Oxford

We were in Wimbledon.

We were in Oxford.

We were in Guildford and Woking.

And I got back on, late on Sunday evening, and, uh, I'm here with you today.

And, um, the strangest things come out of your mouth.

But it, but it's a joy.

It's lovely, and we had a lovely morning, the f- um, the four of us in Oxford last week.

Um, we weren't leaving for the next hotel, uh, for the n- until midday, so we went to a lovely place called Hinksey in Oxford, and it's an outdoor lido, and it's a few pools, and there's a little park as well.

But, um, the, the good thing is he did actually get a small consequence.

That is, Oxford University finally went, "What on earth is going on here?" And shut the Future of Humanity Institute down.

I mean, I gave, um...

We did a screening of the film in Vienna in June, July, June.

I'll talk about, um, Britain.

Let me say first of all, uh, London, Oxford, and Cambridge, which are extraordinarily beautiful medieval cities, especially Oxford.

Um, in the countryside, the Peak District, the, um, um, Yorkshire Dales in England.

The Scottish Highlands, which I don't really know, but they are extraordinary.

Not studied much in schools in the West.

Yeah.

But there is, there are some very strong Byzantine departments in some of, some universities, Oxford, for example, and in Paris.

Mm.

But yeah, in that summer, obviously, I had a great interview with Michael Ward, the leading scholar in the world on C.S. Lewis.

Michael actually lived in C.S. Lewis's house in Oxford, England at the Kilns.

Great interview.

If you haven't heard that, go listen to that as well.

was there, by the way, when this thing kind of happened.

I'm working on the Is Atheism Dead series with Seth Ward, and he was filming Dennis Noble, who your daughter had booked for the Socrates in the City in Oxford.

And so I was over there.

We were having dinner one of the evenings, and you have a very...

clear, this is about a month ago.

Yeah.

We were in Oxford, England.

So this came out of nowhere.

We'll tell you more about that in a future show, but today we have a special treat.

I was in Oxford with John Lennox just last month and had the privilege of sitting down with him for over an hour to ask him about his new biography, which really his autobiography, which covers so much of his life.

And you're gonna wanna get this book.

It is absolutely amazing.

The entire show is going to be in the next podcast, but let's see John Lennox.

Let's see his answer to that question, how he was able to pull together his autobiography.

We're at St. Eb's Church right here in Oxford, where you've taught here for how many years at Oxford, John?

Well, I've been here around 30 years.

Spencer Clavin Spencer Clavin is an

classicist

host of the Young Heretics

Impulses to kind of imbue technology with all kinds of supernatural power or to bow down and worship various political powers or what have you.

I think that's

the only way to understand why someone like John Lennox of Oxford, the head of mathematics at Oxford, is just building so much cachet in the podcast world and YouTube talking about the case for Christ.

He's frankly a little bit of a C.S. Lewis 2.0 coming out of the UK and just talking to people about numbers.

Rupert Spira is a spiritual teacher.

Actually, I've heard him describe himself simply as a friend who lives in Oxford, UK and holds meetings and retreats all over the world.

His influences, beginning with Rumi at an early age, also include non-dual teachers such as Krishnamurti and Ramana Maharshi.

Then, in the mid-1990s, he met his teacher, Francis Lucille, whose first words Rupert heard were, Meditation is a universal yes to everything.