About
I’m Themos. For most of my life, I kept one side of myself almost completely private. By day, I built a career in business. In the quiet hours, I was exploring consciousness and trying to understand experiences I couldn’t explain.
As a boy in Greece, I remember floating near the ceiling of my room, looking down at my bed. Other strange things happened too. I was an ordinary kid: average at school, a few close friends, regular toys. I just had experiences I didn’t have words for, so I kept them to myself.
When I was 24, my father died. A few days after the funeral, lying in bed, I felt a presence beside me. It took my hand and said, in Greek: “In the end, we all return to our true self.” I had grown up with no religion and no spiritual vocabulary at all. The words stayed with me like a puzzle I couldn’t put down.
A few years later, on a consulting assignment that had me flying to Portland every week, I was browsing the spirituality shelves at Powell’s Books. I opened a book on Zen and found that exact sentence. That was the beginning of everything that followed.
By day, I was a tech executive. Early in the morning, before anyone was awake, I was someone else. I studied A Course in Miracles with cryptic sticky notes around my office monitor. I trained one-on-one in Controlled Remote Viewing, in the method Ingo Swann originated, and eventually worked paid targets on a professional team. Almost no one knew.
I started meditating and experimenting with binaural beats in the late 90s. Then came Kriya yoga, self-inquiry in the tradition of Ramana Maharshi, and a year and a half of A Course in Miracles. In 2004, I did my first Gateway program at the Monroe Institute, the first of twelve residential programs there.
I attended silent retreats in the Dzogchen tradition with Lama Surya Das, and wrote my doctoral dissertation on nonduality. Somewhere along the way, the quiet mind I had been searching for became my ordinary state.
I’m not afraid to talk about this anymore. So for the next year, I’m turning myself into Patient Zero: testing the practices and experiences that shaped my life, measuring what I can, and telling you honestly what happens.
Today I coach CEOs and lead the Monroe Institute’s official community group for Miami.
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