Purple Psychology

A weird journey into my brain this week and how I can finally describe something after a year of thought. I needed to realise you drag the centre of the labyrinth up out of the page 3D to form the top of the pyramid! The out of my comfort zone links to some energy readers who inspired my random thoughts .. I take inspiration from a whole host of random places! https://youtube.com/c/AwakeningToSpirit (It was the oak men reading about the Rhinos)https://youtube.com/channel/UCi3wWQtEY9JtRxLsvqKe8Kg (The pyramid reading - can't remember the name and the one about the cosmic egg)

I don't know what to call this podcast - being a muggle - being in a zone where I feel so overwhelmed that I have a new reference place for trying to discern a way through humanity this week. Have you ever questioned where your ancestor's wealth comes from? What they took part in? If you passed a row of images and sculptures depicting the barbaric past actions - would you represent, teach and protect others from a different place? *Disclaimer - I am not a medical doctor and none of my advice is to replace that of consulting medical advice and help. And the second disclaimer - some of the content is upsetting.

If we viewed all relationships and connections as growth how different would the world be? If we saw that we all contain masculine and feminine energy to be balanced - how would the conversations around roles, identity and gender change? Why does each person cross our path and how do we help each person's growth? What difference does this make in a true balanced romantic partnership? How would women be supported in the world?

What motivates some people to be more responsible outside of themselves? How does sensitivity to the world play its part here? How do roles associated with the masculine change the outcomes? Play White Rabbit, Red Rabbit written by Nassim Soleimanpour *I think I may have reversed the words!

I’m sorry to my younger listeners - I pride myself on having a podcast that is listened to by every span of age groups and with gender freedom ... But I’m going to end up swearing, talking about difficult topics and I’m going to mention sex and so if I don’t make this content explicit someone will flag the whole podcast. Quotes used in podcast;"To become a brahmachari means you are ecstatic by your own nature. You can be married and still be a brahmachari. It is possible because you are joyful by your own nature; you are not trying to extract joy from your husband or wife. This is how it should be. The whole world should be brahmachari. Everyone should be joyful by their own nature. If two people come together, it should be a sharing of joy, not extraction of joy from each other." Sadhguru"The Virgin (and I’m not speaking here of a sexual virgin) is the one whose search springs from her complete independence, and everything she learns is the fruit of her ability to face challenges alone.The Martyr finds her way to self-knowledge through pain, surrender and suffering.The Saint finds her true reason for living in unconditional love and in her ability to give without asking anything in return.Finally, the Witch justifies her existence by going in search of complete and limitless pleasure” Paulo Coelho, The Witch of Portobello

Why do we use language the way we do? What makes our expressions racist? Geeky project for someone: Can someone please submit a request for a black & brown unicorn? Oh and an alien one too .... Lots of other people search for this too - I’m not alone. Basically, unicorns shouldn’t just be white - there is a geeky homeschooling project for your teen ... The link for an emoji proposal https://unicode.org/emoji/proposals.htmlMy passion for Black Writers public writing on my Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/posts/49099014

A rambling podcast on vulnerability, meditation, gaming, online personas in the year of the pandemic, control, benchmarks, plugging into the Matrix!Eleanor Roosevelt quote:“Do one thing every day that scares you.”

Their two vital purposes in the world. Literacy and Difference. We need to separate out the start of a career, the industry and the individual. The 6 books discontinued never had any merits to his real work. His less well-known artwork: https://www.drseussart.com/secretandarchivePlease consider supporting my Patreon https://www.patreon.com/user?u=48642261&fan_landing=true

You can’t teach a class of 30 people differently - why not? The summary of what matters; presentation, timing, action, voice, group work, validation, judgements.

A very specific podcast for INFJs who feel like fellow unicorns - all you need to know and reflect on to be happier and more content in your weirdness. How to find the connections you seek. The book I am waiting for is Black Unicorn by Audre LordePlease consider supporting my Patreon https://www.patreon.com/user?u=48642261&fan_landing=true

A podcast that has taken 5 months of thought I mention; James Baldwin - Nobody Knows My Name - In Search of a MajorityMark Twain - "Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority it’s time to pause and reflect"The Writer Fannie Flagg What is the context I use the word? Why do we need so much consideration in its use?

The blow by blow rant I listen to weekly from my potter mother!

The concerns I have as move away from developing the individual. Why we need this understanding to overcome our inabilities inside for whatever reasons which never leave.

