14 https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/more-recycling-wont-solve-plastic-pollution/
15 Ibid.
16 Henry A. Giroux, The Violence of Organized Forgetting: Thinking Beyond America’s Disimagination Machine. City Lights Publishers, 2014.
17 https://rkpayne.wordpress.com/category/buddhism-under-capitalism/
18 Ole Jacob Madsen, The Therapeutic Turn: How Psychology Altered Western Culture. Routledge, 2014.
19 Jon Kabat-Zinn, Full Catastrophe Living. Bantam Dell, 1990. p.550
20 https://www.mentalpraxis.com/uploads/4/2/5/4/42542199/goto-jones_zombie_mindfulness_manifesto.pdf
21 Julie Wilson, Neoliberalism. Routledge, 2017. p.220
22 https://www.uib.no/sites/w3.uib.no/files/attachments/15_williams-structures_0.pdf
23 http://digitool.library.mcgill.ca/webclient/StreamGate?folder_id=0&dvs=1547509446906~428
24 Norbert Elias, The Civilizing Process. Blackwell, 2000.
25 http://mannersandmindfulness.com/
26 http://www.psow.edu/blog/how-to-be-manners-mindful-at-work
27 Jennifer M. Silva, Coming Up Short: Working-Class Adulthood in an Age of Uncertainty. Oxford University Press, 2015. p.21
28 Lauren Berlant, Cruel Optimism. Duke University Press, 2011.
29 Joshua Eisen, Mindful Calculations: Mindfulness and Neoliberal Selfhood in North America and Beyond. Masters Thesis, McGill University, 2014. p.72
30 Lauren Berlant, Cruel Optimism. Duke University Press, 2011. p.1
chapter Three:
The Mantra of Stress
1 https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2045309/Stress-Top-cause-workplace-sickness-dubbed-Black-Death-21st-century.html
2 Jon Kabat-Zinn, Full Catastrophe Living. Bantam Dell, 1990.
3 Ibid., xxvii
4 Ibid., p.2
5 Tim Newton, Managing Stress: Emotion and Power at Work. Sage Publications, 1995.
6 Dana Becker, One Nation Under Stress: The Trouble with Stress As An Idea. Oxford University Press, 2013. p.18
7 David G. Schuster, Neurasthenic Nation: America’s Search for Health, Happiness, and Comfort, 1869-1920. Rutgers University Press, 2011.
8 Walter B. Cannon, The Wisdom of the Body. W.W. Norton; New York, 1939.
9 Hans Selye, The Stress of Life. McGraw-Hill, 1956.
10 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3279524
11 Ibid.
12 Dana Becker, One Nation Under Stress: The Trouble with Stress As An Idea. Oxford University Press, 2013. p.37
13 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3036703/
14 https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2014/07/07/325946892/the-secret-history-behind-the-science-of-stress
15 Ibid.
16 Ibid.
17 Ibid.
18 Dana Becker, One Nation Under Stress: The Trouble with Stress As An Idea. Oxford University Press, 2013. p. 40
chapter Four:
Privatizing Mindfulness
1 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14639947.2011.564844 p.282
2 http://healthland.time.com/2012/01/11/mind-reading-jon-kabat-zinn-talks-about-bringing-mindfulness-meditation-to-medicine/
3 Al Rapaport (ed.), Buddhism in America. Tuttle, 1997. p.505
4 Herbert Benson, The Relaxation Response. Avon Books, 1976. p.117
5 Richard King, “‘Paying Attention’ in a Digital Economy: Reflections on the Role of Analysis and Judgement Within Contemporary Discourses of Mindfulness and Comparisons with Classical Buddhist Accounts of Sati”. In Ronald Purser & David Forbes (eds.), Handbook of Mindfulness: Culture, Context and Social Engagement. Springer, 2016. p.38
6 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14639947.2011.564844
7 Ibid., p.290
8 http://www.integralhealthresources.com/toward-a-mindful-society-shambhala-sun-interview-with-jon-kabat-zinn/
9 https://www.facebook.com/rpurser/videos/10154961154191759/
10 https://symbiosiscollege.edu.in/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/MBI-An_Emerging_Phenomenon_Margaret_Cullen.pdf
11 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14639947.2011.564844
12 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14639940802556560 (p.238)
13 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03060497.2015.1018683
14 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24565760
15 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24565760
16 Ruth Whippman, America the Anxious. St Martin’s Press. p.26
17 Carl Cederstrom and Andre Spicer, The Wellness Syndrome. Polity Press, 2015.
18 Interview with Jon Kabat-Zinn, Common Ground
19 Nomi Morris, ‘Fully experiencing the present: a practice for everyone, religious or not’, Los Angeles Times, 2 October 2010.
