About Gary Weber

Author:

• Happiness Beyond Thought: A Practical Guide to Awakening
  Free Scribd.com version
  Amazon.com paperback version
• Dancing Beyond Thought: Bhagavad Gita Verses and Dialogues on Awakening
  Free Scribd.com version
  Amazon.com paperback & Kindle versions
  Companion YouTube video
• Into the Stillness: Dialogues on Awakening Beyond Thought (with Rich Doyle)
  Non-Duality Press
  Amazon.com paperback & Kindle versions
• Evolving Beyond Thought: Updating Your Brain’s Software
  Free Scribd.com version
  Amazon.com paperback version
  Companion YouTube video
• A creative and insightful cognitive neuroscience approach for understanding the effects of contemplative training on pleasure and the “gossip of the ego”
  MacLean KA, Weber G., Religion, Brain and Behavior, Volume 4, 2014, Issue 3. 4: 239-242. DOI: 10.1080/2153599X.2013.826726

Interviews:

• VoiceAmerica – July 10, 2018
• VoiceAmerica – November 15, 2016
• MysticWealth/StoicInvesting
• VoiceAmerica – July 5, 2016
• VoiceAmerica – March 29, 2016
• SpiritualTeachers.org
• The Secular Buddhist – Podcast
• Towards A Science of Consciousness Conference – Tucson
• Bloggingheads.tv – Video
• Buddha at the Gas Pump (BATGAP) – Video

Documentaries:

• Chasing the Present (Mark Waters 2019) Featured in the documentary
  • 1st Prize (tied): Rhode Island International Film Festival 2019
  • Grand Jury & Special Jury Awards: Awareness Film Festival, Los Angeles, CA 2019
  • Best Documentary: Chelsea Film Festival, NYC 2019

Books:

• Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment (Robert Wright, 2018). Featured in this New York Times bestselling journey through psychology, philosophy, and lots of meditation to show how Buddhism holds the key to moral clarity and enduring happiness.
• The Victorious Mind: How to Master Memory, Meditation and Mental Well-Being (Anthony Metivier, 2020). Anthony Metivier is a memory master. His latest book is based on Evolving Beyond Thought, teaching how to memorize the verses in it.

Panel Discussions

• Science and Nonduality Conference 2013: “Filling in the Details“
• Science and Nonduality Conference 2013: “What is Enlightenment?“

Articles About Gary:

• The Neuroscience of Suffering – And Its End

Articles Written by Gary:

• Who is really in Control: Neuroscience and Reimagining Leadership, July 19, 2018 – VoiceAmerica Press Pass
• A Leaf Slipped from a Hand: An Awakening Into Stillness, Searchwithin.org
• Direct Path, Vol XIX, No. 1, September – October 2016, pp 15 – 18, “How Bhagavan Ramana Maharshi changed my life“
• The Mountain Path, April – Jun, 2008, “Using Sri Ramana Maharshi’s Teachings in Yoga Practices“
• The Mountain Path, Jan – Mar 2010, “Everything Is Predetermined – Is That Scientifically Possible?“
• The Direct Path, July – August 2010, “Living Beyond Thought“
• The Mountain Path, Oct – Dec 2011, “Where Does This ‘I’ Arise?“
• The Mountain Path, Jan – Mar, 2013, “Non-dual Meditation and Self-Inquiry“

Presentations:

• University of Virginia (2015)
• Truth and Transmission (TAT) (2013, 2015, 2017, 2018)
• Penn State University (2013, 2014, 2015, 2016)
• SAND San Francisco (2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015)
• Princeton University (2013, 2014)
• Dartmouth College (2013)
• SAND Europe (2013)
• TSC Stockholm (2011) and Tucson (2012)
• Haverford College (2010, 2011)
• Asia Consciousness Festival – Hong Kong (2010)

Spiritual

• Research subject/collaborator – meditation/cognitive neuroscience studies – Yale, NYU, IONS, Baumann Institute, CSNSC
• Over 30,000 hrs meditation/yoga
• Yoga teachers’ training in four traditions
• Zen work with two roshis – passed by both and invited to teach
• Co-Founder Open Meditation Society, Penn State
• Founder NonDual Awakening Society

Professional – After Page Turning 

• Tate and Lyle Research Advisory Group.
• Vice Chair BOT Regional Medical Center.
• Small Business Development Center advisory committee.
• 2005 Winner of McFarland Award for Eminence in Materials Science.
• BOD Chair Austrian Research Centers of NA.
• International Food Technology keynote. High Peaks VC advisor.
• Angel network investment committee.
• Assoc. VP of Research and Technology Transfer – Penn State.
• BOD, Secretary Penn State Research Foundation.
• VP Research Park.
• BOD Ben Franklin Central/Northern PA.
• Founding BOD Ben Franklin Center of Excellence NWPA.

Professional – Before Page Turning

• Audit Dutch Research Institute TNO/TPD.
• PPG Senior Vice President, Science and Technology – 5 labs, $260MM R&D, 1000 people – Executive Committee, Operating Committee, Environmental Committee, Compensation, Employee Benefits.
• BOD AZDEL JV w/GE Plastics.
• Vice President, Deputy Chief Executive, Technology and Machinery, GE-Tungsram, Budapest, Hungary – engineering/R&D (700) – international machinery business (1500/3 factories). Appeared; BBC, Financial Times, Fortune, Business Week, USA Today. Commendation from CEO J. Welch. Established lead environmental program in Eastern Europe.
• Hungarian Academy of Science Medal. Five GE/one SOHIO R&D management positions.
• Penn State Centennial Fellow and Alumni Fellow.
• Keynote Kansai Research Institute Kyoto.
• Los Alamos National Laboratory Honorarium Industrial/National Laboratory partnerships.
• Carnegie Mellon Research Institute Advisory Board, Chairman Operating Board.
• BOD Pittsburgh High Technology Council.
• President’s Council Industrial Advisors American Ceramics Society.
• Co-founder American Ceramics Industrial Association.
• Duquesne University Advisory Board.
• Carnegie Science Center BOD. Industrial Advisory Panel National Materials Advisory Board.
• University of Pittsburgh Corporate Leadership Council. Carnegie Mellon University Department Industrial Advisory Board.
• U.S. Naval Nuclear Submarine Service – Line Officer Polaris, attack submarines. Top Secret Clearance.
• Oak Ridge Natl Lab; Individual Contributor, Assistant Group Leader.
• B.S, Ph.D Materials Science, Penn State.
• GE-Crotonville Advanced Marketing, Business Management.
• University of New Hampshire Executive Development.