Episode 56: Reincarnation and Spiritual Psychology, part 1
The Martinus Cosmology Podcast
Release Date: 02/04/2026
Episode 56: Reincarnation and Spiritual Psychology, part 1
The Martinus Cosmology Podcast
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 author of four books on spiritual psychology, to talk about his book Reincarnation: A Logical and Loving Perspective on Life, which has recently been published in English. In his book, Sören Grind shares case stories and reflections from his own practical experience, along with current research on...
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Episode 55: Is there an absolute reality?
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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...
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Episode 54: Working at the Martinus Institute
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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...
info_outlineHow 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 author of four books on spiritual psychology, to talk about his book
Reincarnation: A Logical and Loving Perspective on Life, which has recently been published
in English. In his book, Sören Grind shares case stories and reflections from his own practical
experience, along with current research on consciousness, near-death experiences and other
spiritual experiences.
In this episode, we reflect on what a psychology based om spirituality can mean for people
who are searching for meaning in their lives. We also discuss recent research on near-death
experiences and how these experiences affect people, as well as how the development of
individual talents can be understood from a reincarnation perspective.
This episode is the first in a series of podcasts in which Mary, Sören and Pernilla will reflect
on various aspects of spiritual psychology, using Sören’s new book as inspiration. In coming
episodes, we will talk about sleep, dreams and the unconscious; life crises; illness and
healing; love as the keynote of the universe, and much more.
Links:
Sören Grind (2025). Reincarnation: A Logical and Loving Perspective on Life
E-book: https://books2read.com/u/bzlkBn
Printed version: https://www.bog-ide.dk/produkt/6111239/a-logical-and-loving-perspective-on-life-reincarnation-a-logical-and-loving-perspective-on-life-haeftet/3433453
Interview with Pim van Lommel by Jens Christian Hermansen on the Martinus Institute’s
YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OGtxV0a6f8
Website presenting Sören Grind’s books: https://sorengrind.com/en/english/
The Martinus Institute's website: https://www.martinus.dk/en/