Evening Lecture

James Austin: Zen Brain Reflections

Mechanism, Experience and Transformations

3 March 2010 19:00 - 3 March 2010 21:00

Venue: Colet House, 151 Talgarth Road, London W14

Jim Austin an American Academic neurologist foundhimself in Kyoto Japan over twenty years ago. Quickly realising that Zen produced personal transformation he set out to study the brain mechanisms which underpinnedthese changes. He worked with a teacher in Japan, spending time in the Zendo and achieved his own Kensho experience. He has written three highly acclaimed books, the first two giving the physiological brain mechanisms of the Zen experience and the third moves rapidly from this neurological ground into the meaning, poetry and experience of Zen. Nobody else has such a profound understanding of the neurology through the personal transformation to the wider philosophical experiences of Zen.The evening is a rare chance to hear Jim Austin.