For a decade I’ve been conducting psychological, cognitive science, and neuroscience-based research on individuals who claim to experience PNSE.

I passed through as many cultures as I could find it represented in, and every religion and spiritual system I could locate that claimed to have something to do with it. Originally this involved a research sample of over 1,000 people, but later phases of the research brought me into contact with thousands more.

What I learned allowed me to categorize the experience both across traditions and when no traditions were involved. By the end of 2010, I wasn’t hearing much that was new and it was clear that we had a very complete picture of what was going on psychologically within these individuals.

Up to this point, we had only been able to study it in individuals who had already made the transition to these extraordinary states of wellbeing. There was no way of predicting when it would happen to someone to collect both “pre” and “post” data. We increased our collaborations with other scientists who specialized in fMRI research to explore the neuroscience more deeply, in hopes of finding a way to induce it with either neurofeedback or stimulation.

Unfortunately, the areas that were changing in the brain proved too deep for the types of technology that could be easily used on large numbers of people. We returned to our original dataset, which included information on what people believed had helped them to reach PNSE. We’d previously paid little attention to this data out of hopes for a simple and reliable technological solution.

When we examined it, we found that only a handful of methods were actually mentioned. This was a surprise given the thousands of meditative, prayer, and other methods that are out there. For a year or so we experimented with these methods to see what they would produce.

We eventually found a quite effective order for them, and some other psychological and cognitive exercises that seemed to support and enhance their effectiveness even more. The resulting protocol transitioned individuals, including myself, who tried it.

So, we decided to try a pilot public experiment at the beginning of 2014. The initial experiment consisted of 6 individuals. Five of them completed the experiment and all 5 of them transitioned to ongoing non-symbolic experience either during the program or within a few weeks of the end of it.

Needless to say, this result stunned us. In addition to ONE, these individuals had also filled out a wide range of psychological assessments before, during, and after the training. Their improvements in wellbeing, emotional regulation, stress reduction, and much more was remarkable. For the first time we were able to analyze data relating to these states of consciousness, and how they actually affect people “pre” and “post”.

We ran three more experimental classes, with similar results. About 70% of individuals transitioned to an ongoing experience of non-symbolic consciousness, with all of the remarkable benefits that entails.

The results on the academic measures continued to be truly incredible, supporting the changes we’d seen. Even better, only a tiny percentage of those who used the protocol seems to have no effects from it. The rest experienced temporary periods of non-symbolic experience and also typically had sizable increases in their wellbeing and other measures.

When we allowed people to repeat the course, we learned that there were potential benefits that ranged from progressing further and more deeply into ongoing non-symbolic experience, to entering it if they were among those who only experienced it temporarily during their first course.

When we allowed people who had experienced PNSE for a long time to take the course, often they had profound deepening and transformation as well.

After the fourth experiment, the results were undeniable and we opened up the class for the public to take. Most of the original videos from the pilot course and research phase continue to be used, because we didn’t want to mess with what was working so well.

This program literally allows you to take the program that may be the most effective way to reach ongoing forms of non-symbolic experience yet uncovered.

As the Finders Course began to successfully transition people to ongoing forms of non-symbolic experience, it became clear that there just weren’t enough materials, mentors, or role models to help people optimally settle in to it.

Significant impacts can happen around motivation, relationships, and more. It can be challenging just to learn how to talk about the experience, and it often seems unbelievably good to others.

For example, the sense of completeness that accompanies Fundamental Wellbeing often produces a shift in goals. The average person feels a sense of fundamental dis-contentedness, and their goals are directed at fixing that. They hope that by attaining this, or that, they can finally fill a key hole in their life.

The sense of wholeness and completeness that accompanies Fundamental Wellbeing allows you to see through these misguided goals. When this happens you can find yourself at odds with large portions of the life you are living. Your goals are simply no longer relevant because you now so clearly see that the trajectory you were on would have never produced what you hoped it would.

Questions, and even doubts, can often arise about how to integrate the old and new. There can be concerns about where it will lead you, and how to find the optimum path moving forward.

The good news is that these types of things have happened to millions of other people for thousands of years. My decade of research allowed me to collect a lot of best practices from thousands of people who have been though a seemingly endless number of situations.

The success of the Finders Course allowed my research to track these changes at an even more granular level, and to watch things as they unfolded for people right after their transition to ongoing non-symbolic experience – virtually in real time.

I’ve combined all of this into powerful first-of-their-kind programs to help you optimize your life moving forward in ways that no one else can.