Pods from the Far Beyond

When cancer came into my life nearly six years ago, I found myself adapting some inner visualisation techniques I had learned earlier in life to my new situation. It was a spontaneous thing and a way of dealing with my situation. I met a group of 'inner doctors', engaging in dialogue with them and allowing them to examine me and work on me. The amazing thing is that, in my experience, it has reall...

This is all about the warfare, strife and trouble we find ourselves in today, by an old peace-freak. It's like a virus in the world psyche, ready to pounce on any population that's losing its way, or damaged, or hurt, or susceptible. Yet some societies are strong in themselves. Even if they are invaded and occupied, they are not beaten. What stops many wars is a deep tiredness, a wish to go home a...

This is all about the current battle for the hearts and minds of humanity - something that is unfolding behind and beneath the torrent of world events we experience today. 'The path of excess leads to the palace of wisdom'. Thus said William Blake over two hundred years ago. Well, true. But do we really need to pursue excess in order to achieve wisdom? Recorded in Botrea Woods, Grumbla, Co...

This concerns people and power. We're faced with a big question: how to balance effective governance with popular participation. Every kind of system needs to embrace everyone unless we want a world where some thrive and others suffer - the world is crowded, interdependent and networked, everything is affected by everything else and we live in a time of amplifying consequences. This is an age...

Let me introduce you to a soul-friend, Ibrahim Issa, director of the  Hope Flowers School and Centre  in Bethlehem, Palestine. I worked at this school for some years, helping them with outreach and hassle-busting. His talk is about the school and its world-leading work in dealing with war-trauma, peace-building and the reconstruction of communities. Palestinians have experience in this that few ot...

This is mainly for my generational peers - if you're in your 70s, 80s or 90s, your bones are getting creaky and your mind is getting sluggish. In the life-cycle we're given, we grow up and later we  grow down . In steps. It's also about karma-clearance. Sorting out our stuff at the end of life, so that we don't carry all of it with us when we go over to the other side - to the real...

Inner journeying, meditation, remote healing and peace-building. Praying for peace or showering light over a benighted area are good, though often they are of a generalised nature. But it's possible to get closer in. It's possible to penetrate actual situations and play a more targeted part in them - literally rescuing people or souls, or participating in situations, meetings and crux-poin...

Inner journeying, meditation, remote healing and peace-building. Doing our bit toward tackling the world's problems. In recent times many of us have been moved to join meditations, prayers and link-ups when major crises break out. Waves of mass empathy and concern over such crises can have a wide and deep psycho-spiritual influence - it goes deeper than mere 'public opinion'. Praying f...

Some days I have days where inspiration-levels droop, so I rattle off a podcast or a blog, if I can muster up a gem to start with - a starting thought. It's a way of getting inspiration-channels moving, and sometimes something good comes out. Not always - I have quite a few rejects. A few days ago I was feeling a bit like that - cancer drugs were affecting me, I'd been on my own too much,...

I've been a member of the Honourable Company of Cancer Patients for over five years now and, amazingly, I'm still alive, and against the odds. I have a blood cancer, Multiple Myeloma, and I didn't expect to live this long. I waded through the tough grind of chemotherapy and dealing with physical disablement. I went down, nearly fell through the cracks, and found myself emerging from a dark tunnel...

This is part two of the sixth Aha Class, held in Penzance in February 2025. It's all about what happens after you die, and how this reflects on our lives now. Life takes on a very different hue when we're leaving it. First we go to the 'holding bay' where we detox, decompress and defragment after an intense life on Earth. When we've sufficiently got over all that, we're rea...

This is part one of the sixth Aha Class, held in Penzance, Cornwall in February 2025. And it's all about dying. We get born and then we get dead. Things happen in between that we call 'life'. Seen from the viewpoint of the Other Side, our lives are short, rather like a dream, and what happens during our lives takes on a very different hue and meaning when seen from there. After all, we...

A History of West Penwith's Prehistory Part Four: The Iron Age in West Penwith, Cornwall Following the megalithic period, things changed in Britain and, eventually, the Iron Age, a new culture, came along. This is the story of the way the Celtic period unfolded in West Penwith, Cornwall, finishing with a brief history of medieval times in Cornwall. Fourth in a series about Penwith's prehis...

