This is interesting. It’s written by an old friend who is himself involved with helping out in a freelance-humanitarian sense with Gaza. But this is something that anyone involved in conflict resolution, or in any kind of change-bringing commitment, needs to ask themselves: what is it that drives me to do this? https://mike-scialom.medium.com/born-and-raised-in-egypt… It came up for me too. In my case, my maternal grandfather was in General Allenby’s British invasion force in Palestine in WW1, my father was in Egypt in WW2, and I have Roma and German (though not Jewish) ancestry – Holocaust s ..read more

A spirited cancer patient tells his cancer story. Yes, it’s my latest (fourteenth) book, now out. It recounts the story of my cancer process up to late 2023. Currently available as a PDF for on-screen reading (free or optional donation). Later it will come out as an audiobook. It will be interesting to cancer patients, their helpers, families or friends who prefer to take a non-standard approach to cancer. Or to people with other serious conditions. Or to anyone who likes a good autobiographical read. Blessings focuses particularly on the psycho-spiritual side of things. It outlines what I hav ..read more

Photo: Charly Le Mar On Sunday, Ba Miller and I shared the floor in Penzance, speaking to a lovely crowd, on the occasion of the late Hamish Miller’s 97th birthday. Ba herself is 91 – though, with me at 73, a mere stripling, we’re both beat-up and still going strong! Ba told some anecdotes of what happened when they were following the Apollo and Athena lines from Ireland to Israel, and some really valuable dowsing tips (since it was also World Dowsing Day). I talked about the energy-landscape of West Penwith, about building megalithic structures for consciousness-engineering and how Penwith is ..read more

One of Palden’s prehistory podcasts The remains of the Courtyard House This 30 minute podcast is recorded while sitting in the remains of an Iron Age Courtyard House, up the hill on the farm where I live. It doesn’t look very exciting nowadays, though it’s a nice place – but then, if you were 2,000 years old, you might be a bit worse for wear too! This podcast is all about what life was like in the Iron Age in Cornwall, two millennia ago, and the way people saw things then. Looking into the yard of the courtyard house. Behind are Sancreed Beacon (left) and Caer Brân (centre right), and far beh ..read more

Latest podcast 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, socio-economic justice and change in every sector of life 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 ne ..read more

A cancer update. Wind-strafed heather on Bartinney Castle, West Penwith, Cornwall I’ve just had my three-monthly phone conversation with the haematologist – she’s at the Royal Cornwall Hospital in Truro. One good thing about my particular cancer, Myeloma, is that it is easily tested and monitored with a blood sample (I had it two weeks ago). So we can do it over the phone. She’s always rather brisk – the poor woman probably gets fed up of the list of calls to make through the day, and with us cancer patients and our anxieties. Anyway, I had been anticipating bad news. Well, not exactly bad, bu ..read more

I don’t always post here about the Sunday Meditation, but they continue regularly every Sunday, and here’s a reminder (should you need one). You’re welcome to join the meditation this week – or any week – on Sunday. Times are below. We’re a loose group spread across various countries, who meditate together simultaneously. Meditate, contemplate, pray or inner-journey in the way you normally do it. No sign-up, fees or strings – it’s a group of us sitting together, simply sharing a wish to contribute to raising the vibe of our world and helping it break through to a new level of being. Since the ..read more

Just added to my Audio Archive… CONSCIENCE AND WORLD CHANGE – a podtalk from 2007. It came out then on Glastonbury Radio. Many people have been vexed over Gaza, Ukraine, Sudan and the parlous state of the world. It can give a really discouraging, hand-tied feeling of not being able to do anything about it. This podtalk addresses the matters of conscience and moral sensitivity – personal and also across society and the world. It was broadcast during the Iraq war, when similar feelings were afoot for many people. It’s taken from a book of mine, Healing the Hurts of Nations. It might hold some ..read more

Here’s a quickie about eclipses… When an eclipse happens, it’s as if time and normality stop for a while. Our choice is to respond consciously and awarely, or to act out the energies unconsciously – sometimes leading to trouble. If you aren’t acting consciously and with intent, then there can be confusion or disquiet in your psyche. It’s because the barriers or veils between the levels of awareness and reality are opening up, for a time-stretched short moment. If we are unwilling or unprepared to go deep, then psychological avoidance strategies can kick in, and all sorts of discombobulations c ..read more

and the weirdness of living on Earth I wrote this as a comment to a posting on Facebook about the Sunday meditations, and part way through I realised it was worth making a full post out of it… I seem to be churning out a lot of stuff right now but, don’t worry, I’ll calm down! Groupwork at the OakDragon Camp. Are you coming this year? There’s a definite reason why the timing of the weekly meditation changes in terms of clock-time, though not in natural time. When I was with the Council of Nine thirty years ago (I compiled a book for them), they asked the human group involved with them to st ..read more