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Introducing Oxford's new Contemplative Science Research Program
Apr 8, 2026
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Ecospirituality and the philosophy of the climate crisis with Rupert Read | Living Mirrors #151
Aug 19, 2025
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Healing our trauma culture with Manda Scott | Living Mirrors #150
Aug 4, 2025
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Staying small and hiding from yourself | Nonduality - James Cooke, London, June 2025
Jul 31, 2025
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Grief and soul activism with Francis Weller | Living Mirrors #149
Jul 22, 2025
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| Date | Episode | Description | Length | ||||||
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| 4/8/26 | Introducing Oxford's new Contemplative Science Research Program | https://www.contemplativesciencelab.com/ | — | ||||||
| 8/19/25 | Ecospirituality and the philosophy of the climate crisis with Rupert Read | Living Mirrors #151 | Rupert Read is an environmental philosopher, public intellectual, and activist. He was formerly an associate professor of philosophy at the University of East Anglia in the UK, was a leading figure within Extinction Rebellion, and now leads the Climate Majority Project. His books include "Why Climate Breakdown Matters," "Deep Adaptation: Navigating the Realities of Climate Chaos," and "Parents for a Future". Today we discuss why spirituality and philosophy are crucial for understanding ecological breakdown. | — | ||||||
| 8/4/25 | Healing our trauma culture with Manda Scott | Living Mirrors #150 | Manda Scott is a bestselling author and former veterinary surgeon. She is the author of 16 books including the international bestselling Boudica: Dreaming series which depicts life in pre-Roman Britain and has been translated into over twenty languages. Her 2024 novel, Any Human Power, is an example of Thrutopian fiction, stories that show possible routes to a better future, and is a call to action for us to contribute to a different, generative, equitable and just way forward. She is the host of the Accidental Gods Podcast which explores ways through the metacrisis that we are currently living through. Today we discuss the metacrisis and thrutopian fiction. | — | ||||||
| 7/31/25 | Staying small and hiding from yourself | Nonduality - James Cooke, London, June 2025 | https://www.innerspaceinstitute.org/ | — | ||||||
| 7/22/25 | Grief and soul activism with Francis Weller | Living Mirrors #149 | Francis Weller is a psychotherapist and author of many books including The Wild Edge of Sorrow, The Threshold Between Loss and Revelation, and his upcoming book In the Absence of the Ordinary: Soul Work for Times of Uncertainty. He founded and directs WisdomBridge, an organization that offers educational programs that seek to integrate wisdom from indigenous cultures with knowledge from western traditions. Today we discuss grief and soul activism. | — | ||||||
| 7/8/25 | Embodied Nonduality & The Deepest Letting Go, with John Prendergast | Living Mirrors #148 | John Prendergast is a psychotherapist, spiritual teacher, and former adjunct professor of psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies. He's the author of In Touch, The Deep Heart, and, most recently, Your Deepest Ground. His work blends somatic inquiry and depth psychology with contemplative insight, and he is a leading voice on the topic of embodying nondual realization, which is what we discuss today. | — | ||||||
| 7/1/25 | There isn't a problem | Nonduality - James Cooke, London, June 2025 | https://www.innerspaceinstitute.org/ | — | ||||||
| 6/18/25 | The Gradual and Direct Paths of Awakening with Stephen Snyder | Living Mirrors #147 | Stephen Snyder is a dharma teacher in the Zen Buddhist traditions of Soto and Rinzai as well as in the Theravadan Buddhist tradition. He is the author of Demystifying Awakening, Buddha's Heart, Trust in Awakening, Liberating the Self, and is co-author of the book Practicing the Jhānas. You can find out about his teaching and retreats at awakeningdharma.org. Today we discuss the gradual and direct paths to awakening and beyond. | — | ||||||
| 6/2/25 | AMA: How does the concept of Self in Internal Family Systems (IFS) relate to awakening? | Ask questions for the next AMA via patreon or the youtube channel membership community. https://patreon.com/drjamescooke https://www.youtube.com/drjamescooke | — | ||||||
| 5/22/25 | James Cooke live at Totnes Consciousness Cafe: Nondual Naturalism & the Unity of Life & Consciousness | This talk was filmed live at the Totnes Consciousness Cafe in April 2025. | — | ||||||
