Here is an outline of Chapter 2: Needing, from Operating Manual for Enlightenment, Recreating States of Mind: The Family System; Childhood; Recollection; The Social Self; Growing Up The Scheme of Things; Recollecting; Reconstructing; Recreating This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit mindstrengthbalance.substack.com/subscribe

Let me introduce you to my next book: the Operating Manual for Enlightenment. The book’s goal is to set you straight about raising your sights and getting your feet on the ground. It encourages you to ask more of yourself, and be more successful in doing so. As of this writing, my Kickstarter campaign is 1% beyond its goal. You can help me get further by adding your pledge to the campaign. Get the book in various forms. Pledge levels, starting at US$5, will get you an extended, ebook...

In a deep discussion, Lincoln Stoller and Ed Watters explore the intersection of mental, emotional, and physical health, sharing insights gained from Lincoln’s project centered around the process of learning and personal growth. Stoller details his experience with therapy and hypnotherapy, and his belief in the importance of exploring our vulnerabilities and weaknesses to develop a more rounded individual. The conversation delves into societal issues impacting mental health, the role of...

In this 68-minute interview we talk about the emotional requirements of change and growth. How all change is creative, and creativity requires courage, patience, tolerance, and self-appreciation. Since emotions are the foundations of our thinking, changing our thinking requires gaining understanding and control of our emotions. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit mindstrengthbalance.substack.com/subscribe

Lincoln and I discuss everything from personality to self-love to becoming enlightened to connecting to your higher self. Combining wisdom of the body with science of the brain, Lincoln helps people focus, perceive, create, integrate, and understand. These are learned skills with which you create reality. When you realize it’s not enough to believe what you’ve been taught, you can move into a greater chaos of opportunities. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit mindstrengthbalance.substack.com Competition Competition is rooted in conquest for scarce resources. Sport has evolved into a contest of who gets to be recognized, rewarded, and survive. Winner takes all, and others get none. The Olympics, a paradigm of success and specialization, are the heritage of the culture of conquest. To have value was to be the most powerful. In Roman culture, change, when it happened, was...

“You’re stupid, you’re fat, you’re ugly, and nobody likes you.” — a typical, self-denigrating attitude To Be Adequate We have a prejudice that those who cannot perform at the level we expect are mentally challenged and, likewise, those who excel in performance have greater mental power. None of this are true. Performance is not a reflection of your mental ability. Many of us go further. We equate performance with value, so that those who perform better are worth more. Value is not as easy to...

Here I am interviewed by climber, storyteller, and film director Jason B. Mulligan of the G.O. podcast and video series. G.O. Get Outside: The Podcast G.O. Get Outside - The Video Series Describing our January 2024 interview, Jason says: Lincoln Stoller was introduced to climbing at the age of thirteen which quickly evolved into mountaineering. Throughout the 70s and 80s he climbed with storied greats such as Fred Beckey. His curious mind lead him to pursuits such as soar plane piloting,...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit mindstrengthbalance.substack.com Mind and Body This is one of a suite of mind-body audios I’ve recorded for the organs of your body. If you’re a paying subscriber, then this is the FULL 27-minute, self-hypnosis audio titled “The Kidney’s Fine Structure.” If you’re a free subscriber it’s the audio’s FIRST HALF. In either case, this audio will make you sleepy and degrade your reactions. It might put you to sleep. So … Do not listen...

“No man can serve two masters. Your life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made in the image of what you desire.” — Thomas Merton This piece concerns interoception, or body awareness, for the purpose of becoming more aware of and in tune with your body. You juggle your daily schedule and have some reservations about your family. You have a profession for which you’ve developed some skills, but you only rely on one or two skills at a time. You’d like to find higher insight in order to...

This is a conversation between myself and Sheryl Garratt, a coach for professional creatives based in the UK. We talk about the issues of being a successful professional in creative fields, as well as the role of creativity in personal health and the wider culture. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit mindstrengthbalance.substack.com/subscribe

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit mindstrengthbalance.substack.com Self-Hypnosis Inductions For the last two years, I’ve been creating hypnotic inductions for my clients. They emerge like tulips when the time is right, and they’re always exactly the right color. The inductions, I mean, not the clients. It’s been a while since I created a hypnotic induction for everyone, and that's what I've done here...

