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Deconstructing Yourself

Dedicated to liberation in all its forms, Deconstructing Yourself is passionate about fearlessly investigating, attempting, and questioning all things to do with awakening, meditation, mindfulness, br... Read more

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What Does Dreaming Have to Do with Meditation? with Andrew Holecek

What Does Dreaming Have to Do with Meditation? with Andrew Holecek

Host Michael Taft speaks with Dream Yoga expert Andrew Holecek about how the dream state (and dreamless sleep) can effec... Read more

23 Oct 2019

1hr 7mins

Ranked #2

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Feather Light & Paper Thin, with Shinzen Young

Feather Light & Paper Thin, with Shinzen Young

Meditation teacher Shinzen Young and host Michael W. Taft talk about the relationship between mindfulness practice (as i... Read more

14 Jun 2017

1hr 29mins

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Are More People Achieving Stream Entry These Days? with Culadasa

Are More People Achieving Stream Entry These Days? with Culadasa

In this episode host Michael Taft speaks with meditation teacher, neuroscientist, and author John Yates, also known as C... Read more

11 Jun 2018

1hr 21mins

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Enlightenment’s Evil Twin, with Shinzen Young

Enlightenment’s Evil Twin, with Shinzen Young

Meditation teacher and neuroscience consultant Shinzen Young and host Michael W. Taft talk about what mindfulness teache... Read more

8 Sep 2017

1hr 40mins

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Deconstructing Sensory Experience, with Michael Taft

Deconstructing Sensory Experience, with Michael Taft

In this episode, host Michael Taft shares a map of deconstructing sensory experience. This is intended to help orient yo... Read more

24 Sep 2019

43mins

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Attention, Awareness, and the Great Adventure, with Culadasa

Attention, Awareness, and the Great Adventure, with Culadasa

Culadasa talks with Michael W. Taft. After decades of Buddhist practice, Culadasa exploded on the scene a few years ago ... Read more

4 Dec 2017

1hr 6mins

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Diving Deep into the Jhanas, with Leigh Brasington

Diving Deep into the Jhanas, with Leigh Brasington

Concentration master Leigh Brasington talks with Michael W. Taft about the jhanas, a Buddhist system of eight altered st... Read more

5 Feb 2018

1hr 18mins

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Lucid Dreaming, Meditation, and Consciousness, with Evan Thompson

Lucid Dreaming, Meditation, and Consciousness, with Evan Thompson

In this episode, philosopher, author, and meditator, Evan Thompson speaks with host Michael Taft. Topics include: the me... Read more

30 Jun 2018

1hr 13mins

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Consciousness, Spirituality, and Intellectual Honesty, with Thomas Metzinger

Consciousness, Spirituality, and Intellectual Honesty, with Thomas Metzinger

Thomas Metzinger and Michael W. Taft discuss having moral integrity with yourself, intellectual honesty in the pursuit o... Read more

29 Dec 2017

1hr 31mins

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Deconstructing Dependent Arising, with Leigh Brasington

Deconstructing Dependent Arising, with Leigh Brasington

Leigh Brasington speaks with host Michael W. Taft about Dependent Arising. Dependent Arising, also called Dependent Orig... Read more

29 Apr 2018

1hr

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Loch Kelly on Awareness, Freedom, and Effortless Mindfulness

Loch Kelly on Awareness, Freedom, and Effortless Mindfulness

Host Michael Taft speaks with Loch Kelly on nondual practices, contemporary forms of ancient awareness techniques, dzogc... Read more

3 Jul 2019

1hr 35mins

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Meditation, Magick, and the Fire Kasina, with Daniel Ingram

Meditation, Magick, and the Fire Kasina, with Daniel Ingram

In this session, host Michael W. Taft and radical dharma author and practitioner Daniel Ingram discuss the Fire Kasina p... Read more

27 Sep 2017

1hr 27mins

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Meditation, Madness, and Psychology, with Tucker Peck

Meditation, Madness, and Psychology, with Tucker Peck

Tucker Peck, meditation teacher and clinical psychologist, talks with host Michael Taft about how whether awakening (bot... Read more

8 Mar 2019

1hr 12mins

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Robert Anton Wilson, High Weirdness, and Buddhist Meditation, with Erik Davis

Robert Anton Wilson, High Weirdness, and Buddhist Meditation, with Erik Davis

Michael Taft speaks with Erik Davis about author Robert Anton Wilson, anarchism in the 1970s, Terrence McKenna, P.K. Dic... Read more

14 Dec 2018

1hr 4mins

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Why Good Teachers Go Bad, with Shinzen Young

Why Good Teachers Go Bad, with Shinzen Young

In this special one-year anniversary episode, Shinzen Young talks with host Michael W. Taft about becoming a meditation ... Read more

18 May 2018

1hr 28mins

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Eddies in the Mind Stream, with Rick Hanson, Ph.D.

Eddies in the Mind Stream, with Rick Hanson, Ph.D.

Rick Hanson and I discuss the tension between accepting how you're feeling and changing how you're feeling, spiritual by... Read more

1 Mar 2018

1hr 45mins

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Reversing the Stack— A Nondual Practice Map, with Michael Taft

Reversing the Stack— A Nondual Practice Map, with Michael Taft

In this episode, host Michael Taft remixes his map of deconstructing sensory experience, and talks about how to use it t... Read more

22 Nov 2019

34mins

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Emptiness, Liberation, and Beauty, with Rob Burbea

Emptiness, Liberation, and Beauty, with Rob Burbea

In this episode host Michael Taft speaks with Rob Burbea about Rob’s book, Seeing That Frees, the power of perception (w... Read more

27 Aug 2018

1hr 1min

Ranked #19

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Popping the Bubble of Projection, with Daniel Ingram

Popping the Bubble of Projection, with Daniel Ingram

Daniel Ingram talks with Michael W. Taft about teacher-student models, graduate school models of practice, creating medi... Read more

2 Apr 2018

58mins

Ranked #20

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The Liberating Practice of the Fire Kasina, with Daniel Ingram

The Liberating Practice of the Fire Kasina, with Daniel Ingram

Author and meditation teacher Daniel Ingram speaks with host Michael W. Taft about how the Fire Kasina practice can be u... Read more

27 Mar 2019

1hr 15mins

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