The Martinus Cosmology Podcast

Welcome to the Martinus Cosmology Podcast! This is a podcast dedicated to talks and reflections on life, seen from the perspective of the Danish writer Martinus’ spiritual works. Here, you will find talks on all kinds of topics, relating to the main issues of life and Martinus’ world picture. You can read more about Martinus and his works on the website of the Martinus Institute, Denmark: /http://www.martinus.dk/en/frontpage/

Episode 55: Is there an absolute reality? 12/17/2024

Episode 54: Working at the Martinus Institute 09/09/2024

Episode 54: Working at the Martinus Institute 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: . 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: 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. /episode/index/show/martinuscosmologypodcast/id/32969992

Episode 53: Near-death experiences and reincarnation 02/08/2024

Episode 53: Near-death experiences and reincarnation 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: Dr. Tobias Anker Stripp’s website: Sören Grind’s books in Swedish and Danish: “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: “The Immortality of Living Beings” by Martinus International Association for Near-Death Studies, Inc. Pim van Lommel, cardiologist and author of the bestseller “Consciousness Beyond Life” Bruce Greyson, psychiatrist and author of “After - A Doctor Explores What Near-Death Experiences Reveal About Life and Beyond" Recorded in Denmark via Zoom on 7 th February 2024. Music composed and performed by Lars Palerius. /episode/index/show/martinuscosmologypodcast/id/29855628

Episode 52: The World Situation and the Future 12/22/2023

Episode 51: Martinus and Western esotericism 10/17/2023

Episode 51: Martinus and Western esotericism 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: Here you can also find information about the international summer courses at the Martinus Centre in Klint, Denmark. /episode/index/show/martinuscosmologypodcast/id/28340921

Episode 50: Martinus Cosmology, logic and the problems of consciousness 08/19/2023

Episode 49: Martinus: His Life and World Picture 03/19/2023

Episode 48: The Rise of Internationalism 12/15/2022

Episode 47: Economics – present and future 11/05/2022

Episode 46: Evidence for the survival of consciousness after bodily death 09/01/2022

Episode 45: Sleep, dreams and death 02/16/2022

Episode 45: Sleep, dreams and death Why do we have to sleep? What is sleep? What are dreams? And what is death? These are some of the questions Ole Therkelsen takes up in this lecture. He explains that during sleep our nervous system is repaired. The traffic of our thoughts, which sends electrical currents through our nerves, is temporarily stopped to allow essential repair work to be done. In the meantime our consciousness is moved onto a spiritual plane, where we also experience life. This move to a spiritual plane can be achieved in six different ways: through death, sleep, anesthesia, fainting, deep trance and hypnosis. He explores how the quality of our sleep is determined in part by the quality our thoughts and by our physical habits, such as drinking stimulants and using alarm clocks. He distinguishes between natural fatigue, which can be resolved through rest and sleep, and unnatural fatigue, which can be resolved through changing our way of thinking. Death proves to be the biggest surprise in life because you wake up in a spiritual world where you can continue to experience life. Ole mentions Martinus’s article “Through the Gates of Death – Sleep and Death”, which you will find . 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 and on . 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 and . This lecture was given by Ole Therkelsen at The Martinus Centre, Klint, Denmark on 11th August 2006. Music composed and performed by Lars Palerius. Photo: Berit Djuse /episode/index/show/martinuscosmologypodcast/id/22142618

Episode 44: Understanding Eternity 12/23/2021

Episode 43: How can we see our karma as a friend? 10/21/2021

Episode 42: The I – the fixed point in the middle of the universe 09/19/2021

Episode 41: Life after Death 06/13/2021

Episode 40: The Cosmology, the Institute and the Centre 04/12/2021

Episode 40: The Cosmology, the Institute and the Centre The Martinus Cosmology Podcast presents the fifth in a series of lectures given in English by Ole Therkelsen. Ole Therkelsen describes the transformational spiritual experience that Martinus had 100 years ago on 24th March 1921 that enabled him to experience the laws and principles of life. This formed the basis of his authorship of Livets Bog (The Book of Life) and many other works. His world picture was not in the absolute sense “his”. It is an eternal world picture to which his consciousness opened up. He said that he “gained access to the ocean of knowledge”. He also created the Martinus Institute as the administrative centre of his work and the Martinus Centre in Klint, Denmark as an education centre for courses. He predicted that the centre would one day become a university for the study of the world picture he described. Ole described the guidelines set out by Martinus for how co-workers at the Institute and the Centre should cooperate in a harmonious and friendly way. 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 and on . 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 and . This lecture was given by Ole Therkelsen at The Martinus Centre, Klint, Denmark on 29th July August 2006. Music composed and performed by Lars Palerius. Photo: Berit Djuse. Martinus’s literature is available online on the . Here you can also find information about the international summer courses at the Martinus Centre in Klint, Denmark /episode/index/show/martinuscosmologypodcast/id/18688379