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| 5/5/25 | Ecodharma with David Loy | Living Mirrors #146 | David Loy is a Zen teacher, author, and scholar whose work bridges Buddhism, social justice, and ecology. He is a founding member of the Rocky Mountain Ecodharma Retreat Center, near Boulder, Colorado, and sits on the advisory boards of Buddhist Global Relief, the Clear View Project, Zen Peacemakers, and the Ernest Becker Foundation. He's the author of many books, including Ecodharma: Buddhist Teachings for the Ecological Crisis, and ecodharma is the topic that we explore today. https://www.davidloy.org/ | — | ||||||
| 4/23/25 | Daniel Ingram & James Cooke discuss No Self and the Role of Interpretations in the Mind | Living Mirrors #145 | This week on the podcast I'm speaking again with Daniel Ingram. Daniel is a physician and meditator and is the author of the influential book Mastering the Core Teachings of the Buddha. He is the co-founder of the Dharma Overground and of The Emergent Phenomenology Research Consortium. Today we discuss awakening and the role of interpretations in the mind, as well as the dark night of the soul and other related topics. If you're interested in any of these topics, you can go to innerspaceinstitute.org to explore my guided practices there. | — | ||||||
| 4/2/25 | AMA: Abiding vs. Non-Abiding Awakening | Ask questions for the next AMA via patreon or the youtube channel membership community: https://www.patreon.com/DrJamesCooke https://www.youtube.com/DrJamesCooke | — | ||||||
| 3/19/25 | When the self comes to an end, with Viivi Jokela | Living Mirrors #144 | Viivi Jokela is an awakening facilitator. She had a spontaneous awakening in 2022 which she subsequently integrated to reach abiding no-self realization. I find her descriptions of what she calls "the natural state", and the process by which it can be realized, to be incredibly accurate, and so it's a real pleasure to bring you my conversation with her today. We speak mainly about what it's like to go through no-self realization, as well as other aspects of awakening. https://www.sensingradiance.com/ | — | ||||||
| 3/3/25 | Trauma, Tyranny, & the Role of Bystanders in Permitting Injustice - Judith Herman | Living Mirrors #143 | Judith Herman is a psychiatrist, researcher, teacher, author and a leading expert on the healing of traumatic stress. She is Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and is the author of many books on PSTD, most recently Truth and Repair: How Trauma Survivors Envision Justice. A lifelong activist, she brings deep insight and understanding to the societal context in which trauma occurs, from the personal to the political, and these are the themes we discuss today. | — | ||||||
| 2/19/25 | Zen & Awakening with Henry Shukman | Living Mirrors #142 | Henry Shukman is a poet and Zen master. Henry is the Guiding Teacher of Mountain Cloud Zen Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico, which is part of the Sanbo Zen lineage. He is the author of One Blade of Grass: Finding the Old Road of the Heart, a Zen Memoir, and, most recently, Original Love: The Four Inns on the Path of Awakening. Today we discuss Zen and our own paths of awakening. | — | ||||||
| 2/3/25 | Karl Friston on Consciousness & The Dawn of Mind | Living Mirrors #141 | Karl Friston is a theoretical neurobiologist and Professor of Neuroscience at University College London. He is also an honorary consultant at UCL's Queen Square Institute of Neurology and is a fellow of both the Academy of Medical Sciences and the Royal Society. He also happens to be the most cited neuroscientist in the world. Karl kindly read and gave a blurb for the book: "A remarkably current and forward-looking treatment. This book uses all my favourite words—in the right order—and some I have never encountered before. It offers a delightful narrative, grounded in state-of-the-art thinking about what it is to be an observer or, in the author's words, BEING IS BELIEVING." https://www.amazon.co.uk/Dawn-Mind-Matter-Became-Conscious/dp/1633889920/ | — | ||||||
| 1/24/25 | James Cooke discusses Nondual Naturalism on the Weekend University podcast with Naill McKeever | Find the original conversation here: https://youtu.be/cxHGIExT0fo?si=lqmbaLDjccaoLFqs The Dawn of Mind: How Matter Became Conscious and Alive https://www.amazon.com/Dawn-Mind-Matter-Became-Conscious/dp/1633889920 https://youtu.be/Yqpsk0rgv90?si=j66AhVwx9DsbB61g | — | ||||||
| 1/17/25 | Erik Ireland on awakening and the hero's journey | Living Mirrors #140 | Erik Ireland is a mindfulness teacher who runs a youtube channel and podcast called listen to sleep, where he provides guided meditations and bedtime stories for mindfulness and awakening. He also works with people to help them find direction through the framework of the hero's journey at awakenyourmyth.com. Two years ago, he experienced an awakening and recorded a video called mountain awakening describing it. With his permission I'm going to include a section here before our conversation. erikireland.com awakenyourmyth.com https://www.youtube.com/ListenToSleep listentosleep.com | — | ||||||
