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Pods from the Far Beyond Palden Jenkins
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Insights, visions and truths from the end of the world - well, from an organic farm at the far end of Cornwall, UK - by Palden Jenkins, a veteran of the movement for change.
About life, the world, other worlds, ancient worlds, future worlds and the rather interesting world of Paldywan Kenobi.
Palden is a partially-disabled terminal cancer patient. He's a veteran in the movement for change, with not a lot of time left, who has a few things to say before he goes. He watches the world from far away and sees a few things that many people with busy lives don't have time and space for.
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A Trip to the Iron Age
Recorded at an Iron Age Courtyard House up the hill on our farm.
It's all about life in the Iron Age in Cornwall, 2,000 years ago. This was the Celtic period - though the Celts were a culture, not one people. In West Cornwall many of them were descendant of the people of the Bronze Age.
This is about life and reality systems in our time, in the Iron Age, and also in the Bronze Age and the Neolithic - how people saw life and the world in each of these times, and what we can learn from it now.
30 Mins. With love from Cornwall. Palden.
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Ascension
This is about pitying the winners, social healing and walking our talk.
The core issue is this: ascension and the birth of a new world will take place only when we are truly ready for it. We wish for peace, ecological restoration, social and economic justice and change in every sector of life and the world that we can think of.
But the big question is whether and how much we're ready and willing to do what's necessary to allow such things to happen.
Until we become ready and willing, we're holding back progress on planet Earth. As philosopher Edmund Burke put it: 'For the triumph of evil it is necessary only that good people do nothing'.
37 mins. Recorded while sitting in the ruins of a 2,000 year old Iron Age courtyard house, down'ere on the farm.
With love, Palden
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Meditation
It's good to just make a habit of it - like breakfast.
Not a big thing, or a discipline we cannot measure up to. Take it easy, but make a basic commitment to building it into your life - even if just once a week.
Because that's fifty times in a year, and 500 times in a decade.
You notch up quite a bit of experience that way.
I'm not a meditation teacher or even a very good meditator, but I've been at it a long time, and here are a few thoughts and stories from my own way of doing it.
On Sunday evenings at 7pm GMT a group of us in different countries meditates together at the same time, wherever we are. We each do our own thing, but together, with a simple shared intent to raise the world's level an inch by doing so. If that interests you: www.palden.co.uk/meditations.html
The podcast is 34 minutes long. Recorded sitting by the stream on the farm in Cornwall. With love from me, Paldywan Kenobi.
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Time
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.
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Badger Setts and Platform Barrows
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.
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Conspiracy
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.
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