The Martinus Cosmology Podcast
by Mary McGovern, Lars Palerius, Pernilla Rosell
Welcome to the Martinus Cosmology Podcast! This is a new podcast dedicated to talks and reflections on life, seen from the perspective of the Danish writer Martinus' spiritual works. Here, you will find podcasts and short video introductions on all kinds of topics, relating to the main issues of Martinus' world picture.
Episodes
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Episode 56: Reincarnation and Spiritual Psychology, part 1
How can the idea of reincarnation inspire us to see meaning and coherence in our lives? And how can Martinus' analyses give us a logical explanation of reincarnation and the mystery of consciousness? In this episode, Mary McGovern and Pernilla Rosell meet Sören Grind, a licensed psychologist and...
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Episode 55: Is there an absolute reality?
In this episode Mary McGovern interviews Lasse Vogelsang on the nature of reality. They take up such questions as how Martinus describes absolute reality and how it compares to our experiences of temporal reality. How can we relate to the absolute reality that Martinus describes and how it can…
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Episode 54: Working at the Martinus Institute
In this episode Mary McGovern interviews Torben Husum, the current manager of the Martinus Institute in Frederiksberg, Copenhagen. After finding an article by Martinus and not least a captivating photo of him in the Danish magazine Gralen (The Grail), Torben embarked on a private, intensive study...
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Episode 53: Near-death experiences and reincarnation
Is consciousness a product of the brain, or is the brain a tool for consciousness? What do people typically experience during near-death experiences and what effect does it have on them? What, if anything, do near-death experiences have in common with other spiritual experiences? Can…
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Episode 52: The World Situation and the Future
In this lecture Ole Therkelsen describes how the atrocities of war and the enormous amount of suffering they cause gradually bring about the evolution of the Earth as a living individual and of the mankind that inhabits it. The Earth and its human beings are sphynx beings with a consciousness…
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Episode 51: Martinus and Western esotericism
In this episode Mary McGovern talks to Mikael Krall about his master's dissertation Martinus' Spiritual Science: An Original Contribution to Western Esotericism?, which was published as a book in 2019. Krall compares Martinus' world picture with the worldviews of three other Western esoteric...
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Episode 50: Martinus Cosmology, logic and the problems of consciousness
This episode is produced in collaboration with the Swedish podcast Kosmologipodden. Hosts Micael Söderberg and Mary McGovern interview Nikolaj Pilgaard Petersen about logic, the easy and hard problems of consciousness and about how Martinus's world picture informs Nikolaj's views of philosophy,...
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Episode 49: Martinus: His Life and World Picture
In this episode Mary McGovern interviews Lennart Pasborg, the Danish film director who has recently made a documentary film about the Danish spiritual writer Martinus (1890-1981). His film is entitled "Martinus: His Life and World Picture" (42 mins.) and portrays both Martinus's ordinary…
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Episode 48: The Rise of Internationalism
"Internationalism is the unselfishness of a nation, and nationalism is the selfishness or egoism of a nation." Martinus: The Fate of Mankind, chap. 45 In this lecture Ole Therkelsen points to the inevitability of the development of internationalism, despite all current attempts to hang on to...
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Episode 47: Economics – present and future
Martinus's spiritual world view includes an analysis of the evolution of our current economic system towards a future situation in which the "false business principle" – getting as much as possible as possible for as little as possible – will be replaced by the "true business principle" based on...
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Episode 46: Evidence for the survival of consciousness after bodily death
In 2021 Else Byskov submitted an essay entitled "The Best Available Evidence for the Survival of Human Consciousness after Permanent Bodily Death" to an essay competition set up by the Bigelow Institute for Consciousness Studies (https://www.bigelowinstitute.org/). In this interview with Mary...
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Episode 45: Sleep, dreams and death
Why do we have to sleep? What is sleep? What are dreams? And what is death? These are some of the questions Ole Therkelsen takes up in this lecture. He explains that during sleep our nervous system is repaired. The traffic of our thoughts, which sends electrical currents through our nerves, is...
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Episode 44: Understanding Eternity
Can eternity be understood? Is there a difference between how physical science and spiritual science view eternity? Did life originate at a specific point in time or has it always existed in some form? In this lecture Ole Therkelsen explores the concepts of eternity and temporality from the...
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Episode 43: How can we see our karma as a friend?
Martinus describes karma as the law of cause and effect, as life's way of helping us to evolve towards becoming truly empathic, loving human beings. In this episode Mary McGovern interviews the Swedish psychologist, writer and lecturer Sören Grind. They discuss the role of both pleasant and...
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Episode 42: The I – the fixed point in the middle of the universe
In this interview, Anne Külper and Mary McGovern try to approach an understanding of the "I" – the innermost core of our being. It is that something within us that experiences and creates. Martinus describes it as the "fixed point" in a sea of movements, a contrast to the movements that makes...
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Episode 41: Life after Death
Is there life after death and, if so, what is it like? Mary McGovern interviews author Else Byskov about her understanding that there certainly is a life after death, that death is an illusion and that we experience many lives through reincarnation. She gives us a hint of a world of extraordinary...
