Rendezvous with Jamie McGlue

Memory is at the core of who we are, being the ability to know what oneself and the world have been up to up to now, and thus to know what might be coming down from the future. This episode looks at seven vital aspects of memory, offering tips about ways to practically inculcate in YOUR life a greater respect for and presence of memory; a deeper sense of self-awareness and autonomy of mind and spi...

Do you like money? Would you like a little more money? Or do you think it's the root of all evil and we'd be wise to banish it to the edge of the Earth where dragons could gobble it up and save us a world of trouble? Despite the dangers of becoming addicted to money for its own sake and the corrosive effect money can have on politics and society at large, I firmly believe money and the system of f...

Less is more, when more would mean a dilution of the essential advantage of the thing. This is very common in nature, throughout our lives; where simplicity is beautiful and full to overflowing with quiet richness. Why give a soliloquy when a sentence will do? Why eat a mountain of cheap food instead of a stoic serving of delicious pricier food? Who lived more, Jimi Hendrix or the centenarian who...

Reading, especially of narrative fiction, is perhaps the most wildly underrated thing you could do with your time alive on this earth. Not only are the joys deeper than anything available through film or video games, but also along the way the characters and plots we experience allow us to better craft ourselves into a higher expression of what we came here to do and be, fulfilling the ancestral r...

Experience isn't everything, but it turns out to be quite a lot. Even in the space of a day we can learn so much and come to a place where future opportunities and challenges can be more skilfully navigated, for the lessening of our suffering and the blooming of our hopes. Yet it seems we today are strangely out of touch with this fact, for no longer do the eldest among us command the greatest sta...

Is pain, loss, failure and limitation really the enemy? While I agree it's a wonderful idea to minimise their presence in our lives, it's also true that much of our suffering can't and thus shouldn't be avoided, but rather embraced as if it were what we wanted all along. To go with the flow and offer no resistance to what life gives us, because it's already happened, inevitable. This is the secret...

Is it vain and foolish to care about one's fashion? And in choosing our preferred material embodiment in this life – from clothes and hair all the way down to bags, cars and houses – is it wise or even admissible to factor in the impressions we will make on others? Or is all this utter inauthenticity and a recipe for spiritual malaise? I suggest the highest expression of fashion is to use our appe...

All sensible people will agree that sexism, racism, classism, homophobia and all their ilk are irrational malfunctions of the mind, the unfortunate and very harmful punishing of the innocent individual for things which are out of their control and shouldn't restrict their freedom to thrive and flourish in the world. But what should we do? This episode explores this question and suggests that culti...

It is a curious and rarely noted fact of history that the Irish, famed for their colourful use of English, actually have their own native tongue – Gaeilge, anglicised as Irish or Gaelic – which is utterly foreign to English and was only two centuries ago still the dominant language in Ireland. Sadly, a long series of tragedies and injustices beset the Irish, bringing Gaeilge to the brink of extinc...

The idea of having children is nowadays often met with scorn or a belief that one can't or shouldn't bring kids into the world; but this episode suggests parenthood is an incredibly underrated opportunity for a depth of fulfilment and self-growth that most people won't be able to find elsewhere – as well as being a powerful way to support the well-being of Mother Earth, humanity and civilisation....

The Covid era was and is very divisive, confusing and important to understand. But even if we don't all agree on the crucial questions, it is beneficial for us all to at least be conscious of the various sides of the arguments. We don't need to make conclusions; consciousness of the opposing views is in itself already a massive step forward into empathy, restoring social bonds, and getting to the...

I once believed in the notion that government should interfere in the economy in order to provide balance and protect the poorer among us from predation by the wealthy, but with time I have come to see many persuasive reasons to think socialism isn't what it seems. This system in fact hurts the poor and middle classes, contributing to poverty, oligarchy and unsustainable indebtedness where it is a...

I discuss the fundamental questions of politics and sovereignty – from how and why we draw the borders of a state, to how much power its government should have at the expense of the freedom of the individual, how we might minimise corruption and oligarchy, and how we might encourage a shared world peace and prosperity – doing my best to provide a balanced assessment of the pros and cons of the maj...

Mark and Jamie (a.k.a. I and I) break down the mystical contours and charmingly flavourful shapes of our recent lessons and reflections on life and purpose in this big dazzling love-ganism better known as the universe. We come to you live (so to speak) from outside the walls of the Vatican, sporting sleek Italian shirts, delicious iced coffees and a will to be free.

Here cometh 36 minutes of me sweating waterfalls in Athens, discussing some things I've been thinking about since I've been on the road again.

Wanna know how and why to learn a foreign language? First of all, it's enormous fun! Learning to express and experience yourself and the world through a new language connects you with others and even yourself in a whole new way. Much like getting tipsy for the first time, this is something you won't truly understand until you try it for yourself. Acquiring a language also sharpens your mind and ex...

Do you believe in the existence of evil? Are some humans so fundamentally corrupt and monstrous that they are beyond hope of redemption, not worthy of forgiveness, unable to love or be loved? If you ask me, Yes and No. The paradoxical key is to understand that on the ultimate level, evil is an illusion. No conscious being acts but out of love. Evil is but a more extreme version of standard contemp...