The Mindful Cranks
A podcast by Ron Purser
50 Episoade
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Episode 49 - Tara Isabella Burton- Self-Made
Publicat: 20.07.2023 -
Episode 48 - Derek Beres - Conspirituality
Publicat: 14.07.2023 -
Episode 47 - Peter Hershock: Buddhism & AI
Publicat: 28.05.2023 -
Episode 46 - Martin Parker: Shut Down the Business School
Publicat: 14.04.2023 -
Episode 45 - Alissa Quart: Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves from the American Dream
Publicat: 13.03.2023 -
Curtis White - Transcendent: Art and Dharma in a Time of Collapse
Publicat: 02.03.2023 -
Episode 43 - Steve Hagen: The Grand Delusion
Publicat: 22.02.2023 -
Episode 42- Graham Parkes: How to Think About the Climate Crisis
Publicat: 11.02.2023 -
Episode 41 - Rina Raphael: The Gospel of Wellness
Publicat: 26.11.2022 -
Episode 40 - Gail Stearns: Liberating Mindfulness
Publicat: 08.10.2022 -
Episode 39 - Pierce Salguero: Buddhish
Publicat: 20.07.2022 -
Episode 38 - Johann Hari - Stolen Focus
Publicat: 15.05.2022 -
Episode 1: The Mindful Cranks Trailer
Publicat: 12.11.2021 -
Episode 37 - Kathleen Gregory: Mindfulness as Psychological Redemption
Publicat: 06.10.2021 -
Episode 36 - Richard Payne: Secularizing Buddhism
Publicat: 30.08.2021 -
Episode 35 - Sarah Shaw: The Varieties of Mindfulness
Publicat: 07.07.2021 -
Episode 34 - Gregory Kramer: A Whole-Life Path
Publicat: 03.04.2021 -
Episode 33 - Daniel Simpson: The Truth of Yoga
Publicat: 03.02.2021 -
Episode 32 - Andrea Jain: Yoga and the Politics of Global Spirituality
Publicat: 23.01.2021 -
Episode 31 - Michal Pagis: The Sociology of Vipassana and Mindfulness
Publicat: 30.12.2020
Shortly after my Huffington Post essay “Beyond McMindfulness” went viral, a popular mindfulness promoter accused me of being a “crank”. So why not own it? Alas, The Mindful Cranks was born. The Mindful Cranks was the first podcast to critique the mindfulness movement. Conversations with guests soon expanded in scope to include critical perspectives on the wellness, happiness, resilience and positive psychology industries - sharing a common concern that such highly individualistic and market-friendly techniques ignore the larger structural and systemic problems plaguing society. Whether these be trendy Asian spiritualities such as mindfulness or yoga, or other interventions from therapeutic cultures, The Mindful Cranks will call them out without mercy. I am very fortunate to engage with my favorite journalists, authors and public intellectuals whose works that I admire, as well as educators and spiritual teachers who I have learned from — fellow cranks who don’t simply accept the way things are. They’re modern muckrakers who dare to question the unquestionable. But being cranky can be critically wise and compassionate. Casting a wide net around the impending meta-crisis, The Mindful Cranks also explores with leading thinkers how the problems of our times are deeply entangled with our ways of knowing and being. Rather than just retreating from such problems by sitting on cushion, doing yoga or listening to a meditation app, I believe using our minds is not necessarily a bad thing if it challenges the limits of human knowledge.
