About the Author

A life-long interest in the relationships that each person develops between self-awareness, knowledge and a sensed place-in/interaction-with the environment, has provided Nicholas Walter Warren with an integrating theme to his personal and professional work in treating experiential epistemology as a ground connecting art, science and the spiritual states of mind. He holds a BA in Physics (1964) from the University of California, Berkeley, and an MA in Astronomy (1966) and a PhD in Geophysics (1971), both from Columbia University. From 1971 to 1983, Dr. Warren conducted research in rock physics and managed the rock-physics research laboratory at the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, UCLA. At Columbia University’s Lamont Laboratory, he was involved in investigating the properties of lunar rocks for the NASA Apollo program. In 1980, Warren was Physical Properties Scientist on Leg 54 of the Deep Sea Geothermal Drilling Project of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, aboard the Glomar Challenger in the Galapagos Rift. Dr. Warren was Visiting Scientist at the University of California, in the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory (1973) and the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory (1979-1983). He was concurrently teaching in Los Angeles, at the University of California (1971-1983), the Otis Art Institute of Parsons School of Design (1980) and the Immaculate Heart College Center (1982).

Dr. Warren had been a geophysicist, a consultant and a teacher since 1971, but 1983 marked a shift from working primarily in geophysics research to a direct commitment to interdisciplinary and global education. In the 1980s, Dr. Warren’s spiritual search had brought him to study Buddhism. An encounter with Swami Muktananda, a Hindu monk visiting Los Angeles, sent Warren’s search in the direction of the Vedanta Society of Southern California. This became the catalyst that opened his way to a study of Eastern thought, Vedanta, as it was brought to the West by Swami Vivekananda in 1893. Later, a friendship with Professor Kumar Mehta (UC Berkeley) lead to their co-founding the AHIMSA Society, which provided forum for dialogue in universal wholeness.

Nicholas Warren has written a variety of works, ranging from more than 40 papers on geophysical research, to poems in small press publications. His written contributions have been in interdisciplinary areas, the natural sciences, global education and spiritual awareness in everyday life.
Born on 12 April 1941, in Champaign, Illinois USA, Nicholas Warren married Sally Lappen in 1980. He has three daughters and five grandchildren. His listings appear in Who’s Who In The West and International Leaders in Achievement.