A Skeptic's Path to Enlightenment

A Skeptic's Path to Enlightenment


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Dan Harris: Love, Skepticism, and the "Cheesy Upward Spiral" [rebroadcast]
December 19, 2023

Dan Harris, former ABC News anchor and host of the hit podcast Ten Percent Happier, talks with Scott Snibbe about love, skepticism, Buddhism, and the "cheesy upward spiral." Episode 134: Dan Harris: Love, Skepticism, and the "Cheesy Upward

RAFT Meditation with Dr. Katherine MacLean
December 12, 2023

Dr. Katherine MacLean leads a meditation practice called RAFT: Remembering to be Aware of Feelings in your body and Trust your experience. Katherine says that mushrooms shared this practice with her as a way to help others access the space of psychedelics

Psychedelics, Meditation, and Buddhism with Dr. Katherine MacLean
December 05, 2023

Ten years ago Dr. Katherine MacLean conducted the first scientific study of the combined effects of psychedelics with meditation. The encouraging results of the study showed the long-term beneficial effects these substances can have on our concentration,

Mindful Awareness Meditation with Michael Sapiro
November 28, 2023

Psychedelic psychotherapist Dr. Michael Sapiro leads a guided meditation on mindful awareness that connects you with the present moment and your senses.Episode 144: Mindful Awareness Meditation with Michael Sapiro Support the show

Psychedelic Psychotherapy with Michael Sapiro
November 21, 2023

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. Dr. Michael Sapiro is a psychedelic psychotherapist and researcher who has worked successfully with psyched

War Meditation
November 14, 2023

On several occasions Ive heard people ask the Dalai Lama how to end war, and hes always answered the same way: begin by trying to resolve the conflicts in your own life. But how do we do that? This meditation goes through some of the Buddhist approaches

Four Foundations of Mindfulness with Dr. David Kittay — A Guided Meditation
November 07, 2023

Take an expansive tour through the four foundations of mindfulness in this sweeping guided meditation with Dr. David Kittay: mindfulness of body, feelings, mind, and mental objects.Guided Meditation: Four Foundations of Mindfulness with Dr. David KittayLi

AI, Compassion, and Enlightenment with Dr. David Kittay
October 31, 2023

Professor David Kittay talks with Scott Snibbe about whether we should treat AIs with compassion, whether we are living in a simulation, and whether technologically assisted enlightenment might be possible.Dr. David Kittay teaches philosophy, religion, an

The Natural Goodness of our Mind: Guided Meditation with Ven. Sangye Khadro (Kathleen McDonald)
October 24, 2023

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 all our negative, disturbing states of mind like anger, anxiety, or fear; and cultivate our positive menta

Are We Fundamentally Good? with Dr. Jan Willis
October 17, 2023

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 talking with me about the question, Are we fundamentally good? Buddhism sometimes seems quite depress