeterminism | Watch on YouTube https://youtu.be/_TZ-8RMPHM8 Randomness and luck, fate and providence. How do these facets of life relate to one another? Or is everything, actually, mechanically determined with synchronicities, say, being no more than coincidences? In this episode of the Sheldrake-Vernon Dialogues, Rupert Sheldrake and Mark Vernon discuss the ways in which philosophers and scientists, ancient and modern, have imagined and explored notions of causality and sympathy in nature, alongside fort... | 38m 19s | ||||||
| 6/7/24 | The Fullness of Life | At school, we learn that being alive is to possess certain functions, from respiration to reproduction. But what is life and why can the word “life” be used more widely than referring only to biological life? In the latest episode of the Sheldrake-Vernon Dialogues, Rupert Sheldrake and Mark Vernon consider the meaning of saying that stars have a lifecycle, and that rocks and atoms can be ascribed a biography, in that they undergo processes of becoming. They discuss A.N. Whitehead’s argument t... | 34m 29s | ||||||
| 5/8/24 | Force Fields, Behind the Fog of Maths | Einstein remarked that there was physics before Maxwell and physics after Maxwell, the difference being the introduction of modern field theory. So what difference did fields make and, more to the point, what are they? In this episode of the Sheldrake-Vernon Dialogues, Rupert Sheldrake and Mark Vernon explore how electromagnetic and gravitational, quantum and morphic fields shape modern science. They ask whether fields are a way that mechanistic understandings of nature have revived Aristotle... | 37m 05s | ||||||
| 4/9/24 | Matter is Frozen Light | The everyday stuff called matter turns out to be both more fascinating and stranger than we usually assume. In this episode of the Sheldrake-Vernon Dialogues, Rupert Sheldrake and Mark Vernon ask just matter is, beginning with contemporary ideas from quantum physics, in which matter is frozen light, as the physicist David Bohm put it. They consider the relationship between matter and gravity, as well as matter and ancient notions of potentiality, which turn out to be surprising relevant today... | 40m 07s | ||||||
| 3/1/24 | The Nature of Energy | Energy is a key organising principle in modern science, the conversation of energy being a grounding and universal law. But what is energy? In this episode of the Sheldrake-Vernon Dialogues, Rupert Sheldrake and Mark Vernon examine the history of the idea and the word. In science, energy is a relatively recently notion, emerging in its current form in the 19th century, drawing much on mechanics. The word itself was coined by Aristotle, in the 4th century BCE, carrying a sense of vital actuali... | 36m 31s | ||||||
| 1/26/24 | The Speed of Gravity | Isaac Newton is best known for his theory of gravity. And yet, the great scientist also insisted: "the cause of gravity is what I do not pretend to know.” In other words, notions like gravity, and force in general, are deeply mysterious phenomena. In this episode of the Sheldrake-Vernon Dialogues, Rupert Sheldrake and Mark Vernon ask just what gravity might be. The conversation begins with a feature of gravity that is typically overlooked by physicists, namely that gravity has a speed. Accord... | 32m 23s | ||||||
| 12/20/23 | Humanity’s role in nature. Are we more than just a problem? | Environmental degradation caused by technological progress is in the news almost everyday. So can any sense be made of an ancient intuition that human beings are not just part of nature but have a distinctive and positive role to play in nature? In this episode of the Sheldrake-Vernon Dialogues, Rupert Sheldrake and Mark Vernon discuss issues from the significance of consciousness to cosmic emergence in order to explore a vision of humanity in nature that goes well beyond our life being the m... | 35m 47s | ||||||
| 11/10/23 | The Extension of Mind Through Space and the Sense of Being Stared At | Do our minds reside solely inside our heads, or perhaps bodies? Or do they extend into the wider world, perhaps even reaching to the stars? In this episode of the Sheldrake-Vernon Dialogues, Rupert Sheldrake and Mark Vernon discuss the extended mind theory, taking a lead from recent work of Rupert’s on the sense of being stared at, and also the problems that contemporary science has with understanding vision. The discussion considers new research carried out by Rupert and others, as well as t... | 42m 37s | ||||||
| 10/22/23 | Can we do without organised religion? | Churches are in decline, certainly in the western world. People tend not to turn to a priest for spiritual insight or advice. But is a lived relationship with the sacred and wisdom traditions denuded as organised religion disappears? In this Sheldrake-Vernon Dialogue, Rupert Sheldrake and Mark Vernon talk about religious institutions for good and ill. Rupert picks up on a new book by Alison Milbank, Once and Future Parish, to ask how churches can maintain connection with the seasons, place an... | 37m 59s | ||||||
| 8/2/23 | How to Teach Prayer | Prayer, alongside meditation, is an integral part of religious traditions. God can be prayed to but also saints and angels. In this episode of the Sheldrake-Vernon Dialogues, Rupert and Mark ask whether and why prayer is not widely discussed, how prayer can be practiced, and what prayer might be. They share personal practices of prayer and explore the agency of angels and saints. They ask about the entities that people report encountering when using psychedelics, alongside other questions suc... | 38m 20s | ||||||
| 6/2/23 | End of Life Experiences | Watch on Youtube Terminal lucidity is the phenomenon of individuals who are dying receiving a surge of life, perhaps to say goodbye, as their death approaches. So what is the nature and meaning of such well-attested experiences? In this episode of the Sheldrake-Vernon Dialogues, Rupert Sheldrake and Mark Vernon use Rupert's recent paper examining terminal lucidity in animals, to open up a discussion of phenomena from post-mortem contacts to the resurrection of Jesus. Rupert's paper on end of... | 39m 35s | ||||||
| 3/28/23 | In Praise of Praise | Why do people offer praise and gain from it? Does God require, even demand praise? In this episode of the Sheldrake-Vernon Dialogues, Rupert and Mark discuss what can be wrongly implied by praise and what it might mean as an immensely rich practice. Mark confesses to having been put off the notion, as if adulation were demanded by a divine narcissist, which Rupert responds to by considering the etymology of praise, shared by words such as appreciation and interpretation. The discussion develo... | 43m 09s | ||||||
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Chart history for The Sheldrake Vernon Dialogues
Peaked at #33 in Finland, currently #33 in Finland.
| Market | Genre | Peak | Current | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Finland | — | #33 | #33 | — |
| Japan | — | #37 | #37 | — |
| HU | — | #62 | #62 | — |
| India | — | #64 | #64 | — |
| Denmark | — | #133 | #133 | — |
| United Kingdom | — | #135 | #135 | — |
| Sweden | — | #180 | #180 | — |
| Japan | — | #183 | #183 | — |
Chart Positions
8 placements across 7 markets.
Chart Positions
8 placements across 7 markets.