With Special Guest:

Lieutenant Devin Chase

Detective Glenn Wash has worked for the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department for over 14 years. Detective Walsh's assignments include; 4 1/2 years in custody, 5 years working Patrol at Century Station, and 4 1/2 years as a Narcotics Detective. He is also a member of the California Narcotics Officers Associations and on the State Executive Board. Detective Walsh has over 300 hours of formal narcotic training and is a Drug Recognition Expert Instructor.

Also Joining the Show:
Lieutenant Devin Chase has been a police officer since 1982, and has worked a variety of assignments, including positions as a narcotics investigator and sergeant of a narcotics team. Lieutenant Chase is currently the commander of the Vice and Narcotics Division for the Torrance Police Department. Prior to joining the Torrance Police Department in 1985, Lieutenant Chase served as a Patrol and Field Training Officer for the City of Vernon Police Department.

Lieutenant Chase has been teaching a variety of narcotic related topics since 1991 for law enforcement, educators and citizen groups. Lieutenant Chase has lectured extensively throughout the United States on various narcotics related topics for Local, State and Federal Law Enforcement Agencies. Lieutenant Chase is the past chairman of the Los Angeles Region of the California Narcotic Officers Association and a regular instructor for the California Narcotic Officers Association. From 1995 through 2005 Lieutenant Chase was an International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) Certified Drug Recognition Expert Instructor.

Lieutenant Chase was the 2005 California Narcotic Officers Association Al Stewart Narcotic Officer of the Year for the State of California.

Los Angeles Sheriff's Department
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I invited Detective Walsh & Lieutenant Devin Chase on to answer questions that you, the listeners, have asked me many times and speak on the myths that marijuana isn't a real drug and wine isn't really alcohol.

We are going to get clear on this subject so we can help ourselves and then our kids.
Detective Walsh also served the in the United States Marine Corps and served in operation Desert Shield/Desert Storm in 1990/1991 and Iraqi Freedom in 2003.
Married and a father of two, this matter becomes very personal.………….

Young people are exposed earlier than ever to drugs.
Substance abusers incur 300% higher medical costs than non drug users.
Drug users are 1/3 less productive on the job and are much more likely to miss work.

Young users suffer;

More illnesses
Miss more school
And are more prone to criminal acts than non-users

This is a World Issue!! 200 Million People internationally consume illegal drugs
400 Billion dollars change hands yearly on illicit drugs and more than 50% of US police and other law enforcement said Methamphetamine is their biggest drug problem.

Drugs have been around as early as the 15th century. During the 1960's, music and the media invaded our world and helped make drug use popular. The college student would stay up dancing and partying for 3 consecutive days using amphetamines. The middle school or high school kid became addicted to alcohol, marijuana or even Ritalin. How many moms can't function without pills for depression? Let's not forget the professional business person that is addicted to alcohol and cocaine.
Alcohol related car accidents are the 2nd leading cause of teenage death in the United States.

The most commonly used illicit drug is Marijuana. I have heard many kids and parents say "drugs and alcohol are just a way of life and expect their children to do it”!
Why is this considered normal? Yes, I know when the "masses" of anything are doing something, that creates the judgment of "normal", but does that mean that "normal" is what should be?

Many children have told me their goal was to get "high" and have a "good time". Is that what life is about now?
What does that do to the other feelings that are a part of life? Life is all encompassing. If we block our other sensitivities will will that do to our lives and the lives of others? Sometimes being upset is appropriate and tells us we need to check-in and do something. Like an upset for flood victims, child abuse etc.
Drugs and alcohol are how we and our children have begun to process problems, feelings and issues.

If you want to open a great business, Rehab's are one of the top successful businesses to have. Why? It is really that hard to stop, yet we keep getting our friends and even our children to join us.

I have heard people and parents tell friends and their own children, “Come on, have a drink, it's a celebration! Is there something wrong with you if you don't?” To be sober is not about inner strength anymore, but it is considered strange and weird to be sober and something is socially "off" with you, right?

Do you want drugs or life more?

