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In this episode of the Blue Beryl Podcast, Pierce Salguero sits down with Wakoh Shannon Hickey, who is a Soto Zen priest, hospice chaplain, scholar, and activist. She talks about her early experiences with social violence in the 1980s, her work as a hospital chaplain, and her 2019 book Mind Cure, which is a groundbreaking social history of religion and mindfulness in the U.S. Resources: Wakoh's Academia.edu page Hickey, Mind Cure: How Meditation Became Medicine (Oxford UP, 2019) Helderman, Prescribing the Dharma: Psychotherapists, Buddhist Traditions, and Defining Religion (2019) Brown, Debating Yoga and Mindfulness in Public Schools: Reforming Secular Education or Reestablishing Religion? (2019) Purser, McMindfulness: How Mindfulness Became the New Capitalist Spirituality (2019) Find all episodes of the Blue Beryl Podcast here. Pierce Salguero is a transdisciplinary scholar of health humanities who is fascinated by historical and contemporary intersections between Buddhism, medicine, and crosscultural exchange. He has a Ph.D. in History of Medicine from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine (2010), and teaches Asian history, medicine, and religion at Penn State University's Abington College, located near Philadelphia. He is also the host (with Lan Li) of the Blue Beryl podcast. Subscribe to Blue Beryl here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

In this episode of the Blue Beryl Podcast, Pierce Salguero sits down with Wakoh Shannon Hickey, who is a Soto Zen priest, hospice chaplain, scholar, and activist. She talks about her early experiences with social violence in the 1980s, her work as a hospital chaplain, and her 2019 book Mind Cure, which is a groundbreaking social history of religion and mindfulness in the U.S. Resources: Wakoh's Academia.edu page Hickey, Mind Cure: How Meditation Became Medicine (Oxford UP, 2019) Helderman, Prescribing the Dharma: Psychotherapists, Buddhist Traditions, and Defining Religion (2019) Brown, Debating Yoga and Mindfulness in Public Schools: Reforming Secular Education or Reestablishing Religion? (2019) Purser, McMindfulness: How Mindfulness Became the New Capitalist Spirituality (2019) Find all episodes of the Blue Beryl Podcast here. Pierce Salguero is a transdisciplinary scholar of health humanities who is fascinated by historical and contemporary intersections between Buddhism, medicine, and crosscultural exchange. He has a Ph.D. in History of Medicine from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine (2010), and teaches Asian history, medicine, and religion at Penn State University's Abington College, located near Philadelphia. He is also the host (with Lan Li) of the Blue Beryl podcast. Subscribe to Blue Beryl here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/gender-studies

In this episode of the Blue Beryl Podcast, Pierce Salguero sits down with Wakoh Shannon Hickey, who is a Soto Zen priest, hospice chaplain, scholar, and activist. She talks about her early experiences with social violence in the 1980s, her work as a hospital chaplain, and her 2019 book Mind Cure, which is a groundbreaking social history of religion and mindfulness in the U.S. Resources: Wakoh's Academia.edu page Hickey, Mind Cure: How Meditation Became Medicine (Oxford UP, 2019) Helderman, Prescribing the Dharma: Psychotherapists, Buddhist Traditions, and Defining Religion (2019) Brown, Debating Yoga and Mindfulness in Public Schools: Reforming Secular Education or Reestablishing Religion? (2019) Purser, McMindfulness: How Mindfulness Became the New Capitalist Spirituality (2019) Find all episodes of the Blue Beryl Podcast here. Pierce Salguero is a transdisciplinary scholar of health humanities who is fascinated by historical and contemporary intersections between Buddhism, medicine, and crosscultural exchange. He has a Ph.D. in History of Medicine from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine (2010), and teaches Asian history, medicine, and religion at Penn State University's Abington College, located near Philadelphia. He is also the host (with Lan Li) of the Blue Beryl podcast. Subscribe to Blue Beryl here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode of the Blue Beryl Podcast, Pierce Salguero sits down with Wakoh Shannon Hickey, who is a Soto Zen priest, hospice chaplain, scholar, and activist. She talks about her early experiences with social violence in the 1980s, her work as a hospital chaplain, and her 2019 book Mind Cure, which is a groundbreaking social history of religion and mindfulness in the U.S. Resources: Wakoh's Academia.edu page Hickey, Mind Cure: How Meditation Became Medicine (Oxford UP, 2019) Helderman, Prescribing the Dharma: Psychotherapists, Buddhist Traditions, and Defining Religion (2019) Brown, Debating Yoga and Mindfulness in Public Schools: Reforming Secular Education or Reestablishing Religion? (2019) Purser, McMindfulness: How Mindfulness Became the New Capitalist Spirituality (2019) Find all episodes of the Blue Beryl Podcast here. Pierce Salguero is a transdisciplinary scholar of health humanities who is fascinated by historical and contemporary intersections between Buddhism, medicine, and crosscultural exchange. He has a Ph.D. in History of Medicine from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine (2010), and teaches Asian history, medicine, and religion at Penn State University's Abington College, located near Philadelphia. He is also the host (with Lan Li) of the Blue Beryl podcast. Subscribe to Blue Beryl here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/religion

