Rendezvous with Jamie McGlue
I have just published my debut book of poetry, "Aye Am: Poems in Search of Spiritual Awakening". In this episode I read 7 of the poems as a taster, and if you enjoy them you are warmly welcomed to head to Amazon and purchase your own paperback copy of the book. https://amzn.eu/d/2qgeKEw Also, for those in Ireland, this Friday July 4th there will be a music and poetry evening at Saint Columbanus Hall in Howth, at which I'll be reciting poetry and my brother Mark will be performing music, among other poets and musicians – come join us if you're free! The craic will be mighty and for €10...
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A song we of The Flamin' Babies recorded recently.
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There's a paradox: it seems undeniable that we must help love overcome ignorance, aggression, exploitation and evil – but it also seems to many of us undeniable that ultimately all is well in the universe and inner peace is the only sane response and worthy aim for the individual seeking to be helpful. I discuss why each is a valid perspective, containing half the truth, and how I feel together they can be reconciled so we get the full picture, the balance. Audio: (And the usual places.)
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Welcome back to the podcast, dear friends. After a well-needed break, we are back to the magical portal of intersoul communion via virtual rendezvous. This one is about something very simple and very powerful: Do your thing. Remember that we'll all be dead one day and you want to be able to say you lived on your own terms, that you shone your true colours whether or not others gave you the Van Gogh treatment, and that you offered others your own angle on existence – just by being yourself and doing what comes naturally. There are so many small ways we can do our thing, which will make us so...
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Sometimes when I tell people about my core three policies – free speech, fair borders, full sovereignty – I feel just a little self-conscious, because I know many people hearing them will automatically jump to the suspicion of racism, anti-immigrant ideology and hatred. None of these are nice things at all! Hence the tension. And yet these 3 Fs are the true point of balance that all societies require in order to flourish in justice, kindness, love and peace. The truth is that being genuinely open-minded often involves things that seem ignorant or dangerous suddenly revealing themselves to...
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To my dear fellow Irish, you have until midnight tonight (11:59pm Tuesday 12th November) to register to vote in the upcoming and EXTREMELY important general election. The state has in the last 5 years trampled all traditions and respect for civil liberties, democracy, the well-being and aspirations of the Irish nation, and our right to sovereign self-governance. It seems there is no bad idea they haven’t already tried to force on us or at least have flirted with, so it behoves us to do our job as free humans and vote them out of power. We needn’t get distracted by whether their insane...
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Why are Democrat and Dem-leaning voters choosing Donald Trump in massive numbers? Because Kamala Harris is clearly a puppet of ruthless corporations, intelligence agencies and corrupt bureaucracies which seek profit even at the cost of human liberty and dignity. Meanwhile Trump is more mysterious, now seeming to have learnt his lessons and truly seeking to do right by America and by the world, a force for peace, freedom and justice for all peoples. Yes, it is possible that this too is an act and in fact Trump will ultimately serve the globalist elites, but we don’t know this for sure, and my...
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I love people and find beauty in every culture of the world. The vast majority of people are cool, kind, honest and interesting; it’s just the crazy minority which stir up all the trouble. However, that doesn’t mean I want every person in the world to come live in my house, nor to come live in my country. That would be ridiculous. You can have too much of a good thing, and immigration is only good in certain times and places, with local consent. Ireland has an endangered (by colonialism) native language, young people fleeing due to a brutal housing crisis and inflation (money-printing)...
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The ‘woke’ in Ireland who call anyone wanting to limit immigration ‘far-right’ and ‘racist’, waving rainbow flags as if afraid we’ll forget they exist, always talking about ‘trans rights’, climate change and protecting the vulnerable from ‘hate speech’ – ironically, these people would in most cases have been Nazis in Nazi Germany, dogmatists in Catholic Ireland, and fundamentalist supporters of the Taliban if they had been raised in Afghanistan. Because the majority of these people, I believe, hold their views not from independent thinking but from conformism, from...
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I doubt it. Or if some of them do, they dishonestly hide it – which might be even worse. But we simply cannot trust any person who pretends to know everything and to always be right. That is the perspective of someone who will be blind to incoming information that could uplift and expand, clarify their models of reality. Ironically, the loudest and most confident people in Irish politics – overwhelmingly the Establishment parties in government and ‘opposition’ – are in fact those we should listen to least. While those who speak seldom and quietly, carefully, due to not being totally...
info_outlineNotice the exclamation marks. This is extremely serious. As serious as it gets. You may or may not have noticed, powerful leaders in the USA and Europe are increasingly beating the drums of war against Russia. This would very likely mean nuclear war, as Russia’s arsenal is greater than America’s and they would not be able to compete in a traditional war. In this episode I do my best to make us remember how beautiful, vital and fragile peace is, and why we must all take a good look in the mirror and ask if we can do more to bring inner peace – this being the fundamental condition for outer peace in the world – and to influence the tide of opinion around us to insisting upon peace among nations. Because America’s pushing for WW3 while pretending to seek peace has naturally seen an increased aggression in Russia’s rhetoric, bringing Earth closer to armageddon than it has been since JFK miraculously resolved the Cuban Missile Crisis back in 1962. We must act. Alongside the Ukraine crisis, we have the crises in Israel-Palestine and potentially Taiwan; these make the need for peace and diplomacy globally all the more urgent to re-establish. Events now have the ability to spiral beyond the point of no return faster than you would find out about it even by Twitter. We absolutely MUST calm things down, if not for our own jaded and often fatalistic selves then for the innocent children who need grownups.
Even if Russia had started the war in Ukraine, nuclear apocalypse would not be justified. Two wrongs don’t make a right, and deleting civilisation only serves injustice to everyone. Even then, if Russia were to blame, diplomacy and compromise would be the answer. But I here explain in detail why in fact it was the USA who began the war; we could say either in 2014 with their overthrow of Ukraine’s democratically elected government, or after the fall of the Berlin Wall, when NATO promised not to move one inch eastward – a promise they then broke, time and again, doing all they could to make Russia into an ‘other’ and enemy. We citizens of the West must have empathy and the ability to question our own narratives in service to peace, and above all we must find the peace and forgiveness within to cool our emotions and reconnect to reason, to love, to humanity – and then act in whatever way we can to steer the course of history away from the rocks of collective psychosis, to love’s light. Meditate. Educate yourself on the conflict (RFK Jr.’s podcast has several episodes on this, as does Dave Smith’s “Part of the Problem” podcast) and share this with everyone you can, from friends and family to colleagues and strangers who might happen to mention Russia. Call or write your democratic representatives and the unelected bureaucrats. Email local journalists and ask them to write stories advocating peace and/or exposing the true history of the Ukraine conflict. Anything you can do, please do it now. Our children thank you.