chapter Five:
Colonizing Mindfulness
1 https://bigthink.com/videos/sam-harris-on-secular-meditation-2
2 https://www.mindful.org/dan-harris-meditation-10-percent-happier/
3 https://www.cbs.com/shows/60_minutes/video/V0EAV25FWjaYdEKlbE8w2OgiQAxx8f_T/denied-inside-homs-mindfulness/
4 http://religiondispatches.org/hide-the-religion-feature-the-science-60-minutes-drops-the-ball-on-mindfulness/
5 http://time.com/collection/guide-to-happiness/1556/the-mindful-revolution/
6 Chade Meng Tan, Search Inside Yourself: The Unexpected Path to Achieving Success, Happiness (and World Peace). HarperOne, 2014.
7 Paul Carus, The Gospel of the Buddha. (originally published in 1894). Open Court, 1999.
8 http://workplacewellbeing.co/images/davidsonzinn13.pdf, p.95
9 Candy Gunther-Brown, “Can ‘Secular’ Mindfulness be Separated from Religion”, in R. Purser, D. Forbes (eds.), Handbook of Mindfulness: Culture, Context and Social Engagement. Springer, 2016. pp. 75-94.
10 Tracy Goodman, Stealth Buddhism. Interview by Vincent & Emily Horn. BG331. www.buddhistgeeks.com/2014/08/bg-331-stealth-buddhism/
11 https://www.mcgill.ca/tcpsych/files/tcpsych/asi_conference_program_2.pdf
12 https://kar.kent.ac.uk/31308/
13 Edwin Ng, Zack Walsh and Ronald Purser, “Mindfulness Is Inherently Political Because Choiceless Exposure To Vulnerability Is a Promise of #MakingRefuge Shared-In-Difference”. Unpublished paper.
14 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14639947.2011.564844
15 Jeff Wilson, “The Religion of Mindfulness.” Tricycle, Fall, available at https://tricycle.org/magazine/the-religion-mindfulness-essay-jeff-wilson/
16 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5605584/
17 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5605584/
18 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14639947.2011.564844
19 Ibid.
20 Ibid.
21 Jon Kabat-Zinn, Coming to Our Senses. Hyperion, 2005, p.9.
22 Jon Kabat-Zinn, Wherever You Go, There You Are. Hachette Books, 2009, p.4.
23 Ibid., p.24.
24 Arthur Versluis, American Transcendentalism and Asian Religions. Oxford University Press, 2003.
25 Rick Fields, How the Swans Came to the Lake: A Narrative History of Buddhism in America Shambhala, 1992, p.157.
26 William James, “The religion of healthy-mindedness” in The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature. New York, Wayne Proudfoot, 1902/2004. p.95.
27 William James, Talks to Teachers on Psychology. Harvard University Press, 1899. p.147.
28 David McMahan, The Making of Buddhist Modernism. Oxford University Press, 2008, p.168.
29 http://buddhiststudies.berkeley.edu/people/faculty/sharf/documents/Sharf%20Is%20Mindfulness%20Buddhist.pdf, p.479
30 Richard Cohen, BeyondEnlightenment : Buddhism, Religion, Modernity, 2006. Routledge. p.11.
31 Nyanaponika Thera, The Heart of Buddhist Meditation. Samuel Weiser, 1973, pp.17-18.
32 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1463994 7.2011.564813
33 C. Kelley, “O.K., Google
, Take a Deep Breath.” http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/29/technology/google-course-asks-employees-to-take-a-deep-breath.html
34 Robert Meikyo Rosenbaum and Barry Magid (eds.), What’s Wrong with Mindfulness. Wisdom Publications, 2016. pp. 41-42
35 Ibid., p.42
36 Jon Kabat-Zinn, Wherever You Go, There You Are. Hachette Books, 2009.
chapter Six:
Mindfulness as Social Amnesia
1 David Smail, Power, Interest and Psychology: Elements of a Social Materialist Understanding of Distress. PCCS Books, 2012. p.7
2 Joel Kovel, The American Mental Health Industry. In D. Ingleby (Ed.), Critical psychiatry: The Politics of Mental Health. Pantheon Books, 1980.
3 Ibid., p.73
4 Russell Jacoby, Social Amnesia: A Critique of Contemporary Psychology. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 1997.
5 Ibid., p.4
6 W. Pietz, Fetishism and Materialism. In E. Apter and W. Pietz (Eds.), Fetishism as Cultural Discourse. Cornell University Press, 1993.
