Why Do Most Religions Grudgingly Tolerate Sex Rather Than Celebrate It?
This is Part 1 of 2 from a talk Alistair gave in 2012 exploring the nature of religious attitudes to sexuality. This part touches on some of the archetypes of the Old Man and Mother that prevent sex ...
8 Touko 201714min
If Living In The Soma Is Like A Funfair Why Do We Resist?
This is an excerpt from the Mindsprings Holy Island retreat in October 2016. The theme of the retreat was Samadhi and here Alistair talks about our resistance to meditation...as well as his rather dra...
5 Touko 201714min
The Fifth Field
This is an excerpt of the 2016 Winter Eight Week course taught by Alistair at St. Mary's in Brighton. It's from the seventh week where we started to explore the experience of what Alistair calls the "...
4 Touko 20177min
What Is Mindfulness?
This is a talk Alistair gave at the Samye Foundation Wales in Cardiff on Friday 26th February 2016. It was outlining the historical precedents of the current vogue for mindfulness; making some distin...
4 Touko 20171h 12min
The Topsy Turvy Logic Of Tonglen And Why It's The Better Way Of Being
This is an extract from some teaching Alistair gave as part of a study day on Compassion - he is outlining the benefit of the Buddhist practice of 'tonglen' which involves giving away the good and dra...
4 Touko 20178min
Wagner & Mindfulness Edit
This is a recording of the 45-min lecture I gave at the magical woodland glade that the folks at the Southbank created for the events around Opera North's performance of the whole of Wagner's Ring Cyc...
4 Touko 201750min
Mindfulness in the Age of Twitter: A Public Talk
This is a public talk and Q&A, Alistair gave in the Scarborough Art Gallery on June 26th 2015. In it he talks about the unprecedented nature of the 'social media revolution'; how the internet and soci...
8 Joulu 20151h 21min
Harare Mindful Life
This was a talk given by Alistair Appleton at the CABS Business Centre in Harare, Zimbabwe during his trip to Africa in February 2009. It’s an impromtu ramble over many subjects connected to Mindfulne...
18 Marras 20141h 8min
