Essays
Where Your Attention Goes, Your Life Follows
This is Part III of Secret Knowledge, Hidden Wisdom, a series for paid subscribers on the hidden principles of reality, why they were buried, and how to begin creating your life consciously. Each part builds...
The Voice in Your Head Is Not You
Before we begin, a word to those just joining. This series is unlike anything I have published before, and it does not stand alone. In [Part 1 → Secret Knowledge, Hidden Wisdom], I laid the foundation...
Secret Knowledge, Hidden Wisdom
This feels like the most important work of my career, and also the most risky. The past year has been a complete purging of my life. I eliminated much of what distracted me from my...
Sticks and Stones May Break My Bones but Names Will Never Hurt Me
When I was a boy, words bounced off me because I was taught that they were supposed to. I can still hear my mother saying it. Some kid had called me a name, and I...
Is Everything a Psychiatric Disorder Now?
I had a new client not long ago walk into my office and make statements that left me absolutely speechless. After years of therapy, drugs, and a growing collection of psychiatric diagnoses that read like...
Congratulations On Your ADHD Diagnosis!
Dear Valued Patient, Welcome. And congratulations. You did it. You took the quiz. Seven questions, maybe nine. You answered them honestly, which is to say, you answered them the way anyone alive in 2026 would...
A Children’s Movie That Should Change the Way You See Reality
It had been at least ten years since I’d thought about the 2001 Pixar movie Monsters Inc. Last week I was sitting in a coffee shop, turning over an idea I’d been circling for weeks: the possibility...
Is It Time For Moral Non-Compliance?
Look around. Really look. The Epstein client list never came. The men who flew to that island still walk the halls of power, still write the op-eds, still advise the president who promised to drain...
Why They Want You Numb
The most profound irony in our modern mental health crisis is this: the fear of our emotional states has become more damaging than the emotions themselves. When someone experiences deep sadness or anxiety, they’re not...
How Pfizer Created More Depressed People
In the early 1990s, Pfizer faced a strategic challenge with their newly developed antidepressant, Zoloft (sertraline). At the time, the market for antidepressants was limited by the prevailing view of severe clinical depression as a...