There are plenty of interesting geomantic snippets in this talk, though it's mainly a proposal for a longterm research project into the subtle-energy patterns and behaviours of ancient sites in West Penwith in Cornwall.

Penwith is dense with ancient sites and it's a nice potted area for research like this - and there are quite a few prehistory maniacs living here, to do such work.

Though this is primarily addressed to people in Penwith, this proposed project could be of interest to people elsewhere. I hope it sparks some thoughts and initiatives in the coming time.

If we're working with subtle earth energies, we need to get to know how they work, by systematically studying the way they actually operate - and from a psychic-intuitive, geomantic viewpoint.

I'm happy with this talk, and I hope you enjoy it.

Love, Palden.

ancientpenwith.org

The Shining Land and how and why it shines. Belerion is the ancient name of West Penwith in Cornwall. In Penwith we have more ancient sites per square mile than anywhere in Europe.

This is the first part of a talk given at the Aha Class with Palden, on 18th December 2024 in Penzance, Cornwall.

I propose that the whole of West Penwith is one big ancient site (an enormous cliff sanctuary). Why did ancient Penwithians bother to build so many quoits, stone circles and cairns? What was their thinking and what were they seeking to achieve?

In this hour-long talk I go into the sacred technology of Neolithic and Bronze Age Penwithians, and what drove them to build ancient sites.

Well, it's not that bad, but there's meaning in the name. I've just been to an Ayahuasca ceremony, to seek some truth and resolution, and the Grandmother came to me, or I went to her, and I surfed a rather big, surging wave.

Ayahuasca, an Amazonian tree-vine, is called the Vine of Death because, while you don't actually die, what happens resembles the experience of dying and it's good practice for it. This, of course, is rather useful to me because, as a cancer patient, that journey is not far away. I got some practice.

The Grandmother is the spirit or goddess of ayahuasca, to whom we are challenged to yield, to receive her teaching and blessing. I met her - we all did - and she treated me gently, then to give me a shake-up.

The journey was very much about resolving and re-weaving some key threads in my life, shedding some baggage and opening to the future. Yes, a person at the end of their life does have a future - in a way, quite a big one.

Four men from three countries, plus a magic cat, travelled a light-year or two in the otherworld and returned, and this is the story as seen through my eyes.

It's in two parts, covering the first and second days of the ceremony. This is a very personal story, with some tears and chuckles thrown in.

Those of you who know me or have been following me, or who have been listening to or reading my cancer story, Blessings that Bones Bring, might find this interesting. If you're new to my blogs and podcasts, I have no idea what you'll think of this one, though I hope you enjoy the ride!

This is part one, and part two follows soon. 33 minutes.

Down here in Penwith we get a lot of wind - we're stuck out in the ocean and it loves blowing us away with its power and glory. It's one of those things that happen in parts of Planet Earth. And that's what this is about. Conditions on Earth as seen from the outside.

In coming months I'll tell you more about things I learned from the Council of Nine - this is the first of a few. What they taught was so multi-dimensional that it's difficult to cover it all briefly. In this podcast I present one aspect of it, for your consideration.

It's all about how our planet was set up and the larger picture on our current global situation, which is the consequence of the application throughout history of human free will. People might legitimately ask, 'How can the Universe be benign, and how can God be Love when we see things like Gaza happening?', but there is a simple answer.

It is a product of human free will. And collectively as a planetary race we need to apply our free will to deconstruct such tragedies and make them obsolete.

Recorded in May 2024, down in the bluebell woods below our farm. The wind sounds like a powerful gale, but actually it was simply a brisk Cornish ocean breeze rattling in the leaves of the trees. 37 mins long.

With love, Palden.

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.

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.

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.

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

A few things I learned from the Council of Nine.

This is about extraterrestrial civilisations and their relations with planet Earth, and what we on Earth need to do, as a planetary race, to prepare ourselves for meeting up with them, sometime in the future.

That's the first half, and in the second half we look into some interesting questions about ancient sites, collective resonance, our soul-roots in other worlds and... dragonflies.