In this episode of the Blue Beryl Podcast, Pierce Salguero sits down with Wakoh Shannon Hickey, who is a Soto Zen priest, hospice chaplain, scholar, and activist. She talks about her early experiences with social violence in the 1980s, her work as a hospital chaplain, and her 2019 book Mind Cure, which is a groundbreaking social history of religion and mindfulness in the U.S. Resources: Wakoh's Academia.edu page Hickey, Mind Cure: How Meditation Became Medicine (Oxford UP, 2019) Helderman, Prescribing the Dharma: Psychotherapists, Buddhist Traditions, and Defining Religion (2019) Brown, Debating Yoga and Mindfulness in Public Schools: Reforming Secular Education or Reestablishing Religion? (2019) Purser, McMindfulness: How Mindfulness Became the New Capitalist Spirituality (2019) Find all episodes of the Blue Beryl Podcast here. Pierce Salguero is a transdisciplinary scholar of health humanities who is fascinated by historical and contemporary intersections between Buddhism, medicine, and crosscultural exchange. He has a Ph.D. in History of Medicine from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine (2010), and teaches Asian history, medicine, and religion at Penn State University's Abington College, located near Philadelphia. He is also the host (with Lan Li) of the Blue Beryl podcast. Subscribe to Blue Beryl here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/spiritual-practice-and-mindfulness

In this episode, I sit down with my friend Wakoh Shannon Hickey, who is a Soto Zen priest, hospice chaplain, scholar, and activist. We talk about Wakoh's early experiences with social violence in the 1980s, her work as a hospital chaplain, and her 2019 book Mind Cure, which is a groundbreaking social history of religion and mindfulness in the U.S. Resources:Wakoh's Academia.edu pageHickey, Mind Cure: How Meditation Became Medicine (2019)Helderman, Prescribing the Dharma: Psychotherapists, Buddhist Traditions, and Defining Religion (2019)Brown, Debating Yoga and Mindfulness in Public Schools: Reforming Secular Education or Reestablishing Religion? (2019)Purser, McMindfulness: How Mindfulness Became the New Capitalist Spirituality (2019)Find all episodes of the Blue Beryl Podcast at www.piercesalguero.com

More than just a region, Silicon Valley has also become a concept — and what that concept represents means a lot of different things to different people. Some might think of it as a techno-utopian dreamland where billionaires are made. Others, perhaps a soul-sucking dystopia driven by a never ending rat race — also where billionaires are made. Whatever you may think, one thing that's hard to disagree with is the idea that work dominates Silicon Valley, and while some here are simply working to live, a certain privileged class of society actually lives to work. It's this class of workers that are the main characters in Carolyn Chen's new book: Work Pray Code: When Work Becomes Religion in Silicon Valley. Carolyn Chen is an Associate Professor of Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies and Comparative Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley. How has work become the new religion in Silicon Valley? What material and historical conditions led to the spiritualization of work? What strategies do workplaces deploy to ensure workers find meaning and purpose in work — and what other realms of life does this impact? What happens when work takes over the institutions that shape our souls? These are just some of the questions we'll explore in this conversation with Carolyn Chen. Thank you to Beck for the intermission music. Upstream theme music was composed by Robert. If you're interested in learning more about how spirituality is being deployed to create more docile, pliant workers, check out our conversation with Ron Purser on his book McMindfulness: How Mindfulness Became the New Capitalist Spirituality. Support for this episode was provided by the Guerrilla Foundation and by listeners like you. Upstream is a labor of love — we couldn't keep this project going without the generosity of our listeners and fans. Please consider chipping in a one-time or recurring donation at www.upstreampodcast.org/support Also, if your organization wants to sponsor one of our upcoming episodes, we have a number of sponsorship packages available. Find out more at upstreampodcast.org/sponsorship For more from Upstream, visit www.upstreampodcast.org and follow us on social media: twitter.com/UpstreamPodcast Instagram.com/upstreampodcast You can also subscribe to us on Apple Podcast and Spotify: Apple Podcast: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/upst…am/id1082594532 Spotify: spoti.fi/2AryXHs

