Pods from the Far Beyond

Palden Jenkins
  • 5.0 (2)
  • RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY

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, seeing things that many people with busy lives don't have time and space for.

  1. Recycling Light | Meet the (former) Bard of Glastonbury

    6D AGO

    Recycling Light | Meet the (former) Bard of Glastonbury

    With Dearbhaile Bradley, at the time (2007) the Chief Bard of Glastonbury. She's a true warrior of the heart and, like me, she has one foot in the world of spirit and one in the world of politics and society. Dearbhaile tells about Bardism and being a Bard, about her experiences growing up in  the conflict in Northern Ireland, about the Save Tara Campaign (saving a significant sacred site in Ireland, threatened by a motorway), and the Goodwill Patterns (a peace process of the heart). She also recites some of her inspired poetry - after all, she was the Bard of Ynys Witrin - Glastonbury.

    1h 41m

  2. APR 27

    The Bronze Age in Penwith, and the end of a World

    I'm an historian who is deeply interested in prehistory, and I have an historian's viewpoint, looking at longer-term processes at work over time. Over the last fifteen years I have done a lot of research in West Penwith, Cornwall, where I live, and here are a few new thoughts on that matter. By examining its alignments system I was able to demonstrate that Penwith constituted a complete, integrated and focused magical landscape, an upgraded ecosystem and a cultured people, who were at their peak in the Bronze Age. This is about the transition from a matrifocal to a patriarchal culture, incrementally taking place during the Bronze Age. Now a peripheral place, in that time Penwith was a central place because long-distance travel took place by sea and river - the land was extensively wooded and tracks were muddy. Penwith lay on an ancient maritime trading and cultural corridor stretching from Iberia to Britain and Ireland, so boats came from Europe every summer, landing at St Michael's Mount. This pod is about the social and psycho-spiritual changes that went on through the 1,200 years of the megalithic part of the Bronze Age. It was a sustainable culture, eventually overtaken by events. An enchantment, uplifting the land and people, was shattered. The megalithic period came to an end, around 1200 BCE. It was the end of a world - the Bronze Age Collapse, affecting Egypt, Greece and Mesopotamia too. Recorded in the bluebell woods on our farm. For more about Penwith's ancient sites, look here: ancientpenwith.org

    47 min

  3. APR 22

    Why do People like visiting Ancient Sites?

    This is all about the energy-fields within ancient sites such as stone circles or chambered cairns and barrows. For these energy-fields have a psychoactive effect - they change our mood, optic and spirits - and it isn't difficult to experience this. And this, I suggest, is what draws us to them. Not just this, but it's also the reason the people of the Neolithic and the Bronze Age went to the trouble of building them. This podcast is all about that - with some magic anecdotes thrown in. It's extracted from my book 'Shining Land', about the ancient sites of West Penwith in Cornwall, where I live.

    42 min

  4. APR 10

    World Work

    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...". palden.co.uk/podcasts.html

    53 min
  5. Recycling Light | Crop Formations

    APR 1

    Recycling Light | Crop Formations

    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.

    1h 42m
  6. Recycling Light | The Prehistoric Transition to Patriarchy

    MAR 19

    Recycling Light | The Prehistoric Transition to Patriarchy

    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

    1h 37m
  7. Recycling Light | Rewilding, Climate Change and Shamanism

    MAR 19

    Recycling Light | Rewilding, Climate Change and Shamanism

    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

    1h 17m
  8. Recycling Light | Brits in the Middle East

    MAR 19

    Recycling Light | Brits in the Middle East

    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

    1h 10m
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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, seeing things that many people with busy lives don't have time and space for.

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  • Creator
    Palden Jenkins
  • Years Active
    2021 - 2026
  • Episodes
    86
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Palden Jenkins
  • Show Website
    Pods from the Far Beyond

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