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

www.palden.co.uk

#meditation #planetaryhealing

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

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

In our concerns about our world crisis today, we humans tend to think it's just our problem, and it's of significance only to ourselves and to our own world, which we believe to be the only inhabited world that's around. Well, there's more to this than that.

Here Palden outlines what he understands of the perspective of others in the universe - what we call ETs, to whom we might add MDIs or multilevel intelligences. Actually, some ETs are MDIs. So are we: our multilevel we call 'sleep', 'dreaming', 'meditation' or 'altered states'.

Planet Earth's fate actually concerns the whole universe, and Palden attempts here to explain how and why.

So it's about Earth, how it evolved, the significance of our world crisis today, and what we're all here for, really. Well, Paldywan's interpretation of it.

33 mins long. The intro is the sound of jackdaws at our farm, scared by someone clomping down a plank of wood down in the yard, and flying off to the woods. The podcast was recorded in the woods below our farm, so you can hear the breeze in the trees, birds and offstage sounds. Finally, the outro is of me walking in the woods along the path back toward the stream - off back home for a cup of tea.

If this subject really interests you, go to my PodTalks for an inspired 1hr 15min talk I did in 1996 about the same subject, and about healing our world.

We humans, we're weird - we live on one planet but in multiple worlds.

With love from Cornwall, Paldywan

So, do you reckon the existence of your soul and psyche began here on Earth? Here, Palden talks about tribes, nations and civilisations, material and multidimensional, in which each and all of us have our roots as souls.

This is key to finding our true, deep identity, not solely as a product of Earthly evolutionary experience, but from a deeper level way beyond. It concerns the initial reason we decided, or it was decided, that we'd partake of the Earth experience.

If we anchor to this root source of our being, it can help us identify and serve the deeper purposes for which we came - to learn and, especially nowadays, to contribute. One of the great crimes of our time is withholding of our gifts and capacities - often because we think we're not good enough, not ready yet, or 'little me' will make no difference.

Yet we are part of larger soul-collectives. We need to peer beyond our individualism to cleave to the contribution our soul-tribes seek to make. We are, after all, the people we've all been waiting for. And if not now, then when?

Recorded in Somerset while on tour. Worth hearing if you are attending any of Palden's magic circles. As a follow-up, try the podcast Close Encounters too. 27 mins.

All about being alone and loneliness - a growing phenomenon around the world. It particularly concerns people outside the mainstream rush of life. Paradoxically, the more that world population has grown, the more that loneliness has become a major issue. It has been a personal experience for me in the last 6-12 months.

Sometimes, when you're alone a lot, you can come off the rails and lose the plot, and your anchorage. It can lead to further problems and can get quite deeply embedded. Sometimes these are but periods of life, and sometimes people get lost in it.

For astrologers, this podcast is a living description of someone who in the last year has had transiting Neptune opposing his natal Saturn. But I survived and am rising again, and this podcast talks about turning loneliness around - either into a happier aloneness or into a new openness to relationship with others. Or perhaps some variant of both. Becoming more comfortable with the way things are.

Introduced this time by a skylark above Botrea Barrows, where I recorded this episode on Saturday 9th July 2022. Outroduced by a nightingale on a tree just outside my house on the farm, a week or two earlier.

'Epiphany'comes from Greek. It means to cause to appear, to bring to light, to make visible. It's also a form of religious experience, though that's not really what I'm talking about here. I'm talking about those pattern-setting realisations we occasionally get which suddenly show things as they actually are, rather than what we, up to then, told ourselves. Nowadays, we tend to tell ourselves a lot and then try to mould reality around it. But life doesn't work like that.

Listen more closely to things than to people - a chunk of wisdom from the Xhosa of South Africa.

We need many more epiphanies, for individuals, social groups, nations and the world. This is crucial in the 21st Century, and our future depends on it.

