New Thinking Allowed Audio Podcast Consciousness, Spirituality, and the Martial Arts with James Tunney
James Tunney, LLM, is an Irish Barrister who has lectured on legal matters throughout the world. He is a poet, a visual artist, and author of The Mystery of the Trapped Light: Mystical Thoughts in the Dark Age of Scientism plus The Mystical Accord: Sutras to Suit Our Times, Lines for Spiritual Evolution. His website is http://www.jamestunney.com.
Here he shares his passion for and knowledge of a wide variety of martial arts traditions. He emphasizes western boxing, particularly his distant cousin the heavyweight champion Gene Tunney. The conversation also covers many other martial art forms including Jiu-Jitsu, Judo, Karate, Capoeira, and Kareli. He views martial arts as a positive way of addressing the aggressive aspects of human nature.
New Thinking Allowed host, Jeffrey Mishlove, PhD, is author of The Roots of Consciousness, Psi Development Systems, and The PK Man. Between 1986 and 2002 he hosted and co-produced the original Thinking Allowed public television series. He is the recipient of the only doctoral diploma in “parapsychology” ever awarded by an accredited university (University of California, Berkeley, 1980).
(Recorded on January 2, 2021)
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James Tunney, The Mystical Accord: Sutras to Suit Our Times, Lines for Spiritual Evolution – https://amzn.to/2ugamVh
James Tunney, Ireland I Don’t Recognize Who She Is — https://amzn.to/2UZfExY
James Tunney, Blue Lies September – https://amzn.to/3ak4NFt
Jeffrey Mann, When Buddhists Attack – https://amzn.to/2L8IefN
Peter Sellers, Dr. Strangelove (video) – https://amzn.to/3saSfcV
John Rothenstein, Francis Bacon –https://amzn.to/35qF0ey
Lady Gregory, Cuchulain of Muirthemne – https://amzn.to/3q2e5gT
Morihei Ueshiba, The Essence of Aikido – https://amzn.to/3q7evTe
Muhammad Ali, The Greatest – https://amzn.to/3s89jjH
Bruce Lee, Jeet Kune Do – https://amzn.to/3btI3Gr
Brendan Behan, Confessions of an Irish Rebel – https://amzn.to/39jgmgY
Allen Ginsberg, Collected Poems – https://amzn.to/3bqrZ8g
Jay Tunney, The Prizefighter and the Playwrite – https://amzn.to/2LB8hvM
Kano Jigoro, Judo and Education – https://amzn.to/39jgKfq
Rodrigo Gracie, Gracie Jui-Jitsu – https://amzn.to/3ovzyyn
Jack Cavanaugh, Tunney – https://amzn.to/3owhOD0
Leigh Montville, Sting Like a Bee – https://amzn.to/38s9YVp
K. Almqvist (Ed.), Hilma Af Klint: The Art of Seeing the Invisible – https://amzn.to/37JT305
Mestre Poneianinho, Essential Capoeira – https://amzn.to/2Xo7pxk
Bira Almeida, Capoeira – https://amzn.to/35qzTe1
Alejandro Jodorowsky, Endless Poetry (video) – https://amzn.to/3i0cWUe
Alejandro Jodorowsky, El Topo (video) – https://amzn.to/3blAJN7
Miyamoto Musashi, The Book of Five Rings – https://amzn.to/3s9Zyl8
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