Pods from the Far Beyond

The Vine of Death | Part Two At the Ayahuasca ceremony, the Grandmother came to me, or I went to her, and I surfed a rather big, surging wave. Ayahuasca, an Amazonian tree-vine, is called the Vine of Death because, while you don't actually die, what happens resembles the experience of dying and it's good practice for it. For me, as a cancer patient, that journey is not far away. I definite...

Well, it's not that bad, but there's meaning in the name. I've just been to an Ayahuasca ceremony, to seek some truth and resolution, and the Grandmother came to me, or I went to her, and I surfed a rather big, surging wave. Ayahuasca, an Amazonian tree-vine, is called the Vine of Death because, while you don't actually die, what happens resembles the experience of dying and it&#39...

Down here in Penwith we get a lot of wind - we're stuck out in the ocean and it loves blowing us away with its power and glory. It's one of those things that happen in parts of Planet Earth. And that's what this is about. Conditions on Earth as seen from the outside. In coming months I'll tell you more about things I learned from the Council of Nine - this is the first of a few. Wh...

Recorded at an Iron Age Courtyard House up the hill on our farm. It's all about life in the Iron Age in Cornwall, 2,000 years ago. This was the Celtic period - though the Celts were a culture, not one people. In West Cornwall many of them were descendant of the people of the Bronze Age. This is about life and reality systems in our time, in the Iron Age, and also in the Bronze Age and the Neol...

It's good to just make a habit of it - like breakfast. Not a big thing, or a discipline we cannot measure up to. Take it easy, but make a basic commitment to building it into your life - even if just once a week. Because that's fifty times in a year, and 500 times in a decade. You notch up quite a bit of experience that way. I'm not a meditation teacher or even a very good meditator, b...

This is about time. Time is what stops everything happening all at once. It stretches us out across a kaleidoscopic storyboard of life-experiences. But in the end, the seemingly lengthy sequence of days and daily life experiences melts into relative insignificance. It's what we have become by going through life that matters most. It's the burnishing and polishing effect of pleasure and pai...

I'm up on Botrea Barrows in West Penwith, Cornwall, recounting why they're there, and what life was like 5,500-3,500 years ago in the megalithic era, in the neolithic and bronze ages. It's also about the reasons why the ancient people of Britain went to so much trouble to build sites like this. They weren't fools, they did it to create benefits, and they were onto something that is...

Second in a series of thoughts and observations about world healing. This for people interested in helping the world evolve and break through, using meditation and innerwork. When I was organising gatherings and camps in the 1980s, some quite remarkable things took place that demonstrated the capacity of innerwork to change things. In the early 1990s I was asked to write a book on behalf of the Co...

What extraterrestrials think about the situation on planet Earth, and how we can break through and save our world. This is me reading from a chapter taken from the original manuscript of the book The Only Planet of Choice - essential briefings from deep space , which I wrote in 1991-92. It contained material from the Council of Nine, some high-level cosmic beings, channelled by Phyllis Schlemmer d...

First of a series about my thoughts and experiences around world healing consciousness work. Over time I've gathered quite a lot of experience in this, in my own explorations and working in groups. In the 1990s I ran the Hundredth Monkey Project - camping retreats for 100 people doing inner work with world issues of the time. Afterwards I was involved in the Flying Squad, a smaller group that...

Sometimes life is a real grinder, shoving us through things that can test us to the limits, whether or not we like it. But there's always something to learn from it all. I went down to the woods below our farm to sit by the stream, and this is what came up. A streamside chat about going through stuff - in my case, cancer is a large part of that - and dealing with this very strange sitaution of liv...

Not what you might at first think... this is about reincarnation . Introduced and outroduced by the Massed Corvid Choir of Lower Grumbla, Cornwall - they're crows and jackdaws that live down in the woods below the farm, and at dawn they get worked up and suddenly all take flight, hundreds of them, and they fly over to settle on the roof of the farm and neighbouring houses. You can hear them arrivi...

