<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><h1 class="gmail-m_-5727104397679349401page-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; font-size: 32px; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif; font-weight: 500; line-height: 38.4px; color: rgb(90, 90, 90); padding: 0px 0px 20px; font-variant-ligatures: normal;">RONALD PURSER IN CONVERSATION WITH DAVID VAN NUYS</h1><div class="gmail-m_-5727104397679349401tabs" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(90, 90, 90); font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: normal;"></div><div class="gmail-m_-5727104397679349401region gmail-m_-5727104397679349401region-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; 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float: left;"><div class="gmail-m_-5727104397679349401field-item gmail-m_-5727104397679349401even" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="gmail-m_-5727104397679349401date-display-single" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Friday, August 23, 2019 - 7:00pm</span></div></div></div><div class="gmail-m_-5727104397679349401clearfix gmail-m_-5727104397679349401field gmail-m_-5727104397679349401field-type-text gmail-m_-5727104397679349401field-label-inline gmail-m_-5727104397679349401field-name-field-event-book" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic;"><div class="gmail-m_-5727104397679349401field-label" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold; float: left;">Featured Book: </div><div class="gmail-m_-5727104397679349401field-items" style="box-sizing: border-box; float: left;"><div class="gmail-m_-5727104397679349401field-item gmail-m_-5727104397679349401even" style="box-sizing: border-box;">McMindfulness</div></div></div><div class="gmail-m_-5727104397679349401field-type-text-with-summary gmail-m_-5727104397679349401field gmail-m_-5727104397679349401field-name-body gmail-m_-5727104397679349401field-label-hidden" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="gmail-m_-5727104397679349401field-items" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="gmail-m_-5727104397679349401field-item gmail-m_-5727104397679349401even" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0pt 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.38;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">SEBASTOPOL</span>-</div><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In </span><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">McMindfulness</span><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, Ronald Purser debunks the so-called "mindfulness revolution," exposing how corporations, schools, governments and the military have co-opted it as a technique for social control and self-pacification. A lively and razor-sharp critique, Purser busts the myths its salesmen rely on, challenging the narrative that stress is self-imposed and mindfulness is the cure-all. </span></p><p class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;"><br class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">AUTHOR: </span><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ronald Purser is a Professor of Management at San Francisco State University. His essays and cultural criticism have appeared in the Huffington Post, Salon, Alternet and Tricycle magazine. Dr. Purser began his Buddhist training beginning in 1981 at the Tibetan Nyingma Institute in Berkeley, California and is an ordained Buddhist teacher in the Korean Zen Taego order. He is co-host of Mindful Cranks podcast and is a regular speaker and guests on radio shows and podcasts. 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