People often do drugs to:

Feel comfortable in public or with the opposite sex
To just see “what it's like”
To make others feel more comfortable, to please others
To act cool or like a "grown up"
To run away from something

I call the Addict "Super A!” The Super A's goal is to act like a savior and it wants to give you good feelings when you feel bad or uncomfortable. The addict is not who you are, but just a part of you that is leading your life. Drugs and alcohol disconnect you from yourself and your friends and family.
How are the people around you acting and feeling as you do drugs or drink alcohol?

Drugs and alcohol affect you emotionally . Cocaine, for example, can bring you up to a false happiness but when it wears off you crash to a very low state. Drugs will completely mess with your picture brain and creativity. You can feel slow and unclear and some drugs can cause hallucinations and paranoia. Drugs break down your immune system as well, often depleting your system of oxygen which moves your body to an acidic state causing your general health to break down.

Detoxing your body is a must to get off of drugs. Some drugs contain toxins that sit in your fatty tissue for years and continue to affect you long after you've stopped using. A colon and organ cleanse is strongly recommended. Detoxing can help stop the cravings.
•••See the Dr. Group show on my web site••

Alcohol depresses your central nervous system. Yes, it lowers your inhibitions, but you lose common sense discernment. Plan on a loss of coordination slow reflexes, blurry eyesight, little or no memory,or blackouts.

Over time you will be able to drink more, but physically it can affect your liver and create heart disease.


Marijuana comes in all kinds of forms now a days. Lollipops, brownies, cookies, tongue mints, teas etc. Marijuana/Weed can cause anger/violent bursts. According to a National Household Survey on Drug Abuse, kids who frequently use marijuana are five times more likely to steal than those who do not use the drug. The potency of marijuana is stronger today than ever before. The growing techniques and certain seeds have created a higher THC level, making the marijuana more potent.
It creates:
• poor memory
• weakened ability to problem solve
• no sense of time
• loss of coordination
• sleepiness
• increases appetite
• too relaxed
Long term:
• Can cause psychotic behaviors and thinking.
• Damage the lungs and heart
• Aggravates bronchitis, coughing and wheezing
Using marijuana as a medical aid is like any other drug. It requires specific prescribed doses, like 1-2 hits to stop nausea in chemotherapy. If your body is not in need of a drug then a drug begins to break your body down because it was fine to start with.
So using the philosophy “Truth above feelings” here is extremely important. The truth is do not take or do what you do not need.

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Roger F. Bass, Directo
Los Angeles High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area
OFFICE OF NATIONAL DRUG CONTROL POLICY

Washington, DC 20503, For Immediate Release: Contact: ONDCP Public Affairs: 202-395-6618
Thursday June 12, 2008
New Report Finds Highest-Ever Levels of THC in U.S. Marijuana
Increased Potency of Smoked Marijuana May Be Responsible for Serious Mental Health Consequences for Teens
(Washington, D.C.) – Today, the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) and the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) released the latest analysis from the University of Mississippi’s Potency Monitoring Project, which revealed that levels of THC – the psychoactive ingredient in marijuana – have reached the highest-ever amounts since scientific analysis of the drug began in the late 1970s. According to the latest data on marijuana samples analyzed to date, the average amount of THC in seized samples has reached a new high of 9.6 percent. This compares to an average of just under 4 percent reported in 1983 and represents more than a doubling in the potency of the drug since that time.
To read the whole report visit. www.WhiteHouseDrugPolicy.gov

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This is from the Sydney Morning Herald, Austrailia

http://www.smh.com.au/news/health/dope- ... 41179.html

Dope smokers not so mellow any more

Kate Benson Medical Reporter
July 30, 2008

MORE than a third of people who present at Sydney emergency departments after smoking cannabis are violent and half have mental health problems such as severe anxiety and suicidal thoughts, shattering the image that dope smokers are relaxed and sleepy, researchers have found.

The data, collected by the National Cannabis Prevention and Information Centre, at the University of NSW, indicates that cannabis users can be as aggressive as crystal methamphetamine users, with almost one in four men and one in three women being violent toward hospital staff or injuring themselves after acting aggressively. Almost 12 per cent were considered a suicide risk.

"It flies in the face of what people typically think of cannabis - that it is a natural herb that makes people mellow," the centre's director, Professor Jan Copeland, said yesterday.

"The reality is that it can make people highly agitated and trigger acute episodes of anxiety."

