Tony Wright

Tony Wright has enjoyed a very varied series of life experiences that range from excessive drinking, digging graves, engaging in extended sleep deprivation experiments, working overseas and developing a highly innovative hypothesis that states at its heart that humans have been suffering from an inherited and progressive neuro-degenerative condition that has led to one side of our brain being perceptually and functionally limited. He believes that the full eradication of this condition and the restoration of our full brain functioning would lead to a level of perception that would be profound and the experience of a degree of sanity lost in the mists of time. Tony is the originator of the theory presented in the book Left In The Dark.

Tony Wright is dealing directly, I believe, with the experience of satori and the Zen mind. Since studying his work and doing further research I have become convinced that spiritual realization, at least in the Zen tradition, can be defined as a brief moment of complete right-hemisphere brain dominance. Here we are touching on the deeper, more spiritual aspects of martial arts but his work will be of interest to anyone wanting to know more about how our brain works.

You can view more of Tony's work on his site at http://leftinthedark.org.uk/.

On the following pages you can read an interview with Tony and read a review of Left in the Dark.