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Mark Gober
Consciousness author, podcast host, int’l speaker, and Board Member; career in business (Wall St./Silicon Valley)
Mark Gober is an author, international speaker, and consciousness researcher who has been focused on elevating consciousness since April 2020.1 He is the author of several books, including "An End to Upside Down Thinking" (2018), which won the IPPY award for best science book of the year.2 Gober has written six books in his "Upside Down" series, exploring topics such as consciousness, politics, economics, medicine, and cosmology.4
Prior to his work in consciousness research, Gober had a career in finance and technology:
- Partner at Sherpa Technology Group in Silicon Valley (March 2010 - March 2020)1
- Investment Banking Analyst at UBS Investment Bank (July 2008 - January 2010)1
Gober graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University, where he wrote an award-winning thesis on Daniel Kahneman's Nobel Prize-winning "Prospect Theory" and was elected a captain of Princeton's Division I tennis team.2
In addition to his writing, Gober hosts the podcast "Where Is My Mind?" and serves on the board of the Institute of Noetic Sciences.26 His work challenges the conventional view that consciousness is produced by the brain, instead proposing that consciousness is fundamental to the universe and produces biology.35