20 Soren Gordhamer, Wisdom 2.0: The New Movement Toward Purposeful Engagement in Business and in Life: Ancient Secrets for the Creative and Constantly Connected. HarperOne, 2009. p.40
21 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFE0GMI9HJ8
22 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTJ9_KM4i4U
23 https://tricycle.org/magazine/buying-wisdom-2/
24 https://tricycle.org/magazine/buying-wisdom/
chapter Eleven:
Mindful Schools
1 https://mindfulnessinschools.org/
2 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14639947.2017.1301032
3 https://www.mindfulschools.org/
4 https://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/feature/wp/2013/04/11/the-education-issue-believing-self-control-predicts-success-schools-teach-coping/
5 https://www.mindfulschools.org/resources/room-to-breathe/
6 https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-44019-4_26
7 https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-44019-4_23
8 https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/03/the-white-savior-industrial-complex/254843/
9 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.2304/pfie.2013.11.5.538
10 James Reveley, “Neoliberal Meditations: How Mindfulness Training Medicalizes Education and Responsibilizes Young People.” Policy Futures in Education 2016, 14 (4) pp. 497–511.
11 Kathryn Ecclestone and Dennis Hayes. The Dangerous Rise of Therapeutic Education. Routledge, 2008.
12 https://www.mindfulschools.org/about-mindfulness/Mindfulness-in-education/
13 https://mindfulnessinschools.org/mindfulness-in-education/what-is-it/
14 https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-44019-4_29
15 http://www.buddhistpeacefellowship.org/the-heart-of-mindfulness-a-response-to-the-new-york-times/
16 https://www.lionsroar.com/in-engaged-buddhism-peace-begins-with-you/
17 https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-44019-4_24
18 https://mindfulnessinschools.org/mindfulness-in-education/what-is-it/
19 Richard Burnett, “Mindfulness in Secondary Schools: Learning Lessons from the Adults, Secular and Buddhist.” Buddhist Studies Review, 2011, 28 (1), pp. 79–120.
20 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pLhwGLYvJU
21 Ibid.,
22 https://www.huffingtonpost.com/candy-gunther-brown-phd/mindfulness-meditation-in_b_6276968.html
23 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pLhwGLYvJU
24 https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-44019-4_6
25 https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/17/warstler-ele-mentary-school-ohio-mindfulness-program_n_3101741.html
26 http://www.nclplaw.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/DYRSD-Legal-Opinion-Memorandum-2-2-161.pdf
27 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3151546/
28 http://psycnet.apa.org/buy/2014-14116-001
29 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9097338
30 Ibid.
31 https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp/440/1284/1817490/
32 https://www.davidlynchfoundation.org/
33 https://www.facebook.com/tmfreeblog/photos/pb.137 913942929551.2207520000.1518324891./14424128358 12982/?type=3
34 Ibid.
35 http://tmfree.blogspot.com/
36 https://www.au.org/church-state/june-2009-church-state/featured/levitating-over-the-church-state-wall
37 https://www.theguardian.com/teacher-network/2015/nov/24/san-franciscos-toughest-schools-transformed-meditation
38 https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2015/08/Mindfulness-education-schools-meditation/402469/
39 https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2Fs12671-015-0478-4.pdf
40 https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2017/5/22/13768406/mindfulness-meditation-good-for-kids-evidence
41 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4075476/
42 https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2017/5/22/13768406/mindfulness-meditation-good-for-kids-evidence
43 https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0153220
44 https://tricycle.org/trikedaily/trauma-meditation/
45 https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/06/the-dark-knight-of-the-souls/372766/
46 http://Minet.org/www.trancenet.net/research/2000perezdealbeniz.shtml
47 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/272240728_Biologising_parenting_Neuroscience_discourse_English_social_and_public_health_policy_and_understandings_of_the_child
48 https://royalsociety.org/topics-policy/projects/brain-waves/education-lifelong-learning/
chapter Twelve:
Mindful Warriors
1 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18157882
2 https://www.army.mil/article/29549/mind_fitness_improving_operational_effectiveness_and_building_warrior_resilience
3 https://news.miami.edu/stories/2018/11/ensuring-success-in-demanding-roles.html
