The Author
Warren Jones is a systems architect, a former naval officer, and a lay Buddhist monk who has spent fifty years operating at the edges of human capability. His career has traversed the secured laboratories of high-performance computing, the silence of monastic retreats, and the dust-choked anarchy of the Burning Man festival.For five decades, Warren designed some of the nation’s most complex technological infrastructures, designing enhancements to satellites and advising on the "machinery of empire." Yet, his most significant engineering challenge was not building artificial intelligence, but reverse-engineering the human spirit's disconnection from the living world.
Warren’s work is a field guide for the "Rider Mind"—our modern, abstract intellect—to find its way back to the "Systems Mind," the ancient, resilient intelligence of the Earth. Through his three forthcoming collections—The Intelligent Machine Series, The Living Earth Series, and The Man Burn Series—he offers a singular, integrated map for navigating the 21st century. He invites readers to move beyond the colonial story of "man versus nature" and into a conscious, participatory relationship with the systems that sustain us.
He writes for the technologist questioning the ethics of code, the seeker disillusioned by hollow progress, and the individual in the second half of life asking, “What now?”
Warren lives in Baltimore, Maryland, where he practices "OG Parkour" and finds his universe in the small Hampden community. A father of four and grandfather of three, he is currently dedicated to the practice of dual citizenship: living fully in the modern world while remaining deeply rooted in the sacred, living earth.