All Episodes

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

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

Episode 166: Oliver Burkeman on his book Meditations for Mortals

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

Episode 164: Chris Rose on the Amos Trust

Episode 163: Rupert Read on the Climate Majority Project

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

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

Episode 160: Sukhema on the Art of Doing Nothing

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

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

Episode 157: Andy West on the Life Inside

Episode 156: Gavin Haynes on the Purity Spiral

Episode 155: Robert M Ellis on the Thought of Sangharakshita

Episode 153: Member profile, Anna Markey

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

Episode 152: Stephen Batchelor on the Art of Solitude

Episode 151: Mark Austin on 5Rhythms

Episode 150: Adam Luecke on mindfulness and analytical thought

Episode 149: David Robson on the Intelligence Trap

Episode 148: Sally Kohn on the Opposite of Hate

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

Episode 146: Katherine Weare on Happy Teachers Change the World

Episode 145: George Monbiot on Rewilding

Episode 144: Simon Bell on Tribalism and Prejudice

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

Episode 142: Jeremy Sherman on the origin of striving

Episode 141: Keith Kahn-Harris on Denialism

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

Episode 136: Alex Beard on Natural Born Learners

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

Episode 138: Allan Frater on Psychosynthesis

Episode 137: Sangharakshita on the Middle Way and Buddhism

Episode 135: Anthony McCann on the Garaiocht Manifesto

Interview 134: Robert M Ellis on the Christian Middle Way

Interview 133: Jeremy Lent on the Patterning Instinct

Episode 132: Daniel Goleman on Altered Traits

Episode 131: Emma Byrne on the Benefits of Swearing

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

Episode 129: Peter Tatchell on Homophobia

Episode 128: Barbara Gail Montero on Thought in Action

Episode 127: Tim Farron on Liberalism and The Middle Way

Episode 126: Stephen Jenkinson on Orphan Wisdom

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

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

Interview 123: Amod Lele on Literal Conservatism

Interview 122: Bernardo Sorj on Humanism without Hubris

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

Episode 120: Lisa Miracchi on Yoga & Philosophy

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

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

Interview 117: Tim Jackson on Prosperity without Growth

Interview 116: Jacob Dunne on Restorative Justice

Interview 115: Ellen Bialystok on Bilingualism

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

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

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

Episode 110: Guy Claxton on Intelligence in the Flesh

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

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

Interview 106: Helena Bassil-Morozow on Jungian Film Studies

Interview 105: Nancy L Morgan on LifeMoves

Interview 104: Igor Grossmann on Emotional Complexity

Interview 103: Matt Robert on Open Source Recovery

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

Interview 101: Jim Champion - Member profile

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

Episode 99: Tobias Jones on the Windsor Hill Wood Community

Episode 98: Jon Ronson on public shaming on social media

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

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

Episode 95: Charles Kenny on why global development is succeeding

Interview 94: Nigel Ohlson on Adventure Therapy

Episode 93: Mike Rose on The Mind at Work

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

Interview 91: Peter Block on the Abundant Community

Interview 90: Adam Briggle on when philosophy lost its way

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

Interview 88: Melanie Joy on Carnism

Interview 87: Stephen Batchelor on his book After Buddhism

Interview 86: Faith and the Middle Way

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Interview 77: Christopher Beckwith on Greek Buddha

Interview 76: David Mcraney on how to beat your brain

Interview 75: Monica Dare on Pilates

Interview 74: Arno Michaelis on his life after hate

Interview 73: Sarah Dickinson on Samaritans

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

Interview 71: Pete Goble & Rich Flanagan on Pain

Interview 70: Susan Greenfield on Mind Change

Interview 69: Barry Daniel, member profile

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

Interview 67: Richard Shusterman on somaesthetics and the Middle Way

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

Interview 65: Bjorn Ihler on Extremism and the Middle Way

Interview 64: Susan Averbach on the Middle Way

Interview 63: Noreena Hertz on her book Eyes Wide Open

Interview 62: Evan Thompson on Waking, Dreaming, Being and the Middle Way

Interview 61: Alison Gopnik on Babies and the Middle Way

Interview 60: Rod King on Twenty's Plenty for Us

Interview 59: Rupert Sheldrake on Science as an Integrative Practice

Interview 58: Philip Kitcher on Life after Fairth: The the case for Secular Humanism

