The Wisdom of Shakespeare with Mark Rylance (Archetypal Wisdom Podcast: Episode 1) 

Mark R has several times said he is not university taught. He could easily teach at university. He can teach us all!

Beautiful. . Such wisdom and clarity. The humility of Mark Rylance is astonishing He loves us all. Damn, I really believe that's his secret and why he is the world's greatest actor.

I first saw Rylance as Thomas Cromwell in “Wolf Hall” and was completely mesmerized by his performance. Truly, he is the greatest actor that I know of. He’s correct in saying that Shakespeare speaks to everyone. When I was teaching 5th grade (10-11 year olds) the other ladies on my teaching team and I decided to all do abridged versions of Shakespeare’s plays with our upcoming students. This group was made up of mostly juvenile offenders who’d already been in trouble with the law many times at their young age. How could we possibly do Shakespeare with them? In the beginning it wasn’t easy, but as my own students began to feel comfortable with the beautiful Early Modern English language they made it their own, and their insights into the story and characters of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” often astounded me. It was like my class was completely transformed. When we performed for the various grades and the parents it was the first time that these students gained the respect and admiration of students who’d previously been terrified of them or had shunned them. Parents wept for joy to see their children actually succeed in doing something positive and lawful. From then on the first question on the first day of school every year was “What Shakespeare play are we doing this school year?” As someone who grew up loathing Shakespeare because it had been so poorly taught in my English classes when I was a student I quickly became an ardent fan of the Bard. When I run into former students in public who did Shakespeare with me they always tell me that not only was it their happiest memory of elementary school but that they often still have their old scripts from years ago and that they have introduced their own children to Shakespeare and take them to see productions of his plays. I can’t take any credit for this. Only Shakespeare and his plays affected the mighty transformation that many years worth of students underwent.

For all the unknown princes and princesses. Amazing conversation 🙏

Mark Rylance is just as nice as he’s brilliant

This is an absolutely fascinating exchange. It touches on such pertinent current issues of leadership, crisis, war, chaos, mental health, empathy, wisdom, karma, humility, the masks we wear and questions at what stage human beings created division amongst themselves. Outside of the Shakespearien characters, incredible thinkers are cited, including Jung and Einstein among others. *Metaphorically, “We do all, as children, pay our parents bills”* Mark admits he and his siblings are paying the bill for their grandfather’s inability to father their own father” - this is something that resonates with me and my brother deeply.

Thanks! This is wonderful, insightful and most inspiring!

I saw that production Two Gent...with your self Mr Walden. Unforgettable. Saw Mark,s Hamlet x6xxxx 33:58

Thank you. That was brilliant.

Thank you! This conversation brings me great joy.

Yes, in the "Great Dark" the Soul is waiting to be the companion in the homecoming to the "Great Light", and it can be the internally experienced Teacher who guides that. And it seems, on this plane, we approach, and choose this homecoming repeatedly. Perhaps this is preparation and training for the transition out of this"life", that can come in the presence of the "Fathre's" Infinate Love. Among other lessons M. R. is, to me, pointing at this.

Beautiful, rich and thought provoking talk❤

Bacon, as the rightful heir to the thrones of both France and England being the legitimate son of King Francis II and Mary Queen of Scots, stepped aside for his half-brother, James VI/I, to help create a better world for all of humanity through the education of the masses. If this is not familiar to you, Jacob Roberts discovered this in his step-by-step methodical decryption of the Shakespeare funerary plaque in Stratford-upon-Avon, which turned out to be an Autobiography of Bacon. He writes about it in his first book. The pieces of the puzzle begin to make a lot more sense. I have been working on decrypting Bacon's aliases and masks, mostly of the artwork (it will be astounding to learn that he was responsible for a great deal of the world's greatest art, too). There are many things Bacon revealed, including that he served as nfirst mate, navigator, and mapmaker for Sir Francis Drake, he was a master painter and engraver, he set up his philosophical death (we've learned since in the 1611 King James Bible, which he oversaw, he planned it for at least 15 years in advance,) after his "death," he went to North America to take on his favorite alias, as Samuel de Champlain, and much more. He even admitted to his Shakespeare alias. The man was a genius in every field. His insatiable curiosity guided him in many directions. That is why he was so effective in his plays. He had a group of "pens" working with him, but he made the final decisions. Oh, and let's not forget that many of the people that were plagiarized (legal and accepted in his time) were his own aliases or others ' in his group. I expect more information will be forthcoming soon.

Here's a piece of wisdom. A boy from Stratford turned out to be a good writer. Even famous and talented people have to come from somewhere. Philip Larkin came from Coventry, poor sod. Harold Pinter came from Hackney. He trained as an actor, rather than going to University. In spite of his background (or perhaps because of it) he changed the face of British drama.

This interviewer ask so much convoluted leading “do you agree questions”. Let the man talk bro. You don’t need your guest approval man.

This interviewer ask too much convoluted leading “do you agree questions”. Let the man talk bro