vol. 2 episode 3Greetings,“You're educated. Why do you believe in astrology?”It's a question I get asked a lot. Or, worse, not asked, but judged quietly because I have gone to “the dark side”. Except my dark side twinkles with light and it's beautiful.There are those who tell me in confidence that they, too, believe in astrology, but don't want to flaunt that. Yet, many of my peers and former colleagues (I was a clinical medicine reporter), who are 50 years of age and upwards, are mystified. Younger generation Americans and others who make up the majority of my clientele get it — they know without question how busted our current paradigm of reality is and find meaning in the archetypal metaphors the universe offers.And, of course, there's that I live in Washington, DC where back in the 1980s, when it became known that President Reagan had an astrologer, the field became an easy target of mockery.Nevertheless, I persist. And with good reason. More on that in a moment.First, I want to invite you to relax that sneer and take a deep breath. There is reason for hope in the world, even today, as bombs rain down on an innocent nation.Regardless of how much you know about astrology, in Episode 3, Elisabeth and I make it clear how today's Virgo full moon opposing the Sun in Pisces strongly signals that despite the grim chaos currently enveloping Eastern Europe, there are currents of hope that we all have access to right now, and how knowing how to connect with and ride them can help us calmly root to a more peaceful and productive future.Think I am talking bull puckey? That puts you in a growing minority of people who desire to cling to our world's broken and outdated paradigm of pain and separation, as we discuss in this episode. The rest of us are ready to face the future with anticipation, not trepidation, nor the ersatz causes for anxiety and depression manufactured for the sake of keeping us sedated and Zombified. And you thought The Walking Dead was just an enduring network franchise, kind of like its namesake. No. It's a metaphor for how we're limping through the motions of the Old World, constantly reinforced by the lazy and increasingly useless corporate media monopolies. In the new paradigm of the living, indicated by a weirdly named but wonderfully productive celestial event called The Great Mutation, opportunities abound for making new myths that are lush with meaning, connection, and personal significance. It's a paradigm where if you can properly read the landscape, there is a place for you to relax, feel grateful, and not harassed by the prescriptive world of hierarchy where you are supposed to know your place and not step away from it. In this episode, we describe the signposts of this dawning world, beginning with my own impassioned, but not defensive, explanation for why I have come to see the stars as the most exquisite of navigation systems. Elisabeth then connects the dots between the full moon in Virgo, the Sun in Pisces, the coming Spring Equinox in the Northern Hemisphere, Jupiter and Neptune's coming conjunction in April, and a few other planetary passages that have led to this moment in time where we can see a future that is not all doom and gloom.If you want to know more about how “conjunctions” function (sounds catchy, like School House Rock!) and retrogrades appear to move planets backward, among other astro-jargon, please listen to our first two episodes.But you don't need to have a tight grasp on the inner workings of astrology to understand our meaning here. All you need is a willingness to stop believing life is random and meaningless, full of drudgery and survival of the fittest.It's a shorter than usual episode, in part because of technical difficulties that meant I had to edit out more than I would have liked. It is an issue that you can help solve, however by becoming a member of the Ensouled community. Your material support will help us meet our high production values by allowing us to hire a producer and upgrade our equipment. We know our content is fresh, novel, and relevant. Your support will help us become smoother, and more polished. If you're considering supporting us but figure it's just as easy to keep enjoying content without paying for it — we all do that somewhere, myself included — then Elisabeth and I would like to offer you a few gifts to entice you over to the paying side. Elisabeth has created a Mercury Retrograde Survival Guide she will send you if you join at any level, and I will give those who join at the $150 level a recorded astrological reading, a $125 value which you can read more about here. The offer is good through March 31, 2022.If subscribing is not something you can do right now, there are other ways you can support us, such as sharing our podcast with others. Just forward this email to them or send them the link on your favorite podcast platform. 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Ron Purser is the Lam-Larsen Distinguished Research Professor (2021-2023) in the Lam Family College of Business at San Francisco State University. His essays and cultural criticism have appeared in the Huffington Post, The Guardian, Salon, Alternet, Tikkun, Pando Daily, Refinery 29, Tricycle and many more. He is the author of eight books, including “McMindfulness: How Mindfulness Became the New Capitalist Spirituality”.We explore the genesis of the mindfulness movement in the West, it's commodification by spiritual entrepreneurs, and how it's become a tool to pacify employees rather than awaken them to their own human needs. =======================0:00 Intro 2:27 The central premise of “McMindfulness”4:04 “McMindfulness” is not simply a critique of mindfulness5:39 Ron's experience as a Buddhist practitioner  7:00 The rise of mindfulness as a commodity in the West9:32 The hype and exaggerated claims of the mindfulness movement10:44 The “scientization” of mindfulness14:22 When the spiritual entrepreneurs took hold of mindfulness17:12 Mindfulness in the corporate workplace 22:44 Amazon's working wellness program, “AmaZen”24:45 Is there a better way to improve employee wellness?32:22 The effect of mindfulness on service work and “emotional labor”34:08 Is stress a result of individual problems or structural problems?37:15 What are the second order effects of our culture of posturing?40:46 Ron's story of attending a corporate mindfulness workshop43:41 What are the emotional holes we are trying to fill with mindfulness?47:54 What is a deepity?50:29 What is iatrogenesis?52:53 Is Ron optimistic about the future?58:16 Mindfulness is disproportionately practiced and promoted by elites 1:02:47 Mindfulness and the military 1:07:27 “One Final Question”======================= Book Recommendation!“McMindfulness: How Mindfulness Became the New Capitalist Spirituality”Ron's Website====================LinkTree to support us and leave an Apple Podcast review (thank you!)Let's get in touch!Join the discussion in the episode comments on our YouTube channel or social media pages...InstagramTwitter

