I started meditating when I was six, surrounded by big claims about human potential that nobody could prove. I went into physics because I wanted to know what was actually true.
Transcendental Meditation, then Kriya Yoga, practiced seriously for years. It all came wrapped in the New Age and human potential movements of the time, which promised a lot and proved little. So at fifteen I vowed to go into physics and find out. I went all the way in. Now I help people activate what evolution has already built into them.

How the pieces fit
The Seeker
Transcendental Meditation at six, Kriya Yoga on Sunday mornings, a nickname (“Yogi”) by eighth grade. A vow at fifteen.
The Physicist
Engineering physics at Illinois, a Ph.D. at Minnesota, top-quark physics at Fermilab and the muon g−2 storage ring at Brookhaven. And, the whole time, practice.
The Return
A turn toward serving people, a lightning bolt in 2013, and the work I lead today at The New Human University.
The conventional parts of my life weren't detours. Each one taught me something I'd need to see clearly that humans are due for a new stage, and a new category of work to get there.
Evolution, not optimization.
Most of the human-development world asks one question: how do we get more out of the human being who already exists? Better habits. Calmer nerves. Sharper focus. That's optimization, and it has its place.
I'm asking a different question. What dormant innovation has evolution already placed inside us that has yet to emerge?
Evolutionary biologist Andreas Wagner calls these sleeping beauties: capacities that arise long before the conditions that call for them. We hold, with conviction, that one of them lives in the human body. We call it Inner Organic Technology®, and its activation IOTA.
It isn't a better meditation or breathwork technique. It's a new category of work.
Early studies point in a consistent and encouraging direction, and a rigorous research program is underway. As a physicist, that's the part I care about most: make sure the claims never get ahead of the evidence.
Explore, exhaust, rise.
Evolution has a rhythm. Life explores everything a plane allows, until nothing new is left to find there. That point is a fulcrum. The only new move is up, onto a wider plane that holds the one below, and the exploring starts again. A higher plane doesn't replace the one below. It includes it. Alfred North Whitehead called this the creative advance into novelty.
A lot of people are standing at a fulcrum without knowing it. They've tried method after method, and each one helped a little. IOTA is meant to be that step up, not one more method on the same level.
The story
The Void at six, the Roger Jones synchronicity, the ashram, the ring, the lightning bolt.
Read →Recognition
Publications, the 2026 Breakthrough Prize, degrees, certifications and talks.
See →Projects
What I'm building now: Worldview Lens, the IOTA research, Steven OS and a few side projects.
See →Work with me
For institutions building the next stage of human development.
Invite →If you want to know reality, observe and measure. If you want to know the truth, experience it directly.