Author: James Rowe

It was excellent to join Jeff Corntassel and Peter Andree on the Ecopolitics Podcast to discuss how mind-body practices like ceremony and meditation can support both personal and political transformation.

I was honoured to join Scott Stoneman’s excellent podcast Pretty Heady Stuff to discuss Radical Mindfulness: Why Transforming Fear of Death is Politically Vital. I somehow blanked that there would be video of the podcast and so you can watch me look everywhere except the little green light 🙂

Before encountering and practicing Buddhist cosmology I lacked cultural resources for making friends with this wild world I was born into and would one day feed in decomposition. Like many in the same predicament, listening to music and attending live shows became a form of ceremony for metabolizing my existential fears and affirming this exuberant…

I’m teaching a class on Radical Mindfulness with Morbid Anatomy this summer. There is a course fee, but participants receive an e-book. Let’s keep metabolizing existential fear in the service of mutual care and justice! https://www.morbidanatomy.org/classes/radical-mindfulness-james-rowe

I was happy to join Ronnie Lipschutz on his radio show Sustainability Now! to discuss how existential fear shapes patterns of human supremacy. The picture they chose was from 20 years ago. I’m not ageing. I shall not die 🙂

I was happy and honoured to join the Mindfulness Network for People of Colour’s book club to discuss Radical Mindfulness

With the expert help of Trevor Bennett from Kingtide Films I made a trailer for my forthcoming book. In the midst of multiple crises — including the climate change that is powering fiery destruction and darkened skies across western Canada — I think it is worthwhile to return to a discussion of root causes. In…

I’m excited to have participated in the Sony Music podcast “Seeking.” The first season is on psychedelics and the second explores the modern-day quest for immortality. I was brought in to rep death 🙂 More particularly, to talk about my new book Radical Mindfulness and the role of death denial in shaping relations of supremacy….