{"id":316,"date":"2018-06-26T17:44:02","date_gmt":"2018-06-26T17:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/martinuscosmologypodcast.com\/?p=316"},"modified":"2018-09-04T18:36:11","modified_gmt":"2018-09-04T18:36:11","slug":"episode-14-the-potential-for-growth-in-relationships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/martinuscosmologypodcast.com\/?p=316","title":{"rendered":"Episode 14: The Potential for Growth in Relationships"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<!-- iframe plugin v.5.2 wordpress.org\/plugins\/iframe\/ -->\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border:none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/6746721\/height\/100\/width\/480\/thumbnail\/no\/render-playlist\/no\/theme\/custom\/tdest_id\/730038\/custom-color\/#87A93A\" height=\"100\" width=\"480\" scrolling=\"no\" 0=\"allowfullscreen\" 1=\"webkitallowfullscreen\" 2=\"mozallowfullscreen\" 3=\"oallowfullscreen\" 4=\"msallowfullscreen\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n\n<p>Martinus describes marriage and intimate relationships, and, in fact, all relationships, as grindstones that grind away at the imperfections within us and gradually remove them. All relationships thus contain enormous potential for the growth of wisdom, humaneness and neighbourly love. Loneliness, sexual confusion and the changing roles of men and women are seen to be natural stages on the way to evolving from the male and female sex to the third sex: the human sex.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/martinuscosmologypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Mary_och_Sren_collage.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-318 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/martinuscosmologypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Mary_och_Sren_collage-300x217.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"217\" srcset=\"https:\/\/martinuscosmologypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Mary_och_Sren_collage-300x217.jpg 300w, https:\/\/martinuscosmologypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Mary_och_Sren_collage-768x555.jpg 768w, https:\/\/martinuscosmologypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Mary_och_Sren_collage-1024x739.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/martinuscosmologypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Mary_och_Sren_collage-1200x866.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Mary McGovern interviews S\u00f6ren Grind, a Swedish psychologist who has taught Martinus Cosmology since 1980. S\u00f6ren is the author of two books in Swedish,\u00a0 which have been translated into Danish but not English, on what he calls &#8220;cosmic psychology&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>This podcast was recorded by Mary McGovern at The Martinus Centre, Klint, Denmark on 25th June 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Photo of S\u00f6ren Grind: \u00a9 Berit Djuse\/Fotonova<\/p>\n<p>Music composed and performed by Lars Palerius.<\/p>\n<p>Martinus&#8217;s literature is available online on the Martinus Institute&#8217;s website: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.martinus.dk\/en\/frontpage\/\">The Martinus Institute<\/a>.\u00a0Here you can also find information about the international summer courses at the Martinus Centre in Klint, Denmark.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Martinus describes marriage and intimate relationships, and, in fact, all relationships, as grindstones that grind away at the imperfections within us and gradually remove them. All relationships thus contain enormous potential for the growth of wisdom, humaneness and neighbourly love. Loneliness, sexual confusion and the changing roles of men and women are seen to be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/martinuscosmologypodcast.com\/?p=316\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Episode 14: The Potential for Growth in Relationships&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[88,91,89,75,90,16,10],"class_list":["post-316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-podcast","tag-cosmic-psychology","tag-gender-roles","tag-loneliness","tag-marriage","tag-neighbourly-love","tag-relationships","tag-soren-grind"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinuscosmologypodcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinuscosmologypodcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinuscosmologypodcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinuscosmologypodcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinuscosmologypodcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=316"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/martinuscosmologypodcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":321,"href":"https:\/\/martinuscosmologypodcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316\/revisions\/321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinuscosmologypodcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinuscosmologypodcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinuscosmologypodcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}