• the Pretty-Raven Podcast Page

  • By: Noah Clinch
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the Pretty-Raven Podcast Page

By: Noah Clinch
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  • Life, loving and getting free. Each episode recalls conversations and events in the life of the pretty raven, aka Maxine Yo, ward sister in an English hospital and a very practical person. In 1975 her life turned upside-down when she encountered the extraordinary Julie Mason (who she calls Onion) - at once she knew that she would always devoted to her!. Onion is a spiritual seeker and a hot fire – she tells Maxine that her best chance of making progress in this lifetime is to stick with her, even though it won’t always be easy. Both predictions have turned out to be true, and now the two friends have to face up to some serious consequences!
    © 2020 Noah Clinch
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  • PRETTY-RAVEN TRAILER

    PRETTY-RAVEN TRAILER
    Apr 28 2020

    Author: Noah Clinch

    Narrator: Sallybeth

    Intro music:   Finola Ó Siochru singing An Goirtín Eornan.
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    1 min
  • episode 18: The answer to everything

    episode 18: The answer to everything
    Apr 3 2020
    You are the dark blue butterfly, You are the green parrot with red eyes, You are the thundercloud, pregnant with lightning, You are the seasons, You are the seas, You are without beginning, present everywhere, You from whom all the worlds are born. [Chandogya Upanishad]

    We’ve reached the end of this highly unusual story about the liberation of Pretty Raven, known as Maxine Yo, the best ward sister in Tunbridge Wells. Because of Maxine’s brave honesty and total devotion to the hot fire whom she calls Onion, she is finally getting free. It's been quite a journey, but looking back she can't find any deep regrets. Somehow it all seems to crystallise round that strange fragment of a poem of old Hafiz:

    "..Forget the common reason, Hafiz,  for it always enslaves - there is something alert and active deep inside of you that wants to lie naked next to God."

    That's what she and Onion have been exploring during the fifteen-odd years they've been together. Wait - it’s even longer in Onion’s case, if you count what she learned during her seduction by the eccentric Gilbert O’Connor when she was just a girl. And it’s not too much to say that everything changed for her after that extraordinary encounter with a man called Birdfeather. But I think you already know all about what happened to Onion in that cabin at Porcupine Lake!

    Perhaps you’d be interested to know more about what happened between Onion and Gilbert during theit canoe trip in the Canadian wilderness? Or how it came about that Maxine is the Mistress of Quill Farm in Golden Green? Or what exactly happened to Onion during her second adventure in Manitoba? You'll find it all in the extra POSTS on this website (https://pretty-raven.com).

    Or should we go on to look into what happened to Onion and Michael in Little Grand Rapids during the winter of 1990, and how things turned out for Maxine, left on her own back home at Quill Farm?

    Why not take a few minutes to tell Sallybeth and me what you’ve liked and disliked about the Pretty-Raven podcast. That way you can change the future of the world, maybe.

    Thanks for listening to our story!

    Noah
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    26 mins
  • episode 16: Shocker!

    episode 16: Shocker!
    Mar 17 2020
    'Give in. Surrender to me sweetheart. I'm looking after you.' 'I already have.' 'Then do it some more. You simply have to go farther, darling. I mean allow yourself to go farther. This is your time for complete surrender. I mean TOTALLY! We've gone so far and now you can't go back.' 'I don't want to go back.' 'I know. So it's become rather simple - you have to completely let go or we'll both be fucked, OK?' Metaphorically I mean., and nothing to do with Robin. Done in; messed up; wasted our big opportunity. Just like in Maharishi's Gita translation where Krishna tells Arjuna You have control of action, but not of the fruit of action.
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    32 mins

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