New Books in Spiritual Practice and Mindfulness (2024)

09/06/2022

Many people search for heavenly bliss on earth, allured by all the world has to offer. In Paradiso, the third volume of his masterpiece, the Divine Comedy, Dante corrects our lack of vision, showing us that heavenly paradise is more real and fulfilling than anything we have experienced or even dreamt of here on earth.

On this episode Michael Morales speaks with Father Paul Pearson about his recent book SPIRITUAL DIRECTION from DANTE: Yearning for Paradise (TAN Books), as we explore Dante’s Paradiso as an invitation to eternal happiness. Father Paul Pearson was ordained to priesthood in 1985 and serves as Dean of Saint Philip’s seminary run by the Oratorians in Toronto. Hear him on the podcast 👇

https://newbooksnetwork.com/spiritual-direction-from-dante-yearning-for-paradisevolume-3

09/06/2022

Although Buddhism is one of the religious traditions best known for asserting rebirth, the history and scope of Buddhist approaches to the idea has not received comprehensive treatment—until now. This first-ever guide to ideas and practices surrounding rebirth in Buddhism covers the historical context for the Buddha’s teachings on the topic, explains what Buddhists believe is actually reborn and where, surveys rebirth-related practices in multiple Buddhist cultures, and considers whether all Buddhist traditions agree about what happens after death. Roger R. Jackson's book REBIRTH: A Guide to Mind, Karma, and Cosmos in the Buddhist World (Shambhala Publications )is, in short, the first truly comprehensive overview of rebirth across the major Buddhist traditions, written by a leading scholar and teacher of Buddhism. Learn more on the podcast ⤵️

https://newbooksnetwork.com/rebirth

13/04/2022

For years, Dr. Mark Epstein kept his beliefs as a Buddhist separate from his work as a psychiatrist. Content to use his training in mindfulness as a private resource, he trusted that the Buddhist influence could, and should, remain invisible. But as he became more forthcoming with his patients about his personal spiritual leanings, he was surprised to learn how many were eager to learn more.

In THE ZEN of THERAPY: Uncovering a Hidden Kindness in Life (Penguin Random House), Dr. Epstein reflects on a year’s worth of selected sessions with his patients and observes how, in the incidental details of a given hour, his Buddhist background influences the way he works. PODCAST LINK 👇

https://newbooksnetwork.com/the-zen-of-therapy

04/12/2020

Learn how to rewrite your habits and rewrite your life as Melissa Steginus, author of EVERYDAY MINDFULNESS: 108 Simple Practices to Empower Yourself and Transform Your Life (TCK Publishing), guides you through the most powerful daily mindfulness practices. With step-by-step instruction and evidence-based exercises you can do in as little as 5 minutes a day, it’s never been easier to make positive changes stick in your life. Steginus fills us in on the podcast 👇

https://newbooksnetwork.com/everyday-mindfulness

02/12/2020

Harmony Bench's PERPETUAL MOTION: Dance, Digital Cultures, and the Common (University of Minnesota Press) traces the changing ways dance is distributed and created on the internet from the heady early internet of the 1990s to the ubiquitous social media platforms of today. Listen in as Bench discusses how flash mobs reclaimed public space in the aftermath of 9/11, how "hyperdance" promised that every viewer would also be a co-choreographer, and how viral dance crazes unite people across borders in ways that are potentially liberatory but also can erase the specificities of specific dance cultures. 🎧⬇️

https://newbooksnetwork.com/perpetual-motion

02/12/2020

Intended for lay readers and practitioners, THE TRUTH of YOGA: A Comprehensive Guide to Yoga's History, Texts, Philosophy, and Practices (North Point Press) synthesizes the latest scholarship while offering guidance for keeping yogic traditions alive in the 21st century. Give Daniel C. Simpson's conversation with NBN host Raj Balkaran a listen ⤵️

