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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 help us experience that life has a meaning? They look at the cycles in Nature and consider how these cycles also exist in our own lives. Lasse Vogelsang has a long-standing interest in Martinus Cosmology, having encountered it at the age of seventeen. His professional background is in IT development, and he currently works as a teacher. This podcast was recorded by Mary McGovern at The Martinus Institute, Frederiksberg, Copenhagen, Denmark on 8th December 2024. Music composed and performed by Lars Palerius. Photo: Marie Rosenkrantz Gjedsted Martinus’s literature is available online on the Martinus Institute’s website: www.martinus.dk/en.  [http://www.martinus.dk/en]Here you can also find information about the international summer courses at the Martinus Centre in Klint, Denmark.

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 of Livets Bog (The Book of Life). Only many years later did he begin to attend lectures and courses on Martinus Cosmology. Today he works at the Martinus Institute with various tasks including coordinating volunteers, looking after the fabric of the building, live-streaming lectures, and maintaining the institute’s website: www.martinus.dk [http://www.martinus.dk/]. Already a published author of three books and several short stories, he is currently writing a short introduction to Martinus’s life and world picture. He finds it important to provide a brief biography of Martinus and to convey, among many other aspects of Martinus’s world picture, an explanation of the meaning of darkness and the evolution of sexuality. Inspired by Martinus’s analysis that we are all “wounded refugees between two kingdoms”, meaning that we are no longer pure animals but not yet completely evolved human beings, this episode takes up aspects of mankind’s progression towards the resolution of some of its current challenges. This podcast was recorded by Mary McGovern at the Martinus Institute on 5th September 2024. Music composed and performed by Lars Palerius. Photo: Marie Rosenkrantz Gjedsted   Links and notes: Live-streamed lectures on Martinus Cosmology in several languages: crowdcast.io/martinusinstitut. Scroll down through the many Scandinavian titles until you find titles in English. The Martinus Institute’s English You Tube channel for free lectures and interviews:https://www.youtube.com/@TheMartinusInstitute [https://www.youtube.com/@TheMartinusInstitute] Opening hours at The Martinus Institute: Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays 10am–4pm. Also open on approx. alternate Saturdays, when there are lectures. Check martinus.dk for the calendar of events.

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 reincarnation solve the mystery of the apparent injustice of the one-life theory? These are some of the questions taken up in this episode in which Mary McGovern interviews Tobias Anker Stripp and Sören Grind about near-death experiences and reincarnation from the perspective of research into near-death experiences and from the perspective of spiritual science. Tobias Anker Stripp is a medical doctor working in Denmark. He is also a Reiki master and a researcher who has done research into near-death experiences and has been the driving force behind the establishing of a Danish network for people who have had near-death experiences. Sören Grind is a Swedish psychologist, now living in Denmark, and the author of three books based on Martinus’s world picture, the latest of which is entitled “Reincarnation – a loving and logical view of life” (not yet available in English).  Links for further information: “Reincarnation gives life meaning”, an article by Sören Grind In: English Kosmos no 1/2024: https://www.martinus.dk/en/english-ko... [https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUFFLUhqbldlWjFTaDdwZGpwTGY3UmhrR0MweWhIWmpRZ3xBQ3Jtc0tteVlPdFl3LWx6cWtxajNHanJ4T1VXZTJMejZ5TlowUTk0bmc1RndDQzNiUXhXUjh4bHBUeHdCZV9MaGkwV0xxSTgtaXhfSzBMRmMwWGRpbkMzekRUb2hXNW1EX2lHZFB2SllDMXpQZzgzc1dpNDNYVQ&q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.martinus.dk%2Fen%2Fenglish-kosmos-2024-issue-1%2F&v=Fy3dSukClJE] Dr. Tobias Anker Stripp’s website: https://tobiasankerstripp.dk [https://tobiasankerstripp.dk] Sören Grind’s books in Swedish and Danish: https://www.adlibris.com/se/sok?q=sör... [https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUFFLUhqbEQySHFRdDc0dXNhaG9QRzZuWXlEU2tCSjh2QXxBQ3Jtc0ttZERyZ1Jjd3BTY2VZdk5mdmZmOVdIeXNOblNQOXdESFJNODUwdk5QOGxGVFh0ZXR4MWEyU3kzU3E4cldPanh5V2NCUFlYUnowWmVTZ1k1Z3FPaEI5YVE5ZW1sdVpyOVpxTXY0WTRoa25HU0RPQXZuSQ&q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.adlibris.com%2Fse%2Fsok%3Fq%3Ds%C3%B6ren%2Bgrind&v=Fy3dSukClJE] “Through the Gates of Death – Sleep and Death”, an article by Martinus describing how it is to die as a child, a youth, an adult and in old age: https://www.martinus.dk/en/martinus-w... [https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUFFLUhqbXdVWTd4YlFrVUkxQS1lRkdCTWlZQ3RKVUIyUXxBQ3Jtc0trUlVHa1NVaXI0Y0VsZXhuWVJSYjR3VmIyaVZ0a1lZdVAyVWR3U2NQcFBGSlIzQXNyQjlFLTl1SkZhdlcyZjN1U3BnNXd2SUF5aFYxZzJCQVNRRUx4Qk03MWRmOGJRRXMzeHY3U1ZBczR6MjBydG1WVQ&q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.martinus.dk%2Fen%2Fmartinus-writings%2Farticles%2Fthrough-gates-of-death%2Findex.html&v=Fy3dSukClJE] “The Immortality of Living Beings” by Martinus https://www.martinus.dk/en/ttt/index.... [https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUFFLUhqbUZXMVVZa24ya3M1cUR3X2FabjBYNy02RkNFUXxBQ3Jtc0tramFtVUZPQ1hQQzFHcHJnM21raHVOengxVkNkMlBRb0ZmZDctQmZxc1pCNlhLTEFKOExfV0VvQy1Lb1BKR1hZbFMyWnh6QlRRZW1JR3daQkVDZEhZMUdfT2pIMTFFblViZkpSdXdkNGstN2daOHpQZw&q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.martinus.dk%2Fen%2Fttt%2Findex.php%3Fbog%3D23&v=Fy3dSukClJE] International Association for Near-Death Studies, Inc. https://iands.org [https://iands.org] Pim van Lommel, cardiologist and author of the bestseller “Consciousness Beyond Life” https://pimvanlommel.nl/en/ [https://pimvanlommel.nl/en/] Bruce Greyson, psychiatrist and author of “After - A Doctor Explores What Near-Death Experiences Reveal About Life and Beyond" https://www.brucegreyson.com/ [https://www.brucegreyson.com/] Recorded in Denmark via Zoom on 7 th February 2024. Music composed and performed by Lars Palerius.