Ron Purser, Ph.D., author of McMindfulness: How Mindfulness Became the New Capitalist Spirituality, joins us for this episode. We ask him how mindfulness became a multi-billion dollar industry, why Silicon Valley has designed hundreds of mindfulness apps, and whether mindfulness is just a capitalist form of spirituality. Is mindfulness actually a secular medical intervention that improves focus, mood, and compassion? Is mindfulness in its modern Western form in service of anything beyond The Self? Ron helps us figure all this out and more. -- Ron Purser, Ph.D. is the Lam Larsen Distinguished Research Professor of Management at San Francisco State University. He is the author of eight books, including McMindfulness: How Mindfulness Became the New Capitalist Spirituality (Penguin Random House/Repeater Books), the Handbook of the Ethical Foundations of Mindfulness and the Handbook of Mindfulness: Culture, Context and Social Engagement. He writes for such media outlets as Tricycle, The Guardian, Salon, Alternet, Tikkun, Pando Daily and Transformation. He is also the host of The Mindful Cranks podcast. ronpurser.com mindfulcranks.com @ronpurser (Twitter) --- Email us at itsnotjustinyourhead@gmail.com. Become a patron at patreon.com/itsnotjustinyourhead to gain early access to episodes, our discord server, and monthly reading/discussion groups. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/itsnotjustinyourhead/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/itsnotjustinyourhead/support

In this far-ranging conversation, we talk about the limitations of “McMindfulness” and discuss what it feels like to explore a new sense of self in the context of interaction. Ronald Purser, Ph.D. is the Lam-Larsen Distinguished Research Professor of Management at San Francisco State University. His latest book, McMindfulness: How Mindfulness Became the New Capitalist […]

In this far-ranging conversation, we talk about the limitations of “McMindfulness” and discuss what it feels like to explore a new sense of self in the context of interaction. Ronald Purser, Ph.D. is the Lam-Larsen Distinguished Research Professor of Management at San Francisco State University. His latest book, McMindfulness: How Mindfulness Became the New Capitalist […]

In this far-ranging conversation, we talk about the limitations of “McMindfulness” and discuss what it feels like to explore a new sense of self in the context of interaction. Ronald Purser, Ph.D. is the Lam-Larsen Distinguished Research Professor of Management at San Francisco State University. His latest book, McMindfulness: How Mindfulness Became the New Capitalist […]

Ronald Purser is a professor of Management in the College of Business at San Francisco State University. He is the author of several books including his most recent, McMindfulness: How Mindfulness Became the New Capitalist Spirituality. Purser's essays and other writing have appeared in the Huffington Post, Alternet, Tikkun, The Guardian, and elsewhere. Purser explains how neoliberal gangster capitalists and other plutocrats have distorted and cooptated “mindfulness” for profits and ultimately as a tool for creating a passive, isolated, weak public of consumers and passive citizens. He also shares what he learned about how “mindfulness” apps are actually created not for reasons of helping users but to make profits for huge companies. Chauncey reflects on questions of freedom and government and how Biden's COVID-19 stimulus bill may in fact be one of the most progressive and positively transformative acts of legislation since the Johnson administration. And Chauncey also shares some found wisdom on questions of personal integrity, self-respect, and honor. SELECTED LINKS OF INTEREST FOR THIS EPISODE OF THE CHAUNCEY DEVEGA SHOW The American Rescue Plan Chris Hedges: Bandaging the Corpse Beyond Covid relief: Biden invokes LBJ as Democrats aim to expand welfare state I Can't Give You Anything But Love New child tax credit could slash poverty now and boost social mobility later Would a $15 Minimum Wage Reduce ‘Deaths of Despair'? WHERE CAN YOU FIND ME? On Twitter: https://twitter.com/chaunceydevega On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/chauncey.devega My email: chaunceydevega@gmail.com HOW CAN YOU SUPPORT THE CHAUNCEY DEVEGA SHOW? Via Paypal at ChaunceyDeVega.com Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thechaunceydevegashow Music at the end of this week's episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show is by JC Brooks & the Uptown Sound. You can listen to some of their great music on Spotify.

Over the last few decades, mindfulness has gone viral. These days, the practice has found its way into corporations, prisons, schools, police departments, and even the U.S. military. There are many benefits to mindfulness of course, but in his book, “McMindfulness: How Mindfulness Became the New Capitalist Spirituality,” author Ron Purser explores the more pernicious part of the practice buy examining how capitalism had co-opted mindfulness to further exploitation and extraction. Interestingly, it turns out that mindfulness can be very compatible with our current neoliberal ideologies of individualism, inward-focus, and the watering-down of sociality. It has been expertly applied in a way which encourages us to only look inside for solutions to our problems, instead of challenging the systems and structures that drive the suffering we experience. McMindfulness is a way of pacifying a population and instilling a victim-blaming mentality: if you’re stressed, anxious, depressed, just “mindfulness up,” and get over it. How did we get here? What can we do about it? How can mindfulness be reclaimed and in fact used as a radical force for system change and psychological well being? We explore these questions and more in this conversation. Upstream is a labor of love — we couldn't keep this project going without the generosity of our listeners and fans. Please consider making a tax-deductible donation to Upstream. Thank you! www.upstreampodcast.org/support For more from Upstream, visit www.upstreampodcast.org and follow us on social media: Facebook.com/upstreampodcast twitter.com/UpstreamPodcast Instagram.com/upstreampodcast You can also subscribe to us on Apple Podcast and Spotify: Apple Podcast: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/upst…am/id1082594532 Spotify: spoti.fi/2AryXHs

