Stream of Subconsciousness

“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.substa...

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...

“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...

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...

“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 emo...

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 t...

“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 psycho...

“ 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 menta...

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 ne...

“ 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 p...

“ 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 a...

“ The speed of change today is faster than the human psyche seems to be able to handle.” — Marianne Williamson The underlying issue is flexibility. We would like to discuss this as if it’s something we have control over, but I don’t think we do. I will overstate the case that people are inflexible because, if I don’t, then you’ll excuse yourself. If you want to change, you must be brutally honest....

“Arise! Awake!” — Swami Vivekananda , philosopher and sage There is no “time” that can be made longer, and there isn’t any more room for things to happen in time. Time is full, and we cannot overfill it. Where would we put the extra? But we do have choices: we can alter what time is full of, and we can choose in time what we attend to. If you want to be more efficient, focus on the task at hand. I...

“Lincoln Stoller is a quantum physicist, neuropsychologist, hypnotherapist, clinical counsellor, psychonaut, mountaineer, author, & educator. He combines science, spirit, and economics by applying an understanding of hard science to imagination, psyche, and the behaviour of groups.” In this 50 minute interview, we talk about the integration of neurofeedback with psychotherapy. * Focusing on the pr...

“The amount of s**t you get is determined by the amount that you’ll put up with.” ― Marcus Garvey (I think) * What does being authentic mean? * What are the positive aspects of being authentic and vulnerable? * Are there negative aspects to authenticity and vulnerability? * What holds someone back from being authentic and vulnerable? * What are five ways that being authentic and vulnerable pay off...

podcast with Terry McMullen Interview Aired February 6, 2023 Terry transcribed his introduction, and this is what he said: Contradictions and Dualities “I say often on this show, that life is complex and full of nuance. It is full of these paradoxes, contradictions, and dualities that we need to try to manage. It is messy and hard to get a grasp on. Sometimes we find ourselves scratching our heads...

To be more of what you are, control yourself. To be more of what you can become, open to chaos. As a guest on Bonnie Groessl's Holistic Entrepreneur, Lincoln discusses the role of self-awareness and consciousness in life and business. You grow into an improved version of who you are, and into better versions of who you could be. You are not driving this process, your insight into it is limited, an...

“ To live without hope is to cease to live.” — Fyodor Dostoevsky On one hand, Past Life Regression is offered as a supernatural spectacle that connects paying audiences to mysteries of the afterlife. On the other hand, it’s a technique of self-exploration that can take a person beyond their conscious intentions and abilities to levels of deep personal understanding. This is just where you want to...

Gaming is a way of phrasing problems. In a game situation, there is a start, an end, goals, and strategies for reaching them. We think problems are real because that makes answers possible. But in most cases, it’s not. Our problems arise from how we think, and our answers are destructive. Rob advocates games for learning. I advocate games for failing, to show us how we sabotage ourselves. The best...

“ It's never too late to be who you might have been.” — George Elliot Whatever you think your problems are, the desire to exploit or to be exploited swims among the roots. You might call it learned insecurity, or our culture of scarcity. My doubting of how other people think has led others to call me stupid enough times for me to realize that the ecological imbalance is not in the environment that...

Join Brandon Handley and me on the November 16, 2022, installment of the Spiritual Dope Podcast . We talk about psychedelics in personal growth and mental health. Who is the person taking the psychedelic, and what’s the role of the person helping them? * Are psychedelics really medicine? * Is a medicine something that’s administered to you, or something you can administer for yourself? * What can...

“ The cheerful mind perseveres, and the strong mind hews its way through a thousand difficulties.” – Swami Vivekananda Health is a full body experience. Providers of psychotherapy would like you to believe therapy, counseling, and coaching provide separate solutions, but these are all on the same spectrum from the perspective of mind and health. Clarity involves channeling your thoughts and emotio...

In this somewhat unusual interview published in July 2022, I took the “I feel lost” approach to a topic that has no clear path through it. I wasn’t faking; there’s more to gain by being lost in a topic as big as this. Daniel indulged me. I’m not sure how it ends up sounding to the listener. When he posted the audio, he complimented me with these words: Lincoln is an amazing man to speak with and h...

“ Real monsters eat you from the inside out”. ― Dia Reeves , author Monsters are the things that drive people to do monstrous things. They aren’t beings in the objective sense, but then, none of what makes up our identity are objective things. Still, they are as real as any part of us. They are constructions that inhabit our thoughts. We need to picture monsters as other than ourselves in order to...