In the 2020s we're being served waves of crises that seem designed to invoke epiphanies - without which, things can quickly get a lot worse because people seek to restore normality rather than to get the message about the acceleration that's happening. It's a reality-shift, and it started during the Covid crisis.

Covid was but a catalyst of a cascade of further change-processes, prompting myriad personal realisations that life was not going the way many people wished. This in turn will lead to much wider social shifts of values and life-patterns as the months and years progress. There's more coming.

Now, in 2022, we face war, food shortages, economic shocks, climate disasters, and it's increasingly stretching us open. These are all questions we needed to address earlier, but we didn't want to look.

It's a shorter and simpler podcast, this one, compared to a few recent ones. It was recorded outdoors, down the old trackway on our farm. 18 mins.

Origins, and where we came from...

This leads on from the preceding podcast, Origins, though you don't have to listen to that first. All my podcasts are related and they knit together, yet each stands for itself.

It's all about a quest to uncover off-Earth origins - the regression I did is recounted in the first Origins podcast. Here we have the discussion and afterthoughts following it - and these are interesting in themselves. They lead to further thoughts about our situation on Earth and what we can do about it.

The idea here is to give you some prompts from my own life that might suggest some clues to yours, and your origins.

It's about the predicament of being in our world, about divine intervention, dissonance, resonance and how we might bring forward a planetary breakthrough-point in coming times.

This will be of particular interest to anyone working with planetary healing or fixing the world in any way.

Small matters, of course... all in 30ish minutes.

With a blackbird bonus and love from Paldywan Kenobi.

I have had various kinds of contact with ETs over time, and they're part of my spiritual genetics.

I had a close encounter at age 22 in Wales, followed by a series of metaphysical experiences, and in the 1990s-2000s I was deeply involved in crop circle research. In 1992 I wrote a book on behalf of some non-earthly cosmic beings, the Council of Nine.

I share a fascinating overview of the ET situation, on why we're all here, what Planet Earth is here for, and how none of us started our soul-journey here on Earth.

None of us began our lives here on Earth. In this podcast I share with you what happened in a deep regression I had over twenty years ago, which involved going back to the beginning of my soul, far away in another world, and very different to our own. 

It also covered my connections with some advanced beings I worked with thirty years ago (I compiled a book for them called The Only Planet of Choice - essential briefings from deep space). The were called the Council of Nine - they were kinda part of the management structure of the universe, if you could say such a thing.

This is a longer podcast than most Pods from the Far Beyond (it's 39 mins) - it contains a lot. I hope it rings some bells for you, giving a sense of your own connections with the source of your soul. Which might perhaps be a matter of interest to you! After all, that's what's left when you pop your clogs.

With love, Palden
from an organic farm in West Penwith, Cornwall, UK.

In our time we're going through an intensification of events and pressures, globally, socially and individually. We're heading into harder times, and it's not going to go back to normal. But there are things we can do about this. It doesn't have to be as bad as currently it looks.

The costs and difficulties we have in life can be made a bit easier by not grinding on about it quite so much, by making things less difficult inside ourselves. Sounds easy, but it takes some work.

There are also gifts in any situation that become visible if we shift our focus, take a deep breath, own what we're responsible for and focus on what's really most important.

I've faced some stuff in recent times and seem to be gaining something from it, deep down, underneath. It's a lot to do with finding what's available in any situation - anything that can cheer us, lift us up and open up pathways - and going on from there. Following a path.

If your spirits have some sparkle, you'll be alright. Though often, 'alright' isn't what we originally thought.

17 minutes, with love from Palden.

In November 1972 I had a close encounter. It was a life-changer for me. I was unprepared for it: like so many people, I hadn't really thought about ETs up to that time. The whole thing lasted something between 20 and 40 minutes, and it was witnessed also by my friend, and we checked to see whether we were seeing the same thing. We were. We discussed it fully.

But little did I know what was going on in a deeper part of consciousness. This is one of those things about close encounters: in a way, they're so far from our normal worldly experience that they lodge in deeper consciousness and hide until such time as we are ready to retrieve and recall them and work with the consequences in our own lives.

