Stream of Subconsciousness

Lincoln Stoller PhD CHt CCPCPr
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Self-hypnotic explorations of physical and mental health, purpose, self-awareness, self-love, lineage, and ancestry. Building on science, psychology, and spirit. Finding balance in the subconscious mind. mindstrengthbalance.substack.com

  1. Jul 24

    Ezra Stoller and Le Corbusier

    My father, Ezra Stoller, was Le Corbusier’s contemporary. They both shared the stage at an architecture award ceremony, and Ezra also received Corbu’s prickly arrogance. It’s been noted that despite Corbu’s celebrated reputation he consistently self-sabotaged himself. Stoller shot the famous images of Corbu’s famous chapel at Ronchamp, which are showcased in the book From the Eye of the Beholder. The book tells Stoller’s personal stories working with six of the 20th century’s leading architects and is available in a new high-quality edition on Kickstarter. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mindstrengthbalance/from-the-eye-of-the-beholder 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

    Ezra Stoller and Le Corbusier

  2. Jul 22

    The Insight of Deep Listening (podcast $)

    This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit mindstrengthbalance.substack.com “The sensory apparatus we know as the ear is simply an external attribute of the cerebral cortex.” — Dr. Alfred Tomatis, otolaryngologist and originator of sound-based therapies for communication, learning, and listening skills Hearing What do you ever really hear in all that you’re listening to? Do you hear all of your thoughts or just the ones that make the most sense? Some of our thoughts come as images or impulses, some as sensations, and others come with words attached. Our first impression often determines whether we focus on a thought or let it drift past. Not many thoughts are considered in our heads. Most of our thinking just flows past us as a kind of distracted story line. Ask someone for their opinion and you’ll get a burst that will fade away after a few sentences. If your question is not recharged by some act of relevance, reward, or rejection their comments will settle into a kind of closure. Consider conversations at a gathering, party, or social event. There will be a set of topics which people typically expect to hear about. These will be of short duration which will stimulate many associations. Common topics typically sustain five or ten minutes of discourse, but rarely more. We mostly use language to focus and form social contacts. There is little original thought or exploration of things that can’t easily be said. This limits us to rather superficial topics. It also limits how we tend to think when we’re on our own. We have similarly short conversations with ourselves, most of which don’t break new ground. As I write this I’m asking myself, “What is there to say on this topic? What can I say that goes beyond repetition?” I have to create or picture some structure before I start talking. To do otherwise is just to repeat things I’ve already heard. The value of what I say is determined by the importance of the questions it asks. • Focus • Attention Deficient, Normal, and Disordered • Listening Deeply • Hypnotic Listening • States of Trance • Insights and Hallucinations • Change Grows From Associations • Beyond Understanding • Integration Aims • Integration Skills • Integration Dreams My books The Skills of Sleep, Becoming Lucid, and Operating Manual For Enlightenment will help you. Don’t be misled into thinking that integration requires new experiences; new experiences just provide recent evidence. Integration means finding balance. You do this by exploring the boundaries of what unbalances you. This extends across all of your life. Let integration become a habit.

  3. Jul 9

    The Jōrni Podcast - Love & Reason (podcast interview)

    The Jōrni Podcast with Petra Brunnbauer - Episode 401, July 7, 2026 Love refuses to behave the way logic says it should. It’s not love in particular, it’s any aspect of behavior that reaches across thought, feeling, memory, training, and habit. Whenever you have compulsion mixed with aspiration, need, and intention, reason is a poor tool. It’s not because these things are unreasonable, it’s because there are too many reasons.Maybe love was never a problem to solve, but a capacity to grow. We explore the idea that learning to love ourselves changes how we love everyone else, and why the questions that have no clean answer are often the most rewarding to explore. Lincoln Stoller works in private practice as both a counselor and coach helping people see how and why they have created their environment, their view of reality, and sense of self. His work comes together under the heading of mastering one’s state of mind through experience, aiming to raise his clients sense of purpose in all aspects of their lives. Listen to this episode on Apple Podcasts at: You’ll find more of Petra’s material at: https://thejorni.com/ 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

  4. Jul 9

    iNTv - The Ideas that Shape Modern Life (podcast)

    I join iNTv to discuss responsibility, mental health, dreams, child development, independent thinking, and the search for meaning in modern life. Drawing from backgrounds in theoretical physics, psychotherapy, hypnosis, neurofeedback, and education, Lincoln argues that genuine learning requires responsibility, feedback, and real engagement with the consequences of our actions. We explore why many people struggle to change, how childhood experiences shape adult behavior, and what parents and educators may be getting wrong about human development. We also discuss dreams, psychedelics, hypnosis, self-respect, individuality, addiction, purpose, and why raising independent thinkers begins with taking children seriously as people. Topics include: • Responsibility and personal growth• Mental health, meaning, and self-respect• Dreams, hypnosis, and psychedelics• Child development and education• Independent thinking and individuality• Parenting, mentorship, and emotional responsibility• The future of culture and human flourishing Listen to our conversation on Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/intv-interviews-lincoln-stoller-on-responsibility-meaning/id1896475149 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

  5. Jul 2

    Authentic and Appropriate Goals (podcast $)

    This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit mindstrengthbalance.substack.com “Only goals that take us outside our comfort zone enable us to rise to the occasion. The rest just leave us standing still.” — Michael Hyatt, former publisher, now life coach Looking for Good Ideas Making People More Effective Are You Evolving or Amplifying? Boundaries and Standards Healing, Damaging, and Resilience What Is Appropriate? Authentic Versus Appropriate And This is Your Goal

  6. Jun 23

    The Larger World of Altered State Thinking (podcast)

