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, brain hacking, consciousness, neurofeedback, and more.
Your host Michael W. Taft interviews some of the most interesting thinkers, authors, and teachers around, as well as other offerings. In this hard-hitting, radical, and fun podcast we look at secular post-, non-, un- Buddhism, Vajrayana, nondual Hindu Tantra, philosophy, the neuroscience of the sense of self, neurofeedback and the consciousness hacking movement, aspects of artificial intelligence, entheogens, and much more.
If you’re looking for fresh directions, free from dogma and conformism, think of the Deconstructing Yourself podcast as the radical cafe where you can hear from the most interesting luminaries either from the outside edges of dharma, or a fresh take from more traditional teachers. If you’re interested in more, check out the Deconstructing Yourself website at https://deconstructingyourself.com.
- Update frequency
- every 27 days
- Average duration
- 62 minutes
- Episodes
- 106
- Years Active
- 2017 - 2025
Deconstructing Michael, with Erik Newton
Turning the tables on the usual show format, host Michael Taft gets interviewed by Erik Newton.
01:02:05 |
Tue 18 Sep 2018
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 (ways of seeing), his creative methods of working with meditation practice, medit…
01:01:14 |
Mon 27 Aug 2018
Walking, Nature, and Engaged Buddhism, with Christopher Titmuss
In this episode, host Michael W. Taft speaks with senior dharma teacher Christopher Titmuss about yatra—meditative pilgrimage without a destination—the power of nature, and much more.
00:53:50 |
Tue 14 Aug 2018
Lucid Dreaming, Meditation, and Consciousness, with Evan Thompson
In this episode, philosopher, author, and meditator, Evan Thompson speaks with host Michael Taft.
01:13:42 |
Sat 30 Jun 2018
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 Culadasa.
01:21:56 |
Mon 11 Jun 2018
Emotions, Stress, and Heartbreak, with Eve Ekman
In this episode emotions researcher and meditation teacher Eve Ekman speaks with Michael W. Taft about embodied emotions, the difference between suppression and healthy expression, and much more.
01:28:41 |
Tue 29 May 2018
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 teacher, the unrealistic paradigm about what meditation delivers, Shinzen’s cod…
01:28:36 |
Fri 18 May 2018
Deconstructing Dependent Arising, with Leigh Brasington
Meditation teacher Leigh Brasington speaks with host Michael W. Taft about Dependent Arising. Dependent Arising, also called Dependent Origination, is a Buddhist theory of reality that is famously co…
01:00:22 |
Sun 29 Apr 2018
Seeing Your Blind Spots, with Kelly Boys
Kelly Boys talks with Michael Taft about integral restoration, nondual awakening, the work of Kahneman, spiritual bypassing, gendered aspects of awakening and spiritual teaching, when knowing less is…
00:44:03 |
Sun 15 Apr 2018
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 meditation peer groups, working with “co-adventurers” on the spiritual path, overco…
00:58:19 |
Mon 02 Apr 2018
Standing at the Edge, with Roshi Joan Halifax
Roshi Joan Halifax speaks with host Michael W. Taft about her new book, Standing at the Edge, the shadow sides of altruism, empathy, integrity, respect, engagement, and rays of hope in current times.
00:45:52 |
Thu 15 Mar 2018
Eddies in the Mind Stream, with Rick Hanson, Ph.D.
Rick Hanson and Michael Taft discuss the tension between accepting how you’re feeling and changing how you’re feeling, spiritual bypassing, how to cultivate positive states of mind, the quivering pot…
01:45:57 |
Thu 01 Mar 2018
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 states of consciousness that arise in states of high concentration.
01:18:00 |
Mon 05 Feb 2018
Enlightened Sexuality, with Jessica Graham
In this episode, I talk with Jessica Graham about her book Good Sex, the #MeToo movement, the power of self love and acceptance, a beginner’s guide to spiritual awakening through sexuality, mindful m…
01:03:40 |
Mon 22 Jan 2018
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 of spirituality, the overlapping goals of science and spirituality, the possibil…
01:31:32 |
Fri 29 Dec 2017
Reality Let Loose, with A. H. Almaas
In this episode, Michael Taft speaks with spiritual teacher and author Hameed Ali, more often known by his pen name, A. H. Almaas. Almaas is the creator of the Diamond Approach to Self-Realization, w…
01:16:19 |
Thu 14 Dec 2017
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 with his groundbreaking book The Mind Illuminated, an incredibly comprehensive …
01:06:24 |
Mon 04 Dec 2017
The Craving Mind, with Judson Brewer
What do the neurocorrelates of enlightenment, the activation of the posterior cingulate cortex, and the extinction of craving all have in common? They relate to the work of Judson Brewer.
01:06:43 |
Wed 25 Oct 2017
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 practice, meditation and magick, working with archetypal forces and entities, Da…
01:27:32 |
Wed 27 Sep 2017
Enlightenment’s Evil Twin, with Shinzen Young
Meditation teacher and neuroscience consultant Shinzen Young and host Michael W. Taft talk about the Dark Night of the Soul.
01:40:34 |
Fri 08 Sep 2017
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