She said the study, which covered two hospitals from 2004 to 2006, revealed that more than 9 per cent of cannabis users had depression or bipolar disorder, 5 per cent had schizophrenia and 4 per cent had paranoia and a history of self-harm.

"It's the first time we have ever gathered this data and it is highly surprising. It's apparent that we need a higher level of early intervention to pick up these problems before they get to the emergency department," Professor Copeland said.

The head of emergency at St Vincent's hospital, Gordian Fulde, said yesterday most people still believed marijuana was a soft drug, but "the old image of feeling sleepy and having the munchies after you've had a smoke is entirely inappropriate for modern-day marijuana".

"The grass we smoked in the '60s could have been lawn clippings compared to this completely different breed of nasty cat," he said.

"With hydroponic cannabis, the levels of THC [the active ingredient tetrahydrocannabinol] can be tenfold what they are in normal cannabis so we are seeing some very, very serious fallout."

Cannabis use was soaring among young professionals in the city and inner west, Dr Fulde said, but users rarely needed sedation.
Elizabeth Edwards
Drug-Free Projects Coalition, Inc.
Programs and strategies to prevent and reduce drug use
through student drug testing programs, informed public policy
and drug-free workplace programs
http://www.studentdrugtesting.org
Direct line: 520-790-9153

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Inhalants are sniffed and huffed. This includes household products such as glue, nail polish remover, paint, paint thinner, lighter fluid etc. This affects the brain. Inhaling from the nose or mouth, you can cause permanent physical and mental damage. It kills the oxygen in the body. The heart beats irregularly and faster.
This can create:
• nausea
• nose bleeds
• liver, kidney and lung damage
Long term: Inhalants can make people unable to walk, talk and think normally. The brain tissue gets damaged from the toxic fumes being inhaled through the sinus.

Ecstasy is usually in a form of some kind of pill. It's a laboratory drug. So anything can be put in it like; caffeine, meth-amphetamine, ketamine (animal tranquilizer) and sometimes cocaine. It's in the family of hallucinogens and stimulants. Mixing this drug with alcohol is very dangerous and can kill you.
Can cause:
• more drug cravings-
• severe anxiety
• sleep problems
• fainting
• chills or sweating
• paranoia
• depression and confusion
This one can kill you even on your first try.

Cocaine comes in 2 forms, powder or Crack, also known as Rock Cocaine. Powder cocaine can be injested orally, snorted and can also be taken intravenously. When powder cocaine is made into rock cocaine, it is smoked. It is made from the coca plant and next to methamphetamine creates the biggest psychological dependence on any drug. Cocaine causes a short intense "high" and is followed by intense depression, edginess, and a craving for more. You will not eat and sleep well on this drug. You can feel paranoid, angry, hostile and anxious even if you aren't "high" at the time. You can have auditory hallucinations as well. This is a drug where more is needed to get the same "high" as before. This addiction is so intense you can murder to get more. The depression is so intense you are capable of suicide too.

Kiddie Cocaine (Ritalin)
This is a common name for methylphenidate classified as a Schedule II narcotic according to the Drug Enforcement Administration. It can cause nervousness, insomnia, heart racing. It can cause suicidal thoughts, psychotic behavior, aggressive or violent behavior. This is an update from the Food and Drug Administration from 2005.

Crystal Meth & Methamphetamines are inhaled, smoked or injected. Low doses can be in pill form. Crystal meth is a form that resembles small fragments of glass or shiny blue-white rocks. On the street it is called "ice" "crystal," "glass" etc. It is powerful and very addictive. It is manmade and causes aggression and violent or psychotic behavior.
This one only takes one time to be addicted.

Heroin is usually injected, snorted or smoked. It is highly addictive. Heroin enters the brain rapidly but makes you think and act slowly. This is serious. It is often linked to violence and crimes.
You can be cloudy, nauseous, vomit as you can feel no pain.

