Adam talks to Dr Mikel Burley on this episode about samkhya yoga.

Dr Mikel Burley is an Associate Professor of Religion and Philosophy, religious ethics; comparative and cross-cultural philosophy and religion; South Asian religious and philosophical traditions (esp. Hindu and Buddhist).

Research Interests

• Philosophy of religion
• Religious ethics
• Comparative and cross-cultural philosophy and religion
• South Asian religious and philosophical traditions (esp. Hindu and Buddhist)
• Philosophical and interdisciplinary research methods
• Death, illness and emotion
• Conceptions of immortality and eternal life
• Rebirth and reincarnation
• Wittgenstein and Wittgensteinian approaches

He is the author of the following books:

• A Radical Pluralist Philosophy of Religion: Cross-Cultural, Multireligious, Interdisciplinary (London: Bloomsbury, 2020).
• Rebirth and the Stream of Life: A Philosophical Study of Reincarnation, Karma and Ethics (New York: Bloomsbury, 2016).
• Contemplating Religious Forms of Life: Wittgenstein and D. Z. Phillips (New York: Continuum, 2012).
• Classical Samkhya and Yoga: An Indian Metaphysics of Experience (London: Routledge, hbk 2007; pbk 2012).
• Hatha-Yoga: Its Context, Theory and Practice (Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 2000). German edition: Hatha Yoga: Einheit von Krper, Geist und Seele, trans. Elisabeth Liebl (Munich: Random House, 2005). Romanian edition: Hatha-Yoga. Context, teorie, practica, trans. Walter Fotescu (Bucharest: Herald, 2015).