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Spiritual Practice and Mindfulness
Interviews with scholars of spiritual practice and mindfulness about their new books.
April 7, 2026
Just Stare At the Wall
Welcome to the Imperfect Buddha Podcast on the New Books Network. Today, we’re stripping away the incense and serenity to look at the cold, hard wall…
April 6, 2026
Love's Labour
When it comes to love why do we find things so difficult? Drawing on over forty years of candid and surprising conversations with his patients, Stephe…
April 1, 2026
Building Resilient Futures
Explore resilience from personal, organizational, and national perspectives with expert Robert Hall in this discussion of his book Building Resilient …
March 25, 2026
The Philosophy of Hope
In this third episode of Season 5, I interview Dr. R.J. Snell, a visiting instructor at Princeton University, the director of academic programs at the…
March 23, 2026
Arthur Schopenhauer
Arthur Schopenhauer: The Life and Thought of Philosophy’s Greatest Pessimist by David Bather Woods An engaging biography of one of the most influenti…
March 18, 2026
The Joy of Solitude
Solitude is part of the human experience. But just like other relationships, your relationship with solitude can be satisfying, intimate, and enhance …
March 15, 2026
The Fast
With fasting at an all-time high in popularity, here is an enlightening exploration into the history, science, and philosophy behind the practice—esse…
March 9, 2026
The 4th Yoga Darśana Yoga Sādhana Conference
The 4th International Yoga Darśana Yoga Sādhana Conference convenes 27–29 May 2026 at EHESS Paris, organized by CESAH. Theme: Authenticity, Authority …
March 8, 2026
Tibetan Medicine for Meditators, with Tawni Tidwell
Today I sit down with Dr. Tawni Tidwell, a biocultural anthropologist and Tibetan medicine doctor at the Center for Healthy Minds at the University of…
March 2, 2026
The Ocean of Yoga
The Ocean of Yoga: A Complete Guide to Living the Teachings, Tradition, and Practice (Shambhala, 2026) is definitive guidebook to the core principles …
February 6, 2026
Black Beryl: The Modern Remaking of Kundalini
Today host Pierce Salguero sits down with Marleen Thaler, a researcher at the University of Vienna and University of Graz. Together, we investigate th…
February 5, 2026
Critical Consciousness
Critical Consciousness: Beyond Impasses in Environmentalism, Psychoanalysis, and Education (Routledge, 2025) provides insight into the antagonism and …
December 27, 2025
Art-Making as Spiritual Practice
Art-Making as Spiritual Practice: Rituals of Embodied Understanding (Bloomsbury Academic Press, 2025), edited by David Newheiser and Lexi Eikelboom, i…
December 20, 2025
Integral Perspectives
In this episode, Sean MacCracken reflects on his experience at the American Academy of Religion, noticing a shift toward more participatory, contempla…
December 12, 2025
Black Beryl: Self and Nonself, with Nick Canby
Dr Pierce Salguero sits down with Nick Canby, visiting assistant professor at Brown University and a clinical psychologist specializing in meditation …
December 8, 2025
Nitya Prārthanā
"Nitya Prārthanā” and “Nitya Dhyāna” are two profound collections designed to infuse daily life with sacredness. “Nitya Prārthanā” offers popular chan…
November 24, 2025
Inviting God In
In this episode Rabbi Marc Katz is in discussion with Rabbi Jeffrey Salkin about his new book Inviting God In: A Guide to Jewish Prayer (Central Confe…
September 7, 2025
God, the Science, the Evidence
For more than four centuries, the scientific discoveries of Copernicus, Galileo, Darwin, and Freud created the impression that we could explain the wo…
September 7, 2025
College Mental Health 101
With a growing number of students entering college with an existing mental health diagnosis, College Mental Health 101: A Guide for Students, Parents,…
September 4, 2025
Madness & Acute Religious Experiences
Host Pierce Salguero sits down with Richard Saville-Smith, an independent scholar of madness, religion, and psychiatry. We discuss Richard’s book Acut…