About the Blog

This blog began in 2012 as a series of facebook posts that were responding to common misconceptions I saw expressed about common spiritual or psychological memes seen routinely on the internet.

I began a series of actual blog posts by going deeper into famous quotes, or pointing out the hidden dangers in others. In addition to those, I have also done periods of answering questions from readers or clients, as well as periods where I focused on narrative storytelling, or the essay form, as teaching devices. I did take 2018 off, due to intensified care for my parents.

2020 began with a series of posts on reality that were interrupted by posts targeted at the addressing the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. I continued to post several times per week right up until April of 2022, when the demands of my parents Covid-era dementia care became too overwhelming. My father then had a peaceful death in November of that year, and the time since then has been dedicated to getting life back on a schedule that will allow me to add other work.

It is important to note that, while everything I write was and will be accurate in principle, little of it should be interpreted as literally true. For the obvious sake of privacy, I reorganize and mix and match elements from various true stories. I mix and alter identities, times, and events, so the posts are best read as parables, or essays with fictional examples. The point isn’t the delivery method–it’s the underlying truth that all of the posts are consistently referring to.

My readers include those into mental health, psychology, new age spirituality, established major religions, and more science-minded people seeking a logical explanation to their experience of reality. What I’m saying is always the same, but each post may switch which subculture terms I’ll refer to. Sometimes it’s a cooking reference, others it’s a physics point, or a farming metaphor. And yeah, sometimes it’s tings like Zen. It’s whichever one suits the purpose–the truth about Reality is available everywhere.

It took me over 30 years to learn that other people were taking their internal thinking seriously. After 20 years of studying that, I got another big lesson during the pandemic. I learned that I had underestimated how ‘real’ thought can feel to people that grow up inside of it their entire lives. This had lead to new approaches when I teach, and I’m now editing my intended book to incorporate what I’ve learned.

I had planned to re-start some form of posting before the end of 2023, but caregiving duties prevented that. Now, in late 2025, the blog is slowly restarting. I was proud of my work here and with clients before. But with this new understanding about what it’s like to live inside all of that overthinking, I have now developed new ways to teach people about reality. And I’m very excited about all of the opportunities that exist for people who are currently held back by their own thinking.

As always, if you find the lessons useful, please share them with your loved ones. There is no reason for people to be suffering unnecessarily. The world is changing. The only question is; when will each of us choose to transition away from the crippling restrictions of ego, and toward the freedom of our true, joyful, brilliant, nature?

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Enjoy your day.

peace. s

scottis@relaxandsucceed.com