Here's the first of a number of podcasts on this topic. Healing the World - a notion that can at times be rather lightly taken, but it's really important, this. Especially if you feel a need to make a contribution to the world's future, increasingly shaky as it is becoming. There are different ways of doing world healing innerwork, and this is what Palden has learned along the way, especially from...

In our concerns about our world crisis today, we humans tend to think it's just our problem, and it's of significance only to ourselves and to our own world, which we believe to be the only inhabited world that's around. Well, there's more to this than that. Here Palden outlines what he understands of the perspective of others in the universe - what we call ETs, to whom we might add MDIs or multil...

So, do you reckon the existence of your soul and psyche began here on Earth? Here, Palden talks about tribes, nations and civilisations, material and multidimensional, in which each and all of us have our roots as souls. This is key to finding our true, deep identity, not solely as a product of Earthly evolutionary experience, but from a deeper level way beyond. It concerns the initial reason we d...

All about being alone and loneliness - a growing phenomenon around the world. It particularly concerns people outside the mainstream rush of life. Paradoxically, the more that world population has grown, the more that loneliness has become a major issue. It has been a personal experience for me in the last 6-12 months. Sometimes, when you're alone a lot, you can come off the rails and lose the plo...

'Epiphany'comes from Greek. It means to cause to appear , to bring to light , to make visible . It's also a form of religious experience, though that's not really what I'm talking about here. I'm talking about those pattern-setting realisations we occasionally get which suddenly show things as they actually are , rather than what we, up to then, told ourselves. Nowadays, we tend to tell ourselves...

Origins, and where we came from... This leads on from the preceding podcast, Origins , though you don't have to listen to that first. All my podcasts are related and they knit together, yet each stands for itself. It's all about a quest to uncover off-Earth origins - the regression I did is recounted in the first Origins podcast. Here we have the discussion and afterthoughts following it - and the...

None of us began our lives here on Earth. In this podcast I share with you what happened in a deep regression I had over twenty years ago, which involved going back to the beginning of my soul, far away in another world, and very different to our own.  It also covered my connections with some advanced beings I worked with thirty years ago (I compiled a book for them called The Only Planet of...

In our time we're going through an intensification of events and pressures, globally, socially and individually. We're heading into harder times, and it's not going to go back to normal. But there are things we can do about this. It doesn't have to be as bad as currently it looks. The costs and difficulties we have in life can be made a bit easier by not grinding on about it quite so much, by maki...

In November 1972 I had a close encounter. It was a life-changer for me. I was unprepared for it: like so many people, I hadn't really thought about ETs up to that time. The whole thing lasted something between 20 and 40 minutes, and it was witnessed also by my friend, and we checked to see whether we were seeing the same thing. We were. We discussed it fully. But little did I know what was going o...

In some of my podcasts I share some very personal things, and this is one of those.  We're all going through it - that feeling of OMG, this is all too much -  and it's gone global. It hits the best of us.  This is about my own little version of it, which nevertheless is rather heart-rending for me. With a few insights into the process of riding with truth - it can propel us along. I...

This is rather heartfelt. It's all about the psycho-spiritual side of having cancer - that is, keeping our spirits up, despite everything. I have found that keeping my spirits up lies right at the core of my wellbeing as a cancer patient. It helps my health, relationships, doctors' visits, dealing with pain and difficulty and getting through crises, and it brings special moments of joy and relief...

I've got cancer and it has me. It's full-on and it has been a big life-changer. I have myeloma or bone marrow cancer. I've had it over two years and am through the worst stage, I hope, but it's still hard work. Every now and then I still get quite ill, not from the cancer but from the secondary issues in my spine and stomach and with infections. You can't get rid of myeloma - you can only manage i...

Experiences  of the last two years have drawn us surreptitiously toward new values, a rehumanising of society - and there's more to go. Here are some insights on conflict, migration and dehumanisation, with a little on the Holy Land. And peace and goodwill.  With explosions and atrocities going on, the environmental, social and  cultural issues of our time will not be resolved. This...