Rendezvous with Jamie McGlue

Ireland is beautiful! The grass is always greener and so Australia may seem like the wise move if you are a young Irish person looking around at the mess our government has got us into and the many pressures and limitations one must deal with on the Emerald Isle. However, this island and this nation are precious beyond imagining and in this episode I will offer you my perspective on why Éire is th...

Last episode we got into the nature of the sevenfold awakening I am advocating for Éire and by extension for the whole planet; essentially, activating human potential in certain vital aspects which have the beautiful potential to transform the world for the better, one person at a time, starting with oneself. Today I read through the 'Principles of Purpose' document which is available at https://w...

Gaelic Awakening is a new political party contesting the upcoming election in Ireland; but more importantly it is a cultural movement seeking and embodying the realisation of Irish potential in a sevenfold awakening: spiritual, emotional, intellectual, physical, political, economic, and cultural. Curious about what this all means and whether you might want to be part of it? Check out www.gaelicawa...

Today's episode covers the big picture of what myself and Gaelic Awakening, my newly formed political party, seek to bring to Irish politics and society at large. In a nutshell, we need liberty – saoirse. The very thing our ancestors so long laboured and died for is just what is needed to reset our country and by example perhaps help reset Europe, the West, and the whole world. The problem is too...

I am running for elected office! Ireland is in crisis. Europe is in crisis. The West is in crisis. The Earth is in crisis. You might think we deserve this or that it doesn't matter, but both are wrong – both are untrue and unjust to proclaim. The systems of liberty and limited government upon which you and I have depended for almost every joy we have been graced to experience, are now under extrem...

On one level there are many problems that confront us; some being life and death, torture and freedom. But ultimately there is only one problem: believing that problems exist. For in truth there is only the Now, including those things out of power to change (which the sane simply accept) and those things in our power to change – which the sane carefully but playfully guide and control, modifying a...

When in doubt, assume you can do it – whatever it is. Happiness and success arise from having the wisdom to ask the question 'Is this thing within my power?' and if it is not, then to leave it be and fully accept – even embrace – it. Or if you decide you do indeed have control over the thing in question, then act and wield that power as wisely as you can. Once we are already on a path of action, i...

Being down to earth is heavenly high! Thankfully a big part of humility is being humble enough to accept that you're not perfectly humble yet. These things take time, and you are not God! (So to speak.) In all aspects of life, from learning, to leadership, to true kindness, our ability to help ourselves and others depends so deeply upon how well we can keep in mind that we may not know everything...

Negative energy is that which shrinks the potential of life for creativity, higher-order complexity, harmonious interconnectedness, and the experience of love, joy and being. Positive energy is that which uplifts, expands, grounds, nourishes and enlivens the living. But there is a time and place for negativity; sometimes it is healthy and even inevitable to feel or express negative emotion, words...

Companionship, affection, romance, sex; it can all come from casual connections. But a true long-term relationship offers all this and more: not only in spite of, but also because of the difficulties of adjusting one's ego and habits to the ways of another wilful individual, living together inevitably means learning and growing together. Not only from inspiration and example but from the necessary...

Let's find something nice and heartfelt to say about as many different countries as we can. What a world! Verily overflowing with charming characteristics.

It's as simple as it sounds! I offer you seven podcasts which I find incredibly valuable, uplifting, informative, insightful and generally awesome. Can you dig it? The Joe Rogan Experience RFK Jr Podcast Part Of The Problem, with Dave Smith The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast Aubrey Marcus Podcast Stay Free, with Russel Brand Kosmographia – The Randall Carlson Podcast

Nihilists argue nothing really matters; there is no right and wrong, no meaning, no love. It is all a grand and pointless illusion, they say. But there are three problems with this. One, they don't act like they believe it – for they get unhappy if you cause them pain. Two, the costs of nihilism greatly outweigh the benefits to oneself and the world. Three, nihilism is an assumption lacking enough...

There's a surprisingly large amount to be said about silence.

Why do we take the family name of our father, rather than our mother? Is that unfair? This episode looks at the arguments on both sides and concludes . . . well, give me five minutes and I'll tell you!

Here come some cool things you probably didn't know about the land of the Czech people! Ten minutes from now you could know all these secrets, if your heart does dare to dream.

Culture is the beliefs and behaviours of a society. What do we think is true or false, and good or bad? How do we convert such thinking into action, habit, custom, etiquette? But one's own personality is in essence an individual culture, while the family, community, town or city, country, continent and world constitute larger scale cultures. Each person within a culture is unique, yet far more sim...

There is a time and place to be spontaneous.   It might just be NOW!

Just as individuals in a circle of friends help one another grow by supporting but daring to draw attention to blindspots, cultures at large (families, creeds, cities, countries, regions) too can strike this joyful and enriching balance of being inspired by friends and inspiring in turn, each offering and accepting the gifts of our unique angle on belief and behaviour; and crucially, refraining fr...

Words run the world; they are a powerful agent of change equally able to uplift to the good or pull down to the bad. We can use words wisely to alter our perspective, emotion, habits. But if we are not careful the words we use use us, blindfolding the soul in their concepts and causing us harm. This episode goes into how one can use words as "magic spells" to modify our psychology and thus physiol...

"The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy." Quite. This quote sums up the problem when a system of offices and officers are allowed to rule over society on taxpayer funding, making rules and restriction, providing goods and services, yet never having to face the disciplining justice of liberty via the free market. Our world – particularly the West – has increasin...

Tragedy upon tragedy. A brutal stabbing of children today has sparked a massive riot in the city of Dublin, with police being attacked, vehicles burned and shops looted. While the core of this violence and criminality is surely hooliganism and young impoverished people looking for some mayhem and an enemy they can enjoy fighting, equally we would be wise to see that deeper issues have fuelled this...

The only constant – apart from our own consciousness in which all unfolds – is change. This most fundamental of forces can delight and dismay, so let's look at wise ways of facing change so as to make the best of what is essential and inevitable to existence.

Let's talk about the lifestyle choices that maximise one's energy, drive and stamina, as well as the mental and spiritual core truth of what energy is, and how we can learn to access it.

Here cometh a few things exemplifying the pendulumic nature of existence and progress. Ambition, religion, sexuality, gender, kindness, independence, truth – all serve to suggest this pattern. Just like a pendulum swinging from side to side, gradually finding centre, we humans tend to go too far this way and then too far the other way, then (if we try) come to restful centre by way of many a modif...