LSD is often in tablets, capsules or in liquid form. This is one of the most potent mood-changing synthetically made drugs and is chemically similar to the extremely poisonous ergot fungus which grows on rye and other grains. A tiny amount can cause 12 hours or more of its affects.
Can Cause:
• dilated pupils
• high body temperature
• sweating
• loss of appetite
• sleepiness
• dry mouth
• tremors
People have experienced terrifying thoughts and feelings and have a fear of insanity
Long term: You can get flashbacks, a repeated "trip" and psychosis

Oxycodone the powerful painkiller.
The more common and brand names for Oxycodone are OxyContin, Percocet and Percodan. It is a legal narcotic available with a prescription for the relief of severe pain. It is usually in pill form. In street use it is often crushed and snorted, chewed or mixed with water and injected eliminating the time release factor so people can have a quick and intense rush to the brain. It is as powerful as Heroin. It affects the nervous system as well.
Can cause:
• nausea
• constipation
• sedation
• dizziness
• vomiting
• headaches
• dry mouth
• weakness
• sweating
Long Term: People can increase their tolerance so that high dosages are taken for the initial effect. The drug is addictive and causes withdrawal symptoms if you try to stop.

PCP (phencyclidine) was developed in the 1950s as an intravenous anesthetic, but its use for humans was discontinued because it caused patients to become agitated, delusional, and irrational. Today individuals abuse PCP because of the mind-altering, hallucinogenic effects it produces.
PCP is a bitter-tasting, white crystalline powder that is easy to dissolve in water or alcohol. PCP may be dyed various colors and often is sold as a tablet, capsule, liquid, or powder.
What are the risks? PCP is an addictive drug; its use often results in psychological dependence, craving, and compulsive behavior. PCP produces unpleasant psychological effects, and users often become violent or suicidal. PCP poses particular risks for young people. Even moderate use of the drug can negatively affect the hormones associated with normal growth and development. PCP use also can impede the learning process in teenagers. High doses of PCP can cause seizures, coma, and even death (often as a consequence of accidental injury or suicide while under the drug's effects). At high doses, PCP's effects may resemble the symptoms associated with schizophrenia, including delusions and paranoia.
Long Term: Can lead to memory loss, difficulty with speech or thought, depression, and weight loss. These problems can persist for up to a year after an individual has stopped using PCP.

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EROWID.com is a vault to tell you anything about drugs
My book, "Invisible Warfare", Chapter 7 Fear (POW) Prisoner of My Inner War
Dr. Kevin McCauley M.D., www.addictiondoctor.com 800-337-7085
www.drugfreeworld.org
1-800 NO TO DRUGS (1-888-668-6378)

The Inevitable Dimension Travel Called-

Death, Suicide and Loss

In my belief system, death is not bad or wrong; it’s simply inevitable.

The only way for the spirit to travel to the next dimension
(whatever that may be) is to shed the body, which is too
heavy and slow to bring along.

When I was younger it disturbed me that some people died old, and
some died young. Eventually, I came to accept the idea that life is an experience, and that people who die have simply had their experience.

Therefore, life and death aren’t about age. The idea that an early death is some kind of punishment is an opinion, not a fact. If death isn’t bad, then the fact that someone dies young doesn’t mean that he or she or anyone else was bad. The spirit had its experience and moved on. A lot of so-called bad people live a long life. A lot of so-called good people do not.

The more we evolve, the less we want to go back in time, and the
less we want to be young again. Every age brings its own enlightenment and wisdom. When we understand our past, it’s easier to live in the moment and not fear the future.

If we live in the past or the future, we live in fear, in a trance, and miss the here and now. If we live in the past, we dwell on anger, guilt,shame or old egotistical successes or failures. People who avoid living truthfully aren’t living lovingly within themselves or with others. People in a trance or shut down/depressed are spiritually dormant. When we live fully in truth and understanding we have no regret, and don’t fear death. Ultimately, fear of death is simply regret about how we’re living now.

The suffering associated with loss is the losing of a part of ourselves. We can become lost inside and out. This is the harm or damage resulting in any kind of loss be it relationship, kids leaving home, moving or any other change requiring us to let go. This is what losing means. It is not just about others leaving but us leaving our true selves from an emotional take over.

In Yin Yang philosophy you need to know the opposite of something to know something. So to know death and understand it is the first step to learning how to live in present time.

You can die in any of the realms. The sooner you realize which part of you is dying the faster you can get relief.

There is….
Spiritual death
Mental death
Emotional death
Physical death
Sexual death
Financial death and.....
The Psyche/ Intuitive death

How much do feelings affect your life?

How many of you know how to process your feelings and understand emotional logic?

