Purple Psychology: Shortlisted in top 10 for the People's Choice Podcast Awards 2017 in Education. New format in March 2018 - No presenter, just Dr. Naoisé O'Reilly talking about a wide variety of interests that are personality theory research driven. Discussion topics include Education, Personalit…
Thank you for supporting my independent thought - how to support my work - My work is now driven entirely by donations or supporting my content creation Paypal Donations: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/drnaoiseoreillyPodcast channel: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/channel/purple-psychology/id6446495392Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/purplepsychologyiBooks: http://books.apple.com/us/book/id6744105194Definition of a Nazi:A person with extreme racist and authoritarian views A person who seeks to impose their views on others in a very authoritarian or inflexible wayBooks mentioned:Becoming https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38746485-becoming?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=gDZFjwuCrR&rank=1Alone in Berlin https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6801335-alone-in-berlin?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=WjglFwSiJ0&rank=1Correction* not little island - small Island https://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/productions/small-island/Based on book by Andrea Levyhttps://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44001.Small_Island?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=c5cqvborsS&rank=2Migration story of Trump family - Grandfather migrated to avoid national service and could not return to Germany https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Trump
Thank you for supporting my independent thought - how to support my work - My work is now driven entirely by donations or supporting my content creation Paypal Donations: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/drnaoiseoreillyPodcast channel: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/channel/purple-psychology/id6446495392Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/purplepsychologyiBooks: http://books.apple.com/us/book/id6744105194What is below the graph of Ireland as the most educated country? We need to start telling people what is possible for all demographics .. education really is available to everyone here and in a way that you will fit in …
Thank you for supporting my independent thought - how to support my work - My work is now driven entirely by donations or supporting my content creation Paypal Donations: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/drnaoiseoreillyPodcast channel: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/channel/purple-psychology/id6446495392Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/purplepsychologyiBooks: http://books.apple.com/us/book/id6744105194What is Irish? Where does the tourist image come from and what makes the intolerance acceptable when our open minded, progressive and multicultural lands don't match a tourists bias.
Thank you for supporting my independent thought - how to support my work - My work is now driven entirely by donations or supporting my content creation Paypal Donations: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/drnaoiseoreillyPodcast channel: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/channel/purple-psychology/id6446495392Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/purplepsychologyiBooks: http://books.apple.com/us/book/id6744105194We have become so insensitive to life and living it has spilled over to our communication of the dying
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What has happened in 5 years since we saw George Floyd murdered and the whole world witnessed this event? Thank you for supporting my independent thought - how to support my work Podcast channel: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/channel/purple-psychology/id6446495392Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/purplepsychologyiBooks: http://books.apple.com/us/book/id6744105194
The title says it all. It is not Anti-Semitic to question what is done in your name. It has possibly cost this brave young man his diploma from NYUhttps://edition.cnn.com/2025/05/16/us/nyu-withholds-diploma-student-gaza-speech-hnkhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4htjp8pO-8James Elder UNICEF interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvzA1CPw8Gk&pp=0gcJCY0JAYcqIYzv
Warning Note * This podcast is about suicide so don't listen until you are ready Honouring Kate Book mentioned:Beloved - Toni Morrisonhttps://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6149.Beloved?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=E1oAVpWkzM&rank=1
Thank you for supporting my independent thought - how to support my work Podcast channel: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/channel/purple-psychology/id6446495392Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/purplepsychologyiBooks: http://books.apple.com/us/book/id6744105194What does it mean for us to have an American Pope? And why Leo IV? What does this mean for the relationships closest? I know I read this quote of Bell Hook's in https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/795426-ain-t-i-a-woman-black-women-and-feminismMary Robinson on the war on Terror :https://www.irishtimes.com/news/war-on-terror-hitting-global-human-rights-robinson-1.436116
Thank you for supporting my independent thought - how to support my work Podcast channel: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/channel/purple-psychology/id6446495392Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/purplepsychologyiBooks: http://books.apple.com/us/book/id6744105194The American Dream wasn't for everyone or certainly wasn't equal in possibility… however someone such as Charlie Chaplin is the epitome of that possibility coming from poverty divided Victorian London … What do you think will happen to all of these people you make illegal? How far are you prepared to go to push people into a world of misery … will the elected few just make money off this too? Book:Charles Chaplin Autobiography https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/84038.My_Autobiography
If we accepted polarities and the natural order of equal and opposite reactions we might not have polarisation. When will humans except difference with compassion? Book mentioned:My Autobiography, Charles Chaplinhttps://www.goodreads.com/book/show/84038.My_AutobiographyThank you for supporting my independent thought - how to support my work Podcast channel: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/channel/purple-psychology/id6446495392Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/purplepsychologyiBooks: http://books.apple.com/us/book/id6744105194
Why do we have so many insecure women? I was given an idea in looking at Jung's idea of the 3rd space ... balancing feminine and masculine energy within ourselves
A journey into what I've been discovering around Oneness.. Support my Podcasts Channel on Apple - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/channel/purple-psychology/id6446495392 (This allows me to have independent views!)It's in an aquarium! Though there are other examples on the seabed https://youtu.be/3O4sYndUdsI?si=Depsz3dxHe58YJkO
Why are the creative people in my life the ones who distrust AI? What are the environmental considerations? Do we ever stop to think about how much we have in the cloud? Support my Podcasts Channel on Apple - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/channel/purple-psychology/id6446495392 (This allows me to have independent views!)
