Jamie Watters

Jamie Watters started work in a mainframe computer room in 1985 and spent his career in banking technology and resilience. He wrote two books on business continuity, disaster recovery and crisis management.

Alongside that work he taught mindfulness. As a certified mindfulness teacher at HSBC, a voluntary role, he trained more than a thousand colleagues. He also wrote The Rich Writer, on writing and self-publishing.

Around 2010 he went to a workshop in Leamington Spa where Richard Lang was sharing Douglas Harding's Headless Way. Being walked through the exercises took him from insight to knowing. The Way Within is that walk-through: a short book of practice that has you see for yourself, in minutes, what is looking out of your eyes. It rewrites the book he first published in 2018 under the pen name James Capra.

He is the author of Efformism: A Subtractive Philosophy of Awareness (2026), the treatise behind the book's method.