Articles

Articles That Challenge How Mindfulness Is Being Used in Corporations, the Military, and Corporate America

• David Forbes, “Occupy Mindfulness.”
• David R. Loy, “Can Mindfulness Change a Corporation?”
• Anne Kingston, “Mindfulness goes corporate—and purists aren’t pleased.”
• Richard Eskow, “Buying Wisdom.”
• Darren Drda “Wisdom 2.0 and the Protection of the Spiritual Commons.”
• Kenji Liu, “Capitalists Want You to Be Happy: Self-Improvement and Exploitation.”
• Wakoh Shannon Hickey, “Meditation as Medicine: A Critique” (pdf).
• David Jacobs Gordon, “A Critical History of Mindfulness-Based Psychology.” B.A. thesis, Wesleyan University, Departmental Honors in Psychology and the Science in Society Program, Middletown, Connecticut, April 2009.
• Shian-Ling Keng, Moria J. Smoski, Clive J. Robins, “Effects of mindfulness on psychological health: A review of empirical studies” (pdf).
• Glenn Wallace, “Elixir of Mindfulness.”
• Ronald E. Purser, Joseph Milillo. “Mindfulness Revisited: A Buddhist-Based Conceptualization” (pdf).
• “Frozen Yoga and McMindfulness: Miles Neale on the mainstreaming of contemplative religious practices.”
• Ron Purser and David Loy, “Beyond McMindfulness.”
• Jeremy Carrette and Richard King, Selling Spirituality: The Silent Takeover of Religion. New York: Routledge (2005).
• Simon Critchley and Jamieson Webster, “The Gospel According to ‘Me.'”
• Nathan, “Artificial Buddhist Personality.”
• Christopher Titmuss, “The Buddha of Mindfulness. A Stress Destruction Programme.”
• Julie Carr Smyth, “‘Mindfulness’ Grows in Popularity—and Profits.”
• R. Eidelson, M. Pilisuk, S. Soldz, “The Dark Side of ‘Comprehensive Soldier Fitness.'”
• Greg Heffron, “The Antidote to McMindfulnes is Feeling What We Feel.”
• Mark Knickelbine, “From Both Sides: Secular Buddhism and the ‘McMindfulness’ Question.”
• Owen Flanagan, “Can a Naturalistic Buddhism Make You Happy?”
• Willoughby Britton, “The Blobology Effect.”
• Jo Confino, “Zen in the Workplace.”
• Steven Stanley, “Mindfulness: Toward a Critical Relational Perspective.” Social and Personality Psychology Compass 6.9: 631–706. (2012).
• Steven Stanley, “Things said or done long ago are recalled and remembered: The ethics of mindfulness in early Buddhism, psychotherapy. and clinical psychology.” European Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling 15.2: 151–62 (2013).
• Oenone Crossley-Holland, “Could beditation be the answer to exam nerves?”
• Julie Watson, “Meditating Marines: Military tries mindfulness to lower stress.”
• Robert H. Sharf, “Mindfulness or Mindlessness” (video)
• Schumpeter, “The mindfulness business.”
• C. Dierkes, “Wrong Yoda Was: The Force of Fear.
• McCoon et al., “No Sustained Attention Differences in a Longitudinal Randomized Trial Comparing Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction versus Active Control.”
• Tomas Rocha, “The Dark Night of the Soul.”
• Guerrilla Buddha, “Yoga-Whoring, McMindfulness, & the Spiritual Industrial Complex.”

Articles on Neoliberalism in Education

• Diane Ravitch, “Everything you need to know about Common Core.”
• Stan Karp, “The coming Common Core meltdown.”