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
Reality Let Loose, with A. H. Almaas
In this episode, host Michael Taft speaks with spiritual teacher and author Hameed Ali, more often known by his pen name, A. H. Almaas.Almaas is the creator of the Diamond Approach to Self-Realization...
14 Des 20171h 16min
Attention, Awareness, and the Great Adventure, with Culadasa
Culadasa talks with Michael W. Taft. After decades of Buddhist practice, Culadasa exploded on the scene a few years ago with his groundbreaking book The Mind Illuminated, an incredibly comprehensive g...
4 Des 20171h 6min
