Jamie Wheal

Jamie Wheal is a writer and co-founder of the Flow Genome Project. He is the co-author of Stealing Fire: How Silicon Valley, the Navy SEALs, and Maverick Scientists Are Revolutionizing the Way We Live and Work and author of Recapture the Rapture: Rethinking God, Sex, and Death in a World That's Lost Its Mind.

Early life Jamie Wheal was born in England and moved with his family to the US at the age of eight, Flow Genome Project leads retreats at his property called the Summit which the Financial Times calls a "cross between a playground and a lab."

Writing Wheal, alongside Steven Kotler, co-authored Stealing Fire, which Wired Magazine described as "packed with neuroscience and imaging research that definitively locates ecstatic states in the human brain, along with nods to data on how to get there." Wheal makes use of a neuroanthropological perspective to assess the neuroscience and psychology of cultural movements. His most recent book is Recapture the Rapture: Rethinking God, Sex, and Death in a World That's Lost Its Mind.

Personal life Wheal is married and has two children, Luke and Emma. Wheal met his wife Julie while a sophomore studying at St. Mary's College of Maryland.