Many people – especially busy urban dwellers – feel overwhelmed and undernourished. They struggle alone with their challenges, and are only rarely able to discuss deep matters of belonging and connection and fulfillment. The vision of the Consciousness Explorers Club is to provide a fun and accessible venue where people can discuss these things and also explore perspective-altering spiritual and therapeutic practice. Its members go on adventures of the mind – together and independently – and then share their insights and discoveries…

Most teachers will tell you it’s a good idea to choose one practice and stick with it; I agree. But it can also be fun to mix it up. Different occasions provide different windows of opportunity. Over the years I’ve assembled a toolkit of techniques I draw on all the time. Some are meant for the cushion, others for the street, or the forest, or the bedroom. All of them shift experience in some way …

The Way of the Consciousness Explorer… This January 2012, the Consciousness Explorers Club is getting scholastic. I will roll out a meditation class that will touch on many juicy techniques, most of them cribbed from my primary teacher, Shinzen Young, who has been downloading his diabolical genius into my impressionable noggin for the past 4 years. As he has taught me, I will endeavor to teach you…