I grew up inside spiritual practice. I went into physics because I wanted to know what was actually true.
I started meditating at six. Years of Kriya Yoga and spiritual teachings raised questions nobody could prove, 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.
Three acts. One question.
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.
That's a new category. Not a better meditation. Not a deeper breathwork. A different question, with a different answer.
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: keep the vision bold and the evidence honest.
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, from a life-impact index to a family history built by voice.
See →Work with me
For institutions building the next stage of human development.
Invite →If you want to know what's really in the room, measure the one thing that is touched by everything in it.