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 Lovin...

  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 cy...

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...

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 t...

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. Eve...

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 contribute...

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 t...

  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 ser...

"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 cont...

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...

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 ( https://www.bigelowinstitute.org/ ). In this interview with Mary McGovern and Micael Söderberg, she presents some of this evidence and covers such topics as near-death e...

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...

Can eternity be understood? Is there a difference between how physical science and spiritual science view eternity? Did life originate at a specific point in time or has it always existed in some form? In this lecture Ole Therkelsen explores the concepts of eternity and temporality from the perspective of Martinus's world picture. He presents the principle of contrasts and the principle of hunger...

Martinus describes karma as the law of cause and effect, as life's way of helping us to evolve towards becoming truly empathic, loving human beings. In this episode Mary McGovern interviews the Swedish psychologist, writer and lecturer Sören Grind. They discuss the role of both pleasant and unpleasant karma as a motor driving our evolution and as a mirror showing us how we are capable of behaving...

In this interview, Anne Külper and Mary McGovern try to approach an understanding of the "I" – the innermost core of our being. It is that something  within us that experiences and creates. Martinus describes it as the "fixed point" in a sea of movements, a contrast to the movements that makes experiencing them possible. Having no physical form, it is untouched by life and death; through the princ...

Is there life after death and, if so, what is it like? Mary McGovern interviews author Else Byskov about her understanding that there certainly is a life after death, that death is an illusion and that we experience many lives through reincarnation. She gives us a hint of a world of extraordinary beauty beyond the physical world in the hope of preparing us for what is to come. For further reading...

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 pic...

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 t...

At the age of six, Andreas Skovby Hansen almost drowned after falling into the water from a jetty where his parents' boat was moored. In this interview with Mary McGovern he describes a near-death experience he had while sitting on the seabed, an experience that he re-experienced 13 years later at the age of 19. Andreas talks about this and other paranormal experiences he has had and about how Mar...

The Martinus Cosmology Podcast presents the third in a series of lectures given in English by Ole Therkelsen. In "My will and God's will" Ole Therkelsen poses the question: What or who do you think God is? There are many differing concepts of God. Some believe in the devil as the cause of everything unpleasant and in God as the cause of everything pleasant. Martinus, however, defines God as absolu...

The Swedish pioneer of abstract painting Hilma af Klint (1862-1944) has attracted much attention during the last few years as her works have been exhibited in major galleries around the world. Her paintings can be seen as visual representations of spiritual realities beyond the physical. She was influenced by scientific discoveries of her time, such as radio waves and X-rays, both of which exist b...

Episode 35: Who is it that actually reincarnates? "Who is it that actually reincarnates?", "Why do we reincarnate?" and "How do we reincarnate?" are among the questions taken up in this episode in which Mary McGovern interviews Alex Riel. They discuss characteristics of our consciousness, "talent kernels" in which our abilities are stored, the principle of karma and the transformation of the sexua...

How do you describe your own personal relationship to God? In this episode, Anne Külper, Anne Pullar and Pernilla Rosell share personal reflections about their relationships to God and how they experience God. They talk about their different spiritual paths in life and relate their experiences to Martinus' world picture.   Anne Külper, Anne Pullar and Pernilla Rosell are all members of the teachin...

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 maj...

In this interview with Mary McGovern Micael Söderberg reflects on existential questions about eternity, infinity and the meaning of our lives and on various aspects of what Martinus terms the sexual pole transformation of mankind. Micael Söderberg is a sociologist, one of the team of creators and hosts of the Swedish podcast on Martinus Cosmology kosmologipodden.se and a member of the voluntary te...