7 T. Dant, Fetishism and the Social Value of Objects. Sociological Review 44(3), 1996, p.5
8 Richard Payne, “Modernist Mindfulness.” http://rkpayne.wordpress.com/2014/08/22/modernist-mindfulness/
9 http://www.soundstrue.com/podcast/transcripts/jon-kabat-zinn.php?camefromhome=camefromhome
chapter Seven:
Mindfulness’ Truthiness Problem
1 http://time.com/1556/the-mindful-revolution/
2 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25783612
3 https://tricycle.org/trikedaily/benefits-mindfulness-hard-prove/
4 https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-44019-4_21
5 https://hbr.org/2015/01/mindfulness-can-literally-change-your-brain
6 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19860032
7 https://psicoterapiabilbao.es/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Khoury_2013_mindfulness-metaanalys.pdf
8 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK153338/#d12013035995.commentary
9 https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article
10 https://tricycle.org/trikedaily/dont-believe-hype/
11 Joel Best, Flavor of the Month: Why Smart People Fall for Fads. University of California Press, 2006.
12 Aryeh Siegel, Transcendental Deception. Janreg Press, 2018. p.98
13 Herbert Benson, The Relaxation Response. HarperTorch, 1976.
14 Ibid., p.140.
15 Jeff Wilson, Mindful America. Oxford University Press, 2014. p.80
16 https://projectreporter.nih.gov/reporter_searchresults.cfm
17 https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/1809754
18 https://effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/topics/meditation/research
19 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-20299-z
20 https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article
21 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15903115
22 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2778755/
23 David L. McMahan, “How Meditation Works: Theorizing the Role of Cultural Context in Buddhist Contemplative Practice”. In D. McMahan & E. Braun (eds.), Meditation, Buddhism, and Science. Oxford University Press, 2017.
24 Ronald Purser and David Lewis, “Contemplative Neuro-science’s Truthiness Problem.” Paper presented at the Beyond the Hype: Buddhism and Neuroscience in a New Key conference. Columbia University, 2016.
25 Nikolas Rose and Joelle M. Abi-Rached, Neuro: The New Brain Sciences and the Management of Mind. Princeton University Press, 2013.
26 Evan Thompson, “Looping Effects and the Cognitive Science of Meditation.” In David L. McMahan & Erik Braun (eds.), Meditation, Buddhism, and Science. Oxford University Press, 2017. pp. 47-61
27 Ibid.
28 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16022930
29 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20467003
30 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29016274
chapter Eight:
Mindful Employees
1 Daniel Goleman, Emotional Intelligence. Bantam Books, 1995.
2 Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People. Simon & Schuster, 1936.
3 https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/c5b4/28f63499bdd3caf39f8bdc28590edce8d8b0.pdf
4 Chade Meng Tan, Search Inside Yourself: The Unexpected Path to Achieving Success, Happiness (and World Peace). HarperOne, 2014. p.134
5 https://www.businessnewsdaily.com/2267-workplace-stress-health-epidemic-perventable-employee-assistance-programs.html
6 https://news.gallup.com/businessjournal/162953/tackle-employees-stagnating-engagement.aspx
7 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/240240954_Stress-management_interventions_in_the_workplace_Stress_counselling_and_stress_audits
8 Tim Newton, Managing Stress: Emotion and Power at Work. Sage Publications, 1995. p. 244
9 David Gelles, Mindful Work. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015.
10 https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/16/technology/inside-amazon-wrestling-big-ideas-in-a-bruising-workplace.html
11 Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett, The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger. Bloomsbury, 2011.
12 https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/why-your-work-place-might-be-killing-you
13 David Gelles, Mindful Work. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015. p.97
14 Nicholas Carr, The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brain. W.W. Norton, 2011.
15 http://www.academyanalyticarts.org/rose-power-subjectivity
16 Nikolas Rose, Inventing Ourselves: Psychology, Power, and Personhood. Cambridge University Press, 1998. p.114
17 https://rkpayne.wordpress.com/2014/02/18/corporatist-spirituality/
18 Frederwick Winslow Taylor, Principles of Scientific Management. Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1915.
19 American Psychological Association, 1962.
20 John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge, The Witch Doctors: What the Management Gurus are Saying, Why it Matters and How to Make Sense of It. Mandarin, 1997.
