COVID-19: Illness & Illumination

"Finally, a thoughtful approach to the COVID-19 pandemic! Dr. Stoller seamlessly combines the ineluctable substance of our natural milieu with the hard facts that now confront us... The additional resource of medical hypnotherapy, added in sensible measures to reduce stress and improve natural immunity, makes for a compelling argument, intended to aid in earlier diagnosis and more effective treatment." — George Plotkin, PhD, MD, Medical Director, UT Northeast Neurological Institute, and Associate Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas, Tyler "It is vital that this much-needed information reaches the public. COVID-19: Illness & Illumination is a well-researched and important contribution at this time. What makes this book even more special is that the author combines his research with his knowledge and experience as a professional hypnotherapist." — Roy Hunter, CHt, hypnotherapist, trainer, author of eight books on hypnosis "In COVID-19: Illness & Illumination he has created a map of learning, growth, and development. Dr. Lincoln Stoller is a provocative thinker with an easy to follow way of speaking and writing about complex topics and a calming effect... He provides a reassuring approach to well being in this time of powerful transformation." — Monica Geers Dahl, EdD, CHt, IMDHA Life Diplomat in Hypnotherapy These chronicles mix physics, medicine, hypnotherapy, technology, culture, learning, politics, and the news surrounding the Coronavirus from March through June of 2020. This is the first phase of the pandemic, before the expected second infection, and before any vaccine. This mixing of perspectives is unusual. Few authors have the background to support it. Fewer recognize that integrating many perspectives is necessary to understand what has and is continuing to happen. The virus is not one thing having many impacts; it is many things happening with the virus at the center. The situation cannot be understood without considering the chaotic forces and policies that formed it. There is no "one story;" no one authoritative point of view; no single, resolving explanation. Any such orderly presentation of events—and there will be many as various pundits, experts, and spokespeople present their cases—is one slice through a multi-dimensional event. Much of what becomes evident has been brewing for years—maybe centuries—hidden in policies, bureaucracies, attitudes, economies, cultures, ecological injury, and other dynamics whose combustible elements were either segregated, inactive, unrecognized or mutating toward this trigger point. Each chapter in this book ends with a hypnotic session presenting the material in a manner that engages your emotions and detaches you from your senses. I have included a link to a folder on the internet that contains MP3 sound files that you can download. In this folder, there is a sound file for each hypnotic session, and you may listen to these files at your convenience.