Douglas Harding

Douglas Harding was an English philosopher, spiritual teacher, and author. He began his career as an architect and spent decades engaging in personal philosophical inquiry. He first articulated the idea of "headlessness" in the 1940s and shared his experiences more widely in the 1960s through experiments intended to help people realize their own headlessness (nonduality). Douglas is best known for his book, On Having No Head: Zen and the Rediscovery of the Obvious.