    I’ve edited and republished a piece titled “The Larger World of Altered State Thinking,” subtitled “how altered states, dreams, hypnosis, and psychedelics can expand creativity, deepen self-understanding, and reshape how we think.” This version is written to be a faster read. You can find it on psychedelic.support: https://psychedelic.support/resources/larger-world-altered-states-thinking/. The piece explores our two common, conscious modes of rational and emotional thought. It emphasizes we are less familiar and less adept in using our associative mode of thought. Associative thought is the stream of unpremeditated thoughts and feelings that jostle for attention in the backs of our minds. Associative thought is going on more often than our conscious thought but it’s subconscious. Associations are the origins of the words we speak to ourselves. Associative Thinking We Can Think Better Hallucinations as Insight Let the Batter Set 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

  7. Jun 16

    Tending Your Inner Garden (podcast)

    Lincoln Stoller is physicist, mountaineer, software engineer, hypnotherapist, psychotherapist, and author. In this wide-ranging and personal conversation Lincoln shares his lifelong pursuit of truth across disciplines while navigating institutional resistance, personal setbacks, and the messy realities of creativity and human psychology. I discuss a physics paper that challenges conventions and the blowback it received. Science often prioritizes institutional preservation, funding, and reputation over genuine inquiry. Creativity requires stubbornness, tolerance for failure, and resilience against “bad teachers,” and closed-minded experts. Chapters (with approximate timestamps) 0:00 Introduction 0:43 Overwhelm: Physics Paper Rejection & Moral Obligation to Respond 1:30 Background, Childhood, and Path to Science 3:28 Mountaineering, Physics, Software, Psychedelics, and Therapy 5:40 Boundaries of Open-Mindedness in Science & Irrational Pushback 9:40 Practical vs. Academic Physics, Ego in Science, and Quantum Mechanics 13:50 Fusion Energy Failures, Institutional Inertia & Parapolitics 16:20 Challenging Quantum Orthodoxy & the Cost of Creativity 19:50 Limits of Science & Personal Growth 25:19 The Rule of Three Questions – When Curiosity Becomes Revolutionary 30:37 Innovation, Criticism, and Preaching Morality to those who are not innovative 34:33 Why Dreams Are More Inscrutable Now 39:51 Trauma, Processing, and Reality Disintegration 45:50 Sociobiology, Motherhood, Bears, and Loving-Kindness 48:36 Alternative Education: Summerhill School & Democratic Learning 55:58 Hypnosis, MK Ultra, Suggestive vs. Exploratory Hypnosis 1:05:23 Trauma Bonding, Group-think, and Societal Conditioning 1:08:06 Child-Rearing Advice: Autonomy, Community 1:14:28 Closing: Website, Books, Blog, “Dreaming Yourself into Being” First-person highlights: * On his childhood: “I felt ignored... I ended up looking outward... wanting to get answers and wanting to connect.” * Creativity and institutions: “To be creative means there’s a lot of monkeying around... you have to be okay with failing.” * Science and Ego: “You’re not going to get a mathematical rebuttal... You’re going to get an ego rebuttal.” * Dreams: “Dreams... exist to disintegrate your world... They confront me with what I don’t know.” * Therapy vs. Physics: “Psychotherapy is a welcome relief. You get to deal with other people’s problems and you get to criticize and judge and get paid for it.” * Final reflection: “We’re all stupid... You really have to try to improve yourself... consider yourself as a garden that needs to be tended.” The conversation flows into Lincoln’s marriages and recurring dream figures (parents and ex-wives), the value of dreamwork over psychedelics, alternative education models like Sudbury/Summerhill schools, the sociobiology of motherhood, hypnosis (suggestive vs. exploratory, and its broader cultural role), and practical parenting advice: give children more autonomy, real consequences, and community exposure rather than helicopter oversight. Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/7IZfkBCwNYBmVV4sZoUR6h?go=1&sp_cid=34f0878aa8a4cce95943b359bda4ec0d&utm_source=embed_player_p&utm_medium=desktop&nd=1&dlsi=5476ec62fc1e400c Listen on Acast: https://shows.acast.com/innerskilled/episodes/dreams-therapies-psychology-behind-physics-lincoln-stoller Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tskbyhWNbuc 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

  8. Jun 11

    Anti-Authoritarian Therapy and the Scent of Freedom (podcast)

    Paul Trammell grew up in the Deep South of the US, became a sailor, then an author, and now lives in his boat off the East Coast of Panama. I grew up in the New York suburbs, traveled across continents and professions and now live in on Vancouver Island, Canada. Paul introduced me by saying my approach to psychotherapy "is unique and anti-authoritarian, combining science, spirit, economics, and mental health, the psyche, and the behavior of groups." Summarizing our conversation he says: "We talk about quantum physics, psychotherapy, mountaineering, traveling and visiting other cultures, education, hypnotherapy, length of life, racism, ADD/ADHD and how it’s diagnosis is abused, the problems with modern education, how psychotherapy started as a political tool, modern quasi-slavery, alternative schools, ecology, indigenous Panamanians, hope for the future, depression, Caribbean society, unemployment, schizophrenia, family structures, Spanish and English languages, dreams, past lives, inherited personalities, empathy, war, and more." 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

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Self-hypnotic explorations of physical and mental health, purpose, self-awareness, self-love, lineage, and ancestry. Building on science, psychology, and spirit. Finding balance in the subconscious mind. mindstrengthbalance.substack.com

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  • Creator
    Lincoln Stoller PhD CHt CCPCPr
  • Years Active
    2020 - 2026
  • Episodes
    220
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © lincoln stoller
  • Show Website
    Stream of Subconsciousness