4 https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.pbr.2018.10.001
5 http://www.amishi.com/lab/wp-content/uploads/Stanley_Jha-Mind_Fitness-JFQ.pdf
6 William D. Lutz, The New Doublespeak: Why No One Knows What Anyone’s Saying Anymore. HarperCollins, 1996.
7 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_WI68yHFqM
8 https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.pbr.2018.10.001
9 http://www.amishi.com/lab/wp-content/uploads/JhaCV_8.24.17_Web.pdf
10 https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/dangerous-ideas/201103/the-dark-side-comprehensive-soldier-fitness
11 https://thewinnower.com/papers/49-a-critical-examination-of-the-u-s-army-s-comprehensive-soldier-fitness-program
12 http://psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?doi=10.1037%2Fa0024932
13 http://www.amishi.com/lab/wp-content/uploads/Stanley_Jha-Mind_Fitness-JFQ.pdf
14 https://psmag.com/social-justice/a-state-military-mind-42839
15 https://www.theoaklandpress.com/news/marines-studying-mindfulness-based-training/article_c4ac9534-d1d9-5eab-91e5-fdec5e4c10c3.html
16 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20141302
17 http://www.amishi.com/lab/mbat_project/
18 https://www.inquiringmind.com/article/3002_14_kabatzinn-interview-with-jon-kabat-zinn-the-thousand-year-view/
19 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5r2sBQM31k
20 https://www.inquiringmind.com/article/3001_16_stanley-cultivating-the-mind-of-a-warrior/
21 Ibid.,
22 https://federalnewsnetwork.com/federal-drive/2013/01/federal-drive-interviews-jan-28-2013/
23 Brian Victoria, Zen at War. Rowman & Littlefield, 2006 (second ed.).
24 D. T. Suzuki, Zen and Japanese Culture. Princeton University Press, 1938. p.145
25 Brian Victoria, Zen at War. Rowman & Littlefield, 2006 (second ed.) p.210
26 https://www.thezensite.com/ZenEssays/CriticalZen/An_Ethical_Critique_of_Wartime_Zen.pdf (p.201).
27 Brian Victoria, “Samadhi Power in Imperial Japan.” Unpublished paper. p.13
28 Brian Victoria, Zen at War. Rowman & Littlefield, 2006 (second ed.) p.139
29 Elizabeth Stanley, “Neuroplasticity, Mind Fitness, and Military Effectiveness.” In Robert Armstrong & Mark Drapeau (eds.), Bio-Inspired Innovation and National Security. CreateSpace, 2012.
30 Brian Victoria, “Teaching Buddhism and Violence.” In Brian K. Pennington (ed.), Teaching Buddhism and Violence, Oxford University Press, 2012. p.89
31 https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/belief/2012/may/22/anders-behring-breivik-meditation
32 https://sites.google.com/site/breivikreport/documents/anders-breivik-psychiatric-report-2012-04-10
33 https://www.inquiringmind.com/article/3002_14_kabatzinn-interview-with-jon-kabat-zinn-the-thousand-year-view/
34 https://www.inquiringmind.com/article/2202_4_cullen_mindfulness-conversation/
35 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/matthieu-ricard/caring-mindfulness_b_7118906.html
36 John Dyckman, “Letter to the Editor”. Inquiring Min
d, Fall 2014.
37 http://www.mindfulnesstrainingcourse.org/the-application-of-right-mindfulness--fo
38 Lt Col Dave Grossman, On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society. Back Bay Books, 2009 (revised ed.).
39 http://blogs.dickinson.edu/buddhistethics/files/2010/12/Premasiri.pdf
40 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/002088171004600403
chapter Thirteen:
Mindful Politics
1 Tim Ryan, A Mindful Nation: How a Simple Practice Can Reduce Stress, Improve Performance, and Recapture the American Spirit. Hay House, 2012. pp.33-34.
2 Ibid.
3 Ibid.
4 https://www.huffingtonpost.com/one-world-with-deepakchopra/the-art-of-mindfulness-in_b_5023022.html
5 https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/rep-tim-ryan-meditation-reduces-stress-work-trump/story?id=48378736
6 Tim Ryan, A Mindful Nation: How a Simple Practice Can Reduce Stress, Improve Performance, and Recapture the American Spirit. Hay House, 2012.
7 Ibid.
8 Craig Martin, Capitalizing Religion: Ideology and the Opiate of the Bourgeoisie. Bloomsbury, 2014.
9 Tim Ryan, A Mindful Nation: How a Simple Practice Can Reduce Stress, Improve Performance, and Recapture the American Spirit. Hay House, 2012.
10 https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/jul/11/ohio-democrat-uses-mindfulness-stress-reduction-te/
11 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07393148.2016.1153195
12 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18031225
13 Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett, The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger. Bloomsbury, 2011.
