Proms Plus: Ecstatic States

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Aug 14, 2018

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Christopher Harding talked to the philosopher Mark Vernon and New Generation Thinker Hetta Howes about figures from the past and present who have searched for a sense of transcendence and experienced ecstatic states.

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Aug 14, 2018

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