Loss and Death, Soul to Soul

Denial, Anger, Negotiations with Fate, Depression, and then Acceptance and Getting Yourself Back or coming back with wisdom and being even better.

The stage of denial is disbelief that a loss has happened. This can even go into a pretend or fantasy land. Get to the fear and anger stage and this will pass through.

Then comes the anger phase! The people left behind begin to question the fairness of the loss. (Get the Feeling Release Paper in my book Invisible Warfare Chapter 10 or go the forum page and print the Feeling Release Paper) There is a Physical Release explained in Chapter 10 that really helps you go through your body and out.

Now we negotiate right? This stage tries to make a deal with fate to gain more time with the one who passed or left the relationship.

Depression!!!!!!!!!!! Now we start to feel and fight how very sad and upset we are about the loss and change that is inevitable in our life.

When we rinse and go through our feelings, acceptance enters and we can start to move again. Other feelings and desires start to re-enter. Be careful of guilt here. You are not being disrespectful for moving on. The truth says this is where you are supposed to be and you still need to become the best you. If you have learned anything in this process it shall become wisdom and you will begin to walk as a more evolved person.

What about thoughts or actions of Suicide/ Self Murder?

Most suicidal thoughts are based on fears, hurts and non- understandings. There are often past experiences that you didn't know how to emotionally process and therefore could not be understood. This turns into a confusion spin and a self beat of why and how you should’ve been different and feeding the suicidal thoughts and feelings and unfortunately actions.

Depression is the suppression of your truths, feeling the lack of forgiveness of self or others, poor diet; high in sugar and fats, little or no exercise and throwing your chemicals out of balance.

Remember every feeling affects the chemicals in your brain and so does food.

Helpless/hopeless causes creative and emotional death. The creative mind is Spiritual and therefore its capabilities are infinite but you can't quit or give up.

The self beat judger telling you, you are worthless or not good enough can do it too. Check to see if the negative thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are a brainwashing from someone other than you. Every human being created has a purpose so the thought of worthlessness can’t be true, but it can be real because you believe it.

Belief is stronger than truth.

Subliminal pictures of sounds/voices from the past can take your mind over if you believe them, see them, and feel them. This is not a logical problem but an emotional and psychological one.

The loss of self and self love is detrimental for a deep and honoring life.

Suicidal feelings can be terrifying.

If you can no longer see why you should go on living, your distress will seem unbearable. You may hate yourself and believe that you are useless and unneeded. You may feel rage, shame, and guilt.

Repeated painful experiences, particularly losses, can lead you to blame yourself and feel that you haven't lived up to your own standards. Unbearable situations, unsolvable problems, failures or conflicts, you may start to think that death is your only option.

It can be difficult to relate to others at this time, so you are likely to withdraw or be irritable. Even if you have family and friends around, it may seem impossible to tell them how much you need help in a helpless/ hopeless state.

If someone has hurt you badly, you may be thinking of suicide as a way of getting back at them. It is understandable to be angry with people who have hurt us, but suicide turns that anger in on ourselves.

You may not be sleeping well and waking up early, and your appetite might have changed so that you are losing weight or gaining it. You may feel cut off from your body or physically numb. Perhaps you have stopped taking care of yourself and are neglecting your mental and physical appearance. Overall, you are probably feeling like you have no energy.

If you hear voices, they may be urging you to kill yourself and you may feel worn down by the effort of resisting them. If you have just come out of a busy or really happy time, you may feel guilty too.

Mixed feelings

You may be harming yourself by cutting, biting or burning your body. Perhaps you are getting into fights or taking extreme risks. You may also be overdosing on drugs, bingeing on alcohol or have developed anorexia or bulimia. However, this kind of self-harming behavior rarely involves actually wanting to kill yourself. It is more usually a means of trying to stay alive. You may not know why you are self-harming, but it is often a way of communicating deep distress and trying to cope better.

For most people, suicidal thoughts are confusing. As much as you want to die, you may also want a solution to your upsets. There is great anxiety about having such mixed feelings and being unsure what to do. This is why suicidal thoughts can be frightening and confusing.

Can you treat suicidal voices as messengers and write them out and try to figure out the hidden message like a puzzle and know or have faith that this a is a moment and a lesson for you to grow and become deeper?