21 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0038038516655260
22 Richard Gillespie, Manufacturing Knowledge: A History of the Hawthorne Experiments. Cambridge University Press, 1993.
23 http://jeremyhunter.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Mindful-Is-Mindfulness-Good-for-Business.pdf
24 https://www.mindful.org/its-not-mcmindfulness/
25 https://www.mindful.org/its-not-mcmindfulness/
26 Ken Keyes, Jr. The Hundredth Monkey. Vision Books, 1982.
27 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1023/A:1006978911496
28 Robert L. Park, Voodoo Science: The Road from Foolishness to Fraud. Oxford University Press, 2001.
29 http://nomosjournal.org/2013/08/searching-for-integrity/
30 David Gelles, Mindful Work. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015.
31 https://money.cnn.com/2017/01/24/investing/aetna-obamacare-humana-merger/
32 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/14/opinion/sunday/Meditation-productivity-work-mindfulness.html
chapter Nine:
Mindful Merchants
1 https://globalwellnessinstitute.org/industry-research/2018-global-wellness-economy-monitor/
2 https://www.mindful.org/its-not-mcmindfulness/
3 https://www.awakenedworldpilgrimage.com/
4 https://www.whil.com/companies
5 Edward L. Bernay, Propaganda. Horace Liveright, 1928.
6 https://www.seanfeitoakes.com/mindfulness-the-googleway-well-intentioned-saffron-washing/
7 https://www.publicintegrity.org/2016/02/16/19297/ford-spent-40-million-reshape-asbestos-science
8 https://jalopnik.com/lawsuit-accuses-ford-of-cheating-diesel-emissions-on-50-1821962910
9 https://www.businessinsider.com/marc-benioff-salesforce-com-chief-has-pulled-some-crazy-stunts-2012-3
10 https://www.fastcompany.com/40433618/not-so-zen-atheadspace-as-layoffs-hit-the-company
11 Headspace factsheet: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/vntknlkvkzg98rp/AABI
qR-M-IhhCSAcWHXlqQ7na/HS%20Fact%20Sheet?dl=0&preview=Headspace+Fact+Sheet+-+November+2018.pdf&subfolder_nav_tracking=1
12 https://www.forbes.com/sites/kathleenchaykowski/2017/01/08/meet-headspace-the-app-that-made-meditation-a-250-million-business/#713227fc1f1b
13 https://techcrunch.com/2017/09/02/funding-your-bliss-mindfulness-startups-scale-up/
14 https://ebmh.bmj.com/content/18/4/97
15 https://www.wired.co.uk/article/mental-health-apps#_=_
16 https://www.ft.com/content/9b8c0c6e-e805-11e6-967bc88452263daf
17 George Ritzer, The McDonaldization of Society. Sage Publications, 2007.
chapter Ten:
Mindful Elites
1 Janice Marturano, Finding the Space to Lead: A Practical Guide to Mindful Leadership. Bloomsbury Press, 2015.
2 Ibid., p.166.
3 https://www.huffingtonpost.com/janice-l-marturano/Mindful-leadership-receiv_b_2543151.html
4 Janice Marturano, Finding the Space to Lead: A Practical Guide to Mindful Leadership. Bloomsbury Press, 2015
5 https://www.huffpost.com/entry/collective-mindful-ness-th_b_4732429
6 https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/otto-scharmer-davos_n_4635396
7 https://dealbook.nytimes.com/2015/01/21/amid-the-chattering-of-the-global-elite-a-silent-interlude/
8 https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/the-great-american-bubble-machine-195229/
9 http://www.buddhistpeacefellowship.org/can-mindfulness-change-a-corporation/
10 https://www.academia.edu/25482900/WHAT_IS_ENLIGHTENMENT_MINDFULNESS_IN_THE_MOMENT_OF_STRESS
11 Byung-Chul Han, Psycho-Politics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power. Verso Books, 2017.
12 Jeremy Carrette and Richard King, Selling Spirituality: The Silent Takeover of Religion. Routledge, 2005. p.22
13 Sam Binkley, Happiness as Enterprise: An Essay on Neoliberal Life. SUNY Press, 2015. p.2
14 Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s Stealth Revolution. MIT Press (Zone Books), 2015.
15 http://religiondispatches.org/rich-people-need-inner-peace-too-an-interview-with-googles-jolly-good-fellow-chade-meng-tan/
16 https://tricycle.org/blog/2014/02/17/protesters-crash-google-talk-corporate-mindfulness-wisdom-20-conference/
17 https://www.huffingtonpost.com/ron-purser/google-misses-a-lesson_b_4900285.html
18 http://wisdom2conference.tumblr.com/post/76757167725/wisdom-20-2014-google-handles-protesters-with
19 Ibid.,
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