The Quest for Healing and Home with John Philip Newell & Raghu Markus – Mindrolling Podcast Ep. 559

Turning to Celtic wisdom, author and teacher John Philip Newell chats with Raghu about reconnecting to our home, Mother Earth. This week, John and Raghu get into: - John’s upbringing and being drawn to the natural world - The Celtic lineage and having awareness for the sacredness of nature - Knowing that wisdom resides deep within us, not outside of us - Seeing the universe as an expression of the divine - What we can learn from native traditions - A radical new beginning through humility and relation to earth and one another - Addressing the divine in one another and in every life form - Breaking cycles of war and repetition - The contributions of Carl Jung on the collective and individual unconscious - Merging Eastern and Western traditions “For me, it was the introduction to Celtic wisdom that awakened me to knowing that wisdom is deep within us and the divine is at the very heart of our beings. We don’t have to somehow invoke or implore a distance presence.” – John Philip Newell About John Philip Newell: John Philip Newell is a Celtic teacher and author of spirituality who calls the modern world to reawaken to the sacredness of Earth and every human being. In 2016 he began the Earth & Soul initiative and teaches regularly in the United States and Canada as well as leading international pilgrimage weeks on Iona in the Western Isles of Scotland. His PhD is from the University of Edinburgh and he has authored over fifteen books, including his award-winning publication, Sacred Earth Sacred Soul, which was the 2022 Gold Winner of the Nautilus Book Award for Spirituality and Religious Thought of the West. His new book, also with HarperOne (and published in the UK by Wild Goose), is The Great Search (August 2024), in which he looks at the great spiritual yearnings of humanity today in the context of the decline of religion as we have known it.