Australian teacher of direct experience, Sailor Bob Adamson, talks with Dr. JP about true nature of our being-in-the-world. True nature is presence awareness, and there is nothing wrong with that – until we start thinking about it.

Harvard professor Dr. Jay Garfield suggests that you don’t have a self—and that’s a good thing. A leading expert on Buddhist philosophy, Dr. Garfield talks with Dr. JP about how it is perfectly natural to think you have a self — and why it actually makes no sense at all and is even dangerous.

Zen priest and author Keith Martin-Smith talks with JP about his new book “When the Buddha Needs Therapy”. It explores the idea that it is possible to be liberated from the suffering of this world, but that the path is a paradoxical one of embracing your ego even as you let it go.

James Braha invited arguably the greatest non-duality teacher alive “Sailor” Bob Adamson to his house in the summer of 2004. In this entertaining episode James remembers how was it like to have an awake being hanging around his house for five weeks.

My attempt to condense Ken Wilber‘s Integral theory in 20 minutes. Presented at the North American Integral Conference (ICON) aka Future Human in Denver, Colorado, May 2024.

Dr. JP presents his chart, explaining the phenomenology of psychological suffering and emancipation.

Presented for San Diego Integral, USA. The central idea – a multi-storey building as an analogy for Integral Theory – is explained in less than 15 minutes from 1:20:40 to 1:32:30.

Stages of consciousness development is a basic tenet in psychology. It is, however, often left out of the equation when discussing topics like polarization, understanding each other and political debate.

JP Jakonen at a CM Communicators Toastmasters meeting June 15, 2022. Topic of the speech is “Theory of Everything in Three Easy Steps”  .

For some reason my most popular video is about my 1989 Jeep Cherokee. As a philosopher, I can only say: “Go figure”.

I play in a rock band called Cliff Barnes. We toured the USA in 2024. This video is by the collage artist Aaron Dunkel.

Here’s our latest music video by 100Frames, including footage from our ’24 Free Flyin’ US Tour. The song is called Almost Had It and it is from our album Free Flyin’.