The Mindful Cranks
Un pódcast de Ron Purser
50 Episodo
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Episode 49 - Tara Isabella Burton- Self-Made
Publicado: 20/7/2023 -
Episode 48 - Derek Beres - Conspirituality
Publicado: 14/7/2023 -
Episode 47 - Peter Hershock: Buddhism & AI
Publicado: 28/5/2023 -
Episode 46 - Martin Parker: Shut Down the Business School
Publicado: 14/4/2023 -
Episode 45 - Alissa Quart: Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves from the American Dream
Publicado: 13/3/2023 -
Curtis White - Transcendent: Art and Dharma in a Time of Collapse
Publicado: 2/3/2023 -
Episode 43 - Steve Hagen: The Grand Delusion
Publicado: 22/2/2023 -
Episode 42- Graham Parkes: How to Think About the Climate Crisis
Publicado: 11/2/2023 -
Episode 41 - Rina Raphael: The Gospel of Wellness
Publicado: 26/11/2022 -
Episode 40 - Gail Stearns: Liberating Mindfulness
Publicado: 8/10/2022 -
Episode 39 - Pierce Salguero: Buddhish
Publicado: 20/7/2022 -
Episode 38 - Johann Hari - Stolen Focus
Publicado: 15/5/2022 -
Episode 1: The Mindful Cranks Trailer
Publicado: 12/11/2021 -
Episode 37 - Kathleen Gregory: Mindfulness as Psychological Redemption
Publicado: 6/10/2021 -
Episode 36 - Richard Payne: Secularizing Buddhism
Publicado: 30/8/2021 -
Episode 35 - Sarah Shaw: The Varieties of Mindfulness
Publicado: 7/7/2021 -
Episode 34 - Gregory Kramer: A Whole-Life Path
Publicado: 3/4/2021 -
Episode 33 - Daniel Simpson: The Truth of Yoga
Publicado: 3/2/2021 -
Episode 32 - Andrea Jain: Yoga and the Politics of Global Spirituality
Publicado: 23/1/2021 -
Episode 31 - Michal Pagis: The Sociology of Vipassana and Mindfulness
Publicado: 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.
