James Tunney, LLM, is an Irish Barrister who has lectured on legal matters throughout the world. He is a poet, a visual artist, and author of The Mystery of the Trapped Light: Mystical Thoughts in the Dark Age of Scientism plus The Mystical Accord: Sutras to Suit Our Times, Lines for Spiritual Evolution. His website is http://www.jamestunney.com.

Here he shares his passion for and knowledge of a wide variety of martial arts traditions. He emphasizes western boxing, particularly his distant cousin the heavyweight champion Gene Tunney. The conversation also covers many other martial art forms including Jiu-Jitsu, Judo, Karate, Capoeira, and Kareli. He views martial arts as a positive way of addressing the aggressive aspects of human nature.

New Thinking Allowed host, Jeffrey Mishlove, PhD, is author of The Roots of Consciousness, Psi Development Systems, and The PK Man. Between 1986 and 2002 he hosted and co-produced the original Thinking Allowed public television series. He is the recipient of the only doctoral diploma in “parapsychology” ever awarded by an accredited university (University of California, Berkeley, 1980).

(Recorded on January 2, 2021)

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James Tunney, Ireland I Don’t Recognize Who She Is — https://amzn.to/2UZfExY

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Brendan Behan, Confessions of an Irish Rebel – https://amzn.to/39jgmgY

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Jay Tunney, The Prizefighter and the Playwrite – https://amzn.to/2LB8hvM

Kano Jigoro, Judo and Education – https://amzn.to/39jgKfq

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