Over the last few decades, mindfulness has gone viral. These days, the practice has found its way into corporations, prisons, schools, police departments, and even the U.S. military. There are many benefits to mindfulness of course, but in his book, “McMindfulness: How Mindfulness Became the New Capitalist Spirituality,” author Ron Purser explores the more pernicious part of the practice buy examining how capitalism had co-opted mindfulness to further exploitation and extraction. Interestingly, it turns out that mindfulness can be very compatible with our current neoliberal ideologies of individualism, inward-focus, and the watering-down of sociality. It has been expertly applied in a way which encourages us to only look inside for solutions to our problems, instead of challenging the systems and structures that drive the suffering we experience. McMindfulness is a way of pacifying a population and instilling a victim-blaming mentality: if you’re stressed, anxious, depressed, just “mindfulness up,” and get over it. How did we get here? What can we do about it? How can mindfulness be reclaimed and in fact used as a radical force for system change and psychological well being? We explore these questions and more in this conversation. Upstream is a labor of love — we couldn't keep this project going without the generosity of our listeners and fans. Please consider making a tax-deductible donation to Upstream. Thank you! www.upstreampodcast.org/support For more from Upstream, visit www.upstreampodcast.org and follow us on social media: Facebook.com/upstreampodcast twitter.com/UpstreamPodcast Instagram.com/upstreampodcast You can also subscribe to us on Apple Podcast and Spotify: Apple Podcast: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/upst…am/id1082594532 Spotify: spoti.fi/2AryXHs

Over the last few decades, mindfulness has gone viral. These days, the practice has found its way into corporations, prisons, schools, police departments, and even the U.S. military. There are many benefits to mindfulness of course, but in his book, “McMindfulness: How Mindfulness Became the New Capitalist Spirituality,” author Ron Purser explores the more pernicious part of the practice by examining how capitalism had co-opted mindfulness to further exploitation and extraction. Interestingly, it turns out that mindfulness can be very compatible with our current neoliberal ideologies of individualism, inward-focus, and the watering-down of sociality. It has been expertly applied in a way which encourages us to only look inside for solutions to our problems, instead of challenging the systems and structures that drive the suffering we experience. McMindfulness is a way of pacifying a population and instilling a victim-blaming mentality: if you’re stressed, anxious, depressed, just “mindfulness up,” and get over it. How did we get here? What can we do about it? How can mindfulness be reclaimed and in fact used as a radical force for system change and psychological well being? We explore these questions and more in this conversation. Upstream is a labor of love — we couldn't keep this project going without the generosity of our listeners and fans. Please consider making a tax-deductible donation to Upstream. Thank you! www.upstreampodcast.org/support For more from Upstream, visit www.upstreampodcast.org and follow us on social media: Facebook.com/upstreampodcast twitter.com/UpstreamPodcast Instagram.com/upstreampodcast You can also subscribe to us on Apple Podcast and Spotify: Apple Podcast: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/upst…am/id1082594532 Spotify: spoti.fi/2AryXHs

Description  Gathering data about student expectations and experiences with new technology is essential to developing effective courses to be delivered online during the pandemic. In this interview we spoke with Daigengna Duoer, who taught an online course on Zen Buddhism at UC Santa Barbara this past summer. Daigengna repeatedly surveyed her students to evaluate their preferences and comfort with the format and content of the course. In this episode, we hear about some creative and specific ways she created an engaging asynchronous learning experience in a course that was taught entirely remotely. Some key take-aways? One-on-one zoom meetings to develop paper topics, a preference for asynchronous, but also short, lectures, and being sure to build a course that allows students to focus on topics of real interest to them.  Quotes  "74% of my students actually preferred asynchronous. I was really shocked. 0% preferred 100% synchronous formats." Daigengna Duoer "Teaching in covid-19 really made me become more aware about how students learn, how they want to learn, what they want to learn, especially when it comes to Buddhism and also Zen, things like this, so they are really technology-oriented, but they're also very flexible, I think, and they really want relevant information and material and also arguments for their immediate concerns." Daigengna Duoer "One of the advantages we have as instructors of humanities courses where we can definitely teach this exciting content, but we can also teach, useful transferable skills through this content to students." Daigengna Duoer Links and References   Daigengna Duoer, UC Santa Barbara, Department of Religious Studies   https://www.religion.ucsb.edu/people/student/daigengna-duoer/  Daigengna's Personal Website  https://www.daigengnaduoer.com  Panopto video recording and sharing software https://www.panopto.com/ Ronald Purser, McMindfulness: How Mindfulness Became the New Capitalist Spirituality  https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/600158/mcmindfulness-by-ronald-purser/ Hwansoo Kim, "The Adventures of a Japanese Monk in Colonial Korea: Sōma Shōei's Zen Training with Korean Masters" www.jstor.org/stable/30233856 Joshua Irizarry, "Putting a Price on Zen: The Business of Redefining Religion for Global Consumption" http://www.globalbuddhism.org/jgb/index.php/jgb/article/view/147 Peter Romaskiewicz, Mind Lab exercises    PRE-Course Survey POST-Course Survey

Read Ronald Purser’s piece for The Guardian here, which has been adapted from his book, ‘McMindfulness: How Mindfulness Became the New Capitalist Spirituality’. THERAPY OF DANCE, IN CONVERSATION is created by Elise Mireille and Ella Newell. This episode was edited by Ella herself and mixed by þóroddur ingvarsson. A big thank you to Tabitha Swanson for our logo, as well as a shout out to the song in this podcast ‘Envelope’, which was created by Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith for her album EARS. Subscribe to THERAPY OF DANCE’s newsletter and stay in the loop for new episodes, panel events and pop-up dance classes. If you have ideas or questions, say hello@therapyofdance.com or just slide in to our DM’s @THERAPYOFDANCE. We love hearing from you!