Episode 39: Martinus as a World Teacher 01/30/2021

Episode 39: Martinus as a World Teacher The Martinus Cosmology Podcast presents the fourth in a series of lectures given in English by Ole Therkelsen. To launch our celebrations of the 100th anniversary of Martinus’s experience of cosmic consciousness on 24th March 1921 we present this lecture in which Ole Therkelsen describes Martinus’s process of initiation and the opening of his talents for cosmic consciousness. It was this opening that paved the way for Martinus writing his works, which, towards the end of his life, he decided should be collectively entitled “The Third Testament”. Many religious and spiritual communities around the world have waited and are still waiting for the return of the messiah, the second coming of Christ. Krishnamurti, for example, was groomed to be the new world teacher until he himself rejected the role. According to Martinus, this second coming is nothing less than the birth of cosmic consciousness in each and every single one of us. This demands moral growth to a standard where we, like Christ, can love our enemies and forgive all those that hurt us. To support this moral growth, Martinus has provided us with a spiritual science – a science that analyses the eternal and the temporal, the macrocosmic and the microcosmic, God and the individual living being. He humorously expressed his intention as being “to show that it pays to be good”. Ole mentions a sculpture of Christ by Bertel Thorvaldsen, a Danish sculptor. Here is a photo of it from the Church of Our Lady in Copenhagen. (Photo: Wikipedia) Ole mentions Martinus’s symbol no. 23 “The Finished Human Being in God’s Likeness” in this lecture. You can see the symbol and read a short explanation on the . The symbol is explained in detail in The Eternal World Picture, vol. 2 by Martinus: https://www.martinus.dk/en/ttt/index.php?bog=62&stk=23&pkt=5. 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 and on . 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 and . This lecture was given by Ole Therkelsen at The Martinus Centre, Klint, Denmark on 8th August 2007. Music composed and performed by Lars Palerius. Photo: Berit Djuse. Martinus’s literature is available online on the . Here you can also find information about the international summer courses at the Martinus Centre in Klint, Denmark /episode/index/show/martinuscosmologypodcast/id/17747945

Episode 38: A near-death experience – a personal view 11/16/2020

Episode 37: My will and God’s will 10/02/2020

Episode 36: Hilma af Klint – Painting the Invisible 08/03/2020

Episode 35: Who is it that actually reincarnates? 07/06/2020

Episode 34: Our personal relationship to God 06/04/2020

Episode 33: Journey into the Microcosmos 03/27/2020

Episode 33: Journey into the Microcosmos The Martinus Cosmology Podcast presents the second in a series of lectures given in English by Ole Therkelsen. In “Journey into the Microcosmos”, Ole Therkelsen describes how our behaviour affects the entire universe of microlife that inhabits our bodies. The Old Testament and the New Testament encourage the development of neighbourly love in the form of love for other human beings. One of the major tasks of The Third Testament is to expand this idea of neighbourly love to include the microbeings within us, whose life and well-being are dependent on what we eat and drink, what we think and feel, how well we sleep and how we treat our corpses after death. He talks about the law of karma and the law of attraction and repulsion and their connection to genes, chromosomes and congenital disorders. Gratitude for one’s fate – however pleasant or unpleasant – is shown to be a natural consequence of initiation into the macrocosmos, mesocosmos and microcosmos and an important factor on our journey towards gaining cosmic consciousness. Ole explains Martinus’s symbol no. 7 “The Principle of Life Units” in this lecture. You can see the symbol and read a short explanation here: The symbol is explained in detail in The Eternal World Picture, vol. 1 () and in The Ideal Food () by Martinus. 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 and on . 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 and . This lecture was given by Ole Therkelsen at The Martinus Centre, Klint, Denmark on 4th August 2004. Music composed and performed by Lars Palerius. Photo: Berit Djuse. Martinus’s literature is available online on the Martinus Institute’s website: Here you can also find information about the international summer courses at the Martinus Centre in Klint, Denmark /episode/index/show/martinuscosmologypodcast/id/13727555

