Pods from the Far Beyond

With the late John Cartwright, a rock musician, and classical musicologist Tim Shuker.

John and Tim discuss what makes music captivate and transport people, and its  deeper mood-altering effects and entrancing aspects.

Here we penetrate into the magic of music and its psychological aspect as sound and vibration.

If you're a musician of any kind, or interested in music, this is highly recommended!

A podcast about inner meditative work to help the world.

This is a recording of a talk I gave in 2022 in Avebury, about the ins and outs of inner-working with crises, wars and acute situations around the world. Places such as Iran may seem a long way away, but it is on the same planet as we, and crises happening elsewhere are very much a part of our own lives.

On the inner planes there is no distance at all - only the psycho-social distance, the uncloseness that we create ourselves. Those people over there are just like us.

So this is about world work. There is lightworking - working with light beings to bathe our planet in healing vibes - and there is world work, which is about getting inside critical situations to work more surgically, bringing whatever is needed to a situation to help it resolve itself constructively.

I've done quite a lot of this over the years, in groups large and small, and on my own. In this talk I share experiences of what can happen when we apply ourselves to this kind of thing.

If you are vexed by events unfolding around the world, this is one way to be involved. Ever thought of flying alongside a missile and tipping it so that it lands in a harmless place? Ever thought of ministering empathically to the needs of souls devastated by floods or bombing? Or standing alongside a mother who has just watched her family die?

Ever thought of sitting alongside a fighter to try to understand what drives him and how he feels about life? And then to witness a woman fighter (Kurdish or Burmese, perhaps) and what drives her?

In retrospect this is one of the most meaningful activities of all that I've done in my life. You can do it wherever you are. This is one of the key things I do during the Sunday meditations - working consistently and regularly with the issues of the time. I've learned so much from beavering away at this. Paradoxically, since becoming semi-disabled as a result of cancer, I've got better at it - as physical capacities have declined, inner capacities seem to have grown.

I'm reminded of George Harrison's song, 'The Inner Light', adapted from the teachings of Lao Tzu. "Without going out of your door, you can know all things on Earth. Without looking out of your window, you can know the Ways of Heaven. The farther one travels, the less one knows, the less one really knows...".

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A rather special programme. Here we meet the (tragically) late Janet Ossebaard from the Netherlands and Rod Bearcloud, a native American from Sedona AZ, two croppies attending the Glastonbury Symposium of 2006, a crop circle conference. We discuss the significance of crop circles as a medium of contact with higher intelligences. About energy-fields, paranormal phenomena, the star nation people and funny things going on in the fields of England.

Hosted by Palden Jenkins and engineered by Sir Tulki Joe Jenkins on Glastonbury Radio, 2006.

With Bruce Garrard and Sig Lonegren - two old friends who, like me, have been involved in researching alternative archaeology, earth mysteries and prehistory.

Sig talks about  geomancy, labyrinths and the dowsing of ancient sites. As a dowser, he can find information about ancient sites which the majority of us have no access to at all.

Bruce talks about his research into climate change and transitional times around  6-7,000 years ago, and the rise of villages, war and agriculture, the 'Fall' and the transition from matrifocal to patriarchal societies.

#archaeology #geomancy #dowsing #patriarchy #matrifocal #goddess #neolithic #ancientsites

An interview with Peter Taylor, a critical scientist, ecologist and shaman. He and I have been dialoguing for decades, as cousins of the soul, sharing a political-spiritual activist approach to our respective areas of work.

He used to be a scientific adviser to Greenpeace in the 1980s and also to government and United Nations bodies on ecological matters, and he is a detractor in the climate question.

He's also one of the inventors and early advocates of the concept of rewilding, a concept which is now accepted but, thirty years ago, it was an entirely new idea and quite radical. What? Wolves? Beavers? Weeds and scrub? Well, yes.

Peter tells us about heart-centred environmentalism, rewilding the landscape and his research into the solar causes of climate change.

(Apologies for offstage noises!)

#environmentalism #climatechange #ecosystems #shamanism

With Colette Barnard and Tom Clark. 

Collette tells of her experiences while living in Tehran during Khomeini's Iranian Revolution of 1978, and Tom tells us about his experiences in Palestine supporting good projects and his work with backchannel diplomacy in Beirut, dialoguing with Islamists.

A programme from This is the Light Programme, hosted by Palden Jenkins, with Sir Tulki Joe Jenkins at the controls, recorded in Glastonbury in 2006.

#tehran #iran #ayatollahs #socialdevelopment #backchanneldiplomacy

Bombs are falling, strongmen are flouncing their stuff and the Megamachine happily strafes another family. It looks as if everything is going wrong.

Not quite. These are the growing pains of the global community. We are learning how not to do it. And there's more going on underneath.

I wrote this piece in 2003 on the buildup to the Iraq War and it's pertinent to give it another spin as the Iran War unfolds. It's an extract from my 2003 book 'Healing the Hurts of Nations'.

That's what this is about. The pain, guilt and shadows in the psyches of nations, which cause them to act as they do. And what we need to do to deal with our divisiveness and wars.

With sound collected from the birds of Grumbla in Cornwall, on an early February morning in 2026.

Britain: Librator and Oppressor

A short history of the Isles of Britain in one hour.

We Brits, we're proud of our history but most of us just know snippets about the Romans, 1066, Henry VIII and World War Two.

Let me take you on a 6,000 year journey to see the forming of a nation.

It's the story of an island people and their gifts and tribulations, and a succession of periods, phases, invasions, migrations, ups and downs.

It's not just about kings, battles and acts of parliament - the usual stuff dished up as history. It's about the collective experience of the British, the effect we've had on the world and the way this story affects us now.

It's a chapter from my 2003 book 'Healing the Hurts of Nations'. Whether or not you're British, you might find this interesting.

Love, Palden

#history #britishhistory #unitedkingdom

Sooner or later, it hits us - old age.

For people of my generation this can be a shock - we weren't prepared for this. You get creaky. You can't handle things you used to be able to do. Gravity gets heavier, bodily frailties set in, people forget you and doctors start taking over your life.

But there's something special about this last stage of life - it's a chance to complete the story of our lives and bring things to some sort of conclusion. If we ignore this, there can be quite a lot of baggage to carry into the afterlife.

This is about the deepest and potentially the richest time of our life-cycle, when we can advance psycho-spiritually in ways that, earlier in life, we used to pay large amounts for, going on courses and retreats and doing snazzy practices.

I can't chop logs and climb hills like I used to, but another mobility has arisen instead, deep down inside. Getting old is about growing wiser, not getting stiff, conservative and grumpy.

#oldage #pensioners #growingold #ageing #latelife

Amidst all the noise, bother and confusion pervading our world today, we need to zoom out, for there are far bigger questions to give attention to. These are not just the enormous challenges in our ecosystem and with the human condition that we see before us. There's more.

We're heading for a time when as a planetary race we must face the fact that we are not alone. This has enormous implications.

This pod is all about the way our world will change when we start facing this. Our petty squabbles, the ways we oppress each other and the ways we wreck our world will take on a very different complexion.

One day, this small matter will trump everything.

A contactee in several senses, I'm happy to share some insights that might be worth considering!