Sam Hopper is a strange combination of a material scientist and an obsessive compulsion to practice meditation and study ancient spiritual texts. After 50 years of this strange homegrown enlightenment brew, he has formed his very own opinions about both of these things, and he does not hesitate to share those opinions. His tremendous respect for science has of late become tarnished as he has watched the integrity of science be compromised by its relentless pursuit of return on investments and its complete inability to characterize our own experience of consciousness.