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Episode 40: The Cosmology, the Institute and the Centre
The Martinus Cosmology Podcast presents the fifth in a series of lectures given in English by Ole Therkelsen. Ole Therkelsen describes the transformational spiritual experience that Martinus had 100 years ago on 24th March 1921 that enabled him to experience the laws and principles of life. This...
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Episode 39: Martinus as a World Teacher
The Martinus Cosmology Podcast presents the fourth in a series of lectures given in English by Ole Therkelsen. To launch our celebrations of the 100th anniversary of Martinus's experience of cosmic consciousness on 24th March 1921 we present this lecture in which Ole Therkelsen describes…
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Episode 38: A near-death experience – a personal view
At the age of six, Andreas Skovby Hansen almost drowned after falling into the water from a jetty where his parents' boat was moored. In this interview with Mary McGovern he describes a near-death experience he had while sitting on the seabed, an experience that he re-experienced 13 years later…
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Episode 37: My will and God's will
The Martinus Cosmology Podcast presents the third in a series of lectures given in English by Ole Therkelsen. In "My will and God's will" Ole Therkelsen poses the question: What or who do you think God is? There are many differing concepts of God. Some believe in the devil as the cause of...
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Episode 36: Hilma af Klint – Painting the Invisible
The Swedish pioneer of abstract painting Hilma af Klint (1862-1944) has attracted much attention during the last few years as her works have been exhibited in major galleries around the world. Her paintings can be seen as visual representations of spiritual realities beyond the physical. She was...
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Episode 35: Who is it that actually reincarnates?
Episode 35: Who is it that actually reincarnates? "Who is it that actually reincarnates?", "Why do we reincarnate?" and "How do we reincarnate?" are among the questions taken up in this episode in which Mary McGovern interviews Alex Riel. They discuss characteristics of our consciousness, "talent...
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Episode 34: Our personal relationship to God
How do you describe your own personal relationship to God? In this episode, Anne Külper, Anne Pullar and Pernilla Rosell share personal reflections about their relationships to God and how they experience God. They talk about their different spiritual paths in life and relate their experiences to...
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Episode 33: Journey into the Microcosmos
The Martinus Cosmology Podcast presents the second in a series of lectures given in English by Ole Therkelsen. In "Journey into the Microcosmos", Ole Therkelsen describes how our behaviour affects the entire universe of microlife that inhabits our bodies. The Old Testament and the New Testament...
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Episode 32: Two Kinds of Love
In this interview with Mary McGovern Micael Söderberg reflects on existential questions about eternity, infinity and the meaning of our lives and on various aspects of what Martinus terms the sexual pole transformation of mankind. Micael Söderberg is a sociologist, one of the team of creators and...
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Episode 31: The Road towards the Light
The Martinus Cosmology Podcast presents the first in a series of lectures given in English by Ole Therkelsen. In "The Road towards the Light" Ole Therkelsen describes some of the core principles and laws of life that are central to Martinus's world picture. This world picture is eternal, even...
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Episode 30: The World Today and in the Future
A sphynx-like mix of brutality and love, selfishness and selflessness, mankind is constantly evolving – ultimately towards a totally loving state. Unfinished and incomplete, this process is reflected in the current world situation, where we see both our negative tendencies and our positive ones....
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Episode 29: "The Christmas Gospel" – a new publication
Mary McGovern interviews translator Anton Jarrod about his first translation of a book by Martinus – "The Christmas Gospel". It will be published for the first time in English on 10th December. When Martinus gives his lecture on "The Christmas Gospel" on 10th December 1944, the world is still in...
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Episode 28: Death and the Continuity of Consciousness
What is death? What happens when we die? Is there life after death? If so, what can we expect when we leave our physical bodies? Materialistic science deems reincarnation improbable, but recent research into so-called "near-death experiences", which have been seen to occur when people who are...
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Episode 27: Reincarnation in a Nutshell
Is there any truth in the one-life theory? Or is reincarnation more plausible? And, if so, how does it work? Can consciousness exist when the physical body is clinically dead? How can we explain so-called near-death experiences? And what about people who claim to remember previous lives? In this...
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Episode 26: Conscience
What do we understand by "conscience"? We have all had experiences of having a guilty conscience and a clear conscience. We see that our conscience is connected to our varying ideas about good and evil, so that an action that would give one person a guilty conscience would not bother another....
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Episode 25: Sustainability, Society and the Intelligence of Nature
Why are there so many conflicts in society today? Why are phenomena such as poverty and pollution such pressing issues? Can they be solved? Where is human evolution heading? Mary McGovern interviews Karin Jansson on these and other issues such as the intelligence of Nature, cycles and recycling,...
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Episode 24: Cosmological Perspectives on World History
In this episode Mary McGovern interviews Lauge Schøler on how an understanding of Martinus Cosmology can shed light on our understanding of world history and on how it can help us to see everything, including evolution, warfare and karma, in a new perspective. Lauge was born in Denmark in 1987…
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Episode 23: The Nature of God
In this episode Mary McGovern interviews Tryggvi Gudmundsson from Iceland about Martinus' view of the nature of God. What was Martinus' own relationship to God? How does his concept of God differ from that of Christianity and other religions in the East and West? Can we reach a point where we can...
