About the Author
John Bliss is a writer and thinker passionate about unraveling the mystery of our lives. He is at heart a skeptic and an individualist. He distrusts groups and authorities of all kinds, as it is clear that humanity-even its brightest minds-is susceptible to deep folly. His goal? To help readers break free from hidden social biases and tackle life’s big questions: Who are we? What’s truly important? How should we live our lives? Bliss remains at large somewhere in California.
Substack Blog
- The Mirror We Won’t Look Into
by Skeptika on May 20, 2026 at 9:17 pmIt’s Better to Just Believe What We Want
- The Death of Progress and the Current Age of Despair
by Skeptika on May 12, 2026 at 9:58 pmIt wasn't always this way
- History Is Who We Are
by Skeptika on April 27, 2026 at 4:41 pmand Why We Are the Way We Are
- Your Place in History is...
by Skeptika on April 21, 2026 at 5:57 pmGet ready for it
- How Reliable is Science Today?
by Skeptika on March 29, 2026 at 3:33 pmMaybe not so much
- A Game You Never Agreed to Play
by Skeptika on March 4, 2026 at 6:33 pmHow Society's Formula for Success Becomes a Trap
- I Was Sleeping and Then Was Hit in the Head
by Skeptika on February 22, 2026 at 4:17 pmThey call it a Psychic Attack
- Pure Evil
by Skeptika on February 19, 2026 at 4:08 pmA Story from WWI
- What Everyone Knew Was True (Until It Wasn't)
by Skeptika on February 3, 2026 at 7:25 pmHow Galileo's Absurd Theory Became Reality
- History Repeats Itself
by Skeptika on January 23, 2026 at 7:24 pmBecause Humans are still Humans
- We’re All Simpletons in a Complex World
by Skeptika on January 12, 2026 at 6:22 pmExposing Occam’s Razor as Humanity’s Favorite Way to Avoid the Hard Truth
- From Emerson to Sheldrake: The Eternal Spirit That Binds Humanity
by Skeptika on January 7, 2026 at 7:46 pmThird and last essay in our series on the Over-Soul
- Why Professional Wresting Matters
by Skeptika on January 2, 2026 at 11:17 pmIt Actually Does
- Die without Regrets
by Skeptika on December 30, 2025 at 9:11 pmWhat Retirement Forces Us to Confront
- Swedenborg: The Source of Emerson and Jung’s Insights?
by Skeptika on December 30, 2025 at 12:54 amThe Roots of the Over-soul and Collective Unconscious
- Emerson's Over-soul, Jung's Collective Unconscious and Varro's Soul of the World
by Skeptika on December 17, 2025 at 11:02 pmPart 2 in a Series on the Over-soul
- Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Over-Soul, A Primer
by Skeptika on November 20, 2025 at 12:41 amWe are all more connected than you think
- Do you really love? Or are you fooling yourself?
by Skeptika on November 9, 2025 at 3:48 pmWe can never know
- We Scurry Like Rats
by Skeptika on November 8, 2025 at 12:34 amIt's Nothing New. Even Tolstoy Wrote about it
- The Debt is Going to Destroy Us
by Skeptika on October 9, 2025 at 4:47 pmjust another silly tale