This is the transcript of a regression I did in 2000, 28 years later, with an ET researcher, Atasha Fyfe. We had done past life regression before, but this was the first time it concerned ETs. I decided to investigate the close encounter, and this is what came up.

If I were trying to concoct a story like this, I wouldn't manage it - it stretches far further than I could go. I'm not good at fiction anyway. There was a second regression in which I explored my relationship with the Council of Nine and the way I was constructed as a soul - and that will follow one day.

With the sound of the stream in the woods, down the field on our farm.

I hope you find this podcast interesting. With love, Palden.

In some of my podcasts I share some very personal things, and this is one of those. 

We're all going through it - that feeling of OMG, this is all too much -  and it's gone global. It hits the best of us. 

This is about my own little version of it, which nevertheless is rather heart-rending for me. With a few insights into the process of riding with truth - it can propel us along.

It's all about those times when reality really hits you in the face, or in the gut, and you just gotta own up because not doing so is no longer an option. Owning up is usually the best thing to do. In the end, it isn't anyone else's fault.

It was recorded in the woods below our farm, on a sunny springtime day, and edited and uploaded same day.

Thanks for listening! Love, Palden.

This is rather heartfelt. It's all about the psycho-spiritual side of having cancer - that is, keeping our spirits up, despite everything. I have found that keeping my spirits up lies right at the core of my wellbeing as a cancer patient. It helps my health, relationships, doctors' visits, dealing with pain and difficulty and getting through crises, and it brings special moments of joy and relief too.

This podcast is for people experiencing cancer or similar kinds of issues, and also for carers and anyone who knows a cancer patient. I'm not an expert or a doctor, but I do have cancer, I go through the grinder, I get swamped in fears and tears, and I try to do my best with it all. So this is from me to you, if it's useful to you.

This was recorded during storm Eunice (we get great storms down'ere in Cornwall), which sometimes you can hear in the background. The podcast is introduced and outroduced by the noble waves of Portheras Cove, near where I live in West Penwith, Cornwall - they're a medicine in their own right.

I've got cancer and it has me. It's full-on and it has been a big life-changer. I have myeloma or bone marrow cancer. I've had it over two years and am through the worst stage, I hope, but it's still hard work.

Every now and then I still get quite ill, not from the cancer but from the secondary issues in my spine and stomach and with infections. You can't get rid of myeloma - you can only manage it. I probably have a few years left. I'm 71.

So this podcast is for anyone who has cancer or who is involved with someone who has it. It's about some of the real aspects of keeping your spirits up - the core issue whether you seek to stay alive or to have a good dying process. If you're feeling kinda okay inside, your whole process will work better, or you'll handle it better. Failing all else, you'll be a bit happier.

We have to come to terms with dying, come to peace about it, and about the life we have had, and all its ups and downs. So this is about all that.

Recorded during a howling gale down'ere in Cornwall, Storm Eunice, in late February 2022. The waves are at Portheras Cove in West Penwith, Cornwall, near where I live.

24 mins

Experiences  of the last two years have drawn us surreptitiously toward new values, a rehumanising of society - and there's more to go. Here are some insights on conflict, migration and dehumanisation, with a little on the Holy Land. And peace and goodwill. 

With explosions and atrocities going on, the environmental, social and  cultural issues of our time will not be resolved. This needs to change,  for very practical reasons. It involves every one of us looking at our own conflicts. Planetary healing.

With songs from the Massed Corvid Choir of Grumbla, at dawn on a windy winter solstice morning.

Instinct, intuition, imagination, empathy. Ways of tuning into wider fields of information and reality and finding out what's best to do. It's a way of getting things more right, and in our day we do need that.

With additional commentary from the birds around our farm and the Massed Corvid Choirs of Grumbla, Cornwall.

I'm a cancer patient and, for me, it's the complications that are now more problematic than the cancer itself. Recently I had some potentially bad medical news, and this of course brought up a lot of stuff, provoking some deep processing and thought.