https://newbooksnetwork.com/the-truth-of-yoga

02/12/2020

Analyzing yoga and meditation studies in a variety of religious, historical, and geographical settings, THE ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK of YOGA and MEDITATION STUDIES (Routledge) is a comprehensive and interdisciplinary resource that frames and contextualizes the rapidly expanding fields that explore yoga and meditative techniques. Editors Suzanne Newcombe and Karen O'Brien-Kop fill us in on this weighty volume on the podcast 👇

https://newbooksnetwork.com/routledge-handbook-of-yoga-and-meditation-studies

25/11/2020

Focusing on the interconnectedness between global spirituality and neoliberal capitalism, PEACE LOVE YOGA: The Politics of Global Spirituality (Oxford University Press) examines the global yoga and self-care industries. Building off her work in SELING YOGA (Oxford, 2014), Jain examines how spiritual industries and corporations impart neoliberal spirituality, which she contends is a central component of capitalism. In broader terms, Jain’s examination of neoliberal spirituality provides a rich avenue to analyze and understand the role of religion in contemporary society. Learn more on the podcast ↙️

https://newbooksnetwork.com/peace-love-yoga

26/10/2020

Delving into the science of human thriving, GROWING YOUNG: How Friendship, Optimism, and Kindness Can Help You Live to 100 (Appetite by Random House) helps us understand how every one of our days between now and, if we’re lucky, 100 might be full and rich and immensely gratifying.

🎙️Science journalist Marta Zaraska joins NBN host Eric LeMay on the podcast 👇

https://newbooksnetwork.com/marta-zaraska-growing-young-how-friendship-optimism-and-kindness-can-help-you-live-to-100-appetite-random-house-2020/

01/09/2020

THE POSSIBILITY PRINCIPLE: How Quantum Physics Can Improve the Way You Think, Live, and Love (Sounds True) reveals how we can apply the three core tenets of quantum physics—inseparability, uncertainty, and potentiality—to live the life we choose, free from the wounds of our past and the constraints of our old beliefs. Learn more as Mel Schwartz discusses his book on the podcast 👇

https://newbooksnetwork.com/mel-schwartz-the-possibility-principle-how-quantum-physics-can-improve-the-way-you-think-live-and-love-sounds-true-2017/

29/07/2020

Re-imagining incarnation as a relationship between vitality, biochemistry, and genetics, BLACK TRANSHUMAN LIBERATION THEOLOGY: Technology and Spirituality (Bloomsbury Academic) explores what might happen if Black people in the United States merged technology and spirituality in their fight towards materializing liberating realities. Philip Butler fleshes out the book's argument with the NBN's Nicole Powell ⤵️

https://newbooksnetwork.com/philip-butler-black-transhuman-liberation-theology-technology-and-spirituality-bloomsbury-academic-2019/

03/05/2020

Shonda Moralis is a women’s mindful empowerment coach, speaker, and psychotherapist who believes that when women empower themselves and create life balance, they unleash the capacity for incredible accomplishments. Tune in as she fills us in on her new book BREATHE, EMPOWER, ACHIEVE: 5-Minute Mindfulness for Women Who Do It All (The Experiment) 👇

https://newbooksnetwork.com/shonda-moralis-breathe-empower-achieve-5-minute-mindfulness-for-women-who-do-it-all-the-experiment-2019/

22/04/2020

Paying special attention to sociocultural threads from the period 1945-1980, Suzanne Newcombe‘s new book, YOGA in BRITAIN: Stretching Spirituality and Educating Yogis (Equinox Publishing), draws on archival evidence and interviews, showing the diverse figures and movements responsible for the popularization of yoga in Britain. Newcombe joins the NBN's Raj Balkaran 👇

https://newbooksnetwork.com/suzanne-newcombe-yoga-in-britain-stretching-spirituality-and-educating-yogis-equinox-2019/

04/03/2020

After 15 years working in the land of cubicles, unreasonable deadlines, and unhealthy habits, Nicole Lovald, author of OM SWEET OM (Wise Ink), realized there had to be a better way. Find out how a stressed-out corporate ju**ie found her way to a yoga mat and back to herself as Lovald joins us on the podcast 👇

https://newbooksnetwork.com/nicole-lovald-om-sweet-om-a-corporate-ju**ies-search-for-enlightenment-wise-ink-2018/

