Deconstructing Yourself

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Awakening and Flow States, with Loch Kelly

September 15, 2026

In this episode, host Michael Taft speaks with meditation teacher Loch Kelly about what comes after the first glimpse. They distinguish "waking up"—recognizing openness, stillness, the absence of a separate self—from "waking with," in which appearances are seen as inseparable from awake awareness, or what is called "one taste." The conversation covers flow states as a natural portal to awake awareness in action, why direct pointing is safer than deconstructive mindfulness retreats that leave ...

A Conversation with Delson Armstrong

August 24, 2026

Days after narrowly surviving a catastrophic flood, meditation teacher Delson Armstrong joins Michael Taft to consider what remains when spiritual ideas fall away. Their conversation explores primal awareness, the spiritual ego, and Delson’s forthcoming collection of Sanskrit aphorisms—a “love letter to the exhausted seeker” synthesizing Buddhism, Vedānta, Yoga, Sāṃkhya, and Tantra. They also discuss paraconsciousness, karma and divine play, Nisargadatta Maharaj, Śrī Vidyā and Lalitā, and the...

Meditation, False Insights, and Artificial Wisdom with Ruben Laukkonen

August 02, 2026

Host Michael Taft talks with neuroscientist Ruben Laukkonen about what extreme physical suffering can reveal about meditation, and why awakening may be less a grand attainment than “the grand disappointment.” They explore disenchantment, grace, synchronicity, and the possibility that faith arises naturally from our embeddedness in realities too large for us to comprehend. Ruben describes the strange authority of insight—how ideas can seem to arrive from elsewhere, why their felt intensity som...

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Who is an ideal guest for Deconstructing Yourself?

Deconstructing Yourself typically books rising experts. Typical guest background: Established meditation teachers, contemplative practitioners, bestselling or widely published authors, university-affiliated neuroscientists and consciousness researchers, psychologists, executive coaches, and specialists in psychedelics or artificial intelligence whose work engages with awareness and human flourishing. Common among recent guests: Published books or influential research; Leadership of established meditation, contemplative, or educational organizations; University research or teaching appointments. Recent guests include Loch Kelly, Delson Armstrong, and Ruben Laukkonen.

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