So this podcast is about dying - something that is optional for none of us, though more pressing for some than for others. If you get born, you'll die, and that's that.

Recorded in the woods down below where I live, and introduced by the sound of the stream in the woods.

Introduced by a nightingale in the tree behind my house, here on the farm. 

This is a perspective on the meaning of our lives and what we're really here for. As souls, we're here to learn and to make a contribution. 

When we see things from this viewpoint, reality changes and our free-will opportunities are advanced to a new stage.

We need to remember why we came, what we're here for. Because, no matter how difficult life gets, if we have a meaningful life in which we're genuinely pursuing our path, it's always positive and progressive - whatever society or our guilt complexes might judge to the contrary. 

So this is about the evolution of our souls.

Power Points in Time goes into peak periods and times of amplified, pattern-setting possibility - and some of the astrology that's involved in identifying such times.

This is about solstices, equinoxes and cross-quarters, cycles of the Moon and line-ups of planets. The ancients made use of both temporal and spatial power points to raise their magical-spiritual game, increasing the possibility of changing the way that life and nature operate through innerwork with the fundamental forces of life, spirit and nature.

As a cancer patient, sometimes I plummet toward the edge of death. This is a straight-up podcast recorded in bed in the dark of the early morning, at a time when I was very ill, struggling and on my own.

It's at times like this when we really start facing the truths of our lives - times when we might lose our life and we suddenly notice and own up to things we hadn't seen before. Or we didn't have what it took to look at it before.

So here's a taste of what it's like in the deep, dark space of illness, and the insights it generates. Because facing the spectre of dying draws our attention to what we're doing being alive.

If my cancer blog interests you, click here.

I'm down at the stream again. There are times when I'm faced with my truth, my fuckups, and it's hard. This is all about facing facts: our beliefs about life and about ourselves sometimes get outblasted by raw facts. So this is about facing our stuff, owning up and getting real. Because real change doesn't happen until or unless we do so - we just get the repetition of our ingrained patterns. But if or when we break through, magic happens, and new possibilities are given to us. So this is about freedom.

I have long been a photographer, and here are some pics of West Penwith, where I live: click here.

About choices I have made in life that have led me to where I am now. Recorded by the stream in the breezy woods below our farm. I chose to live in this beautiful, uplifting place, and some think I am lucky to do so, but everything in life charges its price, and this is the result of choices and sacrifices I have made - it's not luck. 

Actually, in dealing with cancer, living here has been a great medicine for me. Our free will hangs around the extent to which we exercise our capacity to choose. Yes, things get really difficult, and shit happens, and it can all take time and effort, but we do have choice - especially at certain key points in life where fundamentals get decided.

So this is about our fears, guilt and shame and stepping over them to move forward. Hold with the magic of your soul's golden thread.

Recorded just down the field by the stream, on an ancient trackway on our farm, running between two prehistoric sites here in West Penwith - Botrea Barrows and Caer Bran. Insights on life, on time and on prehistoric civilisation in Cornwall, and the way that ancient megalithic knowhow is becoming increasingly relevant to us today. It's not just a fascination with prehistory: it concerns the next level of civilisation.

If West Cornwall's ancient sites interest you, try visiting Ancient Penwith. 

And if my cancer blog, Notes from the Far Beyond, interests you, go here.

About the inner secrets of prehistoric deep-energy technology. Power points in space and power points in time, and the way these were used for the reformulation of the heart of reality. The ancients didn't need gene editing, nuke power, space exploration or tech fixes of the kind we know - they had other ways of doing things back in the 3000s and 2000s BCE, and we now need to learn about how they did this. This is all about megalithic consciousness engineering, and how we might be able to fix our climate, ecosystem and society in a way that brings a much deeper breakthrough for humanity.

Here are some pics of stone circles in West Penwith, Cornwall - for your interest.

