podcasts – Notes from the Far Beyond

Amidst the Chaos and Dismay

Bombs are falling, strongmen are flouncing their stuff and the Megamachine happily strafes another family. It looks as if everything is going wrong.

In a way, it is, though not quite. These are the growing pains of the global community. We are learning how not to do it. And there’s more going on underneath.

Perhaps you could call this psycho-spiritual geopolitics. Or parapolitics.

I wrote this piece in 2003 on the buildup to the Iraq War and it’s pertinent to give it another spin as the Iran War unfolds. It’s an extract from my 2003 book ‘Healing the Hurts of Nations‘.

That’s what this is about. The unconscious pain, guilt and shadows in the psyches of nations, which cause them to act as they do. And what we need to do to deal with our divisiveness and wars.

With sound collected from the birds of Grumbla in Cornwall, on an early February morning this year, 2026.

Love, Palden

It’s here:

https://www.palden.co.uk/podcasts.html

or here on Spotify (also on Apple and Google):

Today I was interviewed online about the time thirty-plus years ago when I worked with the Council of Nine, compiling a book for them called The Only Planet of Choice – essential briefings from deep space. This is the story of what happened in the making of the book.

The interviewer, Greg Mallozzi in USA, asked interesting questions, about how the channelling sessions worked, and what I thought about the genuineness of the Nine, and what I think about the communications thirty years later.

I also spoke about the remarkable force-field around my house at the time I was working on the book, and about the process of editing it into its final form. And about the transformative effect it had on me.

So if you have read ‘Only Planet’ this will probably interest you. And if you haven’t, some clues about the Nine are here:

https://www.palden.co.uk/nine.html

And here’s the podcast recorded today (Thurs 5 March 2026):

That’s a picture of me in my Twenties! Erk.

Love, Palden.

Old Blighty

Britain: Librator and Oppressor

A short audio history of the Isles of Britain – in one hour flat.

We Brits, we’re proud of our history but most of us just know snippets about the Romans, 1066, Henry VIII and World War Two.

Let me take you on a 6,000 year journey to see the forming of a nation.

It’s the story of an island people and their gifts and tribulations, and a succession of periods, phases, invasions, migrations, ups and downs.

It’s not just about kings, battles and acts of parliament – the usual stuff dished up as history. It’s about the collective experience of the British, the effect we’ve had on the world and the way this story affects us now.

It’s a chapter from my 2003 book Healing the Hurts of Nations. Whether or not you’re British, you might find this interesting.

Love, Palden

It’s here:
https://www.palden.co.uk/podcasts.html

or here on Spotify (it’s on Google and Apple too):

Late Life

Sooner or later, it hits us – old age.

For people of my generation this can be a shock – we weren’t prepared for this. You get creaky. You can’t handle things you used to be able to do.

Gravity gets heavier, bodily frailties set in, people forget you and doctors start taking over your life.

But there’s something special about this last stage of life – it’s a chance to complete the story of our lives and bring things to some sort of conclusion. If we ignore this, there can be quite a lot of baggage to carry into the afterlife.

This is about the deepest and potentially the richest time of our life-cycle, when we can advance psycho-spiritually in ways that, earlier in life, we used to pay large amounts for, going on courses and retreats and doing snazzy practices.

I can’t chop logs and climb hills like I used to, but another mobility has arisen instead, deep down inside.

Getting old is about growing wiser, not getting stiff, conservative and grumpy.

It’s here:

or here: https://www.palden.co.uk/podcasts.html

With love, Palden

The Tuareg of the Sahara

I’ve been working with a village of Tuareg for ten years, in a small people-sized support operation. They live in the Sahara desert, a day away from the historic city of Timbuktu in Mali.

We restocked their goats and camels after a terrible drought, helped them dig a new well and build a small village school.

But now I need to pull out – I can’t continue with things I used to be able to do. But I don’t want to abandon them.

So this pod tells the story, and about the dilemma of a humanitarian with a need to pass this on.

With love, Palden

Thanks to Constanze Küppers in Germany for prompting me to make this pod

Or find it on my podcast page at https://www.palden.co.uk/podcasts.html

Fingers

I find that, as I’m growing down, I’m going into transitional phases where things change and I have to review and revise what I can do and can’t do, and all sorts of other things in between. This get tricky when the abilities I’m losing are a deep part of my identity.

So, as a writer and communicator I’ve spent bazillions of hours, days and weeks banging away on typewriter and computer keyboards. But my fingers are losing their accuracy, and I can’t do it like I used to be able to.

