The Middle Way Society

The Middle Way Society
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The Middle Way Society Podcast

  1. 09/16/2025

    Episode 168: Mike Berners-Lee on his book A Climate of Truth

    Our guest today is Mike Berners-Lee. Mike is a UK-basedsustainability expert, professor at Lancaster University, and the founder of Small World Consulting, specializing in carbon accounting, sustainable food systems, and supply chain sustainability. He is the author of several books on environmental issues, including How Bad Are Bananas? and There Is No Planet B, and frequently appears in the media to discuss sustainability challenges. His work helps organizations, governments, and the public understand and respond to the climate and ecological crises of the Anthropocene. His latest book is entitled A climate ofTruth: How we need it and how to get it and this will be the topic of our discussion today. Hosted by Barry Daniel

    32 min
  2. Episode 167: Molly Conisbee on her book 'No Ordinary Deaths'

    08/06/2025

    Episode 167: Molly Conisbee on her book 'No Ordinary Deaths'

    Molly is a social historian and visiting research fellow at the Centre for Death and Society at the University of Bath. She has a PhD from the University of Bristol and has spent the last 10 years researching the social history of death and mourning. She’s also a bereavement counsellor and has had recently published the book ‘No Ordinary Deaths: A People’s History of Mortality and this will be the topic of our discussion today. www.middlewaysociety.org

    1h 12m
  3. Episode 166: Oliver Burkeman on his book Meditations for Mortals

    05/25/2025

    Episode 166: Oliver Burkeman on his book Meditations for Mortals

    Our guest today is  Oliver Burkeman. Oliver is a British journalist and author renowned for his insightful exploration of psychology and philosophy. He wrote the popular Guardian column "This Column Will Change Your Life" and is the bestselling author of "Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals." His latest book, "Meditations forMortals," offers a practical philosophy of imperfectionism, encouraging readers to embrace life's limits and focus on what actually matters. An approach very much in accordance with the Middle Way and this is going to be the topic of our discussion today.

    40 min
  4. Episode 165: Jamie Bristow on a Middle Way approach to the Climate Crisis

    02/13/2025

    Episode 165: Jamie Bristow on a Middle Way approach to the Climate Crisis

    Our guest today is Jamie Bristow, who is a writer and policy expert working at the intersection of inner and outer transformation and sustainability. For eight years, he was Director of the Mindfulness Initiative and clerk to the UK’s All-Party Parliamentary Group on Mindfulness. In 2023, he joined the Inner Development Goals team to lead on public narrative & policy development. He’s here to talk to us today about a Middle Way approach to the climate crisis

    51 min
  5. Episode 164: Chris Rose on the Amos Trust

    02/13/2025

    Episode 164: Chris Rose on the Amos Trust

    Our guest today is Chris Rose. Chris is the Director of Amos Trust, a small creative human rights organisation which has three main areas of work: promoting Palestinian rights, creating opportunities for girls and young women on the streets and calling for climate justice. Chris has travelled extensively to Amos partner projects and led many trips and activities with them, such as home rebuilding, cycling and marathons trips in Palestine. He cofounded the Street Child World Cup in South Africa in 2010 and led Amos’ Just Walk from London to Jerusalem in 2017. Prior to this he was CEO of Romsey Mill a highly innovative youth project in Cambridge. He is an ordained Anglican Minister and he’s here to talk to us today about the Amos project.

    55 min
  6. Episode 163: Rupert Read on the Climate Majority Project

    02/13/2025

    Episode 163: Rupert Read on the Climate Majority Project

    Our guest today is Rupert Read, an Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, UK, former spokesperson for Extinction Rebellion and co-director of the new Climate Majority Project. He’s authored several books, including This Civilisation is Finished, Parents for a Future and Why Climate Breakdown Matters and has been many times on the Today programme, Question Time, Newsnight, Politics Live, Al Jazeera, and more and he’s here to talk to us today about the Climate Majority Project.

    51 min
  7. Episode 162: Member profile, George Glen, the new Chair of the Middle Way Society

    02/12/2025

    Episode 162: Member profile, George Glen, the new Chair of the Middle Way Society

    My guest today is George Glen. George is the new chair of the Middle Way Society, after taking over the role last year from the society’s founder Robert M Ellis. He’s going to talk to us today a little bit about his life and interests, how he became interested in Middle Way philosophy, as well as a range of topics from Yoga and meditation, to art and the joy of play, ways of seeing and value and navigating our lives.

    53 min
  8. Episode 161: Robert M Ellis on the new Middle Way Philosophy Series.

    02/12/2025

    Episode 161: Robert M Ellis on the new Middle Way Philosophy Series.

    Our guest today is Robert M Ellis, who is the chair of the Middle Way Society. For anyone unfamiliar with the society’s aims, it is devoted to developing the theory and practice of the Middle Way beyond the limitations of the Buddhist tradition. From this universal perspective, the Middle Way is understood as a principle of judgement that throws us onto experience by avoiding absolutes, both positive and negative . Robert has a PhD in Philosophy which formed the starting point of his work in developing Middle Way thought as an innovative practical philosophy drawing on various aspects of modern thought. He has produced a series of books on the subject including the Buddha’s Middle Way and the Christian Middle Way and he’s talk to us today about the Middle Way Philosophy series of books that he’s working on.

    56 min
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The Middle Way Society Podcast

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  • Creator
    The Middle Way Society
  • Years Active
    2014 - 2025
  • Episodes
    190
  • Rating
    Clean
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    © The Middle Way Society
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