The benefits - why are you drawn to certain books? Why you can't just re-read my own books - the words seem to change and the benefits of using a poetry style in places. People whose names I use in the podcast and I mangle some of them (sorry): Paulo Coelho, Fannie Flagg, Anna Gavalda (Hunting and Gathering), Toni Morrison (Beloved), Alice Walker, Zora Neale Hurston, Lorraine Hansberry, Madeleine L'Engle (Wrinkle in Time), Frederick Forsyth (The Day of the Jackal) Please consider supporting my Patreon https://www.patreon.com/user?u=48642261&fan_landing=true

Change always needs a gradient - create yoursYou can’t have flow without a difference Remind yourself what is different For COVID coaster story - https://www.patreon.com/user?u=48642261

Not my title - the phrase I've been getting sent to my inbox for a year. I'm a bit battered this week - writing books takes as much as working with people personally. and what does it take to get a result? Why is it easier to just write a prescription for pills and why do we have so many medicated teens?

The failing of Irish people in being so conditional with other cultures. Why I have not simply muted some of the people who have so upset me on social media in recent weeks. Please consider supporting my Patreon https://www.patreon.com/user?u=48642261&fan_landing=true

Valentine and Saint Marius aided the Christian martyrs and secretly married couples, and for this kind deed Valentine was apprehended and dragged before the Prefect of Rome, who condemned him to be beaten to death with clubs and to have his head cut off. He suffered martyrdom on the 14th day of February, in either 269 or 270.“You must love in such a way that the person you love feels free.”― Thich Nhat HanhKahlil GibranThe Prophet (extract)Our children are not your children.They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.They come through you but not from you.And though they are with you, they belong not to you.You may give them your love but not your thoughts.For they have their own thoughts.You may house their bodies but not their souls,For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow,Which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you.For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite.And He bends you with His might that His arrows may go swift and far.Let your bending in the archer's hands be for happiness;For even as He loves the arrow that flies,So He loves the bow that is stable.Why we have St Valentine's head in Dublin and the history of two possible Valentineshttp://www.carmelites.ie/stvalentine.html

The history (for people like me who had to go learn it) What I love ... the purpose through this story (*And I've not used the hashtag)https://youtu.be/oiLltM1tJ9M

So almost a year later - what do I hope for now? That privileged countries will understand the implications of their actions.

How to deal with noise while trapped at home for COVID. It's about resetting the space, body and mind. *because I'm recording this at nearly 11pm to escape next doors dog barking - I mix up playlists and podcasts (you know what I mean)

What is COVID fatigue? Why are people pleasers suffering more? What do we need to change at this stage?

What have I learnt in 12 years? What are the shifts for me? From school to home to humanity.

Why didn't I name or hashtag Amanda Gorman in my last podcast?

My hope for the future from this week. Being able to always be the person you were at 22.

Are some personalities more racist? Are there aspects of our personality which make us racist - how do I predict non-racism? Jung Quote used - “I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.”Please consider supporting my Patreon https://www.patreon.com/user?u=48642261&fan_landing=true

I have a strange wish for 2021 that I will transition to working with individuals without need of payment.This is hopefully the first step towards this aim!That and my bigger aim to have literacy and intelligence no longer twined. Thank you https://www.patreon.com/user?u=48642261

I use two quotes form Toni Morrison's Beloved;“That anybody white could take your whole self for anything that came to mind. Not just work, kill, or maim you, but dirty you. Dirty you so bad you couldn’t like yourself anymore. Dirty you so bad you forgot who you were and couldn’t think it up.!"“His first earned purchase made him glow, never mind the turnips were withered dry. That was when he decided that to eat, walk and sleep anywhere was life as good as it got.”

I've played spot the racism in Agatha Christie for Christmas. How is this related to the horrible posts lacking understanding or compassion for a Black man who lost his life in Ireland on the 30th December?

Welcome to season 5 of the podcast - 2020 was the most illuminating year of my life - I finally feel I have a purpose big enough to take on. All I have learnt and experienced in almost 12 years poured into a soul journey. Let's begin. Please consider supporting my Patreon https://www.patreon.com/user?u=48642261&fan_landing=trueMy passion for Black Writers public writing on my Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/posts/49099014

Thank you for journeying - Thank you to all those who support me in the background ... The seismic shift that took place on the podcast this year ... the wind of change I feel! Excited for season 5...

We have an opportunity to look at 3, 20 and 200-year cycles at the moment. How to join Spirtuisim and science. My own joinery to help you find your own path over these cycles and invitation to step into the new.

