Episode 53: Near-death experiences and reincarnation
The Martinus Cosmology Podcast
Release Date: 02/08/2024
Episode 55: Is there an absolute reality?
The Martinus Cosmology Podcast
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...
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Episode 54: Working at the Martinus Institute
The Martinus Cosmology Podcast
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...
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Episode 53: Near-death experiences and reincarnation
The Martinus Cosmology Podcast
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...
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Episode 52: The World Situation and the Future
The Martinus Cosmology Podcast
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...
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Episode 51: Martinus and Western esotericism
The Martinus Cosmology Podcast
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...
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Episode 50: Martinus Cosmology, logic and the problems of consciousness
The Martinus Cosmology Podcast
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, science, materialism and the experience of life. How does Martinus define logic? What does logic have to do with love? Why does consciousness exist at all? Why do we experience anything? Is our brain even necessary? These are some of the questions we take up in this episode. Nikolaj Pilgaard...
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Episode 49: Martinus: His Life and World Picture
The Martinus Cosmology Podcast
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, everyday life and his extraordinary spiritual cosmology. In 1921, at the age of 30, Martinus underwent a series of profound spiritual experiences that — as he himself explains — left him with extraordinary, intuitive sensory abilities. With his 10,000 pages of writing and 100 symbols he...
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Episode 48: The Rise of Internationalism
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“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 nationalism. He looks at the anatomy of war and the anatomy of peace and asks, “What can we each do to contribute to world peace?” He quotes Martinus as saying that the best thing we can do is to change ourselves – not the others – and turn ourselves into “cells of peace” in the body of...
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Episode 47: Economics – present and future
The Martinus Cosmology Podcast
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 the equal exchange of assets. He envisions a time-based economy to which everyone – with the exception of children, the elderly and the sick – will gladly contribute. With the inevitable growth of neighbourly love and selflessness, no one will want to be a burden on society or earn...
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Episode 46: Evidence for the survival of consciousness after bodily death
The Martinus Cosmology Podcast
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 (). In this interview with Mary McGovern and Micael Söderberg, she presents some of this evidence and covers such topics as near-death experiences, past-life memories in children, regression therapy, the process of rebirth and multiple personality disorder. Else mentions Martinus’s symbol no. 34 about the process of rebirth. See the symbol and its explanation ...
info_outlineIs 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...
Dr. Tobias Anker Stripp’s website: https://tobiasankerstripp.dk
Sören Grind’s books in Swedish and Danish: https://www.adlibris.com/se/sok?q=sör...
“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...
“The Immortality of Living Beings” by Martinus https://www.martinus.dk/en/ttt/index....
International Association for Near-Death Studies, Inc. https://iands.org
Pim van Lommel, cardiologist and author of the bestseller “Consciousness Beyond Life” 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/
Recorded in Denmark via Zoom on 7 th February 2024.
Music composed and performed by Lars Palerius.