A topic I return to again in the hyper-direction mode of psychology and the need to be popularInspired by Bell Hook's writing - My favourite chapter is https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/207369Chper 15 - Peicing it all together
We are told to focus on community - but what is this? And what is it away from the corporate context that we have absorbed from America? From corporation TV, Social media, Nexflix and all the messaging that we have absorbed without thought. There are two other parts to this conversation on my channel - Subscriber podcasts The Alchemist's Journey and Authentic Expressionhttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/channel/purple-psychology/id6446495392Mentioned:Charlie Chaplin - Final Speech from The Great Dictatorhttps://youtu.be/J7GY1Xg6X20?feature=shared
Link to iBooks http://books.apple.com/us/book/id6744105194I realise the part that is causing me extreme pain is that I am experiencing what the collective is doing - and it's a massive death - a much more painful journey than the one of simply not fitting in ... I guess it's harder for parts of yourself for die than it is to have never signed up ... I have done this journey for 3 months before a massive shift that has taken place in the collective ... I haven't found anywhere I have the desire to speak ... my wish list is to know someone to speak with who can reflect to me where I begin and end so I suffer less in these collective experiences .... I have yet to find anyone who actually takes impressions through their body ... Support my Podcats Channel on Apple - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/channel/purple-psychology/id6446495392 (This allows me to have independent views!)Some of these have helped me to be unfragmented myself in what people experiencehttps://www.youtube.com/@spiritualodyssey-01https://www.youtube.com/@spiritualfrequency001?si=NyjqF2LAUuvq8zb_
Some people are starting to speak to me - there is a time to stop showing up - to put the work down - to say no - to stop meeting the expectations - as the expectations exist - if you don't - they will never die! There is no change if you feed off what needs to change ... Article mentioned:https://www.irishtimes.com/health/your-family/2025/04/05/adhd-children-are-now-in-a-queue-with-50-year-old-adults-for-a-drug-that-is-in-short-supply/https://www.economist.com/leaders/2024/10/30/adhd-should-not-be-treated-as-a-disorder
What I have been integrating with huge transits and the backdrop of the world. Not to mention my yearly gripe of when they f**k with the clocks... Mentions:Jimmy Carter Open Letter 2019 https://www.npr.org/2019/04/15/713495558/president-trump-called-former-president-jimmy-carter-to-talk-about-chinaBell Hooks Belong Smelly storyhttps://www.goodreads.com/book/show/207369.Belonging?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=DyhWCRLM6f&rank=1
We need to focus on corruption - not the noise or the attention-seeking circus - with one clear message we can dismantle what is creating the advantageous divide for a few. App I use for articles: https://getpocket.comAtlantic article:https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/02/corruption-trump-administration/681794/
I'm disturbed by the push for people to do ADHD testing.. and in fact even the Economist recently wrote maybe we are looking at people wrong - "ADHD diagnosis is created by society norms" So why not look at fish oils and flax seeds in your diet? Or Human design http://geneticmatrix.comspecifically, look at your digestion and environmental factors... Visual Stress Opticians in Ireland https://www.elliottopticians.ie https://irlen.com/what-is-irlen-syndrome/
How do we create more choices for people - it really is that simple for me. Divergent:https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13335037-divergentJames Baldwin - The Man and His Work link:https://www.audible.com/pd/James-Baldwin-The-Man-and-His-Work-Audiobook/B0DSCHZSLV?ref_pageloadid=9H22Pn6jdp7Fh3Nz&pf_rd_p=80765e81-b10a-4f33-b1d3-ffb87793d047&pf_rd_r=J8XW2K1KGJZ1P0W8WMNY&plink=TwMWgQOToZ1aq3DW&pageLoadId=yN7faNIl6uPPRJO2&creativeId=4ee810cf-ac8e-4eeb-8b79-40e176d0a225&ref=a_library_t_c5_libItem_B0DSCHZSLVUncle Vanya:https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncle_Vanya
I know you think that January 2026 has marked a change for the worse - I don't - it has never been so transparently clear the power of the single human in a collective change and conscious humanity.