“Don’t tell me how rocky the sea is, just bring the ship in.”—Lou Holtz, football coach I enjoy answering interview questions posed by Authority Magazine because they’re so uninformed. They are makes it possible to put misconceptions in the cross-hairs. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit mindstrengthbalance.substack.com/subscribe

Sean Craemer’s Revelation Podcast is a conversation on significant topics of life, emotions, and values. In this interview, I combine science, dreams, and mental health issues. Curiosity in art and science is the same curiosity essential for attaining mental health. You won’t get much support, but you can’t find personal value without it. Listen to the original version on Spotify: This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus...

“Run from what’s comfortable. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation.”— Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī In my last course of antibiotics, we added Metronidazole, a drug designed to kill anaerobic bacteria. It has a long list of negative side effects and I experienced many of them. One of them was depression. I’d wake up depressed and have bouts of hopelessness. It would take me a minute to realize this was an induced state of mind and not a true reflection of my situation. The state...

Benjamin and I talk about dreams, sleep, change, growth, and how to use your state of mind to fortify your being. The video and audio of this 49-minute episode can be viewed at Benjamin’s website: https://benjaminthedreamwizard.wordpress.com/2023/11/24/dreamscapes-episode-148-unconditional-positive-disregard/ and his YouTube channel: For more information on dreaming and self-awareness, consult my book, “Becoming Lucid: Self-Awareness in Sleeping and Waking Life.” This is a public episode....

“The highest form a civilization can reach is correctly trusting one another.” — Charlie Munger, investor The attraction of extreme sports is strong and unambiguous feedback. Tests yourself, if that’s what it takes to gain trust in yourself, but don’t get habituated on risk-taking. Grace is the object, not achievement. Could you share insights into the emotional dynamics? What is the role of emotional depth in communication? What misconceptions do people have? What is the role of non-verbal...

Nick McGowan hosts the Mindset Self-Mastery Podcast Episode #60 with Lincoln Stoller The key to understanding where your thoughts come from. Changing your brainwaves causes subtle changes in awareness that you cannot pinpoint. We don’t notice these changes and, instead, ascribe them to our circumstances, projecting our awareness onto the world that we’re aware of. We cast blame or give credit in the world that we bring into focus. Riding on top of our logic, we take what we remember for...

“We all have an enormous responsibility to bring to the attention of others information they do not have, which has the potential of causing them to rethink long-held ideas.” — Howard Zinn, historian and philosopher I’ve created a book called Sensations, Thoughts, and Emotions as a compilation of things I’ve written that are important for my clients. The title reflects my understanding of psychology, myself, and relationships. I don’t mean these three parts to be universal, but they might...

“I know people who have tried to order it around—heavy male dominator types who want to beat information out of it—and my god, they have bad trips so terrifying that they never come back to it again.” — Terence McKenna (1992) There is talk of cures and healing, but limited context for it. Dramatically positive results show the benefit some psychedelics are affording to people diagnosed with mental disorders. Using psychedelics as medicines or sacraments will have different results… We’ve got...

Dive deep into the hidden realms of consciousness, dreams, and lucidity with "Journey into The Unseen Mind," a mind-bending episode with special guest, Lincoln Stoller. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit mindstrengthbalance.substack.com/subscribe

“’At our hearts, we've been talking about the quantum physics of things, the things that don't make sense, but we know them to be true...”― Chris Kalous I contacted Chris Kalous, host of The Enormocast Podcast, in order to talk about the American Alpine Club’s Climbers Grief Fund, in which I am a volunteer therapist. My attitude is that grief counseling is one of the last things a climber needs therapy for, literally, and that counseling can be empowering and can make one both a better...

“The influence of narcissism on so many aspects of science calls into question [its] very objectivity.” — Bruno Lamaitre, quoted in The Guardian Academics tend toward the pretentious, but express different attitudes in different fields. I used to wonder why some fields had exploitative hierarchies, and others less so. I assumed it had some functional or historical precedent. I now believe it’s personal: people are attracted to these fields because the professional behavior suits their...

“The emotionally intelligent person is skilled in four areas: identifying emotions, using emotions, understanding emotions, and regulating emotions.”— John Mayer and Peter Salovey (1990) Emotion is not unintelligent, undirected, disconnected, or extreme. We think of emotion in these limited ways because we encounter emotion in these dysregulated forms. Emotions are not something you have, they are something you read. When we are emotional, we are enacting the sign rather than understanding...