20/02/2020

Stephanie Kaza has written widely on Buddhism and the environment. Listen in as the long-time lover of trees, practicing Zen Buddhist, and environmentalist talks GREEN BUDDHISM: Practice and Compassionate Action in Uncertain Times (Shambhala Publications) with your host Jack Petranker on the podcast ⤵️

https://newbooksnetwork.com/stephanie-kaza-green-buddhism-practice-and-compassionate-action-in-uncertain-times-shambhala-2019/

05/02/2020

Glenn Wallis, a renowned scholar of Buddhism, translator and teacher, first read Kahlil Gibran's THE PROPHET when he was 16 and it changed his life profoundly. He then forgot about the book and even dismissed it for decades, until Uli Baer persuaded him, pleading three times, to reconsider it. He does so on the podcast 👇

https://newbooksnetwork.com/great-books-glenn-wallis-on-gibrans-the-prophet/

04/02/2020

What distinguishes master clinicians from those who are merely competent? That quality is mindfulness, says Ronald M. Epstein, M.D. His book, ATTENDING: Medicine, Mindfulness, and Humanity (Scribner Books), offers a model for doctors, patients, and their families on how to approach medical decisions mindfully. Listen in ⤵️

https://newbooksnetwork.com/ronald-epstein-attending-medicine-mindfulness-and-humanity-scribner-2017/

10/12/2019

Brimming with stories rarely heard outside our most intimate moments, METTA MOM: A Mindful Guide to Managing Your Mood and your Brood provides stressed parents with a practical guide to fostering a harmonious family life amid the chaos. 🦸‍♂️🦸‍♀️

Author and superhero sidekick Vanessa Linsey joins us ↙️

https://newbooksnetwork.com/vanessa-linsey-metta-mom-a-mindful-guide-to-managing-your-mood-and-your-brood-bowker-2019/

05/12/2019

Our guest for this episode is Deborah Eden Tull, author of RELATIONAL MINDFULNESS: A Handbook for Deepening Our Connection with Ourselves, Each Other, and the Planet (Wisdom Publications), a guidebook on how to embody compassionate awareness in all of our relationships — with self, one another, and our planet in an age of global uncertainty.👂👇

https://newbooksnetwork.com/deborah-eden-tull-relational-mindfulness-wisdom-publications-2018/

28/10/2019

PRESCRIBING the DHARMA: Psychotherapists, Buddhist Traditions and Defining Religion (University of North Carolina Press) examines how psychotherapists, some of them also active as leaders of Dharma communities, have engaged Buddhism, both as individuals and in their approach to their psychotherapeutic practice. Tune in as Ira Helderman joins Jack Petranker ↙️

https://newbooksnetwork.com/ira-helderman-prescribing-the-dharma-psychotherapists-buddhist-traditions-and-defining-religion-unc-press-2019-2/

10/10/2019

Most test prep guides emphasize strategy and content. This one is different.

Logan Thompson, expert in both mindfulness and test prep, joins Elizabeth Cronin to give us the scoop on his new book, BEYOND the CONTENT: Mindfulness as a Test prep Advantage (Kaplan Publishing), a guide to cultivating focus and unlocking your true potential come test time. 👂↙️

https://newbooksnetwork.com/logan-thompson-beyond-the-content-mindfulness-as-a-test-prep-advantage-kaplan-publishing-2019/

07/10/2019

How do we ensure that our children develop generosity, kindness, honesty, patience, determination, and other timeless virtues? Dr. Christopher Willard, author of RAISING RESILIENCE: The Wisdom and Science of Happy Families and Thriving Children (Sounds True) offers up his expertise in mindfulness, psychology, and parenting on the podcast👇

https://newbooksnetwork.com/christopher-willard-raising-resilience-the-wisdom-and-science-of-happy-families-and-thriving-children-sounds-true-2017/

02/10/2019

FOOD of SINFUL DEMONS: Meat, Vegetarianism, and the limits of Buddhism in Tibet (Columbia University Press) is a wide-ranging, deeply-researched, and compassionate exploration of meat consumption and vegetarianism in Tibetan Buddhist culture and spiritual practice.

