About
Lee, a transplant from Birmingham (Detroit), lived most of his life in Santa Fe, NM. He arrived in the Land of Enchantment with a Bachelors in Business Administration, a MA in Applied Economics, both from University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and an incredible sensitivity to everything from food to the environment.
His first job was teaching accounting at the Espanola Community College. He was a born teacher and the students and his bosses had only positive feedback for him. One day his boss said to him, "Your teaching is great but I just want you to know that you don’t have to take your shoes off when you walk into the classroom." Lee later taught accounting in Santa Fe and ran the accounting department at the Community College.
Lee studied Massage Therapy at the Santa Fe college of Natural Medicine and later Counseling at the Southwestern College in Santa Fe, completing an MA in Counseling.
In 1982 he read a book about William E. Gray, Born to Heal by Ruth Montgomery. (During his studies at Southwestern College he wrote a paper about Bill Gray). Lee became obsessed with trying to figure out what made Bill Gray so effective. He started to mediate every night for two hours, seeking to understand what enabled Bill Gray to heal or in his words to recharge the “pelvic brain”.
In the late 1980’s Lee heard of EMDR. After travelling to California to experience it, he worked every night on himself with this method. He realized that consciously understanding his “problems” never helped him make any changes. Over the next two years he was able to strikingly reduce the intensity of his overall anxiety and obsessive tendencies.
In 1997 when Lee meditated as usual in the middle of the night he realized that he had developed: “Shifting Consciousness through Dimensions”. The key words are shifting (going back and forth) and dimensions (all 3 = left/right, front/back and top/down).
He recognized that when one is caught in anxiety, one is probably only accessing a very small part of the brain in one hemisphere. So if EMDR works so well going back and forth across the left/right dimensions of the nervous system which are controlled by the cerebrum and cerebellum, wouldn’t it be interesting to go back and forth as well as across the front/ back dimensions of the nervous system controlled by the “pelvic brain “and the top/down dimensions of the nervous system controlled by the solar plexus/diaphragm region.
Lee then wrote several books which will all be downloadable from this website:
SCtD®: Meditations: Transformational Tools for the Health Practitioner 1998
SCtD: Meditations: Techniques to Change your Life 1998
SCtD: Meditations: Neurological Approaches to Dream Work, Art, and Sandplay 1999
SCtD: The Chi to Unlocking Trauma and Limited Behavior 2000
SCtD: The Body Evolving Spirit 2004
Lee’s definition on Trauma:
An event(s) that so overwhelms the person’s capacity to respond that it reset the nervous system to experiencing the event as an ongoing reality.
Trauma creates neurological separation = parts of the nervous system lose the ability to talk to each other.
Trauma creates internal and external separation.
The separation created by trauma is both internal and external – the body/psyche loses the ability to communicate within itself as well as with the rest of the universe.
Lee kept up with his nightly meditations, working on himself but also studying neurological approaches from other health care practitioners.
In 2004 he discovered the importance of the Reflexes. He started to develop different ways of working with Retained Reflexes, helping the nervous system reestablish internal and external connections.