"What Kotler is seeking is nothing less than the big explanation," wrote the Village Voice some fifteen years ago. Little has changed. Award-winning journalist and bestselling author, Steven Kotler, has spent more than two decades at the cutting-edge of science, religion, philosophy, culture, technology, and environmental affairs. Known for his original, erudite thinking, incredibly engaging storytelling and bad habit of risking life and limb, Kotler takes the quest for the meaning of life to a whole new level.
In the line of duty, he's been thrown from a moving train (while researching hobo culture); piloted a MIG-17 fighter jet (while researching the neuroscience of mystical experience), had himself tossed off a 150 foot tower (researching flow states), climbed mountains (do you need a reason?), climbed into a cage with a mountain lion (animal rights); sailed with pirates (environmental affairs); gone on the lamb with diamond smugglers (again, environmental affairs) and was once attacked by a murderous donkey is a seriously bad mood (don't even ask).
Steven Kotler is also the co-founder of the Rancho de Chihuahua dog sanctuary (the only sanctuary in America with cognitive neuroscience and evolutionary psychology at the heart of its healing methodology and recently featured on Animal Planet); the founder and director of Flow State University: an international trans-disciplinary effort to put flow state research on a hard science footing; and, alongside the LA Lakers and 826 LA, co-founder of The Reporter's Gym: a sports writing camp for inner city school kids.
His books include the forthcoming Abundance (Feb, 2012, and co-authored with Dr. Peter Diamandis), the Pulitzer Prize-nominated A Small, Furry Prayer, the Pen West finalist West of Jesus (called both "a unique window into the neuroscience of belief" and "one of the smartest books ever about the sport and religion of surfing") and the San Francisco Chronicle bestseller and winner of the 2000 William L. Crawford IAFA Fantasy Award: The Angle Quickest for Flight. His award-winning articles have appeared internationally, in over 60 publications, including: New York Times Magazine, LA Times, London Observer, Wired, Discover, Popular Science, Outside, GQ, Details, Playboy and ESPN.
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