Living Mirrors with Dr. James Cooke
Join neuroscientist Dr. James Cooke as he explores consciousness, science and spirituality with scientists, philosophers, spiritual practitioners and key figures in the psychedelic renaissance.
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Introducing Oxford's new Contemplative Science Research Program
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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
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 actio
Staying small and hiding from yourself | Nonduality - James Cooke, London, June 2025
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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 tr
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 w
There isn't a problem | Nonduality - James Cooke, London, June 2025
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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
AMA: How does the concept of Self in Internal Family Systems (IFS) relate to awakening?
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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.
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 Tea
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
AMA: Abiding vs. Non-Abiding Awakening
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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 t
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, fr
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.
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 a
James Cooke discusses Nondual Naturalism on the Weekend University podcast with Naill McKeever
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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
James Cooke discusses The Dawn of Mind on the Trip Report podcast with Zach Haigney
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AMA: Cosmic creativity, Aubrey Plaza's Stroke & Different Functions of the Self
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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 just
The Dawn of Mind audiobook now available!
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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 Minds
Shamil Chandaria and James Cooke on The Dawn of Mind, Consciousness & Awakening | LivingMirrors #137
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The Dawn of Mind Official Book Launch Livestream!
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Richard Doyle on The Dawn of Mind & the transformation of collective ego | Living Mirrors #136
The Dawn of Mind: How Matter Became Conscious and Alive Pre-order from: https://www.amazon.com/Dawn-Mind-Matter-Became-Conscious/dp/1633889920 This week on the podcast previous guest Richard Doyle is returning for a second time, this time to discuss my upcoming book, the Dawn of Mind, which will be released in the US and Canada on December 3rd. Rich is an author and Professor of English and of Inf
Kaira Jewel Lingo on Engaged Buddhism & monastic life at Plum Village | Living Mirrors #135
Kaira Jewel Lingo is a Dharma teacher whose work focuses on the interaction of meditation and social justice. She spent fifteen years living as a nun in a Buddhist monastery in the Plum Village tradition, under the guidance of Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh. In 2007 she became a Zen teacher after receiving Lamp Transmission from Thich Nhat Hanh, and is also a teacher in the Vipassana Insight lineage t
James Cooke discusses Psychedelics and The Dawn of Mind on the Psychedelic Conversations podcast with Susan Guner
Find the original conversation here: https://youtu.be/e1f6EH37TKA?si=AcxA9_HWQs3HQekr
James Cooke discusses The Dawn of Mind on Illumine Life's Idea Cast
My appearance on the Illumine Life's Idea Cast with Justin McSweeney. Link to the original version: https://youtu.be/RIRFmhH29X4?si=rfcBZ5SgFoe7MGlk
Graham Priest on the Philosophy of Nothingness, Everything, and Paradox | Living Mirrors #134
Graham Priest is a philosopher and logician and of distinguished professor of philosophy at the City University of New York (CUNY). He is the author of many books including Logic: A Very Short Introduction, from Oxford University Press, Everything and Nothing, co-authored with Marcus Gabriel and One: Being an Investigation into the Unity of Reality and of its Parts, including the Singular Object w
The Dawn of Mind: How Matter Became Conscious and Alive | Official Book Trailer
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The Computational Architecture of Consciousness with Shamil Chandaria | Living Mirrors #133
This week on the podcast previous guest Shamil Chandaria is returning to discuss his recent paper "A beautiful loop: An active inference theory of consciousness", co-authored with Ruben Laukkonen. Shamil Chandaria is an expert in artificial intelligence and computational neuroscience. He was a founder of the Centre for Psychedelic Research at Imperial College London where he is a Research Fellow,
James Cooke interviewed on awakening & The Dawn of Mind on the Mastering Thought podcast
My appearance on the Mastering Thought podcast with Mark Waller and Kristina Black
AMA: Fear of awakening, ego & trauma, + balancing surrender with proactively doing inner work.
