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About Linden Morningstar

Linden Morningstar, author of Gloria Rising, has had extensive experience as a hypnotherapist and licensed marriage and family therapist, which adds depth and realism to his story. He is also the author of The Starlight Prophecy, a science fiction and fantasy novel about alien worlds and super heroines. He writes to explore the mysteries of life and the mysterious connections between the mind, universe, and the mystical. He lives with his cherished wife and four cantankerous, high-maintenance, and lovable cats in southern California.

A Surprising Path to inner peace and acceptance of death.

SCIENCE OF PAIN
Could LSD Be the Right Prescription for the Terminally Ill?
Opiates are the drugs of choice in battling pain in the terminally ill, but opiates render such patients dull and unresponsive. Hallucinogens could well offer a better path.

The ’60s was the golden age of LSD research. The U.S. government subsidized at least 116 experiments (that we know of) over this interval to unlock its secrets. Dr. Stanislav Grof, one of the early experimenters, described LSD as a “non-specific amplifier of the unconscious,” for both good and bad. The suggestion was that LSD might be a primary modulator of the unconscious mind, and unlocking its mysteries would answer the questions of who we are, why we are here, and what’s to become of us. Big questions indeed. Maybe too big to be left to scientists?

As hard as you may try, you can’t keep something this big locked up in the lab. These molecules escaped from the ivory tower and started a (relatively) bloodless revolution within America, especially among young people, who were disillusioned with the U.S. government, and the handling of the Vietnam War and the civil rights movement. Psychedelics were all the rage in the late ’60s throughout the country. College campuses were the testing ground for this social experiment, and some still are.

Who on this earth is in greatest need of happiness, or at least the alleviation of the severest form of dysphoria or distress? Terminal cancer patients, that’s who. Standard hospice care provides such patients with opiates like hydromorphone (Dilaudid), which, while alleviating pain, dope them up to the point where they can’t and don’t care, and can’t even respond: they can’t tell their doctors that they are scared, or their loved ones that they love them. And of course these opiates are highly addictive. You could argue: Who cares about addiction if you’re already dying? Both of my parents died in hospice care, both doped up on opiates at the end. I couldn’t tell them I loved them, and they couldn’t communicate back. Prescribing opiates is more humane than letting patients suffer but nonetheless not an optimal way to depart this world. We all deserve a better exit than that, at peace with our own imminent mortality.

“Using LSD as the hallucinogen, Peter Gasser in Switzerland showed that 12 cancer patients also showed short- and long-term benefit.”

In a study that took a full decade to complete, and with the approval of the FDA, NIH, DEA, and a host of institutional review boards, Charles Grob at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center assessed the use of psilocybin (the compound in “magic mushrooms”) as a stand-alone treatment for the reactive anxiety and depression that attends death due to terminal cancer. In an initial study, 12 individuals with a life-threatening cancer diagnosis participated in a double-blind randomized crossover fashion (neither the subject nor the physician knew which treatment was being administered) with either psilocybin or niacin (Vitamin B3), which results in a tingling sensation and acted as the placebo control. Furthermore, every subject was prepared by a licensed psychologist beforehand to minimize the possibility of any side effects or a bad trip. Each had their own personalized metaphysical tour guide, who remained with them through the session. They optimized the set and the setting by providing a pleasing and comfortable environment. These clinical research studies were carefully performed and documented, and above reproach. The results were quite remarkable. Feelings of “oceanic boundlessness” and “visionary restructuralization” were followed by positive mood and reduction in depressive scores, which persisted up to six months after the psilocybin treatment ended.

Several follow-up studies are now being conducted. Stephen Ross at NYU School of Medicine randomized 29 participants with cancer in a double-blind fashion to receive either psilocybin or niacin. Again, reductions in long-term anxiety and depression were observed, and with long-lasting effects still measurable six months after hallucinogen exposure; and again the benefit correlated with the extent of the “mystical experience.” Using LSD as the hallucinogen, Peter Gasser in Switzerland showed that 12 cancer patients also showed short- and long-term benefit, and with no persistent side effects beyond the day of the study itself. Further studies have corroborated these beneficial effects up to 14 months out.

