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S14 Ep 551Episode 551: Consequences of your actions

well … Happy New Year … while some people were breading hate … I was cooking and eating food with my family & friends

Jan 3, 20264 min

S13 Ep 550Episode 550: The world feels a little incapable of Love right now

I can make excuses for the energy … for people not being able to receive .. however the contort and the blocking of beauty I struggle to make excuses for .. Teen Book: The Apple Tart of Hopehttps://www.goodreads.com/book/show/142318557-the-apple-tart-of-hope-by-moore-fitzgerald-sarah-2015-paperback?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=qsMca7wf28&rank=2

Dec 23, 20258 min

S13 Ep 549Episode 549: the winter solstice - grianstad an gheimhridh

It literally means the stopping of the sun …

Dec 21, 20254 min

S13 Ep 548Episode 548: It’s an impossible energy to create in …

I’ve never felt so jaded at the end of a year.. why I’m workign my way back through all my notes and journals..

Dec 19, 20254 min

S13 Ep 547Episode 547: Why I send Christmas Cards to my Students?

I need someone to wake up to the realities of the trauma of internment and hunger strikes and not allow the British government to tip the North back into troubles … https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1981_Irish_hunger_strikeI’m reflecting greatly on the themes of unconditional love …

Dec 18, 20254 min

S13 Ep 546Episode 546: Mothers and Children in bathrooms - the military operation

I don’t think labels are ‘born’ - I think we create them … like some personalities require privacy more than others Does a natural body function need to be such a problem? When do you become independent enough for your own toilet function?

Dec 16, 20254 min

S13 Ep 545Episode 545: What does it take for you to be content as an artist?

Yo-Yo Ma and freinds https://www.audible.com/pd/B0FXHDQX92?source_code=ASSORAP0511160006&share_location=player_overflow

Dec 15, 20252 min

S13 Ep 544Episode 544: Sponsorship for Christmas FM in Ireland not resonating

I asked a search engine. - why are people boycotting Coca Cola?People are boycotting Coca-Cola due to concerns over its alleged involvement in unethical labor practices, environmental issues, and its operations in disputed regions, particularly in relation to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Additionally, rumors about the company laying off Latino workers and reporting them to immigration officials have fueled calls for a boycott among Latino communities.I can’t believe anyone in Ireland going around an Irish supermarket feels Coca Cola is the right sponsor for ‘the magic of Christmas’Christ under the Rubble:https://youtu.be/Q-1brSPn66w?si=FVNeuagt9CZmPkpF

Dec 7, 20254 min

S13 Ep 543Episode 543: Christmas Reading List for all the ages

Teen and Adult:AudiobooksThe Rose Field - 3rd Dust Book by Philip Pullman https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/228587642-the-rose-fieldBrigands & Breadknives (Audio or hardback) Travis Baldreehttps://www.goodreads.com/book/show/222376572-brigands-breadknivesAdult: (Her books tend to be good audiobooks too) The Wonder Boy of Whistle Stop by Fannie Flagghttps://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51457328-the-wonder-boy-of-whistle-stop?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_14Non - Fiction Adult:Book of Lives by Margret Atwood https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/223854625-book-of-lives?ref=nav_sb_ss_2_13Adult Crime:The KIlling Stones by Anne Cleeveshttps://www.goodreads.com/book/show/222376507-the-killing-stones?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_14Poetry:The Collected Poetry, 1968-1998Nikki Giovannihttps://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39102.The_Collected_Poetry_1968_1998Teen Graphic Novel:Heartstopper 5 Alice Osemanhttps://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53344030-heartstopper?ref=nav_sb_ss_5_12Children’s Christmas:The Christmas Pighttps://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57730258-the-christmas-pig?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_17The Good Bear by Sarah Leanhttps://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52591098-the-good-bear?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_13Past Editions of what am I reading for Patreon:https://www.patreon.com/collection/1535378?view=expanded

Dec 5, 20255 min

S13 Ep 542Episode 542: Please bring back Orasi sugar free milk … below this is a conversation about balanced plant based diets

I think it is shocking how uneducated we are about what vitamins we need on a plant based diet.. everyone talks about vitamin B12 … but not Vitamin D or A Or can orasi remarket themselves with a barista sugar free milk? Like just take the ingredients of the no sugar drink and pour it into the barista packet!!! https://orasivegetale.com/en-us/https://orasivegetale.com/en-us/almond/

Dec 4, 20258 min

S13 Ep 541Episode 541: Below the Cruelty of Control

I’m shocked at how many people would like us to return to cruelty in school ..