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Wystan Bryant-Scott on Awakening, Meditation, and Ending Suffering | Living Mirrors #132
Wystan Bryant-Scott is a Buddhist meditation teacher who has spent roughly two and half years of his life practising in an intensive residential monastic setting. He has studied under teachers in multiple Buddhist traditions, including Theravada, Vajrayana, Zen, and Dzogchen, and is a certified teacher of previous podcast guest Shinzen Young's Unified Mindfulness system. Wystan is also on the Boar
James Cooke discusses awakening on the Conscious Perspective podcast with Gary Lee Haskins
James Cooke discusses awakening on the Conscious Perspective podcast with Gary Lee Haskins
Realization Practice 4 - BEATS belief practice | Inner Space Nonduality Essentials
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Realization Practice 3 - Surrendered Inquiry | Inner Space Nonduality Essentials
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Realization Practice 2 - Experiential Opening | Inner Space Nonduality Essentials
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Realization Practice 1 - Recursive Experiential Acceptance | Inner Space Nonduality Essentials
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Clarifying Awakening - Nondual Realization following Awakening | Inner Space Nonduality Essentials
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Awakening Practice 6 - Experiential Opening | Inner Space Institute Nonduality Essentials
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Awakening Practice 5 - Self Inquiry | Inner Space Institute Nonduality Essentials
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Awakening Practice 4 - Non-Meditation | Inner Space Institute Nonduality Essentials
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Awakening Practice 3 - Choiceless Awareness Meditation | Inner Space Institute Nonduality Essentials
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Awakening Practice 2 - Subject-Object Inquiry | Inner Space Institute Nonduality Essentials
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Awakening Practice 1 - Nondual Awareness Meditation | Inner Space Institute Nonduality Essentials
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Mindfulness Practice 4 - Body Scan Meditation | Inner Space Institute Nonduality Essentials
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Mindfulness Practice 3 - Mindfulness Without Effort | Inner Space Institute Nonduality Essentials
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Mindfulness Practice 2 - Essential Mindfulness | Inner Space Institute Nonduality Essentials
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Mindfulness Practice 1 - Anchoring Attention | Inner Space Institute Nonduality Essentials
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Introduction to Essential Awakening & Nonduality practices from InnerSpaceInstitute.org
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Inner Space Institute membership and free Essential Awakening & Nonduality course now available!
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AMA: The Science of Déjà vu, The UK Race Riots and LSD & The Mind of the Universe by Chris Bache
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James Cooke discusses The Dawn of Mind on the Natural Awakening podcast with Wystan Bryant-Scott
My appearance on the Natural Awakening podcast with Wystan Bryant-Scott.
The Dawn of Mind, available for pre-order now! Discover how matter became conscious and alive
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From addiction to awakening with Paul Hedderman | Living Mirrors #131
Paul Hedderman is a nondual speaker and author of the books On Having Never Left, Escape to Everywhere, and Under A-Rest. Today we speak about nonduality and recovery from addiction.
AMA: Integrating shame + inner work & parenting
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Complexity, Cognition & AI with Inês Hipólito | Living Mirrors #130
Inês Hipólito is a philosopher and an Assistant Professor at Macquarie University in Sydney, specialising in cognitive science, philosophy of mind, and Artificial Intelligence. She is the Founder and CEO of Mission AI and Lead Ethicist at VERSES AI. Today we discuss cognition, complexity, and Artificial Intelligence. https://ineshipolito.com/
Brooke Lavelle: Engaged spirituality for transforming self and world | Living Mirrors #129
Brooke Lavelle is the Co-Founder and President of the Courage of Care Coalition, a nonprofit dedicated to facilitating personal and social transformation through relational compassion training, anti-oppressive pedagogies, and systems and community organizing tools. She holds a PhD in Buddhist Studies and Cognitive Science from Emory University, an MA in Indo-Tibetan Buddhism from Columbia Universi
AMA: Inner Space Institute & retreat update, living life well, idealism, breathwork
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Alexandre Christoyannopoulos on Christian Anarchism | Living Mirrors #128
Alexandre Christoyannopoulos is a political scholar and leading expert on Christian Anarchism, based at Loughborough University. His PhD on this topic was published as the book Christian Anarchism, a leading scholarly text in this area. He is also the founder and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Pacifism and Nonviolence. Today we discuss Christian Anarchism, Pacifism, and Nonviolence. https://sit
Graham Harvey on Animism | Living Mirrors #127
Graham Harvey is a professor of religious studies at The Open University in the UK. He is a world-renowned scholar on the topics of animism, modern Paganism, and Indigenous religions. His 2005 book, Animism: Respecting the Living World, is a landmark text in this area and he is the author and editor of many other books on this and related topics. Today we discuss the topic of animism. An Animist M
AMA: Thoughts on the future, Mental causes of illness, Body-based psychotherapy, What happens after death?