🎙️Author and Oregon State University religious studies professor Geoffrey Barstow is Sangseraima Ujeed's guest on the podcast ⤵️

https://newbooksnetwork.com/geoffrey-barstow-food-of-sinful-demons-meat-vegetarianism-and-the-limits-of-buddhism-in-tibet-columbia-up-2018/

02/10/2019

JEWS in the AGE of AUTHENTICITY: Jewish Spiritual Renewal in Israel (Peter Lang) examines two communities of spiritual seekers in Israel that integrate Jewish tradition – especially Kabbalah and Hasidism – with New Age spirituality. Rachel Werczberger shares their story with Embracing Wisdom's Renee Garfinkel on the podcast 👇

https://newbooksnetwork.com/rachel-werczberger-jews-in-the-age-of-authenticity-jewish-spiritual-renewal-in-israel-peter-lang-2016/

18/09/2019

You'll see the mindfulness movement in a new light after hearing this podcast. Full of humorous and eye-opening anecdotes, MCMINDFULNESS: How Mindfulness Became the New Capitalist Spirituality (Repeater Books) not only details how mindfulness is being used in questionable ways by companies, schools, and the military, it also presents a new vision for a revolutionary, collective-based form of mindfulness. Ronald E. Purser joins your host Alex Caroll ↙️

https://newbooksnetwork.com/ronald-e-purser-mcmindfulness-how-mindfulness-became-the-new-capitalist-spirituality-repeater-books-2019/

03/09/2019

As a twenty-something, you may feel like you are being pulled in dozen different directions. On this episode, Holly Rogers, cofounder of The Center for Koru Mindfulness at Duke University and author of THE MINDFUL TWENTY-SOMETHING (New Harbinger Press), gives us the scoop on evidence-based mindfulness training for young adults. Listen in👇

https://newbooksnetwork.com/holly-rogers-the-mindful-twenty-something-new-harbinger-2016/

30/08/2019

🎙️Ann Gleig speaks with the Center for Creative Inquiry's Jack Petranker about her new 📘 AMERICAN DHARMA: Buddhism Beyond Modernity (Yale University Press) and her research on secular mindfulness, Buddhist responses to social justice, techno-Buddhism, the shift from Boomer Buddhism to NextGen Buddhism and related topics. Tune in 👇

https://newbooksnetwork.com/ann-gleig-american-dharma-buddhism-beyond-modernity-yale-up-2019-2/

22/07/2019

In RABBI AKIVA'S PHILOSOPHY OF LOVE (Palgrave Macmillan), The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute - מכון ון ליר בירושלים's Naftali Rothenberg explores the philosophy of love through the thought and life of Rabbi Akiva, whose life was transformed by the love of his wife, Rachel. 👂Rothenberg's conversation with Renee Garfinkel 👇

https://newbooksnetwork.com/naftali-rothenberg-rabbi-akivas-philosophy-of-love-palgrave-macmillan-2017/

18/07/2019

PRACTICE DYING: A Novel (Bedazzled Ink) is about twins, David and Jamila, who seek meaning and connection from opposite ends of the world, grappling with family bonds, spirituality, illness, death, and love. Rachel Stolzman Gullo speaks with GP Gottlieb about her novel that's also a meditation and preparation for death and letting go on the podcast 👇

https://newbooksnetwork.com/rachel-stolzman-gullo-practice-dying-bedazzled-ink-2018/

17/07/2019

In MEDITATION for FIDGETY SKEPTICS: A 10& Happier How to Book (Spiegel & Grau), Jeff Warren, Dan Harris, and Carlye Adler tackle the myths, misconceptions, and self-deceptions that keep people from meditating, offering deeply practical instructions. Co-author Jeff Warren joins Psychologists Off The Clock's Yael Schonbrun on the podcast👇

https://newbooksnetwork.com/jeff-warren-meditation-for-fidgety-skeptics-a-10-happier-how-to-book-spielgel-and-grau-2017/

04/07/2019

“If we want our children to live in a Golden Civilization, the first step is for each of us to imagine it.”

