"Spiritual Teacher" Jeffrey Martin, Finder's Course Founder & Author Of "The Finders," Implicated In The Epstein Files

For $10 Million & "a few (legal age) slave girls of my own choosing," Martin Promised Epstein He Could Be The Next Einstein

I never read his book or studied his work, but my fellow Hay House colleague Dawson Church was obsessed with Jeffrey Martin and couldn’t stop gushing about him. I never met him, read his book, or studied his work, but I heard others mention him because they were fixated on gaining some of the paranormal spiritual superpowers Martin seemed to promise with his "Finder's Course." Martin's schtick was that he could take you from being a "seeker" to being a "finder," for a hefty fee, of course.

The link for the Finder’s Course on Martin’s website currently doesn’t work, but from the very little bit I read about The Finder’s Course on Dawson’s website, after Dawson promoted it, it sounded like Martin wasn't teaching enlightenment; he was training people to dissociate and depersonalize. The course promises that if you attain “Location 4,” you can expect to experience: peace and wellbeing, the absence of mind chatter, constant and unwavering immersion in the present moment, and a deeply concerning “disappearance of agency.” (“These Finders have no sense of agency, or the ability to make decisions. Life is unfolding and you are watching it happen.”). They also apparently experience a disturbing “disappearance of emotion,” as well as no sense of a separate self. The universe, speaker, hearer, are all one.

Even more worrisome than losing your agency and your access to emotions, you’ll have memory deficits, with “an inability to recall scheduled events. Memories aren’t being stored in their minds, especially those to do with stories.” You’ll also experience
”a complete disappearance of need for approval from others.”

YIKES, people! (Dear Dawson, if you read this, please make a public statement owning your complicity in platforming and promoting this guy. It’s the very least we can do when we have a discernment failure, which many of us- myself included- have been guilty of. It’s okay to be imperfect and make very human mistakes, but we have to admit when we’ve promoted someone who may have caused real harm.)

I wasn't interested in Martin’s Finder’s Course when Dawson was pushing it on me and other friends. By that point, I was an Internal Family Systems practitioner and had let go of my spiritual bypassing inclinations. At best, Jeffrey Martin seemed like yet another boring spiritual bypasser, and at worst, it sounded like he was flat out hurting people’s brains. I finally gave up fighting with Dawson over it, conceding that some people will fight for their precious spiritual bypassing and non-duality belief systems as if their lives depend upon it. And honestly, maybe they do, since psychotic parts, suicidal parts, addict parts, and other potentially dangerous firefighter parts can live right underneath our Self-like or spiritual bypassing parts. So we have to be compassionate and careful, holding ourselves with great gentleness in times like this.

Jeffrey Epstein- Jeffrey Martin Emails From 2017

Now Jeffrey Martin is implicated in the Epstein files, and some of the people from my past life in the non-duality space are understandably distressed. So I dug into just a bit of their communications on the DOJ Epstein files website. You can read more for yourself here and here.

There are two emails that I've read, both from 2017, long after Epstein was a known sex offender. Apparently, Jeffrey Martin created a fake email account to try to secure privacy. "You seem to get sued a lot, and I don't like documents s[h]owing up in discovery processes. I've written up my thoughts on what you'[r]e interested in, created an account on a secure email service, and had that account send an email to itself. That's about as safe as information tr[a]nsfer gets in our age."

And yet I'm reading this email on the DOJ website.

Martin is communicating with Epstein who seems to have an interest in "weird" spiritual peak experiences, which Martin promises to help him have- for a mere $10 million. What follows are some quotes from the Epstein files:

"I hate to be the one that has to break it to you, but if you don't want this more than sex you should just give up the quest now. There's no hope for you. The types of experiences you're after require strict celibacy, for years at a minimum. There's just no way around it. Kidding! That's actually not true at all, don't worry. You can breathe again. I just thought it would be good to address your worst possible nightmare early in this email. In fact, you can have as much sex as you want, it just has to be with 80+ year old Asian men, and done in caves in the Himalayas. BTW, be sure not to fall for the ones who claim to be hundreds of years old."

Clearly, Martin knew about Epstein's reputation, because he wrote this:

"This may sound esoteric, but another issue I see stems from the press you've received, most of which is similar. It all must lead to a lot of negativity being projected from people's consciousness in your direction. This is something important to deal with as part of the overall picture. I don't mean publicly with PR, but rather energetically. I know that may sound weird to you. Again, get used to it!"

