Dr. Jeffery A. Martin is a founder of the Transformative Technology space, and a social scientist who researches personal transformation and the states of greatest human well-being. He's spent the last decade conducting the largest international study on persistent non-symbolic experience (PNSE), which includes the types of consciousness commonly known as: enlightenment, nonduality, the peace the passeth understanding, transcendental consciousness, unitive experience, and hundreds of others. More recently, he has used this research to make systems available to help people obtain profound psychological benefits in a rapid, secular, reliable, and safe way.
His research began with over 1,000 individuals who claimed to experience PNSE. This resulted in a reliable, cross-cultural and pan-tradition classification system for these types experience. Jeffery's current work involves helping people use what's been learned to make the life-changing transformation into PNSE. His most recent study achieved strong validation, with over 70% of participants reaching ongoing non-symbolic experience in less than 4 months. His interest in Transformative Technology comes from a belief that findings like his can be translated into mass consumer technologies and affect billions of lives worldwide. Since 2008 he has worked to bring together the stakeholders from academia, technology, business, finance, and public policy to create a sustainable technology space that dramatically improves human well-being.
A bestselling author and award-winning educator, Jeffery has authored, co-authored, or co-edited over 20 books and numerous other publications. His work has regularly been featured at leading academic conferences worldwide, as well as major public forums such as Deepak Chopra’s Sages and Scientists Symposiums, Wisdom 2.0, the Science and Nonduality Conference, the Asia Consciousness Festival, and TEDx. He has been covered in media as diverse as Fast Company, the South China Morning Post, and PBS’s Closer to Truth, and been an invited speaker at many leading universities including: Harvard, Yale, Stanford, University of California, University of London, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and the National University of Singapore.
Jeffery’s academic work lies at the intersection of technology, psychology, cognitive science, neuroscience, and transformative studies. His research on non-symbolic consciousness began while he was a graduate student in Transformative Studies at CIIS and Psychology at Harvard. He is the Founding Director of the Center or the Study of Non-Symbolic Consciousness and a Research Professor and was Director of the Transformative Technology Lab at Sofia University. In addition to these, he holds a number of additional appointments across a variety of institutions worldwide, and serves on many advisory boards.
Websites:
drjefferymartin.com
nonsymbolic.org
Paper summarizing Jefferey's work: A Continuum of Persistent Non-Symbolic Experiences in Adults
Books:
The Fourth Awakening
The Gathering Darkness (The Fourth Awakening Series)
The Fourth Awakening:Chronicles (4 Book Series)
The God Formula: A simple scientifically proven blueprint that has transformed millions of lives (The Path of Freedom Series Book 1)
Jeffery Martin in Batgap Panel discussion at Sofia U. Part 1 | Part 2
Transcript of this interview.
Discussion of this interview in the Batgap Community Facebook Group
Interview recorded 1/22/2017.
YouTube Video Chapters:
00:00:00 - Introduction to Buddha at the Gas Pump
00:04:20 - Making a Life Change
00:08:46 - Exploring the Path of Enlightenment
00:13:43 - The Origins of Spiritual Systems and Religious Texts
00:18:37 - The Importance of Matching Techniques and Experiments
00:23:55 - The Relationship Between Science and Spirituality
00:29:15 - Exploring the Path to Nailing It with Technology
00:33:45 - The Origin of Persistent Non-Symbolic Experience
00:38:03 - The Value of Different Questioners
00:42:53 - Enriching Personal Experience Through Integration
00:47:33 - The Practicality of Measuring Spiritual Progress
00:52:14 - The Importance of Spiritual Exploration and Alignment
00:57:15 - Accelerated Progress after 1996
01:01:58 - Changes in the Experience of Meditation
01:07:06 - Searching for Deeper Meaning
01:12:03 - Shifting to the Subjective State and Physiological State
01:17:14 - Progression to Location 4: Gary Webber's Journey
01:22:09 - Redefining God's love in different locations
01:26:18 - Transition into the PNSE Continuum
01:31:08 - The Importance of Psychological Conditioning
01:35:19 - Emotions in Location 4 and Beyond
01:39:50 - Paths Beyond Location 4: Return to Emotion or Emotionless Direction
01:44:27 - The Awakening of the Heart Chakra
01:49:38 - Playing Basketball with World Champions
00:00:00 - The Ability to Zoom In and Zoom Out
01:58:43 - The Decline of Self-Referential Thoughts
02:03:21 - Different Locations and States of Mind
02:07:49 - The Finders Course: A Crowd-funded Experiment in Personal Transformation
02:12:15 - Engineering around the Dark Night Problem
02:16:40 - The Role of the Willow Group in the Finders Course
02:20:49 - Wrapping up with Jeffery
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