Recorded by a stream just down the field on our farm, by the woods. What is going to bring about a fundamental change to the world? About collective consciousness and the beliefs, values and choices that humanity now faces. Uprisings and movements for change, and the importance of shared beliefs and viewpoints in bringing about change. Without such psychosocial changes in society, environmental, climatic, social justice and other issues cannot be progressed. We're in a phase where we need to reassess the fundamental tenets of civilisation - why we're here and what on earth we really are doing. People do want to live in a more human society. We need to develop a world consensus about where we're going.

An astrologer who has studied and written about history all his life pronounces on the course of coming times. What I believe will be the global process of the 21st Century, and how we might or might not get there - to where we need to go, whatever shape that actually takes. This is about a coming avalanche of events of the late 2020s, the stresses of the 2030s, the global crunch-point of 2048 and the new start that could dawn after the 2060s - depending on what we as humans actually do with our situation. We have already entered times of deep choice - this started in the 1960s, ramped up around 1989 and became a hard fact around 2008-12. The process we go through to get to the big answers is what we face now.

Should this subject interest you, my book Power Points in Time tells all - about astrology, time-cycles and the way time passes.

If you understand astrological charts, here are charts for the crunch-points mentioned in this podcast: http://palden.co.uk/pod-notes-7.html

This is all about the future, the collective psyche and the dawning of a planetary consensus and awareness.

Woo, that sounds big, but it isn't quite so big. This is about how humanity is moving painfully toward becoming one planetary race by going through an excruciating process of truth-finding, inner change and focusing of collective consciousness - toward something that helps us survive and move forward.

Humanity is a tribal animal and the ultimate tribe is the whole of humankind. This is all about being human, being part of an enormous family.

All the same, this involves wading through a lot of really real issues - geopolitical, technical, economic, demographic, environmental - and the full range of issues involved is reviewed in my free online report, Possibilities 2050. But this podcast is about pulling it all together.

I'm quite good at joining dots, you see...

Introduced by crows and geese. Recorded at the Nine Maidens stone circle in West Penwith, Cornwall, UK. Here I share my understanding of the real reasons why the ancients built stone circles and built them where and how they did - for consciousness work and the energy-raising of the subtle fields of the Earth. These people were advanced, working with stuff that we need to learn about now, at this time of history.

To find out on an online ancient sites map (made by me) where the Nine Maidens are, click here. 

To see some pics accompanying this podcast, go here: http://palden.co.uk/pod-notes-5.html

Introduced by a skylark and recorded on the Botrea Barrows on top of a high hill on our farm in the centre of West Penwith. About ancient landscapes and prehistoric landscape management, and how and why ancient people did it. 

Also about the 2020 G7 Conference, which was at the time of recording soon to take place just a few miles from where I live, in St Ives, Cornwall. This is about innerwork to influence such things - providing an alternative to protest. 

The podcast gives a small example of the uplifting effects of sitting on an ancient power point, and the insights that can come up when you do so.

For some pics to accompany this podcast, look here: http://palden.co.uk/pod-notes-3.html

Part One of an Aha Class on Time: Peak Periods and Cosmic Rumblings.

This is about being born, dying and going through life, and the predicament of living on an intensely gravitational, dense world, yet one with a remarkable range of experiential possibilities available for human evolution.

It's about the Tibetan bardos - waking life, dreaming, altered states, being born, dying and the after-death state - and the passage of the soul through different kinds of experience. These are very different kinds of experience, yet it is the same soul that experiences them.

However, since accelerating our evolution involves a choice of the soul and a turning in the deepest seat of consciousness, only some of us choose it.

About the way the knowledge and technologies of the ancient past - the neolithic and the bronze age - need to be brought into the present and the future to help the fixing of planet Earth. About ancient power points and the shamanistic cultures of ancient times, by which prehistoric peoples worked with the character and patterning of the morphogenetic fields of nature. They engaged in what I call megalithic geoengineering - the engineering of consciousness and deeper levels of reality.

If you'd like to see some pics of the ancient sites of Penwith, Cornwall, try this.

Part Two of Two.

