The Mindful Cranks
- Religion & Spirituality · Buddhism
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About
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...
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Recent episodes
- Episode 49 - Tara Isabella Burton- Self-Made
- Episode 48 - Derek Beres - Conspirituality
- Episode 47 - Peter Hershock: Buddhism & AI
- Episode 46 - Martin Parker: Shut Down the Business School
- Episode 45 - Alissa Quart: Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves from the American Dream
- Episode 44 - Curtis White - Transcendent: Art and Dharma in a Time of Collapse
- Episode 43 - Steve Hagen: The Grand Delusion
- Episode 42- Graham Parkes: How to Think About the Climate Crisis
- Episode 41 - Rina Raphael: The Gospel of Wellness
- Episode 40 - Gail Stearns: Liberating Mindfulness