The Author
Warren Jones is a former naval officer and systems architect who, after a fifty year career designing some of the nation’s most complex technological infrastructures, now applies his engineer’s mind to life’s deepest questions. His unique journey—from secured laboratories and global projects to the mindful practices of a lay Buddhist monk—has forged a perspective that bridges the worlds of logic and spirit, the artificial and the organic.Warren’s writing emerges from this confluence. It is the fruit of a life spent building systems for an empire, followed by a devoted return to the common, living earth. Having cared for parents through illness, questioned institutional paths, and cultivated a life of walking meditation and radical simplicity, he writes with a hard-won clarity. His chapters are crafted as accessible, often poetic stories that guide readers to see the deeper patterns connecting our technology, our societies, and our inner lives.
His forthcoming works, including the Dialogues with a Machine series and The Living Earth, invite us into a new narrative. They move beyond a worldview of separation and control, offering instead a vision of conscious participation with the intelligent systems of life. Warren writes not to preach, but to provide the context and imagery for a reader’s own understanding to dawn.
He lives in Baltimore, Maryland, where he finds the universe in a city block, and is a father of four and a grandfather of three. Warren’s work is for the seeker disillusioned by hollow progress, the technologist pondering the ethics of their power, and anyone asking in the second half of life, “What now, and what for?” His is a voice of integration, offering a hopeful and grounded path toward healing our relationship with ourselves, each other, and the planet we call home.