These studies provide yet another line of reasoning to support the assertion that our brains are being hacked—that our emotions are just the inward expression of biochemical processes in the brain. In the case of hallucinogens, signaling of the serotonin-1a receptor drives contentment, whereas signaling of the serotonin-2a receptor drives the mystical experience. In our modern society, the role of mind-altering drugs to achieve heightened consciousness and/or contentment has yet to be determined, and will require careful scientific investigation in controlled settings along with philosophical and ethical debate before the public can be trusted with the key to nirvana.

We are our biochemistry, whether we like it or not. And our biochemistry can be manipulated. Sometimes naturally and sometimes artificially. Sometimes by ourselves but sometimes by others. Sometimes for good and sometimes for ill.

Thanks Giving

Time to thank all my friends, family, and fans for your interest in my writing and support. I deeply appreciate all of you.

LOVE and PEACE

Linden Morningstar

The Guardian: On the Nature of Consciousness and Awareness

“Mere consciousness is not awareness. Consciousness is of the physical brain while awareness is of the mind—this is part of the soul. Thinking and working out problems has to do with consciousness. Inner knowing—telling me that I am and I, too, exist—this awareness is the link to God, the Creator.”

Guardian

Gloria Rising: The Guardian’s Astonishing Revelations

 

Excerpt from Dr.  Adam Jaxon

“… Yet, I never imagined ghosts in my house, let alone a wise ethereal presence talking to me as if we were old friends, until I met Gloria. And now that confounding reality was sitting in front of me. Before you experience Gloria rising from dark evil places, I wish to immerse you in the eerie world of the Guardian and the unbelievable impact the Guardian had on me and Gloria’s therapy. Only then will you experience, understand and appreciate the greatness of her ascent.

Gloria took to hypnosis like a zealous skydiver jumping off Mount Everest from dizzying heights into an abyss. In this respect, she was fearless. She loved my arm levitation induction which resembled a magician’s sleight of hand, except it was real magic that took Gloria time traveling into her sordid past and on higher astral voyages.

The hypnotic arm levitation was well suited for Gloria’s need to experience catalepsy and deep trance where Gloria’s Helper and I could do our work, and it was necessary to reach the Guardian’s higher vibration of energy and reality.

In the beginning, I would hold her right wrist very, very gently and lift slightly almost imperceptibly with just the slight suggestion the arm was levitating. I enhanced the effect by the slight movement of the arm this way or that until her arm levitated by itself. Invariably, this led to a deep trance and communication with Gloria’s Helper.

In the process I would later discover if I simply lifted her arm higher, this triggered my contact with the Guardian. The Guardian from the start would speak through Gloria’s voice without the theatrics of a split personality. It was Gloria’s voice but not Gloria. Through the course of her therapy the Guardian would only appear if called on—never intrusive, only offering support, encouragement, and omniscient insight and understanding into Gloria’s emotional disturbance. In case you have forgotten, I must remind you that the Guardian was Gloria’s deceased husband, Greyson, a shocking fact that even I had a hard time wrapping my mind around.

Nevertheless, I am pleased to present the channeled messages from the Guardian that encompass and enlighten Gloria’s therapy. The Guardian’s messages were fascinating, thought provoking and decisive to the success of Gloria’s therapy. Some messages towards the end were answers to my questions about the Guardian’s nature and being—bold and blunt questions that challenged his reality and who he claimed to be. I probed whether the Guardian was a dissociated or split personality of Gloria’s personality, questions my lifetime of scientific training and rational mind forced me ask. Nonetheless, I felt self-conscious as if I were questioning the Wizard of Oz hiding behind a curtain.

The Guardian’s responses were always lighthearted, humorous, unoffending, and illuminating as you will see. The Guardian’s words and profound messages often made my mind whirl with astonishment and wonder. In the beginning the Guardian’s messages were terse until the Guardian could take full control of Gloria’s body and then the messages became grander as long as Gloria’s energy could sustain them.”

Dr. Adam Jaxon

 

Selected quotes from the Guardian about its spiritual mission and guidance to help Gloria and Dr. Adam Jaxon.

“If you do not believe in Gloria—she’s sensitive—it would do her harm.”