On this podcast, artist, poet, photographer, author, global thought leader, and mindfulness practitioner and teacher George Kinder talks to Elizabeth E. Cronin about his new book, THE GOLDEN CIVILIZATION & THE MAP of MINDFULNESS. Check out their conversation👇

https://newbooksnetwork.com/george-kinder-a-golden-civilization-and-the-map-of-mindfulness-serenity-point-press-2018/

18/06/2019

On this episode longtime yoga and dharma teacher Anne Cushmantalks with the NBN's Elizabeth Cronin about THE MAMA SUTRA: A Story of Love, Loss, and the Path of Motherhood (Shambhala Publications), her powerful new book spanning her 18-year journey through motherhood as a spiritual practice. Check out the podcast ⤵️

https://newbooksnetwork.com/anne-cushman-the-mama-sutra-a-story-of-love-loss-and-the-path-of-motherhood-shambala-2019/

17/05/2019

On this episode Carrie Tippen talks with Carnegie Mellon University historian Nico Slate about GANDHI's SEARCH FOR THE PERFECT DIET: Eating with the World in Mind (University of Washington Press), the author's new book that explores the intersections of diet, spirituality, health, and politics for one of the world’s most famous nonviolent political activists, Mahatma Gandhi.
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https://bit.ly/2WRFcwO

13/05/2019

Why do we seek out ecstatic experiences? For psychotherapist Sharon Farber, our desire for ecstasy is a psychic defense against on-going or anticipated trauma. But what happens when this normal desire turns destructive? Farber shares her insights with Marshall Poe on the podcast👇

https://newbooksnetwork.com/sharon-k-farber-hunger-for-ecstasy-trauma-the-brain-and-the-influence-of-the-sixties-aronson-2013-3/

01/05/2019

Alan Watts was among of the first to interpret Eastern wisdom for a Western audience. Last week we featured The Classical Ideas Podcast's Greg Soden in conversation with Watt's daughter Anne. In this second episode dedicated to THE COLLECTED LETTERS OF ALAN WATTS (New World Library), Greg sits down to talk to Joan. Give it a listen 👇

https://newbooksnetwork.com/joan-watts-the-collected-letters-of-alan-watts-new-world-library-2017/

26/04/2019

Psychologists Off The Clock's Debbie Sorensen chats with Lara Fielding about her new book, MASTERING ADULTHOOD: Go Beyond Adulting to Become an Emotional Grown-Up (New Harbinger), where she provides empowering strategies and skills for managing difficult emotions using mindfulness, dialectical behavior therapy, and acceptance and commitment therapy. Check out the podcast ↙️

https://newbooksnetwork.com/lara-fielding-mastering-adulthood-go-beyond-adulting-to-become-an-emotional-grown-up-new-harbinger-publications-2019/

26/04/2019

Covering the secularization and commercialization of mindfulness, s*x scandals, and new technologies, AMERICAN DHARMA: Buddhism Beyond Modernity (Yale University Press) tracks how meditation-based convert Buddhist lineages have changed over generations. Listen in as author and UCF Department of Philosophy professor Ann Gleig discusses the 📘with Natasha Heller ⤵️

https://newbooksnetwork.com/ann-gleig-american-dharma-buddhism-beyond-modernity-yale-up-2019/

25/04/2019

Joan and Anne Watts have put together THE COLLECTED LETTERS OF ALAN WATTS (New World Library), a captivating assembly of their father Alan's correspondence with key figures in 1960s counterculture and spirituality, including C. G. Jung, Henry Miller, Aldous Huxley, Reinhold Niebuhr, Timothy Leary, and Joseph Campbell. The Classical Ideas Podcast's Greg Soden chats with Anne ↙️

https://newbooksnetwork.com/anne-watts-the-collected-letters-of-alan-watts-new-world-library-2017/

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