One With the World: A Path to Living With Presence and Appreciation

One with the World is more than a book―it’s an invitation. It’s a chance to stop living in a world of predigested ideas and start living in a world of direct experience. Discover the remarkable freedom that comes from being truly present, and find a purposeful way to be one with yourself, one with others, and one with the world.

The goal is not to escape the world, but to engage it fully, ―leading to a life of greater purpose and a more authentic connection with both ourselves and others.

Do you live inside your thoughts or inside your life? One with the World asks you to step away from what you think you know and rediscover who you are.

Through insights, reflections, and carefully crafted experiments, Jack Petranker―philosopher, Buddhist teacher―shows us how to free ourselves from the stories that keep us stuck in reactivity. He offers a groundbreaking way to shift awareness from what we tell ourselves to an appreciation for the whole of what each moment offers. This isn’t mindfulness rebranded―it’s a radically embodied way of reclaiming presence.

Jack Petranker brings a bold new voice into the mindfulness and philosophy space by challenging the very assumptions behind self-help, meditation, and the culture of self-improvement. Rather than offering another program for focus or calm, Petranker presents a radical but accessible practice of inhabitation: shifting awareness from the stories in our head to the embodied immediacy of the present moment.

Be where you are. Be who you are.

Jack Petranker holds a law degree from Yale and an M.A. in political theory from the University of California, Berkeley. A former Dean of the Tibetan Nyingma Institute in Berkeley, he has also served as North American Vice President of the World Fellowship of Buddhists (1988-92). He is the founder of the Center for Creative Inquiry and serves as its senior teacher and regularly teaches and lectures in the United States and Europe. He has been a close student of Tibetan lama Tarthang Tulku for more than 40 years. Jack lives in Berkeley, California.