If you’ve seen my blog, you know that this all began when I had finally had enough of the barrage of failures I had been enduring for way too many years. It was right before the pandemic hit. It was job failure after failure. Which was definitely not like me, and I just couldn’t take it anymore. I made the right preparations for my finances (which didn’t take long because I didn’t have too much to manage) and began to write short, literotica stories. Or as many call them sex stories. Why? Well, I once thought it was because I believe that there is no better source for erotic stimulation than the imagination. Hell, even science agrees that the mind is the best sex toy.
And Then I Was Codependent
But as I wrote and began to build my blog to support those books, I wrote a piece giving relationship advice only to discover that I was completely codependent. And so I set out to fix that part of my personality. What I didn’t realize at the time was this was actually the beginning of a much greater psychospiritual journey. A journey which introduced me to the deeper wisdom I had heard existed in each of us. It turned out that this experience was exactly what I needed to help heal my battered mind.
Psychospiritual in Nature
You’ll see in Herding Cats that it wasn’t a smooth, linear journey. It still isn’t. I began by applying Carl Jung’s philosophy of “The Darkness” to find reconciliation for how my personality had affected my life’s experience. That’s how I began to spend more time exploring my thoughts, instead of distracting myself with all the things in this outer reality.
As you know, the mind has so many random thoughts it’s hard to keep up, let alone stay positive. So somewhere along the way, after I was in the groove of applying the philosophies of Carl Jung, I set out to apply the focus and principles of people like Napoleon Hill, Neville Goddard, Florence Scovel Shinn, and others. (Put those two schools of thought together and you have psychospiritual.) I found that training your mind to focus, and use the right kind of focus, is a lot like herding cats. But it is an important task if you want to experience your best life.
Herding Cats Blog
So while some of the thoughts and ideas you may find on the Herding Cats blog may seem a little out there, I’m finding that they are true for me. And since we’re all part of this “human condition” I hope you can find their truth for you. Because I have come to realize that some thought you had at some point in your life has brought you to this page. And that’s not “woo,” it’s just a weird quirk of life that we dismiss as mystical because science hasn’t really explained it yet.
What About the Literotica?
While I have embraced this psychospiritual journey as my personal philosophy, my journey is very influenced by the philosophy of existentialism. The exploration of the “human condition.” The philosophy has been so influential in my life that it is playing out in my literotica publications. But I can’t deny that I’m finding my passion lies less in the creation of salacious sex stories and more in practicing the application of the wisdom I am unearthing in my mind.
I’m hoping to be inspired to write more “Existential Erotica,” because it is fun and now means more than just writing sex scenes. It’s about sexual desires, and the will to act upon sexual desires, as part of the free human experience. Which allows me to shine a light on the deeper meanings and motivations of the characters, rather than just sex as a physical act.
I’m so thankful that people seem to enjoy reading those short stories and bundles. The literotica part of my life has given me so much more than pages read and copies sold. It has given me the confidence in my voice. It has refined my skills, and taught me patience and the importance of practice.
Whether you read my Mr. Darcy literotica, my fantasy or true fiction literotica, or my much less tawdry thoughts and musings on this psychospiritual journey, it is my sincerest hope that the words I pen provide you (and your partner) with the pleasure, be it physical or mental, you seek.