I’m Scott Ferguson—an independent researcher, writer, and lifelong questioner of what it means to be a self.

In the fall of 2009, after reading a seemingly ordinary article in Time Magazine by Steven Pinker, something unraveled. What began as a cognitive insight spiraled into a kind of existential freefall—one that eventually landed in a radically different worldview. Not mystical. Not nihilistic. But unified.

My work blends philosophical reasoning, neuroscience, and contemplative practice to explore one unsettling, liberating idea: that there is no separate self—and never was.

I’m currently completing a book called On Oneness: The Science and Spirituality of No-Self, and my companion article, From No-Self to Oneness, is currently under academic review.