Eckhart Tolle is a spiritual teacher whose 1997 book “The Power of Now” became a global phenomenon, followed by “A New Earth.” His account of his own origin is unusual: a prolonged period of severe depression culminating one night, at 29, in a sudden dissolution of his sense of self that left him in a…
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Lynne McTaggart is a journalist and author best known for “The Field,” “The Intention Experiment,” and “The Power of Eight.” Her thesis is that consciousness is not confined to the skull, that human intention can influence physical systems and other people at a distance, and that we’re linked through what she describes as a quantum…
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Moran Cerf has one of the more unusual CVs in science: he worked as a hacker for Israeli banks before becoming a neuroscientist, and he now studies decision-making with recordings taken directly from electrodes implanted in the brains of neurosurgical patients. That access lets him watch individual neurons respond to thoughts, images, and choices. His…
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Dr. Alan Goldhamer is a chiropractic physician and the founder of TrueNorth Health Center in Santa Rosa, California, which has supervised more medically monitored water-only fasts than probably anywhere else in the world — tens of thousands of patients over several decades. His protocol is serious medicine, not a wellness trend: extended water-only fasting conducted…
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Ido Portal is an Israeli movement teacher whose “Movement Culture” has quietly influenced how a lot of athletes think about training. His background is unusually broad — capoeira, Brazilian jiu-jitsu, gymnastics, breakdancing, handbalancing, contemporary dance — and his objection is to specialization itself. His argument is that modern training has fragmented the body into isolated…
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Tim Ferriss has written several of the most influential books in modern productivity — “The 4-Hour Workweek,” “The 4-Hour Body,” “Tools of Titans” — and his podcast, with hundreds of long-form interviews, has become a kind of oral archive of how high performers actually operate. His real skill is meta-learning: taking a domain, stripping it…
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Shawn Stevenson is the author of “Sleep Smarter” and host of The Model Health Show, one of the longest-running and most popular health podcasts. His own entry point was personal: diagnosed in his early twenties with a degenerative disc condition and told it was permanent, he rebuilt his health through nutrition, sleep, and movement. Sleep…
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Richard Dawkins is an evolutionary biologist and, with “The Selfish Gene” in 1976, the author of one of the most consequential science books of the twentieth century. Its core move is a shift of perspective: evolution makes far more sense when you treat the gene, rather than the organism or the species, as the unit…
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Dr. Robert Lustig is a paediatric endocrinologist at UCSF who spent years treating childhood obesity and concluded the standard explanation wasn’t adding up. His 2009 lecture “Sugar: The Bitter Truth” went viral with millions of views and essentially launched the modern public argument about sugar. His case centres on fructose. Unlike glucose, which almost every…
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Dr. Pradip Jamnadas is a Florida-based interventional cardiologist who has built a large following through unusually detailed public lectures on metabolic health, fasting, and cardiovascular risk. He has decades of clinical practice behind him, and his talks are aimed at patients rather than colleagues — long, careful explanations of mechanism rather than soundbites. His recurring…
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