About

Burning Down the House dismantles the hidden mental machinery that keeps people trapped in anxiety, compulsions, self-sabotage and chronic dissatisfaction, even when their lives are objectively fine.

It shows, simply and brutally, that freedom isn't achieved by improving yourself, healing yourself, or fixing your mindset, but by removing the interference pattern that hijacks your nervous system and blocks natural flow.

Colin left England for South Africa at fifteen - not by choice. With school behind him and no plan, he spent seven years in construction, then moved through life insurance and business management, accumulating the kind of practical experience that classrooms don't teach and credentials don't measure.

Like most people who take the interior life seriously, he tried everything: self-help, self-hypnosis, Scientology, meditation, visualisation, Eastern philosophy, ancient religions, new ones. He engaged with all of it honestly, and eventually reached the same conclusion about all of it.

He got bored.

So he did something more useful. He took forty years of lived experience - the failures, the patterns, the nagging sense that something in the machinery was running wrong - and thought it through for himself. Without a framework to sell. Without a tradition to defend. Without a need to be right about anything except the mechanism.

Burning Down the House is the result.

Colin now lives on the edge of the Indian Ocean in what he has come to regard as his frontier country - South Africa - where he writes, thinks and watches the Springboks with the devotion the team has thoroughly earned.