Why are students using AI for essays and what are the impacts on authentic expression Why have I stopped using Grammarly for my creative writing? The irony of what it takes to have a unique authentic report from the system. Why are teachers and academics positively correcting essays generated by AI? It brings into question what skills we are not teaching students and why are the pressures so high at certain points in the academic year?
What am I actively doing at the moment to keep moving forward? What am I reading? A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other PreachingsMartin Luther King Jrhttps://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13532185-a-gift-of-lovePedagogy of the OppressedPaulo FreireMyra Bergman Ramos (Translator),Donaldo Macedo (Introduction)https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/72657.Pedagogy_of_the_OppressedTeaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedombell hookshttps://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27091.Teaching_to_Transgress
Why did I return Malcome Gladwell's Revenge of the Tipping Point? How change has happened in the patterns of behaviours in Ireland over Christmas and how these impact the 'big systems' we feel are unchangeable? What to change on setting your New Year resolutions, goals intentions,Make up your own mind, Revenge of the Tipping Point book link:https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/216857785-revenge-of-the-tipping-point
Do we need a new soundtrack to Christmas that allows us to stay a little more aligned with the present? Do the traditions cause anxiety? Maximise the grief and sadness? With Climate Change how many of us will have a white Christmas?
If we focused on paradoxes and not labels we'd embrace difference ... diversity and just simple human complex nature I can't listen or read or accept any of the limiting views that are meant to be supporting this circus any longer.. how can more attention mean more challenges? It's because of the intention behind the attention.
Why does every oppressive regime fear the writer? The creator? I reflect on what is being exposed in Syria, and what we have seen taking place in Gaza and the West Bank. Listen to the voices of Palestine:https://theunprecedentedtimes.net/articles/listen-to-the-voices-of-palestinenbspIncluded:The Young H.G. Wells: Changing The WorldClaire Tomalinhttps://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57515294-the-young-h-g-wellsPEN Internationalhttps://www.instagram.com/p/DDPG0grs15B/
What have I been learning and researching in the pause? H.G. Wellshttps://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57515294-the-young-h-g-wellsRosalynn Carterhttps://www.audible.com/podcast/Rosalynn-Carter-Audio-Biography/B0CNP68Z8C?source_code=ASSGB149080119000H&share_location=pdphttps://www.audible.com/pd/Jimmy-and-Rosalynn-Carter-Power-and-Human-Rights-1975-2020-Audiobook/B0B21VR7BC?source_code=ASSGB149080119000H&share_location=pdpJimmy Carterhttps://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25330592-a-full-lifeNaom Chomsky:https://youtu.be/Ls6D055tjwo?si=P0Q4lcTLgr3Vbrouhttps://youtu.be/WEnv5I8Aq4I?si=2M7qP_IEjOEXrLymAlan Watts - Lectures - The Void https://youtu.be/7vuFBP8apGQ?si=i5-jD324IVQJsH_YThe Art of War https://www.audible.com/pd/The-Art-of-War-Audiobook/B00URXOQ1E?source_code=ASSGB149080119000H&share_location=pdpWhat have I created?3 courses on self-care for Human Design Projectors and Reflectors (Orchestrators and Calibrators) https://dr-naoise-oreilly.thinkific.com/courses/young-human-design-projectorhttps://dr-naoise-oreilly.thinkific.com/courses/ultimate-human-design-reflector-self-carehttps://dr-naoise-oreilly.thinkific.com/courses/Human-Design-Projector-Guide
The world has worked out how to manipulate Teens (and their parents) by the sheer fact that they are driven by outward influence - everyone is feeding off this need for their financial gain. From education to social media to big corporations and pop stars. Links:WTF - What Teens Feelhttps://www.patreon.com/purplepsychology/shop/w-hat-t-eens-f-eel-11363?source=storefrontNaom Chomsky - Manufacturing Consent Documentary https://youtu.be/BQXsPU25B60?si=cbxunNY-PgV3iQx6The Subtle KnifePhilip Pullmanhttps://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41637836-the-subtle-knife?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=WaVr3qj8xN&rank=2
The talented souls who are sent to the equivalent of daycare and who have so much to offer our humanity are the ones I can't forget. The system is happy because they are occupied and I know the solutions for our future have been lost. The course I have poured my soul into and all of the experiences I have learnt from over the last 15 years - all the success storieshttps://dr-naoise-oreilly.thinkific.com
I keep asking this question - why? Why are teens moving as packs? Seeking safety in numbers? Why carry knives? Fear then we ask the question why are they fearful? Then I look at the trajectory of what we have been presenting in real time to them online - with all the lies that make every civics and social studies class a complete lie.
Who do we hold accountable for the distress we have seen on the streets? For the waves of online bullying? How do we decide who's children should die? How do we expect there to be a moral sanity as 'normal' in these contradictions?