Although thinking about suicide is quite common, and may occur whatever your age, gender, or sexuality, you will be more vulnerable to suicidal thoughts and feelings if you feel incapable of solving the difficulties in your life. These may include:

• isolation or loneliness
• the breakdown of an important relationship
• being bullied at work, home or at school
• experiencing bereavement or other loss
• failure at work or education
• adjusting to a big change, such as retirement,
redundancy or your children leaving home
• debt problems
• being in prison
• pregnancy, childbirth or postnatal depression
• cultural pressures
• long-term physical pain or illness
• doubts about your sexual identity
• facing discrimination
• a history of sexual or physical abuse.

How do I get help?

SUICIDE PREVENTION & CRISIS HOTLINES

# 1-800-SUICIDE (#1-800-784-2433)

# 1-800-273-TALK (#1-800-273-8255) –Grief

Step 1
Allow yourself to go through your feelings about the death. Normal and predictable feelings you may have, include shock, anger, denial, depression, and anxiety.


Step 2
Let go of any self-blame you may have. Beating yourself up is taking too much responsibility for someone else's actions.

Step 3
Get help by joining a support group for survivors of suicide or talking to a psychotherapist.

Step 4
Nurture yourself. Give yourself plenty of time and space to relax, take it easy, and do whatever helps you feel better, such as taking walks, baths or naps; drinking tea; listening to music; reading.

Step 5
Take any pressure or expectations off yourself to "get over it" quickly. Grief can last from weeks to months or longer.

Step 6
Talk to your doctor about possibly taking medicine if you're having trouble sleeping or are experiencing anxiety or depression, or discuss the options of herbal supplements such as St. John's Wort (for depression) or kava kava (for anxiety) with your health care provider.

This is writing from one of our listeners regarding this

weeks show-

I remember when I felt petrified about death and suicide, as a little girl I remember crawling into my Mom's side of the bed, in the middle of the night, because I could not stop thinking about death. "What happens, does everything go dark and then I'll never see you again?" I couldn't grasp the thought of never seeing my family again, never being me, never existing. She always told me to have faith.

I remember, while I was driving one day, a truck moving in the opposite direction and I thought, "What if that truck just veered into my lane?"

For the seconds it took the truck to pass I wanted it to be over, my life. I would settle for the complete darkness to get rid of these overwhelming feelings. I wanted freedom from the suffocation of my own mind.

I can understand why some people take their own lives. Why people at the end of their life are okay to go. Life gets hard and painful. I was scared and numb, and a little relieved when the truck past. I tried to think of people who were suffering more than myself, which made me feel a bit absurd.

I wished for the faith my mother told me to have or something to stop the pain.

I don't understand why when I work so hard at realizing how wonderful life is, because I truly do, knowing that I am very blessed with health, family, friends, and much more. I know the power of positive thought and all that, why then do I have a battle with myself some days.

How do I stop the sadness when that is more engrained in me then being happy?

The song Soul to Soul played at the end of this program is from Mona’s album Something I’ve Gotta Trust. Soul To Soul

FROM ETIQUETTE TO DEPTH OF THE SOUL W/SAYEH SAADAT & LORIN ROCHE, Ph.D.

From Etiquette w/writer- producer Sayeh Saadat to the Depths of the Mind, Body and Soul's Awareness w/ Lorin Roche, Ph.D.

Let's face it; Etiquette is becoming a lost art. So the question is- Can you be classy, sharp, polite, and genuine at the same time?

I have brought in some help. The new 30 minute DVD from Sayeh takes us back to good manners, poise, social etiquette, dining, dating, and job interviewing targeting pre-teens to college. The basic principle of etiquette is to be gracious and kind to everyone equally. Sounds easy, right? Well look at that concept from our pre-teen to young adult age group at 2008. Remember Cotillion? That is so important for young people.

At the same time, old fashioned politeness had a sense of rigidness and phoniness in it. It was like an "act". Once the "act" was revealed we had the rebellion of sex, drugs and rock & roll in the '60's and '70's. This was followed by the "I Gotta Be Me," or how do we find ourselves of the '80's. The '90's began evolving into self awareness and the self help field. Now, we are in the "Awakening" period and trying to understand a true sense of the concept of Enlightenment with its counterpart energy of the egotistical entitlement developments of 2008.

