Big History and the Need for Meaning

Big histories are big sellers. Noah Yuval Harari, David Christian
and Felipe Fernández-Armesto are among the authors attempting to
tell a deep story of the universe and humanity. In this episode
of The Sheldrake-Vernon Dialogues, Rupert Sheldrake and Mark
Vernon ask how they work and what’s at stake. Mark is
particularly interested in this question as his new book, A
Secret History of Christianity, adopts a different worldview to
show how spirit and soul drive life. The conversation ranges over
fascinating questions from the nature of information and
emergence to what, given the current sense of crisis, we hope for
the future.