Living in An Age of Spiritual Crisis

The depth of the environmental crisis is becoming clearer. Social
crises are around us, too. But do these realities stem from a
deeper spiritual crisis? In this episode of The Sheldrake-Vernon
Dialogues, Rupert Sheldrake and Mark Vernon discuss whether we’ve
become uncoupled from the foundations of life, which are not just
biological and social but spiritual. They discuss how this loss
shows itself in difficulties ranging from mental health to social
cohesion. They ask how a society that doesn’t have a sense of the
spiritual becomes unreal, as if our desires can be fulfilled
solely in material ways. They explore how a spiritual crisis
distorts the sense of being human, but how it also offers a prime
opportunity to recover and regain an energising sense of what it
means to be alive.