{"id":645,"date":"2024-09-09T11:48:02","date_gmt":"2024-09-09T11:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/martinuscosmologypodcast.com\/?p=645"},"modified":"2024-11-04T12:26:42","modified_gmt":"2024-11-04T12:26:42","slug":"episode-54-working-at-the-martinus-institute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/martinuscosmologypodcast.com\/?p=645","title":{"rendered":"Episode 54: Working at the Martinus Institute"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/martinuscosmologypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Skarmavbild-2024-11-01-kl.-20.57.22.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"884\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/martinuscosmologypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Skarmavbild-2024-11-01-kl.-20.57.22-884x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-657\" srcset=\"https:\/\/martinuscosmologypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Skarmavbild-2024-11-01-kl.-20.57.22-884x1024.png 884w, https:\/\/martinuscosmologypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Skarmavbild-2024-11-01-kl.-20.57.22-259x300.png 259w, https:\/\/martinuscosmologypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Skarmavbild-2024-11-01-kl.-20.57.22-768x890.png 768w, https:\/\/martinuscosmologypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Skarmavbild-2024-11-01-kl.-20.57.22.png 1048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\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\/32969992\/height\/100\/width\/\/thumbnail\/no\/render-playlist\/no\/theme\/custom\/tdest_id\/730038\/custom-color\/87A93A\" height=\"100\" width=\"100%\" scrolling=\"no\" 0=\"allowfullscreen\" 1=\"webkitallowfullscreen\" 2=\"mozallowfullscreen\" 3=\"oallowfullscreen\" 4=\"msallowfullscreen\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">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 <em>Gralen<\/em> (The Grail), Torben embarked on a private, intensive study of <em>Livets Bog<\/em> (The Book of Life). Only many years later did he begin to attend lectures and courses on Martinus Cosmology.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">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&#8217;s website:<\/span> <span lang=\"DA\" xml:lang=\"DA\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.martinus.dk\/\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">www.martinus.dk<\/span><\/a><\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">Already a published author of three books and several short stories, he is currently writing a short introduction to Martinus&#8217;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&#8217;s world picture, an explanation of the meaning of darkness and the evolution of sexuality. Inspired by Martinus&#8217;s analysis that we are all &#8220;wounded refugees between two kingdoms&#8221;, meaning that we are no longer pure animals but not yet completely evolved human beings, this episode takes up aspects of mankind&#8217;s progression towards the resolution of some of its current challenges.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">This podcast was recorded by Mary McGovern at the Martinus Institute on 5<sup>th<\/sup> September 2024.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\">Music composed and performed by Lars Palerius.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\">Photo: Marie Rosenkrantz Gjedsted<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">Links and notes:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">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.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">The Martinus Institute&#8217;s English You Tube channel for free lectures and interviews:<\/span><span lang=\"DA\" xml:lang=\"DA\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@TheMartinusInstitute\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@TheMartinusInstitute<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">Opening hours at The Martinus Institute: Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays 10am\u20134pm. Also open on approx. alternate Saturdays, when there are lectures. Check martinus.dk for the calendar of events.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/martinuscosmologypodcast.com\/?p=645\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Episode 54: Working at the Martinus Institute&#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":[232,21,231,184,71,179,233,229,230,235],"class_list":["post-645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-podcast","tag-copenhagen","tag-evolution","tag-frederiksberg","tag-livets-bog","tag-martinus","tag-martinus-cosmology","tag-meaning-of-suffering","tag-the-martinus-institute","tag-torben-husum","tag-voluntary-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinuscosmologypodcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645","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=645"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/martinuscosmologypodcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":671,"href":"https:\/\/martinuscosmologypodcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645\/revisions\/671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinuscosmologypodcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinuscosmologypodcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinuscosmologypodcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}