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McMindfulness: How mindfulness became the new capitalist spirituality. (book chapter excerpt) psychotherapy.net, November 15, 2022
Neoliberalizmin son tuzağı: Mindfulness. Vesaire, (Translation of The Guardian’s “The Mindfulness Conspiracy” in Turkish). April 15, 2021.
Secular Buddhism in a neoliberal age. In R. Payne (Ed.), Secular Buddhism. Boulder, CO: Shambala Publications (2021).
Neuroscience of meditation: Help or hindrance? In M. Farias, D. Brazier (Eds.), Oxford Handbook of Meditation. Oxford: Oxford University Press (2021).
Silicon Valley’s corporate ‘mindfulness’ hypocrisy. Ron Purser, PANDO, October 13, 2020.
Mindfulnesss Muddle, Issues in Science and Technology (Forum), Winter 2020.
Why should Buddhist Mindfulness get a pass? Religious Studies Review, 46(2), June 2020, 165-167.
The Mindfulness Conspiracy, Ron Purser, The Guardian Long Read, June 14, 2019.
The future of mindfulness, Transformation, December 15, 2019.
Mind the mindful. Monocle, Issue 1, 2019, p93.
Moving mindfulness from ‘me’ to ‘we’. Transformation, July 9, 2019.
The Faux Revolution of Mindfulness, Transformation (OpenDemocracy), May 19. 2019.
How Capitalism Captured the Mindfulness Industry, David Forbes, The Guardian, April 16, 2019.
Mindfulness Meditation in America Has a Capitalism Problem, interview with David Forbes, Vox, April 7, 2019.
The Branding of Mindfulness, Ron Purser, Huffington Post, December 16, 2017.
How to be Mindful of McMindfulness, Ron Purser & David Forbes, AlterNet
Handbook of Mindfulness: Culture, Context and Social Engagement, Ron Purser & David Forbes, Springer
Mindfulness and Self-Care: Why Should I Care?, Edwin Ng & Ron Purser, Huffington Post
Mindfulness and Self-Care: Why Should I Care? (longer version), Edwin Ng & Ron Purser, Patheos: American Buddhist Perspectives
Cutting Through the Corporate Mindfulness Hype, Ron Purser & Edwin Ng, Huffington Post
Mindfulness in the Boardroom, Ron Purser, Tricycle: The Buddhist Review
White Privilege and the Mindfulness Movement, Edwin Ng & Ron Purser, Buddhist Peace Fellowship, Turning Wheel Media
Corporate Mindfulness is Bullsh*t, Ron Purser & Edwin Ng, Salon
They Want Kids to be Robots: Meet the New Education Craze Designed to Distract You From Overtesting, David Forbes, Salon
Confessions of a Mind-Wandering MBSR Student: Remembering Social Amnesia, Ron Purser, Self & Society
Clearing the Muddled Path of Traditional and Contemporary Mindfulness, Ron Purser, Mindfulness
Mindfulness Revisited: A Buddhist-based Conceptualization, Ron Purser & Joseph Milillo, Journal of Management Inquiry
Mindfulness' "Truthiness" Problem, Ron Purser & Andrew Cooper, Salon
The Myth of the Present Moment, Ron Purser, Mindfulness
The Militarization of Mindfulness, Ron Purser, Inquiring Mind
Search Outside of Yourself: Google Misses a Lesson in Wisdom 101, Ron Purser & David Forbes, Huffington Post
Occupy Mindfulness, David Forbes, Beams & Struts
Beyond McMindfulness, Ron Purser & David Loy, Huffington Post