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Episode 168: Mike Berners-Lee on his book A Climate of Truth

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Episode 167: Molly Conisbee on her book 'No Ordinary Deaths'

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Episode 166: Oliver Burkeman on his book Meditations for Mortals

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Episode 165: Jamie Bristow on a Middle Way approach to the Climate Crisis

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Episode 164: Chris Rose on the Amos Trust

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Episode 163: Rupert Read on the Climate Majority Project

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Episode 162: Member profile, George Glen, the new Chair of the Middle Way Society

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Episode 161: Robert M Ellis on the new Middle Way Philosophy Series.

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Episode 160: Sukhema on the Art of Doing Nothing

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Episode 159: Margaret Wheatley on Who do We Choose to Be

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Episode 158: Dan Nixon on cultivating a spirit of questioning in relation to our digital lives

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Episode 157: Andy West on the Life Inside

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Episode 156: Gavin Haynes on the Purity Spiral

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Episode 155: Robert M Ellis on the Thought of Sangharakshita

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Episode 153: Member profile, Anna Markey

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Coping with Solitude under Covid 19 Lockdown: Stephen Batchelor's advice

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Episode 152: Stephen Batchelor on the Art of Solitude

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Episode 151: Mark Austin on 5Rhythms

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Episode 150: Adam Luecke on mindfulness and analytical thought

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Episode 149: David Robson on the Intelligence Trap

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Episode 148: Sally Kohn on the Opposite of Hate

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Episode 147: Robert M Ellis on the Buddha's Middle Way

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Episode 146: Katherine Weare on Happy Teachers Change the World

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Episode 145: George Monbiot on Rewilding

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Episode 144: Simon Bell on Tribalism and Prejudice

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Episode 143: Maryanne Wolf on the Reading Brain in a Digital World

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Episode 142: Jeremy Sherman on the origin of striving

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Episode 141: Keith Kahn-Harris on Denialism

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Episode 140: Jeremy Lent and Robert M Ellis discussing 'The Patterning Instinct'

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Episode 136: Alex Beard on Natural Born Learners

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Episode 139: Laura Bridgman on the Inner Critic and the Middle Way

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Episode 138: Allan Frater on Psychosynthesis

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Episode 137: Sangharakshita on the Middle Way and Buddhism

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Episode 135: Anthony McCann on the Garaiocht Manifesto

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Interview 134: Robert M Ellis on the Christian Middle Way

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Interview 133: Jeremy Lent on the Patterning Instinct

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Episode 132: Daniel Goleman on Altered Traits

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Episode 131: Emma Byrne on the Benefits of Swearing

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Episode 130: Daniel P Keating on Epigenetics, Anxiety and Social Inequality

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Episode 129: Peter Tatchell on Homophobia

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Episode 128: Barbara Gail Montero on Thought in Action

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Episode 127: Tim Farron on Liberalism and The Middle Way

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Episode 126: Stephen Jenkinson on Orphan Wisdom

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Interview 125: Arie Kruglanski on Close-mindedness and the Middle Way

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Episode 124: Abeba Birhane on a person is a person through other persons

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Interview 123: Amod Lele on Literal Conservatism

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Interview 122: Bernardo Sorj on Humanism without Hubris

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Interview 121: Igor Grossmann & Robert M Ellis on the 4 Factors that Foster Wisdom

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Episode 120: Lisa Miracchi on Yoga & Philosophy

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Interview 119: Hári Sewell, Arno Michaelis & Robert M Ellis on Prejudice

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Interview 118: Abdul Abdullah on Art, Prejudice and the Other

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Interview 117: Tim Jackson on Prosperity without Growth

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Interview 116: Jacob Dunne on Restorative Justice

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Interview 115: Ellen Bialystok on Bilingualism

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Episode 114: Dan Siegel on his book 'Mind: A Journey to the Heart of Being Human.'

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Interview 113: Sugata Mitra on Learning as an Emergent, Self-organising Phenomenon

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Episode 111: Jamie Holmes on Nonsense: The Power of Not Knowing

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Episode 110: Guy Claxton on Intelligence in the Flesh

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Episode 109: Chuck Klosterman on But What If We're Wrong?

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Episode 108: Roderick Tweedy on the God of the Left Hemisphere

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Interview 106: Helena Bassil-Morozow on Jungian Film Studies

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Interview 105: Nancy L Morgan on LifeMoves

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Interview 104: Igor Grossmann on Emotional Complexity

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Interview 103: Matt Robert on Open Source Recovery

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Interview 102: Tom Gash on Criminal: The Truth about Why People do Bad Things

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Interview 101: Jim Champion - Member profile

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Interview 100: Karen Armstrong on Religion and the Charter for Compassion

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Episode 99: Tobias Jones on the Windsor Hill Wood Community

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Episode 98: Jon Ronson on public shaming on social media

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Episode 97: Glyn Blackett on Biofeedback and Mind-body intelligence

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Episode 96: Dr Robert Epstein on why the brain is not a computer

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Episode 95: Charles Kenny on why global development is succeeding

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Interview 94: Nigel Ohlson on Adventure Therapy

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Episode 93: Mike Rose on The Mind at Work

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Interview 92: Sharon Begley on the emotional life of your brain

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Interview 91: Peter Block on the Abundant Community

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Interview 90: Adam Briggle on when philosophy lost its way

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Interview 89: Stephen Farah on Car Jung and the Center for Applied Jungian Studies

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Interview 88: Melanie Joy on Carnism

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Interview 87: Stephen Batchelor on his book After Buddhism

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Interview 86: Faith and the Middle Way

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Interview 85: Alva Noë on his book Strange Tools: Art and Human Nature

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Interview 84: Mark Williams on the impact of humans on the biosphere

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Interview 83: Ellen Langer on Mindful Learning and the Power of Possibility

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Interview 82: Peter Sheath on Addiction, Mental Health and the Middle Way

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Interview 80: Steven Heine on the Weirdest People in the World

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Interview 79: Feminism and the Middle Way with Susan Averbach, Tim Kaine and Shana Averbach

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Interview 78: Marc Lewis on why addiction is not a disease

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Interview 77: Christopher Beckwith on Greek Buddha

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Interview 76: David Mcraney on how to beat your brain

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Interview 75: Monica Dare on Pilates

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Interview 74: Arno Michaelis on his life after hate

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Interview 73: Sarah Dickinson on Samaritans

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Interview 72: Hári Sewell on Race, Racialization and Inter-relatedness

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Interview 71: Pete Goble & Rich Flanagan on Pain

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Interview 70: Susan Greenfield on Mind Change

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Interview 69: Barry Daniel, member profile

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Interview 68: Jonathon Porritt on his book 'The World We Made'

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Interview 67: Richard Shusterman on somaesthetics and the Middle Way

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Interview 66: Robert M. Ellis on Politics and the Middle Way