The Poems recited are as follows:

BC: AD By U.A. Fanthorpe |Christmas Poem By Wendell Berry | Song of the Shepherds By Richard Bauckham | The Hope Of The Few By Ian Adams | Born in You By Ian Adams | A Christmas Blessing By John O'Donohue.

The music we used in the Scared Space for Christmas 2025 that you might want to listen to was:

Shepherds Arise – Kate Rusby |O Antiphons – Floriani |Blake's Lullaby - The Choir of King's College, Cambridge, Daniel Hyde & Britten Sinfonia |Little Town - Over the Rhine |Benedictus (The Canticle of Zechariah) (feat. Rebecca De La Torre) - The Modern Psalmist |With This Love - Peter Gabriel |No Body (feat. Matt Maher) - Chris Renzema |Joseph - Kate Rusby |Visita, quaesumus Domine - The Cambridge Singers & John Rutter |Magnificat anima mea Dominum - The Tallis Scholars & Peter Phillips.

The episode of the Grim Up North Podcast can be found here. Series Two - Episode Six

The Caravaggio painting can be viewed here. The Adoration of the Shepherds

This poem is from my first collection- The Call of the Unwritten this is available by clicking here .

The photo in the podcast episode image is from https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Strider_%28chapter%29

The quote from CG Jung is as follows

“We think we can congratulate ourselves on having already reached such a pinnacle of clarity, imagining that we have left all these phantasmal gods far behind. But what we have left behind are only verbal spectres, not the psychic facts that were responsible for the birth of the gods. We are still as much possessed by autonomous (forces) as if they were Olympians. Today they are called phobias, obsessions, and so forth; in a word, neurotic symptoms. The gods have become diseases; Zeus no longer rules Olympus but rather the solar plexus, and produces curious specimens for the doctor’s consulting room, or disorders of the brains of politicians and journalists who unwillingly let loose psychic epidemics on the world.” (Jung, Cw 13, par. 54)

The poems used in this podcast are The Real Truth from The Call Of The Unwritten, Inconsequence and Silence from The Call Of The Unwritten, Death Lodge from Arriving In Magic and No Such Thing As Right And Wrong from The Call Of The Unwritten. The book I mentioned is The Way of the Hermit: My 40 years in the Scottish Wilderness by Ken Smith. The piece about Death Lodges is from this blog Soul Craft Musings by Bill Plotkin This is a link to our film podcast Comparing Apples and Oranges You can purchase my books at Books