Martin - The Finders

Praise for The Finders

If a Nobel Prize existed for Psychology, the work done by Jeffery Martin and his team and described in this book would be a strong contender. The book is about people who have managed to fulfill one of the most sought after but rarely achieved human needstrue happiness, a deep and fundamental sense of wellbeing.

~ Dr. Peter Fenwick, internationally renowned neuropsychiatrist

and Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists

Dr. Jeffery Martins work on non-symbolic states of awareness has helped create the most lucid map for understanding higher states of consciousness. I have personally gained a deeper understanding of the universality of human sacred experience from his research and have been able to replicate and publish it. For anyone who is interested in getting scientific knowledge of the range and evolution of human experience in the direction of expanded awareness and ultimately that which wisdom traditions call enlightenment Jefferys book and research are must reads.

~ Deepak Chopra, MD, FACP, founder of The Chopra Foundation

and co-founder of The Chopra Center for Wellbeing,

author of over 85 books including dozens of best sellers

In this book Dr. Martin takes his place beside William James and Abraham Maslow to give us one of the most important and ground-breaking works on consciousness and human potential in recent memory.

~ Allan Leslie Combs, Ph.D., CIIS Professor of Consciousness Studies, author of The Radiance of Being and Consciousness Explained Better

In The Finders , Dr. Martin has made a real contribution. First hes defined a whole new class of folks experiences: the enlightened, the illuminati , the deeply fulfilled, which is oft discussed and little understood. So, a careful and traditional transcending study of it is long overdue. While weve heard of these folks, by looking carefully at their experiences, hes been able to categorize their experiences, with clear, albeit complex and flexible, categories. To do so his interviews were thorough and have led to intelligible analyzes. This is a decade-long project and well worth his time and our study. An important book!

~ Robert K.C. Forman, Ph.D., D.Hon., founding editor of the Journal of Consciousness Studies , author of Enlightenment Aint What Its Cracked Up To Be

Dr. Jeffery Martin and his colleagues have produced a landmark study, one not only relevant to transpersonal psychology but to psychology in general. Maslow wrote of self-actualized persons. Dr. Martin goes a step further, describing the phenomenology of Maslows highest level, namely the self-transcendent or enlightened. This book contains a schema by which its readers can more deeply appreciate the development of these men and women. It is not often that rigorous research can be inspirational, but Dr. Martin has come through. Indeed, readers on a spiritual path are now able to chart their own development on a continuum of experiences, one that many writers once pathologized.

~ Stanley Krippner, PhD, Professor of Psychology at Saybrook University; past-President of two and Fellow in five divisions of the American Psychological Association, and winner of its lifetime achievement award for Distinguished Contributions to the International Advancement of Psychology; 50+ year veteran researcher and pioneer in the scientific study of consciousness

One would never enter a wilderness without a map and compass or a competent guide; Dr. Jeffery A. Martin is all those things for explorers of the psycho-spiritual domain. The Finders is simply one of the best descriptions of the process of personal growth and maturation to appear in recent years. The importance of this book extends beyond the individual, personal dimension, for it is likely that our survival as a species will depend on the degree to which we take the implications of The Finders to heart.

~ Larry Dossey, MD, founding editor of

EXPLORE: The Journal of Science & Healing , author of

ONE MIND: How Our Individual Mind Is Part

of a Greater Consciousness and Why It Matters

Ive devoted most of the last 50 years of my life to practicing and teaching meditation, and for the last decade, interviewing people who report having experienced a higher state of consciousness, or a Persistent Non-Symbolic Experience as Jeffery likes to call them....I now feel that the worlds problems are symptomatic of humanitys general failure to tap the unlimited source of energy and intelligence that lies within....Genuine spiritual development is an experiential exploration of the root of our existence. If a significant percentage of humanity were to undergo such development, our world would be transformed. This appears to be happening. Interest in spirituality and profound spiritual breakthroughs are epidemic.

But who is to determine what is genuine? Science endeavors to do so regarding everything external instruments can measure but has generally dismissed the experiences of mystics as fancies unworthy of their attention.

Can subjective states be scrutinized empirically? Are people experiencing these states more fully aligning with natures intelligence? If so, could sufficient numbers of them transform our culture and our technologies and reverse the destructive trends that threaten us all?

Jeffery Martin has made and continues to make a significant contribution to answering these questions, and in the process, enabling others to answer them for themselves. He is bridging the unnecessary and unproductive gulf between science and spirituality and devising practical applications for his research as it unfolds. I think his work is among the most significant taking place on the planet today.

~ Rick Archer, Co-Producer and Host, Buddha at the Gas Pump podcast, which has interviewed hundreds of Finders (https://batgap.com)

The Finders is a fascinating description of the ways in which people can find their greatest sense of well-being. The research is fundamental to understanding how experiences of fundamental wellbeing occur and provides new insights that will propel ongoing investigations. Essential for anyone striving for this type of well-being.

~ Andrew Newberg, M.D., Professor and Director of Research for the Marcus Institute of Integrative Health at Thomas Jefferson University, author of How Enlightenment Changes Your Brain

Dr. Jeffery A. Martin has written a highly readable, enlightening account of his groundbreaking research into the Fundamental Wellbeing. His Finders Course is among the most universally accessible methods for introducing one to nonduality to emerge in years. It can help one with the initial and perhaps the most difficult step in realizing nonduality, that of experiencing oneself free of the incessant subconscious gossip of ones narrative self. His work contributes to the ongoing transformation of human society from the fear driven egoism, nationalism and prejudice, into the global culture of compassion, wisdom and happiness.

~ Zoran Josipovic, PhD, leading neuroscience of consciousness researcher, adjunct Assistant Professor for Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience at New York University

Dr. Jeffery Martins work on Persistent Non-Symbolic Experience is among the most promising recent developments in contemporary consciousness research and I am thrilled that it is beginning to see the light of day. Both coherent with age-old wisdom yet also stretching prevailing boundaries and assumptions about the manifestation of these developmental stages, Fundamental Wellbeing needs to be an essential component in any 21 st century consciousness studies curricular or research program. I look forward to incorporating it in my own work.

~ Ed Sarath, Professor of Music and Director of the Program in Creativity and Consciousness Studies, at the University of Michigan; author of Improvisation, Creativity and Consciousness , and Black Music Matters