“Something you have to know—Gloria is developing a great respect for what you are teaching her. I am determined to take care of her. She must rely on it—an outlook she can get from the reassurance that will flow through her from within.”

“A swift dart of memory and she will recall how she has again closed herself against pain. Gloria’s Helper must be made to peer into a time of loss without anguish. It has to come from this source, Gloria’s Helper, to be of any help – the dates—November 26 and November 27. I will help.”

“No cause for alarm! My work is not your work. Gloria’s progress is based on the therapy of your concern, devotion, and skill. I merely try to help.”

“Must remind you that Gloria and Gloria’s Helper have acquired more in her life span than many of us ever do. Something sustained her—a philosophy, a way of life much simpler than any we might practice here; and because it is and was so simple, it may be that it was more advanced—it got her through horrors most do not live through.”

“Gloria’s Helper is an inner source who leads her to beautiful thoughts and peaceful places, while I seem to have a source and give her an intuition that tells her whatever she needs to know.”

“Something to make you think: Gloria has not reached the turning point yet. She has only had a small glimpse at the core of the problem which resulted in a depression; so do not make the mistake of not probing further. The therapy must keep her going forward.”

“Because it would hurt too much to think about things she had managed to wrap up the biggest part of her life in healing self-induced amnesia, she buried it all in the back of her memory. When I tried to reach her and failed, I knew the griefs of childhood persist where others fade. Inside the woman talking so calmly in a polite tone is a small child who has never been given love, never has known why, and has carried a lifelong burden of guilt and rejection because of the horrors that came with the people who entered that life. It is all complicated but it will fall into place. Do not make the mistake of thinking it will be easily done—but it will be done!”

“Gloria is receptive to healing treatments which attract harmonious vibrations into her life. Sometimes she forgets this until a need arises. Such is this day! For two days now she has pushed off reality deliberately. I can do no more than to say to you that two harmonious energies will always be better than one; two spiritual seekers may accomplish anything. You will literally be able to refashion, reshape and get reality to be harmonious with Gloria’s life.”

“… There are those who have been ill, or in misfortune for so long, that they are afraid to get well; yet those are the ones who would become far happier than others who have not been fortified by trials. Such is this case. Be an open channel for love—the main ingredient—for then a healing will automatically take place.”

“I’ll try not to get myself mixed up in this but only tell you where you make mistakes. It’s your talent—otherwise, I would be like a mother trying to solve a problem for her daughter.”

“When you grow to full potential, you can see every person, race as a person. You have enough compassion, enough grasp of good and bad; at the core you can reach the good in even the worst person—more you give to others, more you get, the Law of Nature.”

“When she remembers everything, then she will be able to reach her potential. They will come to a certain point and have to make up their mind, either experiences are going to be of help or hindrance.”

“I guess you realize by now her mind was raped. The work is tedious but the unconscious needs to remember details to cleanse the mind. It’s a wonder both the conscious and unconscious haven’t been in a state hospital.”

“There will be knowledge made known that will be of interest to you and that will add to your love of life. The person you are helping will have important knowledge for you as well. I wish you an uplifted feeling to help you along today—to follow your talent. Do not get discouraged. Good contact is being made; so is increased awareness. Bear in mind, I pose no threat to you. I’m detached from rivalry or anything of that sort.”

“Mere consciousness is not awareness. Consciousness is of the physical brain while awareness is of the mind—this is part of the soul. Thinking and working out problems has to do with consciousness. Inner knowing—telling me that I am and I, too, exist—this awareness is the link to God, the Creator.”

“Letters are good too, creating a lot of tension while at same time, bringing the whole thing to a head.”

“What you sense in your heart and feel in your conscience must be the greatest part of your training. You must have confidence of your experience. If people only were not so afraid, such abundant unconscious resources could be put to use for progress. People are still groping in the ‘Dark Ages’ where limited conscious beliefs trap them in a microscopic box of awareness—unaware of what lies beyond, what is possible.”

“There will be times when you want to just walk away from it and forget the whole business. Don’t! Stick with it. When you look back on it, you will be amazed at the progress made. I will guide your efforts and Gloria’s efforts.”