My guest this week is Ron Purser (@ronpurser), author of McMindfulness: How Mindfulness Became the New Capitalist Spirituality. We discuss the commodifying of mindfulness and theInvocation: A life in Vain by Ono no komachi (translation by Peter MacMillon) http://www.thehypertexts.com/Ono%20no%20Komachi%20English%20Translations.htmEditing by Brian Ziegenhagen, check out his pod: http://youarehere.libsyn.com/s02e02-rex-manning-day?fbclid=IwAR2L2_YIJvQpcw0nx6nTSfz0GmyJ1DtWsF--vvdI9W1ug3XW7IAtU6dQ36sMusic by GW RodriguezSibling Pod Philosophers in Space: https://0gphilosophy.libsyn.com/Support us at Patreon.com/EmbraceTheVoidIf you enjoy the show, please Like and Review us on your pod app, especially iTunes. It really helps!Next week: Black metal environmentalism with Jesse McWilliams

Sam speaks with professor Ronald Purser about the neoliberalism of mindfulness, the libertarianism of self-help, and the corporate piracy, cultural appropriation, exploitation, and racism of privatized mysticism and New Age. Ronald is a writer, a Professor of Management at San Francisco State University, as well as an ordained Buddhist teacher. He has written a new book called McMindfulness: How Mindfulness Became the New Capitalist Spirituality. If you've been skeptical at all about self-help, the mindfulness movement, New Age, productivity/ hustle porn, or different programs HR and management are always trying to incorporate into your lives, this is the episode you've been waiting for. And if you love the show, tell your friends. Spread the word. Tell them they're missing out. Also, rate and review us. Be detailed, and tell us about yourself and how you heard of us. This lets Apple and other podcasting apps know that they should be telling others about us. Find Ronald at: https://www.ronpurser.com, find his book here: https://amzn.to/3awtrTH Support Southpaw on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/southpawpod You can find Southpaw on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram: @SouthpawPod As well as on the Southpaw Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/southpaw You can also find Sam on Twitter and Instagram: @StuffFromSam

There are two guests on this week's very special December fundraising-month episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show. Ronald E. Purser is a Professor of Management at San Francisco State University. His new book is McMindfulness: How Mindfulness Became the New Capitalist Spirituality. Purser is also the author of the widely-read essay at the Huffington Post,“Beyond McMindfulness”. Purser explains how neoliberalism and its gangster capitalists use “mindfulness” as a way of creating a compliant, lonely and weak public that is not equipped for the collective action necessary to make a better and more humane society. Purser also warns against accepting simple answers to complex problems about human nature and life – because those simple answers such as corporate-sponsored “mindfulness” and its panoply of self-help books and other products do nothing to substantively improve the human condition or to create a better life. David T. Courtwright is presidential professor emeritus in the Department of History at the University of North Florida, He is the author of numerous books including the new The Age of Addiction: How Bad Habits Became Big Business. Courtwright explains how capitalism is able to monetize human pleasure and desire through addictive products such as alcohol, tobacco, “vaping”, and other drugs which target the limbic system of the brain. He also cautions against moral panics and today's dominant narratives about the “deaths of despair” and opioid addiction among the “white working class”.   And Courtwright also explores what the concept of “casino capitalism” suggests about American culture and life in the Neoliberal Age. ****If you learn from and enjoy The Chauncey DeVega Show please show some love by making a donation during the December fundraiser via the Paypal link at ChaunceyDeVega.com or through Patreon. I do not run commercials or advertisements here on The Chauncey DeVega Show despite having received many offers to do so. Instead, The Chauncey DeVega Show relies upon your generosity and kindness during its two fundraisers each year. Your generosity and kindness allows the show to continue, stay commercial-free, and grow. We are only at 20 percent of the fundraising goal for this December fundraiser. Please contribute if you have the means and ability and also enjoy and learn from The Chauncey DeVega Show and its great guests.**** On this week's show, Chauncey DeVega explains how Trump the Great Leader uses toilet politics and popular culture such as the Avengers movies and Thanos “The Mad Titan” as weapons to defeat the Democrats by maintaining the loyalty of his cult members. Chauncey also reflects on how Trump's toilet politics are connected to libertarianism and the great TV series King of the Hill.  And Chauncey shares his thoughts about the new films Waves (which he loved) and Queen & Slim (which he did not). WHERE CAN YOU FIND ME? On Twitter: https://twitter.com/chaunceydevega On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/chauncey.devega My email: chaunceydevega@gmail.com Leave a voicemail for The Chauncey DeVega Show: (262) 864-0154 HOW CAN YOU SUPPORT THE CHAUNCEY DEVEGA SHOW? Via Paypal at ChaunceyDeVega.com Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thechaunceydevegashow Please subscribe to and follow my new podcast The Truth Report https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-truth-report-with-chauncey-devega/id1465522298 http://thetruthreportwithchaunceydevega.libsyn.com/ Music at the end of this week's episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show is by JC Brooks & the Uptown Sound. You can listen to some of their great music on Spotify.   

