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The Mindfulness Myth, with Ronald Purser and Helen Lewis
The Mindfulness Myth, with Ronald Purser and Helen Lewis
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37 minutes
Released:
Sep 20, 2019
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Podcast episode
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Mindfulness – the psychological practice of bringing one's attention to the present moment through meditation – has gone mainstream. It has been enthusiastically co-opted by Silicon Valley and other large corporations as well as schools, governments and even the U.S. military. But what if, instead of changing the world, mindfulness has become a banal form of capitalist spirituality that mindlessly avoids social and political transformation, reinforcing the status quo? That's the view of Ronald Purser, Professor of Management at San Francisco State University, Buddhist practitioner and author of McMindfulness. In this episode of the Intelligence Squared podcast, he was interviewed by Helen Lewis of The Atlantic on his radical critique of the mindfulness industry. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
Released:
Sep 20, 2019
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Podcast episode
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