14 https://theintercept.com/2018/07/23/tim-ryan-presidential-run-2020/
15 Tim Ryan, A Mindful Nation: How a Simple Practice Can Reduce Stress, Improve Performance, and Recapture the American Spirit. Hay House, 2012. p.167
16 Jon Kabat-Zinn, Coming To Our Senses: Healing Ourselves and the World Through Mindfulness. Hachette Books, 2005.
17 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5605584/
18 https://www.ibtimes.com/heinrich-himmler-nazi-hindu-214444
19 https://www.yogajournal.com/blog/nazi-leaders-fascinated-by-yoga
20 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07393148.2016.1153195
21 https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/sanders-wing-party-terrifies-moderate-dems-here-s-how-they-n893381
22 https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/09/09/tim-ryan-2020-presidential-candidate-yoga-beer-mindfulness-interview-profile-219738
23 Sam Binkley, Happiness as Enterprise: An Essay on Neoliberal Life. SUNY Press, 2015.
24 Tim Ryan, A Mindful Nation: How a Simple Practice Can Reduce Stress, Improve Performance, and Recapture the American Spirit. Hay House, 2012
25 Jon Kabat-Zinn, Wherever You Go, There You Are. Hyperion, 2005
26 https://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/may/07/politicians-ruby-wax-parliament-mindfulness-meditation
27 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3964149/
28 https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2013/apr/07/zen-buddhism-nhs
29 https://www.themindfulnessinitiative.org.uk/about/who-we-are
30 https://www.themindfulnessinitiative.org.uk/about/Mindfulness-appg
31 https://www.mindful.org/can-mindfulness-transform-politics-2/
32 https://www.themindfulnessinitiative.org.uk/publications/Mindful-nation-uk-report
33 https://themindfulnessinitiative.org.uk/images/reports/Mindfulness-APPG-Report_Mindful-Nation-UK_Oct2015.pdf
34 https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/oct/20/mindfulness-mental-health-potential-benefits-uk
35 Ibid.
36 Ibid.
37 https://thepsychologist.bps.org.uk/not-mcmindfulness-any-stretch-imagination
38 Ibid.
39 https://thebuddhistcentre.com/text/triratna-around-world
40 https://www.themindfulnessinitiative.org.uk/about/who-we-are
41 https://www.breathworks-mindfulness.org.uk/Meet-our-associates
42 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-37432719
43 https://thebuddhistcentre.com/news/statement-ur-gyen-sangharakshita
44 http://www.wiseattention.org/blog/2012/10/19/secular-mindfulness-buddhism-2-a-wider-view-of-mindfulness/
45 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5353526/
46 https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ1120864
47 https://themindfulnessinitiative.org.uk/images/reports/Mindfulness-APPG-Report_Mindful-Nation-UK_Oct2015.pdf
48 https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ1120864
49 https://themindfulnessinitiative.org.uk/images/reports/Mindfulness-APPG-Report_Mindful-Nation-UK_Oct2015.pdf
50 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24294837
51 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24395196
52 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25907157
53 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352250X18301209
54 https://www.conservativehome.com/platform/2018/08/tim-loughton-mindfulness-has-a-crucial-role-to-play-intackling-mental-illness.html
55 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352250X18301209
56 Ibid.
57 Ibid.
58 https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/oct/22/Mindfulness-jon-kabat-zinn-depression-trump-grenfell
59 https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/oct/13/politicians-meditate-commons-mindfulness-event
60 Ibid.
61 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352250X18301209
62 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5605584/
63 http://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2018/08/14/meditation-mindfulness-jon-kabat-zinn
64 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352250X18301209
Conclusion:
Liberating Mindfulness
1 https://vimeo.com/ondemand/themindfulrevolution
2 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12671-017-0758-2
3 https://www.inquiringmind.com/article/3002_14_kabatzinn-interview-with-jon-kabat-zinn-the-thousand-year-view/
4 https://www.iiss.org/publications/the-military-balance
5 https://www.dukeupress.edu/cruel-optimism
6 https://truthout.org/articles/domestic-terrorism-youth-and-the-politics-of-disposability/
7 Jon Kabat-Zinn, Full Catastrophe Living. Bantam Dell, 1990. p. 200
8 https://www.dukeupress.edu/the-already-dead/
9 https://www.eventbrite.com/e/video-of-angela-davis-jon-kabat-zinn-east-bay-meditation-center-benefit-tickets-50134682184
10 Nicole Aschoff, The New Prophets of Capitalism. Verso, 2015. p.3
11 http://mindfulnessinamericasummit.com/
12 Deborah Orr, “Ethics, Mindfulness, and Skillfulness,” in Handbook of Ethical Foundations of Mindfulness, ed. Steven Stanley, Ronald Purser and Nirbhay Singh. Springer, 2018, pp.137-8.
