Deconstructing Yourself

Michael W. Taft

Booking Overview

Interview podcast focused on meditation, consciousness, awakening, neuroscience, and unconventional contemplative practice, with external guests including bestselling authors, executive coaches, and meditation teachers. Suitable pitches include respected consciousness researchers, contemplative teachers, psychologists, neuroscientists, psychedelics experts, and authors exploring artificial intelligence or the nature of self; booking difficulty is medium because the show features established specialists and occasional high-profile public intellectuals.

Metrics

Episodes: 115

Frequency: Irregular

Rating: 4.9/5.0

Estimated listeners: 10k-100k

Gender skew: Unknown

Location: USA

YouTube: 14.6k subscribers

Contact Information

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Host

Michael W. Taft - Meditation teacher and author whose work explores secular mindfulness, consciousness, awakening, and contemplative practice.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

medium

Typical Credentials:

Recognized authors, experienced meditation or contemplative teachers, executive coaches, psychologists, neuroscientists, and researchers or practitioners working on consciousness, psychedelics, artificial intelligence, or human experience.

Required Achievements:

Published books or substantial original work, Established teaching, coaching, academic, or research practice, Leadership of a relevant institution, company, or educational program, Recognition for expertise in contemplative practice, psychology, neuroscience, or consciousness studies

Recent Guest Discussions

Michael Pollan - Consciousness, Scientific Materialism, Meditation, Psychedelics, Artificial Intelligence, Ego Dissolution, And The Relationship Between Self And World.

Joe Hudson - Awakening And Liberation, Emotional Practice, Shame, Self-talk, Emotional Reactivity, And Somatic Awareness.

Recent Topics

Consciousness, Meditation, Mindfulness, Buddhism, Neurofeedback

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on

Deconstructing Yourself

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...

The Mystery of Consciousness with Michael Pollan

July 16, 2026

Host Michael Taft talks with bestselling author Michael Pollan about his new book, A World Appears, and the enduring mystery of consciousness. They explore the hidden biases of consciousness researchers, the limits of scientific materialism, the embodied nature of feeling, and what literature, meditation, psychedelics, and the arts can reveal that laboratory science cannot. The conversation turns to artificial intelligence and the unsettling possibility that machines may possess ego-like stru...

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