Dec 4, 20256 min

S13 Ep 540Episode 540: Kindness as a curse

How you don’t become bitter with the world .. in acceptance Excellent Teen book on this topic:https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/142318557-the-apple-tart-of-hope-by-moore-fitzgerald-sarah-2015-paperback?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=fbLtxfYULv&rank=2

Dec 3, 20254 min

S13 Ep 539Episode 539: Change from Within - Point Practice for change

Join collectiove practice:https://www.liblife.net/Donate Now:https://secure.qgiv.com/event/transformative-change/

Dec 2, 202511 min

S13 Ep 538Episode 538: Grief is the price you pay for love in a world that seems cruel

True origins of this quote “Grief is the price we pay for love” Colin Murray Parkes 1928– English psychiatristWe all have a role to play as the world exposes a cruelty in humanity that I believe we are re-writing in real time .. we have to witness the cruelty and play our part and what practices we have to stay in our own truth … executive order list:https://ballotpedia.org/Donald_Trump%27s_executive_orders_and_actions,_2025Ottoman Empire role in the saving Irish people during the famine I did fact check this … as it was instagram … https://www.instagram.com/p/DRgp9DnjSbP/

Dec 1, 20259 min

S13 Ep 537Episode 537: Many people only experience unconditional love from animals not humans

I’d never considered why people might find grief of an animal harder than a human and feel guilty for this fact …

Nov 27, 20252 min

S13 Ep 536Episode 536: Mamdani and Trump … it takes a lot to find middle ground

It’s a lot less work to take sides and be polarised

Nov 27, 20255 min

S13 Ep 535Episode 535: Allowing Children a Childhood to Heal Generational Pain

what it takes to allow children to have a childhood and form their own compassion.

Nov 26, 20255 min

S13 Ep 534Episode 534: French Film Lover - colours of time

Colours of time:https://www.imdb.com/title/tt31411349/https://youtu.be/_sTdOm2BID8?si=nJMdH667geOCuLyiCedric Klapisch - Interview:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjaHzgHZJIQFederico Fellinihttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federico_FelliniStill life book:https://goodreads.com/book/show/57001545-still-life

Nov 25, 20254 min

S13 Ep 533Episode 533: Learning from Nuremberg

There will be a lot of resources to this podcast please take the time to go through them … Ben Ferencz, the last living Nuremberg prosecutor, has died at age 103 | 60 Minuteshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-uxyrHJ_mE&list=WLhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-8m5YHt__4Nuremberg Trials :https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_trialsThe impacts on the German people:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vy21VoWlxAsDouglas Kelleyhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Kelley#PublicationsHis warning for Americahttps://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/nuremberg-psychiatrist-had-a-warning-for-today-we-spoke-to-his-son/ar-AA1QEj83Nuremberg interview:with Doulas Kelleyhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSvucjc52VI&list=WLRobert Jackson - look at hsi supreme court caseshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_H._JacksonJack El-Hai on researching "The Nazi and the Psychiatrist": Were the Nazis mad or bad?Book that started this whole film:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aROZke1Kj4&list=WL&index=4

Nov 24, 202511 min

S13 Ep 532Episode 532: Return to sharing - the balance between apathy and awareness

Japan’s Low Desire Societyhttps://youtu.be/Koow0Q6EiXU?si=Wf1HzflJOG_bweYNJungs thoughts on sharing “Carl Jung believed that the constant need to share our experiences can distance us from our authentic selves and hinder true self-understanding. He suggested that inner silence and reflection are more valuable for personal growth than the urge to narrate our lives to others.”