Episode 32: Two Kinds of Love 02/09/2020

Episode 31: The Road towards the Light 01/04/2020

Episode 31: The Road towards the Light The Martinus Cosmology Podcast presents the first in a series of lectures given in English by Ole Therkelsen. In “The Road towards the Light” Ole Therkelsen describes some of the core principles and laws of life that are central to Martinus’s world picture. This world picture is eternal, even though we experience our daily lives from a temporal perspective. Life can be viewed in two perspectives: the eternal perspective and the temporal perspective. Confusion can arise when we fail to acknowledge both perspectives. War, illness and all forms of suffering are of course very unpleasant, but from an eternal perspective these things, like everything else, are “very good”. “Behold, everything is very good”, the Bible states. This is not a cynical view, but an explanation of the role of darkness. All darkness forms the contrast that is essential to our ability to experience light at all. The principle of contrast is an eternal principle, as is the principle of cycles and the principle of hunger and satiation, which drives us away from what we are tired of and towards what we are longing for. This lecture can support us in our attempts to understand the “direct speech of life” and to regain our long-lost consciousness of eternity. Ole explains Martinus’s symbol no. 4 “The Road towards Light” in this lecture. You can see the symbol and read a short explanation here: The symbol is explained in detail in The Eternal World Picture, vol. 1 () and Livets Bog (The Book of Life), vol. 1 (), both by Martinus. 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 and on . 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 and . This lecture was given by Ole Therkelsen at The Martinus Centre, Klint, Denmark on 27th July 2004. Music composed and performed by Lars Palerius. Photo: Berit Djuse. Martinus’s literature is available online on the Martinus Institute’s website: Here you can also find information about the international summer courses at the Martinus Centre in Klint, Denmark /episode/index/show/martinuscosmologypodcast/id/12617009

Episode 30: The World Today and in the Future 12/22/2019

Episode 29: “The Christmas Gospel” – a new publication 11/29/2019

Episode 29: “The Christmas Gospel” – a new publication Mary McGovern interviews translator Anton Jarrod about his first translation of a book by Martinus – “The Christmas Gospel”. It will be published for the first time in English on 10th December. When Martinus gives his lecture on “The Christmas Gospel” on 10th December 1944, the world is still in the darkness of war and largely unaware of its most abhorrent horrors. But its end is approaching and there is a glimmer of light. And it is this light in the darkness that is perhaps the very subject of Martinus’s cosmic retelling of the nativity. For him, the gospels reveal and symbolise a fundamental fact about the evolution of cosmic consciousness – that it is born or emerges in the terrestrial human being, living in the darkness of the animal kingdom. The cosmic story of the living being’s evolution and the various aspects of life that relate to it are also seen to be told through the nativity narrative. The virgin birth, the persecution by Herod, the gifts of the three holy kings, and the message of peace and good will as told in the gospels reveal as much about the evolution of society, of science and art, of sexual pole transformation and sexual development as they do about the life of Jesus. And it is this hidden, deeper layer of meaning that Martinus presents to his readers in a fascinating little book that is now available in English, from 10th December 2019, exactly 75 years since Martinus gave the lecture that forms the basis of this book, which he published in Contact Letters during 1945-46. During our own troubled times, reading The Christmas Gospel may throw some warm light this winter. 128 pages, price 55 DKK incl. Danish tax, 44 DKK excl. tax (approx. £5, US$6.50. €6 plus postage). Available from shop.martinus.dk from 10th December. Anton Jarrod is a writer and researcher currently living in London and Cambridge, UK. He writes and speaks about modern spirituality. He is also the author of “Martinus Cosmology and Spiritual Evolution” – a book about the work of Martinus, whom he describes as “one of modern spirituality’s still undiscovered gems.” This podcast was recorded by Mary McGovern in Frederiksberg, Copenhagen, Denmark on 30th September 2019. Music composed and performed by Lars Palerius. Martinus’ literature is available online on the Martinus Institute’s website: Here you can also find information about the international summer courses at the Martinus Centre in Klint, Denmark. /episode/index/show/martinuscosmologypodcast/id/12217961

Episode 28: Death and the Continuity of Consciousness 10/06/2019

Episode 27: Reincarnation in a Nutshell 08/25/2019

Episode 26: Conscience 08/06/2019

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