Deconstructing Dependent Arising, with Leigh Brasington
Leigh Brasington speaks with host Michael W. Taft about Dependent Arising. Dependent Arising, also called Dependent Origination, is a Buddhist theory of reality that is famously complex, arcane, impor...
29 Apr 20181h
Seeing Your Blind Spots, with Kelly Boys
Kelly Boys talks with Michael Taft about integral restoration, nondual awakening, the work of Kahneman, spiritual bypassing, gendered aspects of awakening and spiritual teaching, when knowing less is ...
15 Apr 201844min
Popping the Bubble of Projection, with Daniel Ingram
Daniel Ingram talks with Michael W. Taft about teacher-student models, graduate school models of practice, creating meditation peer groups, working with “co-adventurers” on the spiritual path, overcom...
2 Apr 201858min
Standing at the Edge, with Roshi Joan Halifax
Roshi Joan Halifax speaks with host Michael W. Taft about her new book, Standing at the Edge, the shadow sides of altruism, empathy, integrity, respect, engagement, and rays of hope in current times.R...
15 Mar 201845min
Eddies in the Mind Stream, with Rick Hanson, Ph.D.
Rick Hanson and I discuss the tension between accepting how you're feeling and changing how you're feeling, spiritual bypassing, how to cultivate positive states of mind, the quivering potentiality at...
1 Mar 20181h 45min
Diving Deep into the Jhanas, with Leigh Brasington
Concentration master Leigh Brasington talks with Michael W. Taft about the jhanas, a Buddhist system of eight altered states of consciousness that arise in states of high concentration. The conversati...
5 Feb 20181h 18min
Enlightened Sexuality, with Jessica Graham
In this episode, I talk with Jessica Graham about her book Good Sex, the #MeToo movement, the power of self love and acceptance, a beginner’s guide to spiritual awakening through sexuality, mindful ma...
22 Jan 20181h 3min
Consciousness, Spirituality, and Intellectual Honesty, with Thomas Metzinger
Thomas Metzinger and Michael W. Taft discuss having moral integrity with yourself, intellectual honesty in the pursuit of spirituality, the overlapping goals of science and spirituality, the possibili...
29 Des 20171h 31min
