March 4, 2025

Both/And Podcast | Right Now, It’s Like This

A short phrase that brings relief.

February 24, 2025

Meditation: Reliving Altered States

This practice is about re-experiencing a past "altered state" experience: a psychedelic experience, a meditation experience, or any moment of consciousness.

February 17, 2025

Should You Be Taking Psychedelics? The Benefits, the Risks, and the Science | 10% Happier

Jay Michaelson and Dan Harris discuss the growing interest in psychedelics for mental health and spiritual growth.

January 27, 2025

Liminal News | Jewish Psychedelic Buddhist Tells All

Dr. Michaelson talks with Daniel Pinchbeck of Liminal News about weird religion, the coming pivot in psychedelics, and whether we are messing with things we truly do not understand.

September 17, 2024

Both/And Podcast | Why Nothing Really Matters (with Eden Pearlstein)

Jay talks with musician and poet Eden Pearlstein about how Nothing can be more than nihilistic meh, but also a generative absence, and maybe God.

May 13, 2024

Secular Dharma Podcast | Interview with Jay Michaelson

Speaking with Dave Smith of the Secular Dharma Foundation, Jay discusses his evolving relationship with meditation practice.

March 1, 2024

Mind Bod Pod w/Jeff Warren | How to Relate to The News

Jay joins Tasha Schumann and Jeff Warren to discuss whether there are practices that can support a more healthy relationship to that news.

Jay joins Tasha Schumann and Jeff Warren to discuss practices that can support a more healthy relationship to political engagement and the challenging news of our times.

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February 5, 2024

The Book I Want to Write Podcast: Mystic vs. Mainstream with Jay Michaelson

Jay joins Paul Zakrzewski to discuss how writers pick between esoteric and mainstream topics when choosing between book projects, and what current events—including the rise of authoritarianism around the world and the Oct 7th Hamas attacks— suggest about religion and politics today.

January 25, 2024

Evolve Podcast: “The Secret That is Not a Secret” with bestselling author Jay Michaelson

Jay joins Bryan Schwartzman, Rabbi Jacob Staub, and Sam Wachs to discuss The Secret That is Not a Secret, to delve into Jay's recent op-eds on Israel, and to reflect on how he's taken care of himself during one of the most emotionally trying times of his life.

January 12, 2024

Meditations & Musings Podcast: Roles to Souls with Jay Michaelson

Jay joins Shelley Durga Karpaty to discuss growing up Jewish, studying mystical Kabbalah, and becoming Buddhist-informed, first from books on the nightstand and then in real life.

December 16, 2023

Queerly Beloved Podcast: Getting in the Mikveh with Jay Michaelson

In this interview with Wil Fisher, Jay discusses many topics including Jewish Mysticism, Burning Man, radical faeries gathering, and how our full expression as sexual beings enriches our full expression as spiritual beings.

December 13, 2023

For the Sake of Argument: Mysticism, Spirituality, and Toxic Masculinity

Jay joins Jake Newman to discuss his new book "The Secret That Is Not A Secret"

December 6, 2023

A Virtual Book Launch: The Secret That Is Not A Secret

Jericho Vincent joins Jay to launch his first book of fiction, "The Secret That Is Not A Secret."

November 30, 2023

CSM Podcast: The Relative and The Absolute

Focusing on the relative and absolute, Jay and David Nichtern discuss mindfulness, mysticism, and the sweet spot between contemplative practice and engaged activism.

October 23, 2023

College Commons: Jewish Mysticism Upside Down & Inside Out

Jay discusses the scandalous spiritualism of Jacob Frank and his recent book The Heresy of Jacob Frank.

October 21, 2023

The State of Belief Podcast: Religious Leaders on the Violence in the Middle East

Jay joins Rev. Paul Brandeis Raushenbush, along with Dr. Celene Ibrahim and Rev. Fred Davie, to discuss the brutal violence in Israel and Gaza.

October 4, 2023

Tricycle: Seeing Clearly In Order to Act Clearly

Jay discusses Ajahn Sucitto's concept of atammayata, which advocates for a clear-sighted allowance that enables one to see and act with clarity.

 

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April 27, 2023

Harvard Divinity School | Are Psychedelics Theologically Significant for Judaism?

This panel, hosted by the Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard Divinity School, reflects on the surge of interest in psychedelic substances and on non-ordinary experiences in Jewish life and theology.

December 10, 2022

Rabbis Dan Ehrenkrantz and Jay Michaelson: Nonduality and “Advanced” Spirituality

November 19, 2022

One Fierce Heart Podcast: The Power of Meditation

Jay discusses meditation, religion, and how they can go awry on the One Fierce Heart podcast.

October 3, 2022

Shift Summit: The Paradoxes of Ethical Mysticism

Deep mystical practice often engenders powerful peak experiences.  Yet ethical commitments to meaningfully reduce suffering — for oneself and especially for others — requires a holding lightly of these experiences, intuitions, and insights.  Drawing on Biblical, Kabbalistic, Dharmic, and contemporary entheogenic sources, this session explores the dance between these poles as part of the contemporary mystic quest.

August 22, 2022

Judaism Unbound Podcast: More Religious Heresy

Jay joins Dan Libenson and Lex Rofeberg to discuss his most recent book, The Heresy of Jacob Frank, introducing the wild world that was Jacob Frank's life and connecting Frank's 18th-century ideas to the present-day.

June 16, 2022

Take It On Podcast: Mastering Mindfulness with Meditation

Jay joins Reid Milkens and Jonah Jacobs to explore the challenges facing Gen Z and provide practical steps to develop healthier relationships with our emotions.

October 1, 2021

New York Insight Meditation Center: Consolations of the Triple Gem

In a talk at the New York Insight Meditation Center in October 2021, Jay explores the ways in which the Buddha Dharma offers more than meditative skills, and provides consolation in challenging times.

August 13, 2021

Contact Chai Podcast: The High Holidays

Rabbi Lizzi is joined by Jay Michaelson, a writer who works at the intersection of politics and spirituality, to discuss the power, potential and pitfalls in mining our shared tradition's liturgy, practices and themes.

June 8, 2021

The One You Feed Podcast: Enlightenment by Trial and Error with Jay Michaelson

In this episode, Eric and Jay discuss his book, Enlightenment by Trial and Error, how Jay's LGBT activist work and meditation work enrich each other, and the commonality between Buddhist and Jewish spiritual practices.

March 3, 2021

Hinenu: Embodied Judaism Embodied Judaism Launch with Rabbi Dr Jay Michaelson on “God in Your Body”

Jay discusses his book "God in Your Body" for the Hinenu: Embodied Judaism Program at https://www.alephcanada.ca

February 25, 2021

Seekers of Union: Mysticism vs Meditation?

In this convo, we explore ‘mysticism today,’ the insights of mysticism within a context of healthy modern skepticism and contemporary life.

December 4, 2020

10% Happier Podcast: What Is Happiness?

What is happiness? Investigate how happiness is created, what it’s really like, and learn to access the simple happiness of right now.

July 14, 2020

WeCroak: Enlightenment by Trial and Error

Jay Michaelson joins Hansa Bergwall on the WeCroak Podcast to discuss his book "Enlightenment by Trial and Error" and the search for a meaningful life in a world that doesn’t always make it easy.