​We have the unique opportunity to welcome Oxford PhD neuroscientist, meditator, and consciousness researcher, James Cooke, visiting from his current residence in Portugal, just weeks after the launch of his new book, 📕 The Dawn of Mind: How Matter Became Conscious and Alive.

​Come get your book signed and join us as we explore the profound mystery of why and how consciousness exists.

​1. Join our Meetup Group

​2. Get your copy:

​Hardcover or audiobook on Amazon.

​Audiobook is available Christmas Eve, including on Spotify Premium.

​Structure:

​👉 Arrival + Meet & Greet: 3-3:30p

​📚 Book Club: 3:30-5:30p

​What’s it about?

​Cooke integrates the latest scientific advancements with meditative insights into our non-separation from the rest of existence, and argues that science and spiritually must be synthesized to understand our place in the cosmos.

​From a transformational personal experience to rigorous scientific analysis, he argues our experiences of self, separation, and substance are all illusions and consciousness is a universal feature of all life - as lifeforms, the universe wakes up through us.

​As a result, Al will never be conscious, though artificial life would be.

​This innovative perspective questions humanity's assumed dominance over nature and highlights the crucial need to bridge the divide between ourselves and the natural environment amid escalating ecological crises.

​The Dawn of Mind is both a pioneering theoretical framework and a practical guide to understand our interconnected existence.

​We’re excited to discuss live with the author, and you!