McMindfulness
How Mindfulness Became the New Capitalist Spirituality
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Narrated by:
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Jeff Harding
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By:
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Ronald E Purser
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Mindfulness is now all the rage. From celebrity endorsements to monks, neuroscientists and meditation coaches rubbing shoulders with CEOs at the World Economic Forum in Davos, it is clear that mindfulness has gone mainstream. Some have called it a revolution.
The evangelical promotion of mindfulness as a panacea for all that ails us has begun to give way to a backlash, with questions arising whether its claims for achieving happiness, wellbeing and career success have been over-sold. Expanding on his influential essay ''Beyond McMindfulness'', Ronald Purser debunks the so-called ''mindfulness revolution'', arguing its proponents have reduced mindfulness to a self-help technique that fits snugly into a consumerist culture complicit with Western materialistic values.
In a lively and razor-sharp critique of mindfulness as it has been enthusiastically co-opted by corporations, public schools and the U.S. military, Purser explains why such programs inevitably fall short of their revolutionary potential. Simply paying attention to the present moment while resting snugly in our private bubbles is no mindfulness revolution. Mindfulness has become the new capitalist spirituality, a disciplined myopia, that mindlessly ignores the need for social and political change.
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- muzala makeche
- 17-04-2020
Insightful
must read, shakes you but it's needed to open your eyes. the history context is vital. lets be better.
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- Anonymous User
- 02-04-2022
Eloquent, compelling & balanced
Well constructed, ethnically balanced & referenced view of Mindfulness.
A uniquely reliving experience.
Ronald Purser imparts palpable authentic, compassion and empathy.
This book is a master class in mindfulness and critical thinking.
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- 30-07-2022
An excellent book about Western mindset
This book gives an excellent description of western arrogance and vanity, using and abusing non western ideology and philosophy as if they own these non western principles, as if they have the right to rewrite these non western values to the point of white washing their origin and heritage, we see that happened to Asian traditional martial arts, Indian Yoga, and so on.
Twisting these Non western principles to suit their own needs and views, and depending on how their needs and views change, they don't even see the double standards in themselves ... mindfulness what a joke
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