My Story…

Sometime in the late 1990s, I became interested in meditation and the idea of exploring states of consciousness. I had been practicing martial arts for six or seven years at this point and loved the idea of mastering my internal world through disciplined practice. I explored yoga and qigong and began learning about the subtle energies that are within and around us. I began meditation training with a Zen monk and learned to quiet my scattered mind.

At the same time, my practice as a psychologist had shifted away from talk therapy and psychological assessments to the field of neurofeedback. This involves measuring a person’s brain wave activity to help identify patterns that may be related to their concerns, such as depression, anxiety, or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Once those patterns are identified, the client returns to the office twice a week where we attempt to train the brain toward more adaptive and flexible patterns. When effective, this process very often leads to a significant reduction of symptoms.

While doing this work, it occurred to me that I could use this technology to begin exploring changes in the brain in relation to different complementary and alternative therapies. This was a way that I might be able to explain the unexplainable. Maybe I could prove that things like meditation and directed intention had a real impact, their effects weren’t just placebo or wishful thinking. I looked at what was happening in the brain during various styles of meditation, when using essential oils, after movement practices such as qigong or Brain Gym, and while using technology interventions such as audio-visual entrainment.

At some point, I realized that I could use neurofeedback and other neuromodulation technologies to encourage or coax the brain into specific meditative states. This technology-enhanced meditation process could be used to facilitate the positive impacts of meditation, making it a powerful tool to help with a variety of mental health concerns. In 2016, I founded the NeuroMeditation Institute and began teaching this approach to other practitioners. Our training program has grown quickly and now has centers in the United States, Germany, and Poland. While the NeuroMeditation approach has been primarily focused on using specific meditation strategies to reduce anxiety, depression, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), I also began to study and explore non-ordinary states of consciousness. I wanted to know what happens in the brain during intense breathwork sessions, vibroacoustic meditations, stroboscopic light, or ayahuasca retreats. If I could understand how the brain changes during these healing practices, perhaps I could use this information to help others.  I expanded my training to include psychedelic integration and began combining ketamine assisted therapy with other technology-based modalities to facilitate brain plasticity, psychological flexibility, and mental well-being.

All of these investigations, curiosities, and journeys inevitably led me to an interest in exploring the brains of psychics, mediums, and energy healers. After measuring the brains of dozens of highly gifted individuals over a ten-year span, I am now convinced that energy healing, mediumship, ESP, telepathy, and psychokinesis are real. These abilities are not always consistent, and the results are not always mind-blowing. However, I have seen enough to convince me that we are capable of much more than most of us dare to imagine. In 2023, I founded Psychic Mind Science to expand this research, share insights, and help others unlock their psychic brains. Having discovered several brain regions/brain patterns that are consistently involved in psi abilities, I have begun exploring technology-based interventions to unlock or enhance these abilities.

Jeff Tarrant, PhD, BCN, is a licensed psychologist, board certified neurofeedback specialist, and one of the field's most innovative practitioners at the intersection of brain science and human potential. He is the founder of the NeuroMeditation Institute and Psychic Mind Science, serves as Executive Director of the Expanded States of Consciousness Research Institute (ESCRI), and serves as Chief Neuroscientist for 40 Years of Zen.

Dr. Tarrant's coaching practice is built on a straightforward premise: the brain can be trained. Working one-on-one with clients, he draws on a variety of technology-based interventions, neuromeditation, and targeted lifestyle strategies to cultivate optimal brain performance. For those drawn to the further edges of human potential, this work also extends into intuitive and psychic development — explored through the same neuroscience-grounded lens.

He is the author of Becoming Psychic and Meditation Interventions to Rewire the Brain. Dr. Tarrant played a key scientific role in the Telepathy Tapes podcast — one of the most listened-to podcast series of 2024 — and is featured in both the upcoming Telepathy Tapes documentary and Superhuman 2.