While biohackers strive to optimize their bodies and minds through cutting-edge technologies and data-driven interventions, the next frontier in biohacking may lie in experimenting with raising our levels of consciousness. As the boundaries between mind and matter blur, could expanding our awareness and increasing our levels of consciousness be a foundation for biohacking, setting the stage for all other biohacking techniques (i.e., a meta-biohacking intervention)?

If biohacking is defined as the process of taking full responsibility for one’s health, well-being, quality of life, and longevity, then it must include the multiple roles consciousness plays in reaching our goals of transformation. As a scientist with five decades of experience, including teaching and research positions at Harvard and Yale, and, most recently, as a Professor at the University of Arizona and Director of the Laboratory for Advances in Consciousness and Health, I have witnessed the transformative power of consciousness in improving lives. By adding awareness of consciousness states, doing consciousness self-experimentation, and using scientific studies on consciousness from the Mainstream and Frontier science, we can bridge the gap between mind and matter thus paving the way for new, frontier interventions in the field of biohacking that are scientifically-sound. Expanding the definition of biohacking to include the role of consciousness recognizes its importance when creating optimal health, improving one’s well-being and quality of life, and increasing one’s longevity.