My Podcast
BBP Season 3 features interviews with many researchers and contemplative practitioners talking about side-effects and spiritual crisis. Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts: Apple • Spotify • Pocketcasts
Episodes to especially check out:
- 3.5 Meditation Side-Effects and Other Altered States, with Miguel Farias
- 3.6 Spiritual Weirdness and Shadow Work, with Mary Shutan
- 3.8 Emergent Phenomena, with Daniel M. Ingram
- 3.9 When Meditation Causes Harm, with Willoughby Britton & Jared Lindahl
- 3.10 Madness & Acute Religious Experiences, with Richard Saville-Smith
- 3.11 The Perils of Tantra, with Susannah Deane
- 3.12 Meditation and the (Dys)regulation of Qi, with Leo Lok
- 3.13 Self and Nonself, with Nick Canby
- 3.16 Tibetan Medicine for Meditators, with Tawni Tidwell
- 3.17 Awakening & Integration, with Sanjay Manchanda
Contemplative Challenges Collaborative
What do Buddhist traditions say about the challenges inherent in contemplative practices as well as the potential for crisis? What do they teach about the causes of problems, as well as their prevention and even treatment? The videos below represent a series of monthly Zoom meetings that are taking place between Sept 2026 and Aug 2027, featuring Buddhist teachers, retreat leaders, and other specialists discussing these issues from the perspective of various Buddhist traditions. Please check back soon for more updates, subscribe to the YouTube channel, or sign up for occasional email updates.
More coming soon . . .
- Nov 16 – Meido Moore (Zen)
- Dec 21 – Damcho Finnegan (Tibetan Buddhism)
- Jan 18, 2027 – Tashi Rabten (Tibetan medicine)
- Feb 15 – Rebecca Li (Chan)
- Mar 15 – Stephen Mugen Snyder (Theravada & Zen)
- Apr 19 – Leo Lok (Chinese Mahayana)
- May 17 – JyHyang Padma (Korean)
- Jun 21 – Justin con Bujdoss (Tibetan Buddhism)
- Jul 19 – Tawni Tidwell (Tibetan medicine)
- Aug 16 – Daniel Ingram (Contemporary)