Animals That Talk

Why do matters as seemingly unconnected as children’s stories and
shamanic encounters feature talking animals? This episode of the
Sheldrake-Vernon Dialogues, with Rupert Sheldrake and Mark
Vernon, is prompted by the book, Roland In Moonlight by David
Bentley Hart. It relates long conversations between the Eastern
Orthodox philosopher and his pet dog, generating fascinating
thoughts on all sorts of liminal experiences, from telepathy to
panpsychism. How might a re-enchanted world appear to us in the
future? What does that have to do with ancient perceptions and
modern science? Rupert and Mark discuss matters from pets to
symbiosis, and the way that the living world participates in
divine life.