“My role is to bring you knowledge so you have the assurance and confidence you need for the work ahead of you to help Gloria reach her full potential as a human being. My job is enjoyable, a work of love and pleasure. To see two human beings become as greatly as they can be is certainly not a duty. I stand for faith, hope, charity, and love—the good things in life. You could call me a good influence. I create love and blessings.”

“Gloria and Gloria’s Helper are to help themselves, first of all. If they did not want to help themselves, I couldn’t help at all. What they or you get confused about, or threatens you or them, then I am able to step in by feelings of love, nature and blessings to enable you back to an optimistic nature. Instead of your being pessimistic, I help you see the truth, the reality of things, not pessimism. I have to leave you in comfort and encouraged—couldn’t leave you depressed and discouraged, then I would fail. You see the whole thing has been an optimistic act. So what we have done is an act of procreation and love. We all stuck together so Gloria didn’t commit suicide. There was always someone to pick us up. That’s how we work together as ONE.”

“Understand my work is important; but if the person I am sent to help refuses to acknowledge me, or to help themselves, I eventually withdraw. However, I do not intrude nor pose a threat. I only come when a person is open for help. For example, I have another mission I am working on—a desperate man who called out for help. Regrettably, he’s a stubborn old alcoholic who has thrown his good life away and now resists my guidance, love, and blessings. My power to help is limited by what a human being is willing to give me. I am afraid in this case I might fail. A pity.”

The Physics of Consciousness: THE QUANTUM MIND AND THE HEALING OF LIFE

I highly recommend this groundbreaking book, the physics of CONSCIOUSNESS about the Quantum Mind that ancient shamans knew intuitively and utilized for healing.

https://www.amazon.com/Physics-Consciousness-Quantum-Mind-Meaning/dp/0738204366/ref=sr_1_1_twi_pap_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1505066354&sr=1-1&keywords=evan+harris+walker

 

Utilizing Sports Hypnosis to improve Athletic Performance

 

FINAL LESSON: Utilizing Sports Hypnosis to improve Athletic Performance

In this final Self-hypnosis lesson you will utilize the self-hypnotic skills you learned in lesson one and two that will help you surpass your present athletic abilities and performance. How exciting it is to learn what professional and great athletes have known for decades and have used to beat their competition, win games, and gold medals.

If you have done your homework, in lesson one and two, you are ready to add some standard and simple sports hypnotic techniques to take you to the next level in your Game of choice. You can utilize relaxation to calm and focus your mind on a winning performance without pregame jitters. Autosuggestion, imagery, and visualization will help you perfect your athletic technique and skills for optimal performance.

SPORTS HYPNOSIS

Sports hypnosis can help you overcome issues of performance anxiety and self-doubt which may block your optimal performance. Hypnosis can help you utilize your unconscious mind to enhance your athletic skills, perfect athletic techniques, and boost your self-confidence to exceed what you have thought possible. Hypnosis can help you acquire the deep concentration and focus necessary to beat your previous athletic performances. Hypnosis can enhance your performance regardless of what sport you love to compete in.

FOUR POWERFUL SPORTS HYPNOSIS TECHNIQUES

1. Positive Visualization and Mental Rehearsal

2. The Athletic Zone

3. Imagination

4.  Autosuggestion

Exercise One: Positive visualization and mental rehearsal are key elements to sports improvement. Take three slow deep breaths and think about your special place of calm to trigger your relaxation response. Now focus your mind on your best performance as if watching a movie. Then run the movie again and carefully analyze your performance to gain insight into what you can improve. Rerun the movie in slow motion to gain further insight into enhancing your performance. Now play the corrected version with you in the movie feeling what is like to play at your very best. When finished slowly open your eyes and pat your heart with your fist three times. Then before your next game or performance tap your heart three times to trigger your best performance and positive expectation.

Exercise Two: The Athletic ZONE is where you perform to the best of your ability, in a state of relaxed yet focused, high-level performance, which feels effortless. Here you’re conscious thoughts, conscious activity, and efforts no longer influence or guide your performance. Your conscious mind’s concerns, worries, and control are suspended. Everything you do and experience becomes effortless, automatic and unconsciously orchestrated. Great athletes depend on the zone for their best performance.