In episode #069 Chris meets with Dr. Ron Purser and they explore his critique of the “mindfulness revolution,” discuss how neoliberalism has infiltrated mindfulness and has influenced self-professed progressives, and how to liberate mindfulness from the grip of capitalism.  Ron's Website: https://www.ronpurser.com/ Mindful Cranks Podcast: http://www.mindfulcranks.com/   Chris Hoff PhD, LMFT We want to hear from you! Youtube: http://bit.ly/2i0DmaT Website: http://www.theradicaltherapist.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheRadTherapist Instagram: https://instagram.com/theradicaltherapist/ Email: theradicaltherapist@gmail.com

In his recent exposé, McMindfulness: How Mindfulness Became the New Capitalist Spirituality (Repeater Books, 2019), Ronald Purser Ph.D. takes a hard look at the mindfulness movement that has taken society by storm. Purser opens the book by questioning elements of the movement that have lead to its success: its scientific credibility, its secular façade, the prevailing discourse in society around stress, and other topics. Purser’s main concern, however, is that mindfulness is being used to reinforce the capitalist system by absolving companies of any responsibility for its negative consequences, for example work-related mental health problems, and shifting full responsibility onto the shoulders of the individual. Purser also points out how mindfulness is being used in questionable ways in schools, the US military and national governments. Purser ends the book by discussing his vision of a revolutionary, socially-minded, collective-based form of mindfulness. Full of humor and eye-opening anecdotes, McMindfulness is a thought-provoking book that forces readers to look at the mindfulness movement in a new light. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In his recent exposé, McMindfulness: How Mindfulness Became the New Capitalist Spirituality (Repeater Books, 2019), Ronald Purser Ph.D. takes a hard look at the mindfulness movement that has taken society by storm. Purser opens the book by questioning elements of the movement that have lead to its success: its scientific credibility, its secular façade, the prevailing discourse in society around stress, and other topics. Purser’s main concern, however, is that mindfulness is being used to reinforce the capitalist system by absolving companies of any responsibility for its negative consequences, for example work-related mental health problems, and shifting full responsibility onto the shoulders of the individual. Purser also points out how mindfulness is being used in questionable ways in schools, the US military and national governments. Purser ends the book by discussing his vision of a revolutionary, socially-minded, collective-based form of mindfulness. Full of humor and eye-opening anecdotes, McMindfulness is a thought-provoking book that forces readers to look at the mindfulness movement in a new light. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In his recent exposé, McMindfulness: How Mindfulness Became the New Capitalist Spirituality (Repeater Books, 2019), Ronald Purser Ph.D. takes a hard look at the mindfulness movement that has taken society by storm. Purser opens the book by questioning elements of the movement that have lead to its success: its scientific credibility, its secular façade, the prevailing discourse in society around stress, and other topics. Purser’s main concern, however, is that mindfulness is being used to reinforce the capitalist system by absolving companies of any responsibility for its negative consequences, for example work-related mental health problems, and shifting full responsibility onto the shoulders of the individual. Purser also points out how mindfulness is being used in questionable ways in schools, the US military and national governments. Purser ends the book by discussing his vision of a revolutionary, socially-minded, collective-based form of mindfulness. Full of humor and eye-opening anecdotes, McMindfulness is a thought-provoking book that forces readers to look at the mindfulness movement in a new light. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In his recent exposé, McMindfulness: How Mindfulness Became the New Capitalist Spirituality (Repeater Books, 2019), Ronald Purser Ph.D. takes a hard look at the mindfulness movement that has taken society by storm. Purser opens the book by questioning elements of the movement that have lead to its success: its scientific credibility, its secular façade, the prevailing discourse in society around stress, and other topics. Purser’s main concern, however, is that mindfulness is being used to reinforce the capitalist system by absolving companies of any responsibility for its negative consequences, for example work-related mental health problems, and shifting full responsibility onto the shoulders of the individual. Purser also points out how mindfulness is being used in questionable ways in schools, the US military and national governments. Purser ends the book by discussing his vision of a revolutionary, socially-minded, collective-based form of mindfulness. Full of humor and eye-opening anecdotes, McMindfulness is a thought-provoking book that forces readers to look at the mindfulness movement in a new light. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In his recent exposé, McMindfulness: How Mindfulness Became the New Capitalist Spirituality (Repeater Books, 2019), Ronald Purser Ph.D. takes a hard look at the mindfulness movement that has taken society by storm. Purser opens the book by questioning elements of the movement that have lead to its success: its scientific credibility, its secular façade, the prevailing discourse in society around stress, and other topics. Purser’s main concern, however, is that mindfulness is being used to reinforce the capitalist system by absolving companies of any responsibility for its negative consequences, for example work-related mental health problems, and shifting full responsibility onto the shoulders of the individual. Purser also points out how mindfulness is being used in questionable ways in schools, the US military and national governments. Purser ends the book by discussing his vision of a revolutionary, socially-minded, collective-based form of mindfulness. Full of humor and eye-opening anecdotes, McMindfulness is a thought-provoking book that forces readers to look at the mindfulness movement in a new light. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In his recent exposé, McMindfulness: How Mindfulness Became the New Capitalist Spirituality (Repeater Books, 2019), Ronald Purser Ph.D. takes a hard look at the mindfulness movement that has taken society by storm. Purser opens the book by questioning elements of the movement that have lead to its success: its scientific credibility, its secular façade, the prevailing discourse in society around stress, and other topics. Purser’s main concern, however, is that mindfulness is being used to reinforce the capitalist system by absolving companies of any responsibility for its negative consequences, for example work-related mental health problems, and shifting full responsibility onto the shoulders of the individual. Purser also points out how mindfulness is being used in questionable ways in schools, the US military and national governments. Purser ends the book by discussing his vision of a revolutionary, socially-minded, collective-based form of mindfulness. Full of humor and eye-opening anecdotes, McMindfulness is a thought-provoking book that forces readers to look at the mindfulness movement in a new light. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week the gang are looking at the explosion of the Mindfulness Industry, and ask the question - is this simply individualising the stress of modern capitalist society, and seeking to neutralise us in the growing social and political problems? Ron Purser joins to discuss his book on the topic, McMindfulness: How Mindfulness Became the New Capitalist Spirituality. We also touch on the history of HR, and the disturbing tweets from inside Amazon's fulfilment centre. Ron's website: https://www.ronpurser.com/ Ron also has a podcast! http://mindfulcranks.com Get a sneak peek of the book with the Guardian's Long Read: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/jun/14/the-mindfulness-conspiracy-capitalist-spirituality Rowan also quotes this article from Sahanika Ratnayake: https://aeon.co/essays/mindfulness-is-loaded-with-troubling-metaphysical-assumptions Some of the harrowing Amazon Worker tweets can be found here: https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/59npad/amazons-creepy-twitter-pr-army-growing