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Episode 22: Sleep - a gateway to another dimension
Martinus describes sleep as a window or gateway to another dimension - a spiritual world beyond the physical. In this episode Mary McGovern interviews psychologist and writer Sören Grind. They take up such questions as: What is sleep? What is its purpose? Where is our consciousness when we are...
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Episode 21: What happens after death?
What happens after death, according to Martinus? What do we experience? Is there a paradise? Why is death such a taboo subject and how can Martinus' analyses comfort people who are afraid of death? In this episode relaxation therapist, translator and writer Anne Pullar and Pernilla Rosell reflect...
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Episode 20: Stress from a spiritual perspective
Current rapid processes of change both at the personal level and at a more global, political level cause many people to experience increasing levels of stress and unnatural fatigue. In this podcast Mary McGovern interviews psychologist and writer Sören Grind. They reflect on how Martinus' ideas...
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Episode 19: Martinus' Christmas Letters
In this podcast Mary McGovern and Pernilla Rosell reflect on Martinus' Christmas letters, which he sent out every December from 1933, when the magazine Kosmos began in Danish, until 1980, the Christmas before he left the physical plane. In these letters, he sent his heartfelt thanks to all those...
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Episode 18: Lectures on Martinus Cosmology in California
During the autumn of 2018, Mary McGovern from the Martinus Institute, Copenhagen, visited California and gave two lectures on Martinus Cosmology: "The Ongoing Evolution of Human Sexuality" in San José at the SAND conference (https://www.scienceandnonduality.com/sand18-us/) and "The Ideal Food" at...
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Episode 17: The Ideal Food
Food is an ethical, health and environmental issue that many people today are taking an increasing and urgent interest in. This is almost certainly a reaction to the killing of billions of mammals and fish every year, the widespread illhealth of mankind and the growing worries about the effect…
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Episode 16: Forgiveness as Science and Art
Many people find it difficult to forgive and see no logical reason for doing so. Mary McGovern interviews Karin Jansson from Sweden after she gave a lecture at the Martinus Centre entitled "Forgiveness as Science and Art". She describes the process of forgiving with your brain and with your…
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Episode 15: Art and the Art of Living
Martinus describes art as something one produces from one's heart, not for material gain but out of the sheer joy in being creative and in expressing one's innermost feelings, thoughts and ideas. Mary McGovern interviews Anne Külper, a Swedish dancer and choreographer with a profound interest in...
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Episode 14: The Potential for Growth in Relationships
Martinus describes marriage and intimate relationships, and, in fact, all relationships, as grindstones that grind away at the imperfections within us and gradually remove them. All relationships thus contain enormous potential for the growth of wisdom, humaneness and neighbourly love.…
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Episode 13: Our eternal core of being
Who are we really? What is our innermost, eternal core of being? How does Martinus describe the structure of the living being? In this episode Mary McGovern and Sören Grind talk about Martinus's analyses of the innermost structure of all living beings, and about how we can understand key concepts...
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Episode 12: The Downfall of Marriage
Mary McGovern interviews Else Byskov about her most recent book The Downfall of Marriage - The Great Transformation of Our Sexual & Marital Relations, which deals with Martinus's analyses of the transformation of the sexual poles and the processes that lie behind the changes in our marital...
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Episode 11: Martinus's unique contribution to modern spirituality
Based in London, Anton Jarrod is a writer and researcher, focusing on and specializing in modern spirituality from 1850 onwards. He is the author of Martinus Cosmology and Spiritual Evolution (2017), which looks at Martinus's ideas about the evolution of the human being in relation to the Gospel...
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Episode 10: The Translators' Week at the Martinus Centre, 2018
In May 2018 Mary McGovern and The Martinus Institute organised the third Translators' Week at the Martinus Centre, Klint, Denmark. The purpose of the week was to give the institute's translators, language consultants and proofreaders the opportunity to attend a series of lectures on translating…
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Episode 9: Health and ill-health in the perspective of spiritual science
Health and ill-health in the perspective of spiritual science Our every thought, feeling and action affects our organs and cells. Our organism is a living universe that is pervaded by our consciousness. The idea of reincarnation sheds new light on questions of heredity, environment, lifestyle and...
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Episode 8: In Transition
Why do so many marriages end in divorce? Why are so many people lonely and don't find happiness in a traditional partnership? Why are there different types of sexuality? Why do many parents experience a conflict between wishing to spend time with their children and wishing to devote more time to...
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Episode 7: Martinus Cosmology – the Theory of Everything
Since the dawn of our reasoning faculties we have tried to understand the universe around us. This enquiry has led to the evolution of science, religion and, more recently, spiritual science. Martinus Cosmology is such a spiritual science. It examines the meaning and purpose behind all physical…
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About this show
Welcome to the Martinus Cosmology Podcast! This is a new podcast dedicated to talks and reflections on life, seen from the perspective of the Danish writer Martinus' spiritual works. Here, you will find podcasts and short video introductions on all kinds of topics, relating to the main issues of Martinus' world picture.
Hosted by
Mary McGovern, Lars Palerius, Pernilla Rosell
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