13 https://tricycle.org/magazine/seeing-things-they-are/
14 Bhikkhu Bodhi, The Connected Discourses of the Buddha, A Translation of the Samyutta Nikaya. Wisdom Publications, 2000, p.251.
15 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5605584/
16 Ibid.
17 https://vimeo.com/ondemand/themindfulrevolution
18 William Davies, The Happiness Industry: How the Government and Big Business Sold Us Wellbeing. Verso, 2015. p.251
19 Ibid.
20 https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpsy/article/PIIS2215-0366(18)30394-8/fulltext
21 Bruce Rogers-Vaughn, Caring for Souls in a Neoliberal Age. Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. p.126
22 Ibid.
23 Ibid.
24 C. Wright Mills, The Sociological Imagination. Grove Press, 1961.
25 Paulo Freire, Pedagogies of the Oppressed. Continuum, 2000 (30th Anniversary edition).
26 Robin DiAngelo, White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism. Beacon Press, 2018. p.59.
27 Mary Watkins and Helene Shulman, Toward Psychologies of Liberation. Palgrave, 2008. p.29
28 Robert Hattam, Awakening Struggle: Towards a Buddhist Critical Theory. University of South Australia Press, 2002. p.228
29 Erich Fromm, Beyond The Chains of Illusion, Abacus, 1989. pp.131-132
30 Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism. Zero Books, 2009. p.80
31 http://nomosjournal.org/2013/08/searching-for-integrity/
32 https://tricycle.org/trikedaily/conscientious-compassion/
33 Peter Gabel, The Desire for Mutual Recognition: Social Movements and the Dissolution of the False Self. Routledge, 2018. p.210
34 https://vimeo.com/ondemand/themindfulrevolution
Acknowledgements
I would like to give special thanks to my publisher, Tariq Goddard, who took an immediate interest in my book and has been a champion of promoting it. I could have chosen several larger publishing houses, but in the end I chose Repeater because of Tariq’s leadership and vision for publishing critical books that challenge the status quo. Etan Ilfeld, owner of Repeater Books and the managing director of Watkins Media, was enthusiastic and supportive of my project from the beginning. I would also like to give a shout out to Josh Turner, Michael Watson and Jonathan Maunder at Repeater for all their help and expertise.
I owe special gratitude to Daniel Simpson, a talented freelance developmental editor, whose expertise and sharp eye helped me enormously in revising the book. Several years before the conception of this book, Daniel and I had many exchanges regarding our mutual suspicion and skepticism towards the mindfulness movement. I would like to express my deepest thanks to friend and mentor, David Loy, who encouraged me to pursue my critique of the mindfulness movement and which led to our viral article “Beyond McMindfulness” in the Huffington Post. I have been a fan of David’s writings for many years.
Thanks to David Forbes who was an early comrade in establishing a beachhead for the McMindfulness critique. Our collaboration on the Mindful Cranks podcast inspired many of the ideas found here. An earlier version of our account of Google’s Wisdom 2.0 debacle appeared in the Huffington Post.
I had many conversations with my friend and colleague Andy Cooper, features editor for Tricycle on different aspects of the McMindfulness critique. Our mutual concern for the hype and exaggerated scientific claims of the mindfulness movement led us to publish “Mindfulness’ Truthiness Problem” on Salon.com.
Thanks also to Edwin Ng, who collaborated with me on a number of social media articles, including “Corporate Mindfulness is Bullsh*t,” “White Privilege and the Mindfulness Movement,” “Cutting Through the Corporate Mindfulness Hype,” “Mindfulness and Self-Care: Why Should I Care.” Edwin Ng and I worked on the “Making Refuge” project, which helped me immensely in decoding the discursive habits and rhetorical strategies of the mindfulness movement. Another friend and colleague, Zack Walsh, deserves special thanks. His writings were influential in my critique of neoliberalism and the ideological underlays of the mindfulness discourse. Zack and I continue to collaborate on a number of critical-social mindfulness projects. I am also indebted to David Lewis for his friendship and support since we first met in a lively and controversial Facebook group devoted to critical issues in the mindfulness movement. David educated me on the technical limitations of fMRI brain imaging studies which informed our paper “Contemplative Science’s Truthiness Problem,” presented at the “Beyond the Hype: “Buddhism and Neuroscience’ in a New Key” at Columbia University.
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