Nov 24, 20255 min

S13 Ep 531Episode 531: A week off podcasting - surfing the current energy

what I would prescribe right now is play … whatever that is for you … Rumi poem - night of unionhttps://www.poetryverse.com/rumi-poems/night-union

Nov 15, 20251 min

S13 Ep 530Episode 530: How a Community approach can eradicate Extreme poverty - lessons from Kerala

In a world where the richest nation can’t support their own people… One news article of many:https://scroll.in/article/1088384/beyond-statistics-the-more-important-lesson-from-keralas-poverty-eradication-initiative

Nov 13, 20254 min

S13 Ep 529Episode 529: As we approach the various religious festivals - I feel the hypocrisy more than ever

I’m honest for me it’s about the lights .. generosity and lights Christ in Rubble - I year ago https://youtu.be/Md_hw_A-oIs?si=p7AxZzt7310LwI9F

Nov 12, 20255 min

S13 Ep 528Episode 528: When you can’t write … read and then read some more

Why I read up to 15 books at a time … Follow me on goodreads if you like:https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/51352848-naois-o-reilly

Nov 11, 20252 min

S13 Ep 527Episode 527: Benchmarking - why I re-read the same book every November

What does it take for you to press reset? Have you created the life you want to be living? Fannie Flagg - A redbird christm,as https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/199532.A_Redbird_Christmas?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=wl4DHfUfm8&rank=1

Nov 10, 20254 min

S13 Ep 526Episode 526: What is the point of being a trillionaire?

I worry that the same type of personalities will be drawn to the sheer success of jiust being a trillionaire Without considering the impacts .. without needing to care about the individuals role and place in society .. just someone to feed their machine The coral reef: https://youtu.be/7oy-viAbKSM?si=bSYirpf2_6Q3aDu4https://youtu.be/mQ10xBl8XMQ?si=R615iJ_yWM3U3N-Whttps://youtu.be/eNqbSi_6KdA?si=cLd0JVOUKMme6DQX

Nov 7, 20254 min

S13 Ep 525Episode 525: Introduction to John Moriarty & Manchán Magan

I’m sorry I couldn’t find Manchán Magan name in my brain! I din’t want to pronounce wrong too .. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UsrWkI5LZs The podcast series:https://www.audible.com/pd/B0CK9GY1RP?source_code=ASSORAP0511160006&share_location=player_overflow Introduction to poems of Brendan Kennelly: https://poetryarchive.org/poet/brendan-kennelly/

Nov 6, 20254 min

S13 Ep 524Episode 524: We need to stop interchanging socialism and leftism - we need a new political focus; humanity

I worry that leftist and socialist parties are so desperate to be just elected rather than speak to their core values that they are willing to speak to a far right propaganda just for votes. It’s no better than what the ‘other’ team are doing! One article on the differences between socialism and leftismhttps://thisvsthat.io/leftist-vs-socialismI also simply typed in for definitions on each.

Nov 6, 202514 min

S13 Ep 523Episode 523: Rest Day - after the wrong timezone

It hasn’t all settled yet .. however I have this double feeling of joy but also doom as I know the wheels will really come off now … I’m not ready to talk though (yet)

Nov 5, 20251 min

S13 Ep 522Episode 522: Ageism in the spotlight instead of personality disorders

I’ll be doing a bigger podcast soon where i look at terms such as socialism .. leftism and so on … Interview where Dr John Gartner looks at Trump's mental health … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mzz_xOjwsH8It all not done much for ageism and particularly for older men! Connect through Patreon - it has a good messenger app! https://www.patreon.com/purplepsychology

Nov 4, 20259 min

S13 Ep 521Episode 521: Noise of the world; The fragments we aren’t meant to be able to put together … if you don’t want migration; make the world safer?