The Mystery of Out of Body, Near Death, and DMT Experiences https://www.drjamescooke.com/read/obe Differentiating DMT and Near-Death Experiences https://www.drjamescooke.com/read/dmt-vs-nde Dr Gabor Mate - The real reason women smokers are at greater risk https://drgabormate.com/real-reason-women-smokers-greater-risk/
Willoughby Britton on when meditation causes harm | Living Mirrors #126
Willoughby Britton is a clinical psychologist, associate professor of psychiatry and human behavior at Brown University Medical School, and the director of the Clinical and Affective Neuroscience Laboratory there. Her lab researches the psychophysiological and neurocognitive effects of meditation and mindfulness-based interventions for mood and anxiety disorders, with a particular focus on potenti
Trauma Release Exercises for Awakening and Nondual Realization with Christina Guimond | Living Mirrors #125
Chris Guimond is an awakening and nondual realization guide who works with the Trauma Release Exercises that I've previously spoken about on the podcast. You can listen to my interview with the creator of the TRE approach, David Bercelli (episode 64), if you want more detail on the practices. Chris and I connected over the fact that we've found the combination of TRE and nondual integration to be
AMA: Fear of Death, Sources of Wisdom, Experiencing Fear in the Body
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Michael Levin on the intelligence of life| Living Mirrors #124
Michael Levin is a developmental and synthetic biologist and a professor at Tufts University. He is known for co-discovering Xenobots which are living robots made from frog skin cells but his research is wide ranging, contributing to fields such as regenerative medicine and the treatment of cancer, as well as to our fundamental understanding of biological systems. As you'll hear from our conversat
The Genocide in Gaza & the Psychology of Denial | Living Mirrors #122
The Genocide in Gaza & the Psychology of Denial
Alicia Juarrero on emergence & causality as constraint | Living Mirrors #121
Alicia Juarrero is President and co-founder of VectorAnalytica, Inc., a data collection and analysis platform. She is also a research associate at the University of Miami and is the author for influential complexity theory text Dynamics in Action. Her new book is called Context Changes Everything and it explores how we can think about causality in emergent systems, such as living things, in terms
Uncompromising Nonduality with Jim Newman | Living Mirrors #120
Jim Newman holds meetings about nonduality, in a style that has come to be known as uncompromising or radical nonduality. This style began with the book The Open Secret by Tony Parsons, and along with Tony, Jim is the arguably most prominent person speaking of nonduality in this way. Whereas some approaches to nonduality advocate the following of a path in order to eventually realise that we are n
AMA: The nature of thought, shadow work, love, & nonduality
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Indy Johar on Technological Animism: Societal infrastructure for living beyond separation | Living Mirrors #119
Indy Johar is an architect and a co-founder of Dark Matter Labs, an organisation focused on building the novel institutional infrastructures necessary to make societies centred on interdependence, equality, and justice a reality. He has lectured at various institutions including University College London, Princeton, Harvard, MIT, and has held various positions, such as Advisor to Mayor of London o
BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT - The Dawn of Mind: How Matter Became Conscious & Alive | Living mirrors #118
I'm excited to announce that I just signed a book deal with Prometheus Books. The title is The Dawn of Mind: How Matter Became Conscious and Alive. In it I lay out a synthesis of physicalism, panpsychism, and idealism, culminating in a scientific account of the biophysics of consciousness, rather than the neuroscience of consciousness. It's less dry than I've made it sound here though, I promise.
AMA: Nondual Mindfulness & Body Scan Meditations for Emotion Work and Integration
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A Neuropsychologist's Exploration of Psychedelics with Andy Mitchell | Living Mirrors #117
Andy Mitchell is a neuropsychologist and therapist. He has specialized in treating patients with rare brain conditions, head injuries and epilepsy, and in the application of mindfulness for neurological patients. As a therapist he has worked with people with a range of mental health disorders. Before entering medicine, his first degree was in English Literature at Oxford University. https://www.an
AMA: The nature of the self, Top 3 books, Culture as Software
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Rachel Nuwer on MDMA | Living Mirrors #116
Rachel Nuwer is a journalist who has reported on science, travel, food, and adventure for the New York Times, National Geographic, Scientific American and many other publications. She is the author of Poached: Inside the Dark World of Wildlife Trafficking and her new book is I Feel Love: MDMA and the Quest for Connection in a Fractured World. Today we discuss all things MDMA. rachelnuwer.com
AMA: Music & psychedelics + Consciousness, evolution, & technology
Topics addressed (in order): Consciousness, causal power, & evolution Is consciousness binary? Technology & consciousness Music & psychedelics Homestead landscaping
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