Ron's new book, McMindfulness: How Mindfulness Became the New Capitalist Spirituality ... A brief history of mindfulness in America ... Ron's critique of the corporate teaching of mindfulness ... A tool vs. a path ... Ron: The mindfulness industry individualizes social problems ... A call for civic mindfulness ... Can capitalism and spirituality be reconciled? ...

Ronald Purser is a professor of management at San Francisco State University and a longtime Buddhist practitioner who popularized the term McMindfulness in a piece he wrote for the Huffington Post in 2013. In it, he argued  that mindfulness practice has been commercialized, and reduced to a mere “self-help technique.” His new book, McMindfulness: How Mindfulness Became the New Capitalist Spirituality, offers an argument against the mindfulness movement, claiming that corporations have embraced the practice in order to advance a neoliberal agenda.  Here, Purser strikes a more balanced tone and discusses the good and bad of the mindfulness movement, explains what he means by the catch-all term McMindfulness, and presents his view that mindfulness has an untapped potential to bring about real social change.

Ronald Purser is a professor of management at San Francisco State University and author of McMindfulness: How Mindfulness Became the New Capitalist Spirituality. 

It seems the more mindfulness is mainstreamed, the more its claims are being questioned. Ron Purser, Professor of Management at SFSU and author of the new groundbreaking book, McMindfulness: How Mindfulness Became the New Capitalist Spirituality, has been a longtime critic of the widespread mainstreaming and overselling of mindfulness practices. He views mainstream mindfulness as an amplifier of Western consumerist individualism and a banal form of capitalist spirituality; one he claims utterly avoids cultivation of social and political transformation. Ron challenges the widely accepted narrative that stress is self-imposed and mindfulness is the cure-all, and offers ways for mindfulness delivery in healthcare and business settings to cast off its neoliberal shackles, and be redirected toward collective awakening.  Ron and I have known each other for quite some time. He is erudite and engaging. I"m sure you will enjoy this stimulating, thought-provoking conversation. Ron's website   Ron Purser is Professor of Management in the College of Business and the Educational Doctorate in Leadership program in the College of Education at SFSU San Francisco State University. His scholarship currently focuses on mindfulness in organizations, and how Buddhist psychology and Buddhist social theory can inform social change and transformation. In addition, Prof. Purser writings have been exploring the challenges and issues of introducing mindfulness into secular contexts, particularly with regards to its encounter with modernity, Western consumer capitalism, and individualism. Dr. Purser is an ordained Zen Dharma Teacher in the Korean Zen Taego order of Buddhism. Tarthang Tulku Time, Space, and Knowledge   Disclaimer: The information in this episode or on groundlessground.com is intended for information and entertainment purposes only, and does not claim to be or constitute therapeutic advice or mental health treatment.