A projection Shuffle example… does the vice president of a country not have more to do with.. such as aid to Jamaica? Join my Patreon for free posts .. I don’t post on social media https://www.patreon.com/purplepsychologyClip:https://youtu.be/nEoD6CRMb6w?si=V_eRcqyiCCWOUBy9

Nov 3, 20256 min

S13 Ep 520Episode 520: Role of the media

the media has not changed your responsibility with the shifting landscape of the media internet world

Nov 2, 20254 min

S13 Ep 519Episode 519: Why do women feel so angst every half term?

Life has in fact got easier for women (in an Irish context)so why is this not reflected? Who’s expectations are they feeding? And what is it like to grow up as a child feeling such a burden?

Oct 31, 20256 min

S13 Ep 517Episode 517: Why outliers don’t speak in group

Will we ever create a world with no outliers?

Oct 28, 20258 min

S13 Ep 518Episode 518: Why expression and creation matters so much for transmutation.

There are many more options on what to do with what we are absorbing that we think .. what is your form of expression? Why are you doing it?

Oct 27, 20255 min

S13 Ep 506Episode 506: The Projection Shuffle

The new interview style that is being absorbed into our society as a disgusting role model

Oct 27, 20255 min

S13 Ep 516Episode 516: Ireland’s first grassroots campaign president

Who started all this flag stuff?

Oct 26, 20259 min

S13 Ep 515Episode 515: Energy responsibility

Pressing reset by going into the city.. the conversation around energy hygiene Why Podomatic are fabulous!

Oct 24, 20256 min

S13 Ep 514Episode 514: Energy Battles of the light; I’d settle for a lack of interference

I like to have somewhere to go where everyone had open centres and a massive heart space … and didn’t make it weird .. dogs don’t make openness weird and they get energy and the unseen way of moving in the world Jane Goodall and dogs:https://www.instagram.com/p/DP1fsx0kRLT/

Oct 23, 20253 min

S13 Ep 513Episode 513: Apple Video Podcasts having a moment…

Apple video podcasts are not loading properly … especially some of the earlier episodes .. I think today’s is loading … You can always watch these on podomatic:https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/purplepsychology

Oct 22, 20250 min

S13 Ep 512Episode 512: Keeping Jane Goodall’s legacy going

I love the solgan ‘It started with Jane and it continues with you’https://secure.janegoodall.org

Oct 22, 20255 min

S13 Ep 511Episode 511: Children can’t hold hands? Why?

that writer’s life where we take inspiration from everywhere and anywhere

Oct 21, 20254 min

S13 Ep 510Episode 510: We need to focus on Abuse and Corruption

I worry that we are being distracted .. and the INFJ in me wonders who is really organising this … One option of independent news … find your own choices https://youtu.be/IwS7c8NxbVc?si=eXxLQRb-Zk-BRFwK

Oct 20, 20255 min

S13 Ep 509Episode 509: When politicians don’t condescend at you …

I’m noticing that for the 1st time a candidates posters have not been vandalised ..

Oct 19, 20252 min

S13 Ep 508Episode 508: 50 year ago was great?

Based on a piece by Bernie Sanders https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lolm1jiIomo

Oct 19, 20258 min

S13 Ep 507Episode 507: Using audiobooks to chill

Two of my survival routines .. audiobooks and compression therapy

Oct 17, 20252 min

S13 Ep 505Episode 505: Why am I recording such a non-sigma podcast?

Subscriber podcasts found here https://podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/purple-psychology/id981266976?ign-mpt=uo%3D10

Oct 16, 20254 min

S13 Ep 504Episode 504: The disconnect in the wider world

I follow the moon to put out work and it’s in the wrong spot right now for me to want to record thoughts ..

Oct 15, 20254 min

S13 Ep 503Episode 503: Part B - The sheer disgustingness of a 61 ton graveyard

That 61 tons of rubble is a grave yard

Oct 14, 20251 min

S13 Ep 502Episode 502: The world is disgustingly racist

If humanity doesn’t unravel this thread … I don’t honestly know where we are going

Oct 14, 20255 min