A History of West Penwith's Prehistory Part Three: The Bronze Age in West Penwith, Cornwall About the heyday of the megalithic era and the time of the stone circles, menhirs, barrows and enclosures - the building of a complete megalithic system in West Penwith, Cornwall. Third in a series about Penwith's prehistory (a small audiobook).

A History of West Penwith's Prehistory Part Two: The Neolithic in West Penwith, Cornwall About the first constructed ancient sites, from around 3700 BCE - the Neolithic tors and the quoits - and the people who built them, and what happened afterwards. Second in a series about Penwith's prehistory (a small audiobook).

A History of West Penwith's Prehistory Part One: The Megalithic Era and the Mesolithic in West Penwith About the Neolithic, Bronze and Iron Ages, and the periods and stages of the megalithic period in West Penwith, Cornwall. Also about the very first settlers in West Cornwall, during the Mesolithic, and how they lived. First of a series about Penwith's prehistory (a small audiobook).

There are plenty of interesting geomantic snippets in this talk, though it's mainly a proposal for a longterm research project into the subtle-energy patterns and behaviours of ancient sites in West Penwith in Cornwall. Penwith is dense with ancient sites and it's a nice potted area for research like this - and there are quite a few prehistory maniacs living here, to do such work. Though this is p...

The Shining Land and how and why it shines. Belerion is the ancient name of West Penwith in Cornwall. In Penwith we have more ancient sites per square mile than anywhere in Europe. This is the first part of a talk given at the Aha Class with Palden, on 18th December 2024 in Penzance, Cornwall. I propose that the whole of West Penwith is one big ancient site (an enormous cliff sanctuary). Why did a...

A few things I learned from the Council of Nine. This is about extraterrestrial civilisations and their relations with planet Earth, and what we on Earth need to do, as a planetary race, to prepare ourselves for meeting up with them, sometime in the future. That's the first half, and in the second half we look into some interesting questions about ancient sites, collective resonance, our soul-root...

I have had various kinds of contact with ETs over time, and they're part of my spiritual genetics. I had a close encounter at age 22 in Wales, followed by a series of metaphysical experiences, and in the 1990s-2000s I was deeply involved in crop circle research. In 1992 I wrote a book on behalf of some non-earthly cosmic beings, the Council of Nine. I share a fascinating overview of the ET situati...

Power Points in Time goes into peak periods and times of amplified, pattern-setting possibility - and some of the astrology that's involved in identifying such times. This is about solstices, equinoxes and cross-quarters, cycles of the Moon and line-ups of planets. The ancients made use of both temporal and spatial power points to raise their magical-spiritual game, increasing the possibility of c...

Part One of an Aha Class on Time: Peak Periods and Cosmic Rumblings . This is about being born, dying and going through life, and the predicament of living on an intensely gravitational, dense world, yet one with a remarkable range of experiential possibilities available for human evolution. It's about the Tibetan  bardos  - waking life, dreaming, altered states, being born, dying and the after-de...

Part Two of Two. A personal talk about the deeper, wider stuff around activism, creativity, working for justice, changing society, planetary healing, resolution and nudging things along, in any and all of the spheres of activity we might choose to work in, local or global. Observations and anecdotes about playing our part in change and the unfolding of history. It's about  us , the helpers, the pe...

A personal talk about the deeper, wider stuff around activism, creativity, working for justice, changing society, planetary healing, resolution and nudging things along, in any and all of the spheres of activity we might choose to work in, local or global. Observations and anecdotes about playing our part in change and the unfolding of history. It's about  us , the helpers, the people seeking to d...

...and why ETs have spindly legs. A wide-ranging talk by Palden in Glastonbury in early September 2024, with the Inner Light Community. It's all about consciousness and levels of reality. Palden speaks about ancient sites, the awareness power of groups of people, close encounters, altered states, consciousness engineering, crop formations, otherworld beings, cancer, dying and a few anecdotes f...