True Tales Of Enlightenment

As we continue to traverse the world of blinkered, polarised thinking it is important that we elevate our thought processes and begin to examine the possible origins of thought itself. How do we know where our thoughts come from? It feels like they're generated by our minds, but could that be simply because that is what we have been taught? All resources mentioned in the podcast can be found on the Resources page.

What is the benefit of developing a sense of inner neutrality and how much responsibility do we have to get involved in solving other people's problems? Often, we are the keepers of other people's secrets, or we are privy to information that may help others to make informed decisions yet we stay quiet. Why?

Wisdom is only gained by walking your own path. In this week's podcast I take some time to walk through the forest and drop beneath the swirl of chaotic energy that permeates our existence. I talk about the danger of substituting information and knowledge for wisdom and identifying too much with our intellect. The shift that many have spoken about has already happened and what we are witnessing are the death throes of a dying system. How can we develop feelings of internal support and peace while the storms rage on?

The heatwave has turned the Highlands into a jungle. It's so green and lush we could easily be in the tropics. In this week's podcast I talk briefly about Geoengineering, the latest plan to manage the climate, before delving more deeply into the subject of personality types.

In this week's podcast I talk about ancient civilisations, human origins and climate change as a way to demonstrate our desire for, and ability to digest, "A Little Bit of Knowledge". Delving deeply into topics that we believe are 'a done deal' is a foolproof way to exercise and transform our minds. Will you take up this week's challenge to investigate the opposing side of an argument you are 100% sure of?

In this week's podcast I talk about the importance and power of symbols, from corporate brands to spiritual images. We are influenced by these symbols from birth, yet we are encouraged to view life as a collection of nouns without meaning because we have lost the use of metaphorical language, which formed the worldview of our ancestors.

I hit the road again in this week's podcast because being outside and connected to nature brings me more clarity, but why? Once we understand that our own frequency and bio-rhythms need to be in sync with that of the Earth, we can understand why being in nature is so important to our well-being. Not only do we become energised but we learn the lessons that nature has to teach us, the main one being unity.

In this week's podcast I talk about freedom without consequences. It sounds like a movie title, doesn't it? And in a way it is a fairy tale, yet this concept underpins so many of the social movements towards change. We spend so much time trying to change the behaviour of others, either in our personal lives or the collective, because we feel offended or threatened. Yet these feelings come from a deep sense of unworthiness; an unconscious feeling that we all have in common.

In this week’s podcast I talk about the elusive and multi-layered concept of Time. Whether it is the pressure of clock time or the emotions associated with psychological time, we experience time as a construct of either society or our own minds. To escape the confines of time we need to learn to connect to our own timeline and begin to work with “Father Time”; our greatest teacher.

This week I look at the evidence for contact with inter-dimensional beings and ask why the subject is often ridiculed. I take a look at the world of channelling, that has become so much a part of the New Age Movement and move on to discuss ways we can become more discerning when seeking information from outside sources, be they cosmic, divine or otherwise.

Following on from last week's podcast, I have created a guided mediation to help you release the past, set intentions for the future and relax body and mind.

In this week's podcast, I ask what part our own beliefs and intentions play in scientific experiments and how the power of intention can help us shape the world at large. With the help of biologist Rupert Sheldrake's book "The Science Delusion" I talk about the assumptions made by the Materialist paradigm and discuss how the Placebo Effect and the Observer Effect are helping to upgrade this view of the universe.

Join me this week as I talk about the importance of creating our own communities as a way to support each other. I speak about the rural community I live in and how living here has crystallised my sense of purpose in life. We all have a purpose but many have yet to discover it. Some people are simply here to be frequency holders, embodiers of love and compassion, as Eckart Tolle speaks about in his book "A New Earth".

Join me this week as I take a hike around the hills and talk about the concept of karma. Each spiritual tradition has ideas about why bad things happen in the world. Karma, in a traditional sense, is a form of cosmic justice that means we all eventually reap what we sow. But is this really true?

In this week's podcast I discuss the scientific and spiritual nature of consciousness, psychic phenomenon and ask if the fraction of reality we are able to perceive through our five sense is the only reality available to us.

In this week's podcast I talk about change and how we can develop a sense of "stable flexibility" that gives us a foundation to stand upon when things get rocky. Our lives involve a continual process of death and rebirth, where we get to release old beliefs and even our sense of identity, in order to move on to pastures new.

In this week's podcast I talk about the current trend towards extreme simplicity and why this method of promoting change is destined to create more problems than it solves. Whether we are talking about women's rights, differences between genders or climate change, the solutions are never black and white.

In this week's podcast I talk about the importance of discipline in our everyday lives. Not the kind of discipline that we associate with control or punishment, but a higher octave of consciousness that keeps us from the inertia that often dominates our personal growth.

In this week's podcast I talk about the importance of creativity and intuition. Being creative elevates us above our ordinary consciousness and connects us to our lifeblood. It gives us energy as it is an active rather than a passive pursuit. Creative expression stimulates different areas of our brain and brings with it feelings of inspiration while alleviating stress.

In this week's podcast I talk about the importance of getting in touch with the invisible world, the world beyond our five senses, as a way to loosen our attachment to the idea that we are material girls and boys, living in a material world.