Deconstructing Yourself Podcast
Dedicated to liberation in all its forms, the Deconstructing Yourself podcast is passionate about fearlessly investigating, practicing, and reviewing all things to do with awakening, meditation, mindfulness, brain hacking, neurofeedback, and more.
Your host Michael W. Taft interviews some of the most interesting thinkers, authors, teachers, and radical practitioners in the world. In this hard-hitting, radical, and fun podcast we look at secular post-, non-, un- Buddhism, Advaita Vedanta, Hindu Tantrism, philosophy, the neuroscience of the sense of self, neurofeedback and the consciousness hacking movement, aspects of artificial intelligence, entheogens, and much more.
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- A Few Stray Points about Nonduality with Jake Orthwein
- Exploring Nondual Shaiva Tantra with Christopher Wallis
- The Magic of Vajrayana Part 2 with Ken McLeod
- The Magic of Vajrayana with Ken McLeod
- Meditation and the Bayesian Brain with Shamil Chandaria
- John Vervaeke on Relevance Realization
- A Conversation with Rosa Lewis
- Changing Minds with David McRaney
- A Conversation with Guy Sengstock
- The Power of Non-sleep Deep Rest with Kelly Boys
- A Conversation on Nonduality with Andrew Holecek
- Nondual Teachings of LinJi with Shinzen Young
- Can People Really Change?, with Tina Rasmussen
- Meditation, Insight, and Predictive Processing with Ruben Laukkonen
- Eco-Aesthetics and the Poetry of Longing with Rick Jarow
- Vision, Visualization, and Vajrayana, with Chandra Easton
- Talking about Zen Koans, with Henry Shukman
- Vajrayana as a Living Practice, with Ken McLeod
- Dimensions of Nonduality, with Tina Rasmussen
- Meditation and Communication, with Shinzen Young
- Spiritual Bypassing and the Spiritual Friend
- A Conversation with Spring Washam
- Talking with People about Things, with David McRaney
- Soulmaking Dharma with Catherine McGee
- Dreams and the Spiritual Imagination with Steve Aizenstat
- Love Unveiled with A.H. Almaas
- Vajrayana and Deity Yoga with Chandra Easton
- Evolving Ground with Rindzin Pamo and Jared Janes
- A Conversation with Ken McLeod
- Paranoia, Conspiracy, and Covid, with Erik Davis
- Effortlessness in Meditation, with Jud Brewer
- Awakening and the Path of Liberation, with Dan Brown
- Vajrayana, Compassion, and the Importance of the Teacher, with Ken McLeod
- Why Do Narcissists Become Spiritual Teachers, with Stephan Bodian
- Questioning Assumptions about Buddhism, with Evan Thompson
- The Nondual Heart, with John Prendergast
- Nonduality and Awake Awareness, with Loch Kelly
- Meditating with Buddhist Sutras, with Michael Owens
- Reversing the Stack, with Michael Taft
- What Does Dreaming Have to Do with Meditation? with Andrew Holecek
- Deconstructing Sensory Experience, with Michael Taft
- Vajrayana, Engineering, and Jiu Jitsu, with Rin’dzin Pamo
- Why Metadharma?, Pt.2, with Vincent Horn
- Meditation, Emotions, and the Bio-Emotive Framework with Douglas Tataryn
- Loch Kelly on Awarenes, Freedom, and Effortless Mindfulness
- Culadasa on Meditation and Therapy
- Meditation for the End of Civilization, with Rick Hanson
- The Liberating Practice of the Fire Kasina, with Daniel Ingram
- Meditation, Madness, and Psychology, with Tucker Peck
- Embodying Awakening, with Mukti
- Deconstructing the Heart Sutra, with Jayarava Attwood
- Robert Anton Wilson, High Weirdness, and Buddhist Meditation, with Erik Davis
- What Can AI Tell Us about the Human Mind? with Joscha Bach
- Doubt, Faith, and Fun in Meditation Practice, with Daniel Ingram
- Feminism, Sexual Misconduct, and the Guru in Buddhism, with Chandra Easton
- Deconstructing Michael, with Erik Newton
- Emptiness, Liberation, and Beauty, with Rob Burbea
- Walking, Nature, and Engaged Buddhism, with Christopher Titmuss
- Lucid Dreaming, Meditation, and Consciousness, with Evan Thompson
- Are More People Achieving Stream Entry These Days?” with Culadasa
- Emotions, Stress, and Heartbreak, with Eve Ekman
- Why Good Teachers Go Bad, with Shinzen Young
- Deconstructing Dependent Arising, with Leigh Brasington
- Seeing Your Blind Spots, with Kelly Boys
- Popping the Bubble of Projection, with Daniel Ingram
- Standing at the Edge, with Roshi Joan Halifax
- Eddies in the Mind Stream, with Rick Hanson, Ph.D.
- Diving Deep into the Jhanas, with Leigh Brasington
- Enlightened Sexuality, with Jessica Graham
- Consciousness, Spirituality, and Intellectual Honesty, with Thomas Metzinger
- Reality Let Loose, with A. H. Almaas
- Attention, Awareness, and the Great Adventure, with Culadasa
- The Craving Mind, with Judson Brewer
- Meditation, Magick, and the Fire Kasina, with Daniel Ingram
- Enlightenment’s Evil Twin, with Shinzen Young
- Pattern and Nebulosity, with David Chapman
- The Great Unbundling, with Vincent Horn
- Feather Light & Paper Thin, with Shinzen Young
- Masters of Oblivion, with Kenneth Folk
- The Cosmic Joke, with Kenneth Folk
- Am I Mindful Right Now, with Kenneth Folk
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Your financial support goes to offset the production costs of the podcast. Very little of it goes to me personally. It pays for studio time, extensive sound editing, a large file transfer bill each month, and such. I also occasionally purchase some sound equipment (microphones, a portable mixer, etc.) that help to give the podcast better audio quality.
Thank you so much for contributing to the Deconstructing Yourself podcast and helping so much to keep it going. It makes a huge difference to me, and to the wider community of fans like you who love the show.
~ Michael