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A review by morgan_blackledge
The Mindful Geek: Mindfulness Meditation for Secular Skeptics by Michael Taft
5.0
Currently studying for licensure exam. Will review this book in much greater detail after I pass.
In brief.
In the spirit of full disclosure, I have to report that the author (Michael Taft) is my lifelong best bud.
That being said, I do not think it's an exaggeration to say that he is amongst the most knowledgeable and skillful meditation teachers of our generation.
He's literally decades ahead of his time, but recently, more and more people are catching on to what he has to offer.
He has been teaching with Against The Stream for years. He's currently working with silicon valley startups as well as big dogs like Google (check out his Google tech talk) teaching meditation and creating corperate mindfulness trainings.
He developed the material in this book via teaching stressed out engineers and tech executives how to meditate and basically chill the fuck out.
If you have not already had the privilege of sitting with Michael, you can consider this book a basic primmer of what to expect.
Being a lifelong, diehard intellectual, code writing, neuroscience geek as well as a full on, go live in a in a cave in India for a couple of years meditation guy, Michael is uniquely qualified to offer a skillfully constructed synthesis of the best of the meditation traditions, with up to the minute cutting edge neuroscience and psychology.
Additionally he is an incredibly skilled, writer and editor who has been working professionally with literally the list of Who's Who in spiritual teachers (for over a decade with Sounds True) and the first string of psychology neuroscience researchers and thought leaders in the domain of mindfulness and enlightenment 2.0 (for an additional decade with the Being Human foundation).
In sum, Michael is a hard-core behind the scenes guy, geeky AF meditation dork who has finally crawled out of his cave to deliver his message.
This book is full of interesting, useful and fun, but crazy complex and (typically) confusing shit, laid out in precise, systematic and clearly understandable language that everyone with the brain can appreciate.
All I can say is, if you love nerdy science and real deal spirituality and meditation, without the really crappy religious part, look no further, you found your next read.
In brief.
In the spirit of full disclosure, I have to report that the author (Michael Taft) is my lifelong best bud.
That being said, I do not think it's an exaggeration to say that he is amongst the most knowledgeable and skillful meditation teachers of our generation.
He's literally decades ahead of his time, but recently, more and more people are catching on to what he has to offer.
He has been teaching with Against The Stream for years. He's currently working with silicon valley startups as well as big dogs like Google (check out his Google tech talk) teaching meditation and creating corperate mindfulness trainings.
He developed the material in this book via teaching stressed out engineers and tech executives how to meditate and basically chill the fuck out.
If you have not already had the privilege of sitting with Michael, you can consider this book a basic primmer of what to expect.
Being a lifelong, diehard intellectual, code writing, neuroscience geek as well as a full on, go live in a in a cave in India for a couple of years meditation guy, Michael is uniquely qualified to offer a skillfully constructed synthesis of the best of the meditation traditions, with up to the minute cutting edge neuroscience and psychology.
Additionally he is an incredibly skilled, writer and editor who has been working professionally with literally the list of Who's Who in spiritual teachers (for over a decade with Sounds True) and the first string of psychology neuroscience researchers and thought leaders in the domain of mindfulness and enlightenment 2.0 (for an additional decade with the Being Human foundation).
In sum, Michael is a hard-core behind the scenes guy, geeky AF meditation dork who has finally crawled out of his cave to deliver his message.
This book is full of interesting, useful and fun, but crazy complex and (typically) confusing shit, laid out in precise, systematic and clearly understandable language that everyone with the brain can appreciate.
All I can say is, if you love nerdy science and real deal spirituality and meditation, without the really crappy religious part, look no further, you found your next read.