No one needs to struggle either returning to school or beginning school ... We need to change our perceptions of teaching 'normal' Online Literacy Course - for Parents, Students and Resource teachers https://dr-naoise-oreilly.thinkific.com/courses/literacy_and_numeracy_programLabels are Limitshttps://drnaoiseoreilly.org/labels-are-limits/
What stands in the way of the 1st Black Woman President? The only people you are hurting by not voting for a Black Woman now are those who believe in unity and hope. The Black people in your life, past and present, who have fought for this change.
What is change? How is it integrated? how long does it really take? What happens when we just keep returning to the same river? IMMA exhibition mentioned:https://imma.ie/whats-on/we-realised-the-power-of-it-derry-film-video-workshop/
A podcast I put out on my subscription space at the beginning of JulyHow can we change the cycle where even those who have experienced such trauma are prepared to pass this on to 'others'? I think by talking about the pain they inflict on those close ... not those who they have been trained to de-humanise
What supremacy and possession feel like at a soul level - the fire I am now feeling inside to take this experience beyond myself One of the books I read on this journey of understanding my purification processThe Seven Sacred SealsRichard Ruddhttps://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30212769-the-seven-sacred-seals
I've been trying to find a system - find a visual for what I know inside .. to debunk the lies I see posted and sold in the world all around me - all that I can feel is just wrong - and I know doesn't fit for 20% of the population who gravitate to my door for support I know I'm on the right track when once I start talking about what I know at a soul level and I start to jar with those I'm speaking with ... it's like yes here is another alien 101 moment!
In my way that I like to simplify the world - the 3 cores that we need to keep in alignment and our awareness of their manipulation in the world
This podcats is only for probably 1% of the population - regardless of what system you use to study how people tick ... you get to the same place and only those who don't want to feel special will reside here ... and it's for the people who want to be truly close to this strange frame of reference you see the world by ... In time, when I feel I've really conquered the darkness I'll probably record a course on all the practices I use to stay in alignment .... For now I'm just recording the journey of discovery and being honest about what it has cost me
We will never have inclusive education if we can't accept differences - we need to stop feeling there is something wrong with our children. We need to feel empowered to support the gifts our children have, not the failings we are told they do. It's what I've spent 15 years supporting families to do globally. Links to course site:http://dr-naoise-oreilly.thinkific.com
*These podcasts are shared with my Apple Subscribers for early access Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/alchamists-journey/id1741309933Debunking the way that the dark night of the soul is presented ... why we suffer when we can't understand the motivations that are so removed from moving in our own light “If everything around seems dark, look again, you may be the light.”― RumiEdgar Degas: 'Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.'
* Alll episodes available on Apple Channel - free trial currently https://podcasts.apple.com/ie/channel/purple-psychology/id6446495392We use trees a lot to describe the behaviour of life ... but trees are not as simplistic as we view them .. there are complex dynamics taking place .. flowers who hijack the nutrients.. others who send poisons .. it's not all pretty The Hidden Lives of TreesPeter Wohllebenhttps://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35014179-the-hidden-lives-of-trees?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=onjFzHeNU7&rank=1How Trees talk to each otherhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWOqeyPIVRo&si=zbYMgOTa9K3aapRl
Can we start to take very simple actions and use all the spaces lying around the country to save the crafts we are so renowned for? Turning Turns 40 - Celebrating 40 years of the Irish Woodturners Guildhttps://www.dcci.ie/events/turning-turns-40/https://www.farmleigh.ie/events/clay-works-ceramics-ireland-annual-exhibition/
Have you ever considered how ridiculously selfish and insecure you are? Like do you really think your body is so much better? or that any Trans person embarks on this journey so they can share a changing room with you and perve over your body? It brings up deep questions of how you relate to men? How do you relate to gay women? It's such a place of insecurity and unfortunately, success doesn't come with security.
What do we need for sanity to prevail - for a nation to be a good role model for democracy?
The strip streams of Universal ConsciousnessI've returned to my PhD days of physics to try and find a way to explain energy dynamics - how we need to create gradients and not homogenous spaces with outliers. The patterns of alignment present for us in nature to follow rather than play god with people's freewill
I don't often feel overwhelmed - but I feel overwhelmed to tackle this topic. I'm reminding myself of the roots of why it is in a quartet of books with certain common themes.
My discovery of the sum of myself led to my alchemist's journey. These podcasts are shared with my Apple Subscribers for early access Alchamist's JourneyDr Naoisé O'ReillyWhen you realise the sum of your life is alchemy. All the dots of your journey add to an old innate knowledge. The language you have been searching for to express yourself. Why it makes perfect sense to have created a table based on the periodic table for personality theory, Periodic Table of the Development of Results. Can we now bring forward this knowledge for a collective consciousness?Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/alchamists-journey/id1741309933They will only be shared after a few weeks as open source podcasts