Episode 13: The 5 Contemplative Landmarks
What are the five contemplative landmarks? And what do they say about our meditation practice?
Terje is a master meditator, whose work brings together the worlds of neuroscience, spirituality and community.
Episode 12: Meditation, the brain and meta-cognitive awareness
How can you fundamentally change your relationship with the external world?
Joining today to share the messages of the very latest cognitive research on yoga and meditation is Harvard Medical School's Sara Lazar.
Episode 11: Collective Trauma and Recovery
What do you know about trauma?
Joining today to lift the lid on the weight of individual and collective trauma, is Michelle Cassandra Johnson.
Michelle shares practical tips for integrating mindfulness into your life, for the good of all society.
Episode 10: The Black History of Yoga
How much do you know about Kemetic Yoga? If you're like most people, not much!
Enter Kemetic Yoga legend Yirser Ra Hotep, master instructor of Yoga and the creator of the YogaSkills Method.
Episode 09: The Science of Romantic Love
What is actually happening when we fall in love?
Diving into the heart of the matter is leading expert Dr Lucy Brown. Lucy's research is at the crossroads of love, neuroscience and meditation.
Episode 08: Pain, Brains and Reality
Can mindfulness aid addiction, depression and pain?
We welcome Antoine Lutz, a pioneering researcher of contemplative practices.
Episode 07: Authentic Happiness
What is authentic happiness? And how can you find it?
Enter Doug Veenhof. Doug describes happiness as a 'process of subtraction'.
Join us for a disarming and radical approach to achieving happiness.
Episode 06: The Well-Being Curriculum
Why isn’t wellbeing part of the school curriculum?
Dissatisfaction and anxiety levels are rising - and young people are effected worse than any other demographic.
Episode 05: Mysticism and Modern Healthcare
How does modern psychiatry interact with the mystical, psychedelic or magical?
With difficulty!
Dr Daniel Ingram is attempting to change that.
Episode 04: Why I’m Not a Buddhist
In 2022, Buddhism is perceived as 'spirituality for the rational', fully compatible with cutting‑edge science.
But this view is actually a mistake that does both Buddhism and science a disservice, says Dr Evan Thompson.
Episode 03: Self-Transcendence
What’s the science behind self-transcendence?
We ask Dr Yuria Celidwen - an expert in Indigenous contemplative science - how self-transcendence works, and how it can help us today.
Episode 02: The Meaning Crisis (and what to do about it)
We’re living in the midst of the meaning crisis.
Enter Dr John Vervaeke. The world’s leading expert in diagnosing the spiritual, practical and cognitive causes of increasing isolation and disillusionment.
Episode 01: What is the bottleneck to well-being?
Your life is as good as the lens you see it through.
Disillusioned with her ‘dream’ job, Julianna Raye took a punt on meditation. It changed her life.
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