Ronald Purser is the Lam-Larsen Distinguished Research Professor (2021-2023) in the Lam Family College of Business at San Francisco State University. His viral article, "Beyond McMindfulness", opened the floodgates for the mindfulness backlash.

His recent book, McMindfulness: How Mindfulness Became the New Capitalist Spirituality, has garnered over 100 media radio, TV, podcast interviews, as well as newspaper and magazine articles. He has been a guest on such TV shows On Contact with Chris Hedges, with Redacted Tonight with Lee Camp, The Zero Hour with RK Eskow, the Institute of Art and Ideas (IAI) TV, as well as radio interviews by the BBC, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Radio New Zealand, the Progressive Radio Network (Gary Null show), KQED, KPFA, KCBS, KPOO. He has been a sought out guests on many podcasts, including the Intelligence Squared, Chauncey DeVega Show, The Wright Show, Upstream, The ZdoggMD, and many more. His work has been featured in such outlets as The New York Times, the Financial Times, the London Evening Standard, London Metro, The Irish Times, The Nation, Fast Company, VICE, HACK, the Saturday Evening Post, Telegraph, The New Statesman, Truthout.org, the Sydney Morning Herald, San Francisco Chronicle, LA Review of Books, El Mundo, the New Indian Express.

Alongside his public writing, Purser is the author or editor of numerous academic volumes, including The Handbook of the Ethical Foundations of Mindfulness, Handbook of Mindfulness: Culture, Context and Social Engagement, 24/7: Time and Temporality in the Network Society, Social Creativity (Vols. 1 & 2), The Self Managing Organization, and The Search Conference.

Purser first encountered Tarthang Tulku’s the groundbreaking vision “Time, Space, and Knowledge” (TSK) in 1979, and began studying this seminal book in 1982 at the Nyingma Institute in Berkeley. Since then, he has integrated TSK’s experiential insights into his scholarship and teaching. Today he is an instructor at Dharma College in Berkeley, California, where he leads courses and seminars on TSK for contemporary audiences. He lives in Pacifica, California.