Off The Lead

You'd be forgiven for thinking that I have a good handle on who I am and what I stand for. And maybe I do in comparison to most people. But I certainly don't by my own standards. That is essentially what came out of the wash in this episode. That although I have a relatively high resolution picture of who and what I am, it's poorly conceptualised, it needs work. And the start of that work is to ma...

What does the Brain, Wim Hoff, Skinning Dead Animals, Cage Fighting, Irish Water and The Coast Gaurd have in common? This episode! Today I begin to explore sacred cows/protected interests/things above criticism/status quo/common knowledge/tradition/consensus and getting the fuck out of your own way."Be yourself, everyone else is taken".- Oscar WildeThanks yet again for the support on www.patreon.c...

I was caught off gaurd regarding covid, as we all were. We just didn't see it coming and don't generally have a very good understanding of viruses etc. But tech censorship isn't new and it's not exactly getting less prevalent. On the contrary, I'm experiencing it more and more and it's in no small part due to the fact that big tech companies (Google, Facebook, twitter etc) are having an increasing...

Heel hooks, sheep skulls and where blood comes from. This episode has it all! I reference a few images here that you'll find on Off The Leads Instagram page 'Off The Lead Official' so check them out and don't forget to follow the page so you see whatever videos and photos I'm referencing in future. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Snowy Hills, GPS tracking and making your way through the woods of our minds - oh my! This episode is an effort to clarify the relevance and importance of habit. “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” - Aristotle Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Our lives are dependent on our bodies, and how we treat our bodies dictates the degree to which they operate. Shit in - shit out. This episode along with the previous one seems to be marking the start of my journey to better understanding ourselves on a strictly biological level. If you have an interest or an area of expertise that might be relevant I'm all ears and can be contacted via OTL's What...

Note: Make sure to check out 'offtheleadofficial' on Instagram to see the accompanying photos of the central nervous system. This episode is a welcome break from vaccines and Covid and government etc etc. As outlined at the start it's an exploration of my understanding of 'the brain' and its relationship to 'the mind' and 'the soul'. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sigh. I'm getting the mrna vacine today and it will be with mixed feelings. One of those feelings however is not, "should I be doing this?". I'm confident (having thought about it over and over) that I'm making the right decision. However, I can't say the same for everybody, as the general consensus seems to be, "I just want things to go back to normal". My advise would be to be very carefull abou...

The stories we tell ourselves are shaped/moulded/guided/framed by our lived experience. But our lived experience is about as subjective as it gets and this means that these stories are endlessly malleable. This can cause havoc regarding 'knowing yourself' because if we can endlessly reframe our lives you'd have to ask can there be any objective truth regarding our past? Maybe there isn't, but just...

I started talking about conditioning and ended up likening myself to an English landlord that went rogue and became a Fenian. As you do. All hubris and self-aggrandising aside, I genuinely do feel that we are increasingly becoming siloed into 2 camps, 'those that can' and 'those that can get fucked'.As always if you're enjoying my content and would like to support me you can do so via Patreon (lin...

Separating the nice to know from the need to know is a fundamental requirement when expected to learn anything new. Yes, Hitler was indeed born on the 20th of April 1889 but that's not exactly need to know in the grand scheme of things. Likewise, when we are faced with having to learn something new, like how to migrate from being in the grips of a pandemic to getting out of it, we must first deter...

Trust is about consistency, and I trust that the Pharmaceutical Industry, the Irish Government, Corporate Media and Tech giants will do what they've always done - maximise profits while infinitely deferring responsibility. But, so what? Just because this is the case, that doesn't mean that what they are saying (namely that everyone should get vaccinated) is the wrong thing to do. Thoughts, questio...

Today's episode was brought to you by PGAFOTS Peadar Reilly,"So what's the plan? Are you going to do research in order to be able to justify why you didn't get the vaccine or are you going to do research in order to be able to justify why you did get the vaccine? I'd imagine you'll be able to find enough information to back up either decision, all depending on why you're doing the research in the...

Tech Companies, Governments, Big Pharma and Corporate Media - oh my! I'm back going on about my hesitation in taking the new RNA vaccine. I haven't fully made my mind up whether I will or won't but I'm certainly leaning towards the latter. Thoughts, questions, concerns and recommendations all very much appreciated, I can be contacted by 0896047888.As always I can be supported via patreon (link in...

Data, when organised (put in formation) becomes information, and with information comes the possibility of narrative extraction. But when you have a pre existing narrative (or Ideology), how do you reverse engineer it to reveal the information that led to its inception? And from information, how do you reverse engineer it, to see the data which gave rise to it in the first place?!That's what this...

You have to lie down to be walked on. If ever there was an episode I'd like to research, write and perform, it'd be this one. Power to the people. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This episode was inspired by a question I was asked by a friend, "How does biological determinism align with the "domestication of humans"?".When asked, I knew I had an answer but didn't know what it was. This episode is my attempt to answer that question. One of many things that came out of the wash on this one was that moment to moment mindfulness is the antidote to biological determinism, and a...

A born stargazer, Henry has been looking skyward since as early as he can remember. We go through his journey from drawing pictures of the moon as a kid, to continually upgrading his scopes and how he drools over bigger and better scopes. We also cover multiple universes, galaxies, time travel, black holes, exo-planets, meteor showers, aliens, interstellar space travel and much much more. An absol...

Religions have had rules for you to follow ever since there has been religions. On one hand, this is just how a small group of people have effectively controlled the majority, and on the other, it's a great way to save you from having a crisis of conscious every time your faced with a hard problem. However, when it comes to vaccines, especially new and somewhat compulsory ones, there is no rule (i...

This episode investigates the difference between 'Implicit' and 'Explicit'. It warrants further investigation though as I may have stumbled upon another fundamental difference between mind and soul. Synonyms for mind and soul;Thoughts and feelingsEgo and spiritMore generally they are represented by;Science and religionFact and fictionWritten and performed music Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/priva...

Yin and Yang, order and chaos, good and bad, night and day, oh my! Today I try develop my idea of, "philosophical bedrock" and move away from a rock in the ocean to a path through a jungle - as you do. I also try and incorporate the idea of timelines and narratives. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The type of business you should start (or whether you should start one in the first place) is dictated to a large degree by the type of person you are. Ideally you would have a good grasp of who and what you are before you even start. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

I was looking for images to accompany this episode and the things I searched were as follows; Maturation, personal development, proof of concept, metamorphosis, becoming yourself, ripening, becoming an adult, shaking the shackles, growth etc etc. All of these are vaguely associated with what I'm talking about in this episode. More specifically, this episode is about expanding on the idea that I'm...

I've been struggling with the question of 'what am I doing with the podcast?'. And I've finally figured it out - I don't know. And this is both the worst and best thing about doing it. Don't get hung up on why you're doing something that you want to do. 'Wanting to' is arguably the best reason in the first place. Whether or not you know why. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more informat...

Just the usual chat about transitional periods, aliens and thinking in other languages. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.