Now close your eyes and take three slow deep breaths. When you are in your calm place remember a time when you felt in the zone and merged with the game or your performance, or other personal events where you felt one with the experience and everything seemed to flow effortlessly. Now, vividly remember that moment and the experience you felt totally immersed in. Let the feeling and experience flow through you until your inner mind’s eye sees it clearly. Repeat this exercise until you are satisfied with the feeling of being in the zone then slowly open your eyes and pat your heart three times. In the future, when you need to access the zone tap your heart three times.

Exercise Three: Imagination Albert Einstein once said, “Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.” In the world of hypnosis imagination is unlimited in creating what your stated goal is. Specifically, imagination can make you what you want to be. In your relaxed state of mind picture your favorite athlete who you want to model yourself after. Repeatedly, review, in your mind’s eye, their best performance to gain understanding and insight into their patterns of performance and their specific athletic skills and techniques. Once you have memorized their athletic excellence then enter your calm place and visualize them in action. When you can vividly see their top performance step into their body and experience what it would feel like to be them. When you’re satisfied with the experience of being your favorite athlete ask yourself, “What did I learn?” Slowly open your eyes bringing back with you anything you learned and how it felt to be them. Pat your heart three times. Just before your next performance or game pat your heart three times to trigger that feeling.

Exercise Four: Ideally, your autosuggestion should be coached in the form that your top performance has already happened, for example, I broke the record time in the mile, or I won the P.G.A. Championship, or I won the gold medal in wrestling. Giving your unconscious mind your resolute command, in your calm and focused mind, is a powerful gateway to ultimate success. Give yourself this forceful suggestion just prior to your performance or game.

Conclusion

Experiment with these sports hypnotic techniques to find what is most effective for you and have fun exploring. Furthermore, when you think about it these hypnotic techniques can have applications in many areas in life.

 

Utilizing Self-Hypnosis to attain Academic Success

Lesson Two: Utilizing Self-Hypnosis to attain Academic Success

About two months have passed since I blogged about a simple self-hypnotic technique to Enhance Relaxation and Reduce Stress. Time necessary for those interested and motivated to master this basic technique and skill. Now it is time to apply this skill to improve your lives. The second lesson is academic dear Watson.

Here are two simple self-hypnotic techniques that will build on the self-hypnotic technique in Lesson One, which you can  easily apply in your academic pursuits to improve your academic performance and success.

 

  1. Learn how to study diligently and efficiently. Study systematically and review the material that will be on a test. This will give you confidence and lower your stress level. Practice a regular pretest routine that works for you. Consult your school counselor or the internet for test strategies if you have any difficulties.
  2. Utilize your Simple Self-Hypnotic Technique To Succeed. Prior to any exam use your self-hypnotic state of relaxation and while relaxed give yourself an autosuggestion that will help you relax and perform optimally on the test. For example, “When I sit in the test chair I will feel confident, my mind will be focused and clear, I will easily remember the test material and answer the test questions with ease and confidence.” When you first try this, I suggest you do it daily at least three days in advance of your exam. Some will only need to do it the night before or morning of the exam. In time you will figure out what works best for you. Also avoid negative thinking and self-doubts. Use your self-hypnosis to visualize a positive image of success to abolish these self-defeating thoughts. For example visualize yourself smiling and happy staring at your excellent test results. The more you practice visualization and autosuggestion the stronger they will become to neutralize self-doubt and enhance your performance.
  3. Personalize your Autosuggestions and Visualization. Your self-hypnotic techniques will be more powerful and effective if their created from your personal circumstances and needs. You may need to change your autosuggestion and visualization depending on the type to test e.g., math, history, biology, physics etc. Be creative. Here is an example. A friend of mine had failed his electricians licensing test two times. He always feared and obsessed about the presence of the Electrician’s Board Tester always seeing him as a threatening authority figure that caused my friend’s anxiety to skyrocket. Also he had difficulty comprehending the written exam questions which caused him to make mistakes in answering them. Currently, he was in a panic that he would fail the test a third time. I gave him a post-hypnotic suggestion which in reality is an autosuggestion that when he took the exam he would be struck by the fact the Board Tester was so friendly and was always smiling at him. That was how he would visualize him. I then gave him the autosuggestion that when he read the test questions he would see himself actually doing the work on the job and the answers he needed would come from his work experience as a journeyman electrician and his electrician studies. Needless to say he passed the Electrician’s Board with flying colors and proudly received his electrician’s license. Moral of the story never give up and believe in yourself and you will succeed.