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 that is partly dominated by the killing principle and partly by the desire to love and serve everyone. Eventually the loving aspect will take over completely, leading to the creation of a completely loving, empathic and just world society. Ole Therkelsen (born in 1948) is a chemical engineer and a biologist with a life-long interest in Martinus Cosmology. He was introduced to Martinus Cosmology by his parents when he was a small boy, and since 1980 he has given about 2000 lectures on Martinus’s world picture in fifteen countries in six different languages. Many of his lectures may be heard on http://www.oletherkelsen.dk  [http://www.oletherkelsen.dk/]and on http://www.youtube.com [http://www.youtube.com/]. He is the author of Martinus, Darwin and Intelligent Design – A New Theory of Evolution and Martinus and the New World Morality. His books are available from http://amazon.com [http://amazon.com/] and http://amazon.co.uk [http://amazon.co.uk/]. This lecture was given by Ole Therkelsen in Zagreb, Croatia on 1st May 2007. Music composed and performed by Lars Palerius. Photo: Marie Rosenkrantz Gjedsted

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 philosophers: Helena Blavatsky, Alice Bailey and Rudolf Steiner. His aim was to see if Martinus contributes anything new to Western esotericism, and if so, what. Krall found that Martinus did indeed make unique and original contributions to Western esotericism. On the structural level, his finding was that Martinus uses logical reasoning to a far greater extent when presenting his worldview than Blavatsky, Steiner and Bailey do in their accounts. This can perhaps fulfil the needs of secularised seekers of truth. On the content level, Martinus’ most important contribution is, according to Krall, a clear, logical and consistent theory of how experience comes about and is eternally maintained. Martinus also describes why memory is an important function of consciousness and how it is related to the body of memory, one of Martinus’ six basic energy bodies, a body not presented by the other three authors. Krall describes this function and body as being of key importance in Martinus’ worldview when he logically explains the process of involution and thereby the eternal renewal and maintenance of consciousness through spiral cycles of evolution. Another important contribution, according to Krall, is Martinus’ analysis of a living microcosmos within us and even within the food we eat. Martinus points to our moral responsibility for the well-being of these microbeings, thus widening the sphere in need of our compassion. Martinus’ analysis of sexual evolution and the transformation of the sexual poles is also seen to contribute to the understanding of consciousness and its developmental levels. Krall’s final conclusion is that Martinus’ spiritual science and world picture is an original contribution to Western esotericism. Mikael Krall is a psychologist and psychotherapist in Gothenburg, Sweden. He is a private researcher and scholar in the field of Western esotericism. Mikael Krall’s book is currently out of print but will be reprinted in 2024. This podcast was recorded by Mary McGovern at The Martinus Institute, Copenhagen on 8th October 2023. Photo: Mary McGovern  Music composed and performed by Lars Palerius. Martinus’s literature is available online on the Martinus Institute’s website: www.martinus.dk/en.  [http://www.martinus.dk/en]Here you can also find information about the international summer courses at the Martinus Centre in Klint, Denmark.