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 pain. Our inner evolution is not something that is hooked directly into time: the progress we make depends more on willingness and openness than on time.

If we devote much of our energy avoiding experiential intensity in our lives, we evolve more slowly. Our experience and usage of the time we have is very much a matter of deep choice. Living life to the full. Not just the comfortable, pleasant stuff but the grindstone, the fire and the soulquake too.

It's 37 minutes long. This time the recording studio is a field on our farm, with an appearance from the migrating geese of Grumbla.

With love from me, Paldywan Kenobi.

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 relevant to our day.

It has something to do with building a sustainable civilisation - an advanced civilisation that works more or less in harmony with nature. Although it did come to an end, megalithic bronze age civilisation lasted around 1,200 years - pretty good.

Introduced by a Cornish chough and outroduced by oystercatchers and a raven, at Carn Les Boel, just south of Land's End.

We need to get this into proportion. It's a polarised, zero-sum issue for most people - we believe in conspiracy theories or we don't, but look at the space in between.

The answers aren't straight and simple. There's truth and falsehood in the conspiracy game, and it's important not to gobble up ideas because they sound plausible, they fit your picture or they look like a conspiracy. But don't reject it all either, just because it's smoke and mirrors, it makes you feel uncomfortable, others disapprove or authoritative voices pass it all off.

Here, Palden gives his own considered assessment. With background help from the springtime birds of Botrea and Betsy the farm dog.

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 Council of Nine, some cosmic beings, not of this Earth, who had a lot to say about world healing, and this set me off on a path.

This later developed into two innerwork projects working with this - the Hundredth Monkey Project and the Flying Squad. In these we developed a bundle of techniques and built up a momentum over a twenty year period, in which we gathered a lot of experience around it all.

Now, in late life, and while I can, I'm bringing together my thoughts on world healing in writing and podcasts, to leave to posterity, in case they prove useful. And this is part two (there might be five-ish). 32 minutes long, with evening birdsong on our farm at the beginning and end, and lovely music by my friend Galen in Oregon.

With love from me, Paldywan Kenobi.

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 during the 1970s-90s.

It's a series of interviews with Tom, the spokesperson of the Nine, by an interesting group of people who worked with the Nine, including scientist Andrija Puharich and former racing driver Sir John Whitmore, together with others. Interspersed by commentaries written by me. This is the pre-publication version, containing information that was removed from the book before publication.

It was a great honour to write this book, which came out in 1993. An interesting listen, introduced and outroduced by the early morning birds at our farm in West Penwith, Cornwall.

Love, Palden

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 worked together intensively for twenty years. (Find out about these on my website.)

In the podcast I'm asking questions about what we're really aiming to do, and how to go about it. If you're interested in helping the world, or if you practice any kind of meditation or spiritual work, this might interest you. Because we have a big problem in our world today, and it's all hands on deck.

Love from me, Palden

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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 living on Planet Earth.

It's a place full of goodness and badness and everything in between. When you approach the end of your life and see it a bit more from the outside, you can't help but wonder, "What was all that really for?".

Short answer: the evolution of the soul, by learning from what life teaches us and making a contribution.

With music by an Oregonian friend, Galen Hefferman. Recorded on a mossy log in West Penwith, Cornwall - near Land's End - with the help of some twittering birds, jackdaws, the stream and some Atlantic breezes. 24 mins long. With love, Paldywan

Some of you will be having a quieter Christmas than many, and some creatives will be using this time as a way to get down to some work.

In this podcast I share some thoughts about writing. I've been an author, editor and online content creator, and I have no idea how many hours I've sat at typewriters and computers for sixtyish years, creating yardages of verbiage in print. I guess my mother handed me that gene - she was a prizewinning shorthand secretary in the 1940s.

This isn't about sentence structure or punctuation. It's about getting on the flow. Getting it down - it involves a lot of fingerwork on keyboards.

That's what copyright is actually about: ideas are free, but it's the fingerwork, the iteration of ideas in text, that gets copyrighted. The work done to encapsulate ideas on paper or onscreen. 

It's a load of slog. You spend hours and hours and come out with a coupla sheets of paper or a screenload of web-page. If you're writing a book it stays inside a computer for months, and no one sees it, and then suddely it comes out as a printed or audio book, and it's almost like giving birth.

So this might be interesting and useful to a few listeners. Recorded in October 2022.

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 arriving and landing just before the music starts.

So this is about reincarnation, and the many lives we live in this life. For me, towards the end of my current life (I reckon I have 3-5 years, and I'm currently 72, with cancer) this takes on a special significance, since I know in my bones, and always have, that it doesn't just go blank and dark when you die. It doesn't end there. You carry on - but without a body or a slot in Planet Earth hard-reality.

And when you get born, you aren't a blank sheet - you come with character, proclivities and tendencies already there, brought with you from before.

Oh, and, for your interest, this is Paldywan on steroids. Yes, literally. I had my cancer treatment today, and part of it is a steroid called Dexamethasone. After my treatment, as you might imagine, I'm buzzing. This time I thought I'd do a podcast to harness the buzzing in, hopefully, a useful way. It's up to you to judge that one.

With love from West Penwith in Cornwall - a rather magic place. Thanks for listening. There's more to come.

Paldywan

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 the Council of Nine, and through gaining experience by running the Hundredth Monkey Camps in the mid-1990s and being part of the Flying Squad thereafter.

There are many applications of this general method of working, in relation to world events as they arise, and particularly to the underlying issues and deep learning experiences that lie beneath and behind them.

This podcast looks into a few of the issues around healing the world. Recorded down in the woods on our farm on Monday 28th November 2022. 30 mins.

With love from Cornwall, Paldywan