Stream of Subconsciousness

In this episode of The Healing Side , Donald Dunn sits down with Lincoln Stoller—physicist turned psychotherapist—whose personal journey bridges science, spirit, and psychology into a unified approach to understanding the mind. Lincoln shares how quantum mechanics, mountaineering, cultural immersion, and therapy converge in his work through the hidden language of dreams, the nature of trauma, and...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit mindstrengthbalance.substack.com “Perspective: use it or lose it.” — Richard Bach The expression “use it or lose it” applies to health and skill, but not to other things to which it could be applied, such as emotion, initiative, motivation, empathy, self-respect, and responsibility, just to name a few. Does it also apply to democracy? •...

Dreaming Yourself Into Being and Dream Fragments are my final volumes in a quadrilogy of books on sleep, awareness, and dreams. The first book is The Path to Sleep , the second is Becoming Lucid . Both deal with sleep, dreams, and altered states, while these books specifically focuses on understanding, participating in, and benefiting from their dreams. * Why We Dream* What Dreams Are* What Dreams...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit mindstrengthbalance.substack.com “Let us consider that we are all partly insane. It will explain us to each other; it will unriddle many riddles; it will make clear and simple many things...” — Mark Twain . — Divergence is Not Dysfunctional This post is about social and collective thought. I previously made the point that people are unc...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit mindstrengthbalance.substack.com “I’m a curious person. That, I think, is a quality that’s necessary for education: if you’re not curious then you’re not interested, and if you’re not interested then you’re not going to learn.” — Lynn Hill , extreme athlete and professional rock climber Curiosity or Discomfort? It seems that the more cr...

“ Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently.” — Walter Isaacson About Thinking If you go to https://www.brainyquote.com/topics/thinking-quotes you’ll find quotes on thinking by famous people. The lack of insight is amazing. Everyone speaks as if thinking was a monolithic act that one either does or...

Kickstarter Crowdfunding is supposed to be for raising money, but I’m using it to announce my books to a larger audience. The Kickstarter website will promote any campaign that reaches its funding threshold, so I set my reward prices low and my threshold at $50. I’m hoping you’ll sponsor one of the reward tiers so the campaign will quickly exceed its threshold. You can see the campaign at: https:/...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit mindstrengthbalance.substack.com We need to expand our notion of thought beyond what we can talk about. • Thinking Generally • General Thinking • Intellect • Emotion • Dreaming • Reconstruction

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit mindstrengthbalance.substack.com “I hope she’ll be a fool—that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.”— Daisy Buchanan , from The Great Gatsby — What, Me Worry? — An Intellectual Metamorphosis — Immature Personality Disorder — You Can Advance Your Stalled Development

" Insane people are always sure that they're just fine. It's only the sane people who are willing to admit they're craz y." — Nora Ephron , writer and filmmaker Only on the boundary can you see both sides and distinguish one domain from another. On either side, within each area, you are immersed in the mindset of that area and subject to that domain’s notion of common sense. The world will always...

My previous piece titled The Ignorance of Intelligence puts intelligence in aframework that’s larger than what’s intellectual. This is still too limited. The reason this is important is because the opposite of intelligence is not stupidity, it’s insanity. We don’t recognize this, and because we don’t clearly distinguish what’s intelligent from what’s insane we allow, accept, condone, and encourage...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit mindstrengthbalance.substack.com “ Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity.” — attributed to Albert Einstein We break down intelligence into intellect and emotion and most discussions stop there, but there must be at least two more aspects to it. Memory is certainly one, not just what but how you remember. Memory is pr...

Psychologist John Gartner (2025, Bjornson 2025) points out that no one is talking about Donald Trump’s insanity. Instead, they’re talking about his ineffectuality. This reflects the primary mode by which we deflect our own thin grasp on sanity: we call sanity the process of being logical. So, rather than recognize insanity, we quibble about justifying insane behavior. Part of the reason the obviou...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit mindstrengthbalance.substack.com The mechanisms of Artificial Intelligence, as they appear today, combine the ability to understand questions and find answers. Some of these answers are factual and others are expressive. But how A.I. is presented to you is mostly a scam. That’s because, as easy as it is to use A.I. tools, it’s easier to...

“ You can never get enough of what you don’t need to make you happy.” — Eric Hoffer My Kickstarter campaign has failed. The campaign ends tomorrow night, the night of November 7th. The campaign will not reach its threshold so the game will not go into production. However, I have offered to make ten games by hand, which I will number and sign. I will still make these games for those who sponsored t...

Physicist-turned-counselor Lincoln Stoller explains how reason, emotion, and neurology combine to reshape behavior and resolve deep patterns. We cover neurofeedback, hypnosis, dream work, and practical tools for repatterning thought and reaction—plus insights from his book Operating Manual for Enlightenment . “I apply a 3-part approach to psychology, partly because it makes sense, and partly becau...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit mindstrengthbalance.substack.com “The non-local nature of quantum mechanics is widely accepted, though physicists still debate its implications for our understanding of reality.” — Google’s A.I. summary "Doing something to one system has no effect, instantaneous or otherwise, upon the other system.” — R. Griffiths , physicist Given that...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit mindstrengthbalance.substack.com “ The penguin sat quietly, keeping Amos’s feet warm.” — Philip Christian Stead, author Hypnosis can raise the temperature of your hands, put you to sleep, and excite your emotions. But it goes beyond that. — Interoception— Self-Hypnosis— Trance Induction— Now Warm Your Feet

Who cares? Shared community A group activity is an obvious aspect but a poor definition of a Levity and amusement Sense of purpose An Outlet for Tension A Delicate Balance 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 “P ersonality tests are about as accurate as your astrology sign or your destined Hogwarts house .” — Greg Murray (2021), psychologist — Evidence of What? Personality profiles are bogus manufactured evidence for two reasons... — About That Tree That Fell in the Forest…Nothing has meaning without someone...

On September 19, 2025 I interviewed Sammy Williams, a London-based holistic nutritionist and intuitive eating coach about her experience overcoming a life-long eating disorder using the psychedelic 5-MeO-DMT and therapy. We talk about her background, her experience leading up to using psychedelics for healing, the psychedelic experiences, and the integration afterwards. Through the process of reco...

“ The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity .” — Alberto Giacometti, sculptor Storytelling is a Game There are only small differences between games and works of art. The main difference is the involvement of more than one person. Games involve collaboration while the appreciation of art is solitary. Art is usually created by one artist and experie...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit mindstrengthbalance.substack.com “ Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom .” — Thomas Jefferson • Getting a Straight Answer• Seeing the Truth But Not Saying the Truth• Internal Truth Versus External Truth• Seeing Is Not Believing• What Are You Hiding Behind?• Honesty Cannot Be Negotiable• Open Your Dreams

A 60-minute interview recorded on September 18, 2025. Indra Rinzler is a Vedic Astrologer and Spiritual Coach with bases in India and Norther California. I spoke with him on the intersection of spiritual and psychological counseling: * The higher self * Wisdom of the body * Sanity and consciousness * The reality of purpose and value * The search for answers * The four ways to conscious living This...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit mindstrengthbalance.substack.com Insight always involves the coming together of many things without a loss of complexity. Insight is not simply the ingestion of data, it requires the digestion of it. Insight unfolds slowly because it adds connections between things rather than just increasing their numbers... If this essay seems confusi...