Enjoy! Learn from the process and your mistakes and failures knowing you will do better.

Lesson 3: Utilizing Self-Hypnosis to improve Athletic Performance

A Simple Self-Hypnotic Technique to Enhance Relaxation and Reduce Stress

Most people’s ideas and assumptions about hypnosis are erroneously based on George du Maurier‘s 1895 novel Trilby. Svengali is a man who seduces, dominates and exploits Trilby, a young English girl, and makes her a famous singer through the use of unscrupulous hypnosis. Moreover, Dracula’s hypnotic stare as he bites his helpless victim, or from theatrical stage hypnotists who make audience volunteers do foolish, humiliating, and outlandish things.

These larger than life myths of an all-powerful hypnotist who has absolute control over his subject or victim has created unnecessary fear in the public’s mind and done great harm and disservice to the true value and benefits of hypnosis. Scientific research has proven that a person under hypnosis can not be forced to do something that is against their will – including something that is against their morals.

It is fundamental that you understand that ALL hypnosis is self-hypnosis. Self-hypnosis is a naturally occurring state of mind which can be defined as a heightened state of focused concentration. The competent hypnotist only serves as a guide to your accessing and developing your innate self-hypnotic abilities. The more you practice and utilize these abilities the more efficient and powerful they will become.

I will be offering you some simple self-hypnotic techniques that will build on each other to help you deal with stress, improve concentration and focus, and your performance. The main purpose is to help you focus on a specific goal and use your concentration, imagination, visualization, guided imagery, and autosuggestion to attain the desired result. Your motivation is key here and it is critical that you suspend all expectations and judgement about what you think you should experience, otherwise you will defeat yourself.

Lesson One:

Sit comfortably in a quiet place. Close your eyes and take a slow natural breath. With each breath imagine breathing in relaxation and exhaling tension. Repeat until you begin to feel a sensation of relaxation. Now count back from ten to one and with each count feel yourself relaxing more deeply. You may feel your body feeling lighter or heavier. When you reach the count of one take another slow relaxing breath and let your mind drift to someplace peaceful. A place in your imagination or someplace you have actually been (for example, imagine floating on a cloud without a care in the world). Continue to breathe naturally and enjoy this moment as long as you wish. Then suggest to yourself that whenever you take three slow deep breaths and think about this special calm, tranquil, and peaceful place it will be the trigger for you effortlessly relaxing in the face of stress.

The secret to self-hypnosis success is let things happen without trying to force it. Your creative mind may surprise you with an experience or symbol of relaxation that you would never have imagined. Mastery of this simple process will lay the ground work for future optimal results.

Have fun!

Next Lesson: Utilizing Self-Hypnosis to attain Important Goals

 

 

 

Example of Gloria B’s authentic automatic handwriting

Quote from Gloria Rising (The Wounded Child, pages 3-4).

“Interestingly, her automatic handwriting was like chicken scratch because her hand flew across the page while writing in trance. Similarly, intense fears and mental pressure would sometimes cause her writing to become almost illegible. At one point, she actually switched from a medium to a fine point pen, so I might better understand her writing. She often used em-dashes instead of punctuation to avoid impeding the flow of her traumatic memories, thoughts, and emotions. I chose not to edit her automatic writing for style, grammar, or punctuation so you could fully appreciate the raw and graphic power of her written word.

Moreover, the task of typing her handwritten letters was, at times, perplexing and taxing for me. Occasionally, I would painstakingly stare at a word or phrase with a magnifying glass for long periods of time as if Sherlock Holmes looking for a cryptic clue, before I could decipher its meaning from the blur of misshapen letters. Nevertheless, I vowed to transcribe her automatic writings precisely to reveal the depth of terror and agony she suffered and her epic struggle to heal and become whole.”

Dr. Adam Jaxon

Example of Gloria B’s authentic automatic handwriting (The Wounded Child, page 5).

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