It’s called peripheral neuropathy in medical speak – loss of feeling and coordination in the fingers and feet. It’s a funny sensation of non-feeling where feeling ought to be, a bit like music that’s turned down too low.

I’m getting an impression my blogs are too long for some readers – they’re a 15-minute read – and they tend to stretch synapses quite a bit.

So I think I’m going to do more podcasts. Or, in some cases, both.

Here’s my last blog, about pain, as a podcast, and you can find it on Spotify, Google and Apple Podcasts, such as here:

or on my podcast page here:

https://palden.co.uk/podcasts.html

And you’re welcome to lend it your ears!

Love, Palden

Paldywan stands on the power spot at Boscawen-un stone circle

Consciousness Fields

Here’s my latest podcast. It’s all about why the ancients built their sacred sites. Well, my perception of it.

The Nine Maidens, West Penwith, Cornwall

There are thousands of megalithic sites around Britain and in other lands. The ancients didn’t build them for frivolous reasons – it had to bring them definite benefit to make it worth it, however they saw that. It was a big investment with longterm payoffs, going on for many centuries.

It’s all to do with cranked-up consciousness fields and the possibilities that become available when we do focused consciousness work inside them – at power points in space and during power points in time.

Reality’s rules can change and remarkable things can be achieved, even with practical, real-life outcomes. That’s what this podcast is all about. It’s about the way reality can be changed through inner work – or inner work combined with outer work.

Also, we become changed by doing so – this helps solve problems in remarkable ways, also reducing impediments we ourselves create.

It’s here: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6yNZhWIWJjbC8skroDcfx3?si=MQ-5F_cWTbKCuN1iat0SLw

or on my podcast page:

https://www.palden.co.uk/podcasts.html

With love, Palden

Tipping into the Future

A new podcast

Here are some thoughts on the current vexatious world situation and some of the threads that lie behind it. It’s all about the incremental North-to-South shift of world power, about people against the Megamachine, and Gaza and Israel, the decline of the West, and a few things like that.

Are we entering the future facing forwards or facing backwards? This is a key question in our time.

Listen on Spotify (it’s also on Apple and Google Podcasts):

or go to my podcast page: https://palden.co.uk/podcasts.html

Should it interest you, here are two relevant articles I’ve written in former times:
+ An astrological article I wrote about the 2020s, written back in 2020:
⁠https://penwithbeyond.blog/2020s/
+ And here’s something I wrote in 2011 when in Bethlehem during the Arab Revolutions, about Hamas and its relationship with Fateh (the Palestine Authority in the West Bank). It’s pertinent now, for those of you who are into more in-depth thinking around Palestine.
⁠www.palden.co.uk/pop/hamas-and-fatah.html⁠

With love, Palden

Reality Fields

A new podcast

The ancients worked with a kind of consciousness technology, and they designed their sacred sites for this purpose. They located them carefully, building them over underground water and energy-vortices, orienting them to the rising and setting points of the sun and moon, constructing them to reflect and embody the fundamental principles of the universe.

They did this to create spaces – crucibles – in which to go into altered states of consciousness. Here they could generate reality-fields that enabled them to reach into things and fix them from the inside.

They lived in a very different world to ours, with no need to build cities or empires since they were advanced in a completely different way. There’s something about this that we need to re-learn in our day, because it concerns our future. And that’s what this podcast is all about.

With love, Palden

It’s an extract from my book Shining Land, which is available online. A new update of the book is coming out soon.

Or go to my podcast page: https://www.palden.co.uk/podcasts.html

Intuition

A new podcast

Following on from Inner Doctors, this is about a related issue, a pathway, a way of processing, a way of answering questions and solving problems.

Sometimes, with a wry twist, I call it intwitting – this is etymologically rooted in the Germanic word Wit, meaning intelligence or awareness.

A cultural bias in our modern world tends to regard intuitives as twits, as somehow weak, foolish and irrational, and this is unwise.

Many great inventors, entrepreneurs and even computer programmers are intuitive, whether intentionally or not. Eureka moments are big moments in history, even if many remain unrecorded.

We’ve had our intuition and instincts trained out of us by religion and education, particularly through doubt and fear, and nowadays not least by mobile phones.

In this podcast I tell a few tales about how intuition works for me, how I deal with it, and its ins and outs.

Love, Palden

or you’ll find it on my site: https://www.palden.co.uk/podcasts.html