Why hair matters - why it is my one materialistic need. The Dove Crown Act - please sign and support https://www.dove.com/us/en/stories/campaigns/the-crown-act.htmlThe Zurich Portrait Prize winner - Mandy O'Neill (Diane, Larkin Community College, 2018)https://www.nationalgallery.ie/art-and-artists/exhibitions/past-exhibitions/zurich-portrait-prize-2018/mandy-oneill-winner-zurich

My 100th Podcast recorded since lockdown - A very personal podcast about my writing mind spaces and how they have developed since I first started writing. How I now have this 'no-man land' space (odd nickname!) but also the 'experience space' I go into to create journeys for others. Book quoted: Imagine: How Creativity Works by Jonah Lehrer

When competition is helpful to get over perfectionism. But is a hindrance in creativity and especially group collaborations.

How has 2020 been a good year? Yes, you heard me right....

Why I admire John Lewis and Dr Jane Goodall so much. The idea of being 'in this world but not of it' as spoken about John Lewis. Reading others, questioning your work but not yourself and your true Core. Working with others to reach a place of true equality and support. the cloak of compromise we vail our Core with. John Lewis quote used: “You are a light. You are the light. Never let anyone—any person or any force—dampen, dim or diminish your light. Study the path of others to make your way easier and more abundant. Lean toward the whispers of your own heart, discover the universal truth, and follow its dictates.”*sorry one day I will find a chair which doesn't 'click' in the podcast!

Anxiety is an externally created process. It's one of the easiest ways for us to see our differences and our different needs. Anxiety is created by not being met by others as we are.

I have recorded the intro to this podcast 3 times as I have messed up 3 times in new ever-increasing ways! I used the word 'minority' originally which is accurate in an Irish context. The challenge with our own frame of reference. Then I made it worse. And now I don't know what to call it.Why the pain as a white person not being able to read and write in school does not have the same generational patterns as it does for a student who is not white. Understanding how having a core gives you security but also the knowledge to know where your pain stops and someone else starts. How this prevents polarisation.

Why we create moody, uncooperative and secret teens. How parents and older people can embrace the joy. the discovery and not contain it. As an adult are you still hanging on to the baggage you grew up with? The inability to be different from your family?

The equal and opposite reaction to growth. Why you need to have pride in what it has taken for the reaction of the red mass. How those people are trapped in those red squares and you are not. The equal and opposite reaction that has taken place in every sense. Where this week has taken me back to personally. My own empathetic pain.

Why we need the elder tress to protect the young saplings and encourage their growth to their true possibility. Quotes used: Post Of Gloria Steinem (Instagram) "...change always grows from the bottom up, like a tree, not from the top down. So look at each other, trust what you know is right - and keep going!"Now Is The Time To Open Your Heart - Alice Walker".. the young trees coming up had no shade to protect them from the blistering sun that backed the earth to ash. They were as brittle as matchsticks and unable to grow tall. They would never know the grandeur of the parents and grandparents who proceeded them. How would they ever guess what their true nature was?" The Hidden Life Of Trees - Peter Wohlleben

As we enter the second lockdown in Europe and others have not been so fortunate to have a break between waves - what has the pandemic thought us about our society and how we need to live differently?

A master class on why business people can't create humanity or have the patience for change - proper change. I quote John Lewis book 'Across That Bridge' and Martin Luther King Jr. - "I guess one of the great agonies of life is that we are constantly trying to finish that which is unfinishable." from his "Unfulfilled Dreams Speech"

Migration is going to continue - especially with Climate Change. When are we going to stop using education to judge people? And cashing in on foreign students. What did the homeless project in Vancouver show us?

Why are women juggling it all? What started when my mother's generation returned to work? The two names I can't pronounce properly Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Guy Kawasaki. Article shared on Guy Kawasaki's Twitter.

Why are people struggling so much? Why are we now using schools to create society instead of education?

What message is the young not getting to protect the older generation? Reasons the older generation are struggling. Why is there is a sense for everyone left out in society that it's survival of the fittest to be out here? The dance show I mention is Kontakthof by Pina Bausch which you will find clips of on YouTube. Quote New York Times, October 2014 "she brings us closer to humanity. Even in her absence, she makes us see ourselves for what we are."

Why are the middle ground of people happy to wait for herd immunity in a pandemic? What do secureness, unconditional love and awareness and acceptance of difference have in common? Books mentioned: John Lewis Across That Bridge and June Jordan Some Of US Did Not DieMusic: Icelandic Band Amiina - song What Are We Waiting For?

The survival guide and a suggestion for a relief pack to be sent to these students trapped in college/university dorms, can we have Joe Wicks online for college dorm students, please? I mention an amazing open App called Insight Timer