Jeff Warren is an award-winning writer, and non-award- winning meditation instructor. He is the author of The Head Trip - a travel guide to sleeping, dreaming and meditation – and has written for The New York Times, The New Scientist, Discover, and The Globe and Mail and others.
In 2011, Jeff founded The Consciousness Explorers Club, a meditation think tank and community hub in downtown Toronto that supports personal growth through carefully curated courses, retreats, events, and guided practices. He writes of the CEC: “We take insights and practices from culture and science and integrate them in playful and experimental ways with insights and practices from the world’s contemplative traditions, in particular Buddhism and mindfulness. We do this as a community, and try to empower everyone in the community to develop their own understanding and service missions – and to share their various neurotic life strategies, so we can laugh uproariously at them, together, in a spirit of dumfounded incredulity.”
[This is part two of a two-part column. Read part one, “Here Come The Animals”, here.] “We are born trapped in our own selfish skins, and we open our eyes to the rings of existence around […][…]
Animal Consciousness and the Expansion of the Human Imagination by Jeff Warren “The imagination is not a source of deception and delusion, but a capacity to sense what you do not know, to intuit what […][…]
In January of this year, an academic named Paul Wapner delivered an interesting lecture at Iowa State University on what he calls “climate suffering.” A professor of environmental politics at American University in Washington and […][…]
[Part 2 - click here to read Part 1] In March of 2012, myself and twenty other “adept” meditators participated in an experiment at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston. The […][…]
I’m not given to making grand predictions, but in this case I can’t resist: the very real spiritual transformation at the heart of mysticism is about to explode into the secular mainstream, and the consequences […][…]
Today when we think about the science of sleep and dreaming we imagine EEG polygraphs and fMRIs of cloudy cranial matter. The brain is the primary object of study. It was not always so. Back […][…]
DREAMS are difficult to get a handle on for most of us. We project through them like blunt-nosed missiles, responding to the unfolding action automatically, never questioning the larger often-impossible context, however many iridescent blimp-sized […][…]