Interview 57: Lynne Franks on Women's Empowerment & Sustainability

Interview 56: Julian Baggini on the Virtues of the Table

Self and Ego (2014 talk)

Interview 55: Peter Mallard on the Barn Retreat, Devon UK

Interview 54: James Sturtevant on bonding with students

Archetypes (2014 talk)

Interview 53: Jean Boulton on Complexity Theory and Spirituality

Interview 52: Gay Watson on the Philosophy of Emptiness

Interview 51: Stephen Batchelor and Robert Ml. Ellis on the Middle Way

Episode 50: Michael Brooks on the state and role of science

Interview 49: Elizabeth English on Focusing and the Middle Way

Interview 48: Dr Rubin Naiman on Sleep and the Middle Way

Interview 47: Ha Vinh Ho on Gross National Happiness and the Middle Way

Interview 46: Frank Ledwith, member profile

Interview 45: Tim Kasser on the role of human identity in meeting environmental challenges

Interview 44: Steven Howlett on Volunteering and the Middle Way

Interview 43: Shauna Shapiro on the art and science of mindfulness

Interview 42: Lancaster Co-housing resident Mary Searle-Chatterjee

Interview 41: Sir Harry Burns on the causes of wellness

Interview 39: Steven C. Hayes on ACT & the Middle Way

Interview 38: Adam Corner of the Climate Outreach Information Network (COIN)

Interview 37: Marek Duda on Effective Altruism

Interview 36: Elliot Aronson on cognitive dissonance and the Middle Way

Attention

Four Key Concepts in Middle Way Philosophy

Interview 35: Susan Wright on understanding creativity in early childhood

Interview 34: Andrew Brown on religion

Interview 33: Iain McGilchrist on Dogma and the Brain

Interview 32: Ed Catmull on Creativity & the Middle.

Interview 31: Robert M. Ellis on Cognitive Biases

What is your understanding of the Middle Way? 2.

What is your understanding of the Middle Way? 1.

Interview 28: Nina Davies on her work in social care and feminism

Interview 27: Andy West on Transformative Mediation

Interview 26: Martine Batchelor on ethics from a Buddhist perspective

Interview 25: Jonathan Rowson on the RSA Social Brain Centre

Interview 24: Paul Teed on the study of history

Interview 23: Kristin Neff on Self-compassion

Interview 22: Viryanaya on critical thinking as part of spiritual practice

Interview 21: Claire Kelly of the Mindfulness in Schools Project

Interview 20: Don Cupitt on Non-Realism and God

Interview 19: Peter Worley of the Philosophy Foundation on teaching kids philosophy

MWS Retreat 2013: Talk 6.9, Ethics. Discussion of Ethics

MWS Retreat 2013: Talk 6.8, Ethics. Middle Way Politics

MWS Retreat 2013: Talk 6.7, Ethics. Practical Ethics using the Middle Way

MWS Retreat 2013: Talk 6.6, Ethics. The Middle Way and Buddhist Ethics

MWS Retreat 2013: Talk 6.5, Ethics. The Universality of Ethics

MWS Retreat 2013: Talk 6.4, Ethics. Absolutism and relativism

MWS Retreat 2013: Talk 6.3, Ethics. Facts and values.

MWS Retreat 2013: Talk 6.2, Ethics. The Trouble with Moral Naturalism.

MWS Retreat 2013: Talk 6.1, Ethics. The Current Confusion about Ethics.

MWS Retreat 2013: Talk 5.7, Belief, metaphysics & science. The Objectivity of Science

MWS Retreat 2013: Talk 5.6, Belief, metaphysics & science. The Objectivity of Science and Ethics.

