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Back to SearchPsychedelics, Meditation, and Buddhism with Dr. Katherine MacLean #145
Episode 145
Ten years ago Dr. Katherine MacLean conducted the first scientific study of the combined effects of psychedelics with meditation. The encouraging res…
2 years, 8 months ago
Mindful Awareness Meditation with Michael Sapiro #144
Episode 144
Psychedelic psychotherapist Dr. Michael Sapiro leads a guided meditation on mindful awareness that connects you with the present moment and your sens…
2 years, 8 months ago
Psychedelic Psychotherapy with Michael Sapiro #143
Episode 143
Psychedelics have been in the news a lot lately as a new way to help people work through otherwise intractable issues of grief depression and PTSD. D…
2 years, 8 months ago
War Meditation #142
Episode 142
On several occasions I’ve heard people ask the Dalai Lama how to end war, and he’s always answered the same way: begin by trying to resolve the confl…
2 years, 8 months ago
Four Foundations of Mindfulness with Dr. David Kittay — A Guided Meditation #77 [rebroadcast]
Take an expansive tour through the four foundations of mindfulness in this sweeping guided meditation with Dr. David Kittay: mindfulness of body, fee…
2 years, 9 months ago
AI, Compassion, and Enlightenment with Dr. David Kittay #77/78 [rebroadcast]
Professor David Kittay talks with Scott Snibbe about whether we should treat AIs with compassion, whether we are living in a simulation, and whether …
2 years, 9 months ago
The Natural Goodness of our Mind: Guided Meditation with Ven. Sangye Khadro (Kathleen McDonald) #36 [rebroadcast]
A guided meditation by Ven. Sangye Khadro (Kathleen McDonald) on the natural goodness of our mind, or Buddha nature. In this meditation we let go of …
2 years, 9 months ago
Are We Fundamentally Good? with Dr. Jan Willis #140
Episode 140
In this episode, I have one of my heroes back for a third time. Dr. Jan Willis is an extraordinary Buddhist scholar and practitioner and today she's …
2 years, 9 months ago
Guided Meditation on Pleasure #85 [rebroadcast]
How can we use pleasure in our meditation practice? Buddhism offers specific techniques for meditating on pleasure as a way to deepen our qualities o…
2 years, 10 months ago
Pleasure and Buddhism: Food, Sex, and Netflix on the Path to Enlightenment #84 [rebroadcast]
Pleasure is often viewed as a hindrance to the spiritual path, a hotbed of craving and attachment, but what if we told you that pleasure can actually…
2 years, 10 months ago