Video Talks

Here are an assortment of talks / explorations from over the years, many with immersive sound and graphics.

How to Explore Consciousness

Posted on May 1, 2015 | By Jeff Warren
There are few activities more thrilling than the exploration of consciousness, particularly in the form of intelligent spiritual practice. A talk on some of the terrains of meditation experience and their attendant risks and benefits.

Why Meditate

Posted on April 12, 2013 | By Jeff Warren
Maybe meditation is something you want to pursue, maybe it isn't. In this ten minute clip, I lay out my own reasons for practice, and discuss an experience I had on retreat that brought the whole thing home.

Mansion of The Mind

Posted on May 29, 2009 | By Jeff Warren
An animated tour through waking, sleeping and dreaming consciousness, made by the Discovery channel. Features a fire-breathing dragon, a magical tennis ball, a lot of hand waving and an embarrassing pimp roll.

Journey Into the Mind

Posted on May 30, 2009 | By Jeff Warren
How well do you know your own mind? The Wheel of Consciousness is an audio-visual journey through twelve distinct states of waking, sleeping and dreaming consciousness. The idea is to use moving image and music and narration to provoke each state of consciousness in the audience - that is, if they don’t nod off during the tedious bits.

Into the Whale

Posted on May 30, 2009 | By Jeff Warren
Can we know what it's like to be a non-human animal? Most scientists and philosophers say we cannot. Others disagree. A talk on whales, kinship in nature, and the limits of human empathy and imagination.