MWS Retreat 2013: Talk 5.5, Belief, metaphysics & science. Confidence and Doubt.

MWS Retreat 2013: Talk 5.4, Belief, metaphysics & science.Truth on the Edge.

MWS Retreat 2013: Talk 5.3, Belief, metaphysics & science. Cognitive biases and metaphysics.

MWS Retreat 2013: Talk 5.2, Belief, metaphysics & science. The Trouble with Metaphysics.

MWS Retreat 2013: Talk 5.1, Belief, metaphysics & science. The Integration of Belief.

MWS Retreat 2013: Talk 4.7, Meaning. Integrating meaning through the arts and meditation

MWS Retreat 2013: Talk 4.6, Meaning. Archetypes

MWS Retreat 2013: Talk 4.5, Meaning. Fragmentation and integration of meaning

MWS Retreat 2013: Talk 4.4, Meaning. Dogmatic representations and objective emotions.

MWS Retreat 2013: Talk 4.3, Meaning.The trouble with representationalism.

MWS Retreat 2013: Talk 4.2, Meaning. The embodied view of meaning

MWS Retreat 2013: Talk 4.1, Meaning. Cognitive and emotive meaning

MWS Retreat 2013: Talk 3.7, Desire & Integration. Discussion on the application of the integration model

MWS Retreat 2013: Talk 3.6, Desire & Integration. Discussion on addiction and repression

MWS Retreat 2013: Talk 3.5 Desire & Integration. Individual and social integration

MWS Retreat 2013: Talk 3.4, Desire & Integration. The brain hemispheres.

MWS Retreat 2013: Talk 3.3, Desire & Integration. Introducing integration

MWS Retreat 2013: Talk 3.2 Desire & Integration. The self and the ego

MWS Retreat 2013: Talk 3.1 Desire & Integration. Problems of desire in Buddhism

MWS Retreat 2013: Talk 2.6 What is the Middle Way? What is Metaphysics?

MWS Retreat 2013: Talk 2.5, What is the Middle Way. Religion without Metaphysics.

MWS Retreat 2013: Talk 2.4, What is the Middle Way? Universality

MWS Retreat 2013: Talk 2.3, What is the Middle Way? The basis of ethics

MWS Retreat 2013: Talk 2.2, What is the Middle Way? Scepticism

MWS Retreat 2013: Talk 2.1, What is the Middle Way? Objectivity and conditions

MWS Retreat 2013: Talk 1.3, Buddhism & the Middle Way. Problems with the Buddhist Middle Way

MWS Retreat 2013: Talk 1.2, Buddhism & the Middle Way. The Middle Way versus Buddhist Tradition

MWS Retreat 2013: Talk 1.1, Buddhism & the Middle Way. The Buddha and the Middle Way

Interview 18: Marina Cantacuzino on the Forgiveness Project

Interview 17: Rich Flanagan on the compatibility of atheism and Middle Way Philosophy

Interview 16: Vishvapani Blomfield on secular mindfulness and the Middle Way

Interview 15: Lesley Jeffries and Jim O’Driscoll on Language in Conflict

Interview 14: Mark Vernon on his book "How to be an agnostic

Interview 13: Robert M. Ellis, the chair of the Middle Way Society

Interview 12: Paul Gilbert on Compassion Focused Therapy

Interview 11: Monica Garvey on Family Mediation

Interview 10: Emilie Åberg on horticultural therapy, agnosticism and awe

Interview 9: John Bolwell on T'ai Chi

Interview 8: Peter Goble on his career in nursing and working in Africa

Interview 7: Stephen Batchelor on his interest in photography and collage.

Interview 6: Iain McGilchrist on his book "The Master and his Emissary".

Interview 5: Julian Adkins on Stephen Batchelor , Sam Harris and CBT

Interview 4: Daren Dewitt on Nonviolent Communication

Interview 3: Vidyamala Burch on her new book "Mindfulness for Health".

Interview 2: Norma Smith on art and the power of metaphor

Interview 1: Robert M. Ellis on critical thinking