He also alerted Epstein that he would have to assume a false identity in order to hang out with the special people in his inner circle:

"Some of the people you'll work with will be women with a liberal political orientation. Many in general will have very specific ethical standards based in religion or spirituality. The reality is that all of these folks will most likely have an issue with your background. So, you'll need to be comfortable working with folks anonymously or using an alias. They will understand anonymity because nearly all will have dealt with people who did not want the rest of their life to find out they were working on this kind of stuff. Also, although your normal dress and demeaner will be fine for them, your other trappings will repel some of the key people we'll want you to work with. We will need alternate and more "normal" seeming locations to work in when you need to be in NYC, etc."

And then the kicker. In addition to the $10 million, we can make our own interpretation about this:

"Along these lines...a few (legal age) slave girls of my own choosing, in the event that at least some of your press coverage is accurate... ; )"

And yes, that was a wink.

Apparently, Martin's intuition got a "yes" for Epstein:

"I tend to follow my intuition above all else in deciding what to put time into, because it's always worked out. My process for that is to deeply mull things over, and see what pops out intuitively at the end of that process. I'm incredibly busy, but my intuition is telling me that you could make a major contribution here, if you were truly motivated and given the right jump-start. It just feels like you have the right mix. I've double checked this as best I can by pinging others who's intuition has also worked out as reliable for me in the past."

Martin also says:

"My intuition tells me, however, that you realize there are Newton-Einstein-Bohr-<insert Epstein here> level revolutionary breakthroughs waiting to be had by someone with enough resources and brainpower, that you're interested in taking a genuine crack at it, and that you'll have some success if you get the right footing. If that's the case, you'll mostly be wasting your time without me. If there was someone out there who was even close to equivalent to me, I'd know."

Martin signs off his letter with:
Much Love,
Jeffery

The Association for Spiritual Integrity (ASI) just put out a statement about Chopra and Martin- calling for spiritual teachers to join as members (I'm a member), which means we agree to be held to a stated code of ethics, participate in peer-to-peer accountability and discuss the difficult ethical issues we face when we take on the role of spiritual leader. Of course, it preaches to the choir. The spiritual teachers I find most problematic simply do not join the ASI- and because there’s no license or board certification, there’s nothing you can do it about it if a spiritual leader chooses to avoid discussions about ethics. Which clearly, people like Deepak Chopra and Jeffrey Martin don’t care about.

One woman who posted a comment on my Facebook post about Martin and Epstein wrote:

Jeffrey Martin was a colleague of mine in the psychospiritual world, and I ended up taking one of his classes and participating in his community. After I suggested once that it would be interesting to integrate some of his understandings with some Integral understandings, he went totally off the rails at me publicly. In his community, in writing, he called me vile names--his intense and crazy uncontained rage at me was shocking. His girlfriend contacted me separately and told me that Jeffrey was "crazy" (her words) and abused her a lot and that she spent a large amount of her time trying to manage his craziness, personally and publicly. People in the community contacted me and told me terrible stories about how he had abused them emotionally. The connection with Epstein doesn't surprise me in the slightest. A good friend of mine, one of the pioneers of ASI, told me personal stories (not hearsay) about Jeffery that were truly sickening. (I have never said these things publicly before and it feels scary.)

This was brave of her. We need to break our silences about these things- to protect others, so our silence doesn’t make us complicit in ongoing grifter, abuser harm. (Read about how our spirituality can make us mean here.)

As I wrote about yesterday, we shouldn’t be surprised when spiritual leaders and wellness influencer turn out to be some of the most narcissistic of the bunch. We really must address the spiritual ambition and grandiosity inherent in such ambitions. Why isn’t it enough to just be human? Why do we need to chase peak experiences or try to maximize our “human potential?” I’m all for healing and doing what’s within our power to minimize the pain of trauma and the suffering it causes. But why would people pay all this money, why would Epstein even consider paying $10 million, to attain spiritual states or experience “weird” stuff? Can’t we just see the spiritual narcissism splayed over the whole thing? Can’t we see that the emperor has no clothes and accept the ordinariness of the human condition, with all its light, all its mystery, and all its shadow?

Anyway, I hate to be the spiritual iconoclast that it seems I'm being this week (if you didn’t read my whistleblowing post about other spiritual teachers this week, read it here.) Don't lose hope though, dear seekers. Remember, you are the one you’ve been waiting for. And…we need mentors, we need community, we need human-to-human co-regulation with ethical enough people. The Association for Spiritual Integrity and Seek Safely are both organizations trying to address this issue. (Read more about why we can’t pedestalize gurus and need to find wisdom within ourselves here.)

Big hugs to you all as we all process more news about the corrupt people in the spiritual world.