Ronald E. Purser

Ronald E. Purser, Ph.D., is the Lam Larsen Distinguished Research Professor of Management at San Francisco State University and the internationally recognized author of McMindfulness: How Mindfulness Became the New Capitalist Spirituality, a book that sparked a global debate on the commodification of mindfulness meditation. His work has been featured in over a hundred major media outlets, including such TV shows On Contact with Chris Hedges, Redacted Tonight with Lee Camp, as well as radio interviews on the BBC, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Radio New Zealand and local public stations.

A long-time student of the Tibetan lama Tarthang Tulku’s visionary book “Time, Space, and Knowledge” (TSK), Purser has been studying and practicing the teachings from this seminal book for over forty years. Today he is an instructor at Dharma College in Berkeley, California, where he leads courses and seminars on Mind Space and TSK for contemporary audiences. He lives in Pacifica, California.