Almost 20 years ago a premonition saved my life from a plane crash, you got a minute?
That sparked a lifelong quest to understand how better I could align into the liminal space of interoception. Where you are in the present moment trusting and moving from intuition rather than the head. The same flow state athletes experience. Where intuition becomes either reflexive, or clear and easy to read. Naturally, this first led me to the ancient spiritual traditions, yoga, meditation, breathing exercises.
Then I drank a bottle of kombucha and it altered the course of my life forever. This is not metaphor.
I was hungover and discovered from that first bottle about one minute after drinking it how gut bacteria alter mood and energy levels. That added urgency to my quest and eventually led to my first book. The Political Gut – Reset Your Reality. Because changing my gut health reset my reality.
I thought. Gut instinct, right? So I got healthy. This was a slow process. I was a functioning alcoholic, workaholic and habitual weed smoker, amongst other things, chasing status and money in NYC. I needed to change my environment – and as it happened my career.
When I finally broke though I made it count. For 6 years I lived like a monk, at least thats what it felt like. Meditate every morning 30 minutes minimum with the goal of an hour. No eating out, sugar, stimulants, meat, alcohol, weed, nothing but organic farmers market food, home cooked meals and spring water. Ten plus years in from when I first began monking, as I referred to it, I understood something I now teach: compliance beats perfection.
This period changed my life in ways I didn’t expect. One change I love the most, the voices in my head are 5% today of what they were before I started. It also happens to make reading the signals much easier. By this point I’d discovered that you can indeed tap into intuition and really use it to navigate your life with great outcomes.
My navigation, in what I can only state as true to form in its specific functionality, called me to certify as a Neurodynamic Breathwork® (NDB) facilitator. What became an intensive year long training in direct lineage of Holotropic® Breathwork, founded by well known psychiatrist Stanislav Grof – the researcher who did LSD studies in the 60s and then developed modern breathwork in the 70s and whose mapping of non-ordinary states of consciousness still serves as the field’s foundational cartography. I aligned with this modality specifically because it is non-directive by design: everything sources from inside of you.
Quickly, I found there is a reason everyone says NDB is transformational. You discover states of presence previously unavailable. You get unstuck. And most notably, this breathwork has been shown in research to help tap into interoception. Just like the more than a million people before me who have experienced this specific modality and mostly say the same thing, I found it transformational.
After facilitating hundreds of sessions and doing hundreds myself, I can say with confidence: I have not encountered anything as powerful for aligning your energy state, freeing what’s stuck, building genuine self-trust, and accessing the deeper layers of the psyche. And seriously, just feeling good in general. The research supports it. One tangental benefit, I really enjoy making the hour long music sets my sitters listen to and even began making my own original music.
The remaining part of this journey brings us to my favorite place, the present moment. Breathwork opened me up to channel something greater and faster than I had ever before. Like a lightning bolt my second book blindsided me. In this book I outline a system to achieve coherent 3 brain alignment drawing on what I learned from my experince with dozens of coaches, doctors, and extensive research, which is kinda my thing.
So I wrote a book I didn’t plan to write. It named itself, New Earth Field Guide. It had its own plan and it came out fast with it’s own agenda. The process kinda reminded me of when I procrastinated every book report to the night before. This time I didn’t know I had a project due.
Now you know my personal story of why. What follows are the professional highlights. Not in my voice, but rather in the appropriate system format.
Brett Casper founded Your Higher Consciousness – a platform built at the intersection of neuroscience, quantum theory, ancient wisdom, and the intuitive experience of the energy body. His clients include executives, founders, coaches, and people at every stage of their process who want to perform better or feel their lives are unaligned with their values and are ready for the specific, honest, demanding work of actual change.
He developed several original frameworks that appear throughout his books – not repackaged ideas from the existing field, but tools built and refined through years of study, facilitation, and practice.
Casper grew up on a farm, on a dirt road in rural New Jersey. He studied at Northeastern University in Boston, the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, and the School of Visual Arts in New York. Before his life turned towards the evolution of consciousness, he managed multi-million dollar photo studios and worked with celebrities in high fashion circles and luxury branding – alongside some of the world’s most respected agencies, brands and houses.
He has been recognized from NYC to Tokyo. New York Magazine covered his opening of New York City’s first kombucha café. Food & Wine named his Pure Kombucha™ a “Top 5 Best” in the United States. Elle Decor featured his Bangkok brewery, and Lifestyle Asia named it the #1 wellness destination in Asia. He has partnered with Erewhon, LVMH group brands, Michelin-starred restaurants, and five-star resorts including Park Hyatt, Anantara Kihavah, and Six Senses. The media called him a wellness pioneer. His coaching clients call him a guru. He’d call himself something closer to the opposite.
