This is a recording of a talk I gave at The Hive in Penzance, Cornwall, on Friday 30th October 2026.
This is about our life’s work and the journeys of our souls through living life on Earth. If you have a sense of calling, even if you’re not sure what it is, this is for you.
Throughout my life, for both better and worse, I’ve been an annoyingly mission-driven person, so I have a few tales to tell about this.
With a few tips about how to save the world too, for good measure.
It might be the last public talk I give in this lifetime – I’ve done hundreds. As a cancer patient it’s getting more difficult to summon the energy to do public talks, and to foresee what state I’m going to be in, on a certain date, and in the evening. But we shall see.
Two limited-edition evening talks with Palden Jenkins a decrepit old new age Penwithian from another millennium!
at The Hive in Penzance, Cornwall, TR18 4TP. Fridays 25th Sept and 23rd Oct, 7.00pm.
A 1960s veteran with a life-story to tell, and now in the end period of my life, I’ve come into a few insights along the way. I invite you to come and partake of whatever comes up or comes down on the day.
Teetering on the edge of the unknown, this is about our personal lives, our community belonging and our national and global futures.
Back in 2020 I described the late 2020s as an ‘avalanche of events’. Well, here we are. We and the world are being squeezed, stretched, shaken and squirted into a new, changeful, insecure reality in which it’s really difficult to see what is to come next.
But it’s coming anyway and it’s getting bigger and deeper.
It is this that will bring the changes that are needed.
Just as, in our own lives, we’re challenged to step into our true selves, so it is with Planet Earth. Earth seeks to realign with her purpose, her soul, and we, as itchy nits on her skin, are a part of that process.
In a sense, we’re losing control. But don’t fall for the idea that we’re doomed, that World War Three is just round the corner – it’s a trap of the mind and heart. It’s time to choose.
Here we stand on the surfboard of history, yet there’s another level of balance and control that comes up underneath. It’s all about riding that wave.
Seven years ago my life changed thanks to cancer. I was given a year or two to live and I’ve been hovering on the edge ever since. It yields insights. One of them is this: the more we work with change within ourselves, habituating ourselves to shedding skins and starting over, the more adept we become for the time when the big change really comes.
In the end, we’re all dead and forgotten. Everything that begins comes to an end. Yet we don’t die: we’re reborn into another world. These are not the End Times: this is just the beginning.
Here’s the audio recording of my recent Aha Class in Penzance, about participating in changing the world. It’s my thoughts on the realities of being a ‘world server’, about rattling the bars of our cages and contributing to furthering what we believe to be right.
It’s in two 50 minute parts, with some (I hope) interesting anecdotes thrown in, about the dilemmas, tests, magic moments and benefits we can encounter along the way.
Free to listen and download – no strings. You’ll find it here:
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