| 1/10/25 | James Cooke discusses The Dawn of Mind on the Trip Report podcast with Zach Haigney | Find the original conversation here: https://www.thetripreport.com/p/37-dr-james-cooke-the-dawn-of-mind | — | ||||||
| 1/7/25 | AMA: Cosmic creativity, Aubrey Plaza's Stroke & Different Functions of the Self | Ask questions for the next AMA via patreon or the channel membership community (click the "join" button above): https://www.patreon.com/DrJamesCooke Aubrey Plaza stroke clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13N4b2M06tE&ab_channel=TheHowardSternShow | — | ||||||
| 1/2/25 | Omid Safi on Radical Love and Sufism | Living Mirrors #139 | Omid Safi is a professor at Duke university and is an expert in Sufism and Islamic mysticism. He has authored and edited many books, including Progressive Muslims: On Justice, Gender, and Pluralism, and Radical Love: Teachings from the Islamic Mystical Tradition. He also has a podcast called Sufi Heart, which is part of the Be Here Now network. In this conversation we discuss radical love and justice, with a focus on the mystical experience of God's love. As wild as it may sound to modern secular ears, I think it makes sense to say that reality really is made of God's love, or rather the love that is God. In my work I unpack this vision of reality using terms like the radical unbounded openness of the nonconceptual totality of reality, but it's the same thing. Most importantly, it can be discovered directly through experience. | — | ||||||
| 12/27/24 | The Dawn of Mind audiobook now available! | https://www.audible.com/pd/The-Dawn-of-Mind-Audiobook/B0DPXXBSYR https://www.amazon.com/Dawn-Mind-Matter-Became-Conscious/dp/B0DPXZ5XRY/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= https://open.spotify.com/show/2Ym3ZTgeNIIijRW5WztNeh?si=19548ad7d78446f4 | 0m 20s | ||||||
| 12/20/24 | Prof. Dan Siegel on Science, Spirituality, & Intraconnection | Living Mirrors #138 | On the 14th of January 2025 I'll be in conversation with Dan at LA's flagship Barnes & Noble at The Grove at Farmers Market to promote my new book, The Dawn of Mind, tickets are still available, so come along if you're nearby. https://stores.barnesandnoble.com/event/9780062180541-0 Dan Siegel is a renowned psychiatrist and internationally acclaimed author. He is the Executive Director of the Mindsight Institute, an educational center devoted to promoting insight, compassion, and empathy in individuals, families, institutions, and communities. He is also the founding co-director of the Mindful Awareness Research Center at UCLA and is a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine. Dan is the author of five New York Times bestsellers and over fifteen other books which have been translated into over forty languages. Today, we speak about his most recent book Intraconnected. | — | ||||||
| 12/11/24 | Shamil Chandaria and James Cooke on The Dawn of Mind, Consciousness & Awakening | LivingMirrors #137 | Order from: USA & Canada https://www.amazon.com/Dawn-Mind-Matter-Became-Conscious/dp/1633889920 https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-dawn-of-mind-james-cooke-phd/1144870806 https://www.booksamillion.com/p/Dawn-Mind/James-Cooke/9781633889927?id=9222386801726 https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-dawn-of-mind-how-matter-became-conscious-and-alive-james-cooke/21114038?ean=9781633889927 UK https://www.waterstones.com/book/the-dawn-of-mind/james-cooke/9781633889927 https://www.amazon.co.uk/Dawn-Mind-Matter-Became-Conscious/dp/1633889920/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1Y6DKY92TEIYP&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.66MxpGbg7bma2Loe0Av1tCIoMToNQvATzHGchiDifwgXP2z3GNBXHo1HKMqiTqg3XYjxrisjblNpsTue9DV-tY2NfCylLBWudDR1yWBOrcDGUhbvvHjXe5W1IMXxbZI9I42_64NpgMgw2Q7_p4ttL4oRRlEwovtxosBBjaAwRRsTCc3xvjsnhY9dimVL8j779Iy1T_dP4NZ4qDN4z_KUSBtH2TzXnfdZScNJSxjIaus.0NS7jR49t4PPXQw4BHqHBtD88edKMkCjv-lr4rbmBwA&dib_tag=se&keywords=dawn+of+mind&qid=1724161476&sprefix=dawn+of+mind%2Caps%2C142&sr=8-1 This week on the podcast previous guest Shamil Chandaria is returning to discuss my new book The Dawn of Mind, which is out now. Shamil is a computational neuroscientist and expert in artificial intelligence. He has fellowships at both Oxford and Cambridge and well as at Imperial College London and The School of Advanced Study's Institute of Philosophy, which is part of the University of London. | — | ||||||
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