A personal talk about the deeper, wider stuff around activism, creativity, working for justice, changing society, planetary healing, resolution and nudging things along, in any and all of the spheres of activity we might choose to work in, local or global.

Observations and anecdotes about playing our part in change and the unfolding of history. It's about us, the helpers, the people seeking to do something to benefit the wider whole.

It's about real-life questions concerning personal risk, life-purpose, commitment, psycho-emotional issues, burn-out, energy-management, holding true to your beliefs, and tricks for getting through. And what is this all for? What is our true aim? What constitutes success? How's about when it all goes wrong or takes far too long?

I have done decades of work in community and social activism, planetary consciousness work and working in conflict zones, with feet in the lifestyle, political, green and spiritual camps.

This is about helping the world as part of our spiritual path, fulfilling the Great Work - and the toughest part, making it a life's work and staying with it over time.

A personal talk about the deeper, wider stuff around activism, creativity, working for justice, changing society, planetary healing, resolution and nudging things along, in any and all of the spheres of activity we might choose to work in, local or global.

Observations and anecdotes about playing our part in change and the unfolding of history. It's about us, the helpers, the people seeking to do something to benefit the wider whole.

It's about real-life questions concerning personal risk, life-purpose, commitment, psycho-emotional issues, burn-out, energy-management, holding true to your beliefs, and tricks for getting through. And what is this all for? What is our true aim? What constitutes success? How's about when it all goes wrong or takes far too long?

I have done decades of work in community and social activism, planetary consciousness work and working in conflict zones, with feet in the lifestyle, political, green and spiritual camps.

This is about helping the world as part of our spiritual path, fulfilling the Great Work - and the toughest part, making it a life's work and staying with it over time.

Part One of Two.

...and why ETs have spindly legs.

A wide-ranging talk by Palden in Glastonbury in early September 2024, with the Inner Light Community.

It's all about consciousness and levels of reality. Palden speaks about ancient sites, the awareness power of groups of people, close encounters, altered states, consciousness engineering, crop formations, otherworld beings, cancer, dying and a few anecdotes from his life.

A thoughtful journey through the alternative realms of reality.

The Vine of Death | Part Two

At the Ayahuasca ceremony, the Grandmother came to me, or I went to her, and I surfed a rather big, surging wave.

Ayahuasca, an Amazonian tree-vine, is called the Vine of Death because, while you don't actually die, what happens resembles the experience of dying and it's good practice for it. For me, as a cancer patient, that journey is not far away. I definitely got some practice.

The Grandmother is the spirit or goddess of ayahuasca, to whom we are challenged to yield, to receive her teaching and blessing. I met her, and she treated me gently, then to give me a big shake-up.

Four men from three countries, plus a magic cat, travelled a light-year or two in the otherworld and returned, and this is part two of the story as seen through my eyes.

This is a very personal story, with some tears and chuckles thrown in. It's probably best to listen to part one first.

Inner journeying, meditation, remote healing and peace-building.

Praying for peace or showering light over a benighted area are good, though often they are of a generalised nature. But it's possible to get closer in.

It's possible to penetrate actual situations and play a more targeted part in them - literally rescuing people or souls, or participating in situations, meetings and crux-points at the frontline of human experience.

In part two we visit Sudan in an inner journey. The 20 minutes of silence have been cut out. If you want the full version, find it on my site at www.palden.co.uk/ahanotes-geo.html

Inner journeying, meditation, remote healing and peace-building. Doing our bit toward tackling the world's problems.

In recent times many of us have been moved to join meditations, prayers and link-ups when major crises break out. Waves of mass empathy and concern over such crises can have a wide and deep psycho-spiritual influence - it goes deeper than mere 'public opinion'.

Praying for peace or showering light over a benighted area are good, though often they are of a generalised nature. But it's possible to get closer in.

It's possible to penetrate actual situations and play a more targeted part in them - literally rescuing people or souls, or participating in situations, meetings and crux-points at the frontline of human experience. That's what this talk was about.

In part two we visit Sudan in an inner journey.