So enters Lorin Roche Ph.D. Wait until you hear him speak this Sunday!

Now 58, Lorin has been meditating since age 18, when he signed up to be part of a research project on the physiology of meditation. He was a control subject, and received no instructions whatsoever – they paid him to just sit in a totally dark, soundproofed room in the lab for two hours a day for several weeks, and measure his brain waves. With no instructions, and never having heard of meditation, Lorin just attended to the total silence and darkness, and spontaneously entered a state of intense alertness.

One thing led to another, and soon Lorin was running his own Experimental College, which went by the name, Esalen at Irvine Experiential Workshops. He invited teachers from Esalen to come to Irvine and offer workshops in meditation, Tai Chi, Structural Integration Movement Awareness, Yoga, Dance Meditation, Art Meditation, and Gestalt Body Awareness. Each of the Esalen teachers taught Lorin an important component of what later became his own approach to meditation, which combines body awareness, movement, spontaneous gestures, mantras, visualizations, and above all, individuality.

To really understand mankind is to understand yourself and everyone around you as the same. This may be the first step to global peace?

We are all part ego and part spirit regardless of religion.

Could the road to Enlightenment be the non denial of this reality?

To "act" nice, friendly, smart, deep, and spiritual is to actually feed your low ego because you know, even if no one else knows, that you are a "fake".

You no longer trust you.

You are in low ego and acting in high ego. Good Luck.

You have now twisted your insides and will look to judge, attack or put someone or something else down asap. for inner relief of putting yourself down. Oh, by the way, you may not feel or logically know this is happening, but it is!!!!!!!
This is what I mean by understanding mankind. I don't care who you are, this "is", "what is" behaviorally.

Learn this and then the unbelievable benefits and harms of meditation. You don't go "in" yourself or others without skill.

Are you ready to Change and Evolve while being polite and honoring others with no loss of self? You gotta love this new awareness out of the master/slave mentality!!!!!!

Listen in, this Sunday July 20th, 2008 for more!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Remember trying times are healing times for growth. So we must really be growing huh?

ABOUT WRITER-PRODUCER: SAYEH SAADAT

Saadat’s website http://www.mannerscount.com, one can see a free preview and download the entire DVD or any of its sections: Job Interview, for $7.99; Dating Etiquette, $4.99; Dining Etiquette, $4.99 and/or Poise and Social Manners $6.99. The DVD can be ordered and shipped as a gift.

Media Contact:
Charlie Barrett at The Barrett Company Communications
Los Angeles, CA; 310-471-5764; Email: cbarrett@thebarrettco.com

LORIN ROCHE, PH.D. BIOGRAPHY

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME!!

TALK TO ME THROUGH MUSIC PLEASE!!

Music Talks Through the Soul.

How and Why You Say?

What effects does music have on the brain?

Welcome my special music guests
Vann Johnson & Amber Gilbert!
to The Mona Miller Show:

There will be a special treat for you all as they sing accepella and talk about what music does to them and others.

PS: And they don’t know it yet, but they will sing Happy Birthday to ME!!!!!!!!YEAH!!!!!!!

Music can have a very strong influence; is it strong enough to affect your brain?

Music can move the soul. It can be a very strong influence. Some music can calm us down; some music can make us wild! How does music affect us?

Music is used in a variety of ways. It is used in the medical field as a source of research and as a sort of therapy as well.
Music has been used as therapy for seizures, to lower blood pressure, treat ADD children, mental illness, depression, aid in healing, treat stress and insomnia and premature infants.

Music can affect energy levels, and digestion, positively or negatively, depending on the type of music. Calming music, such as classical music was found to have a very calming effect on the body, and cause the increase of endorphins, thirty minutes of such music was equal to the effect of a dose of valium. Both hemispheres of the brain are involved in processing music. The music in these studies is not the "lyrics", but the music itself, the melody, the tones, the tunes, the rhythm, the chords.

Uh oh! Music has also been documented to cause sickness. The right, or wrong music, rather, can be like a poison to the body. Studies have been done on plants where loud hard rock music, for instance, killed plants and soft classical music, make the plants grow faster. Music is very powerful, like a drug and can even be an addiction. In the case of Patty Hearst, it was documented that music was used in the aid of brainwashing her. In the book, Elevator Music, by Joseph Lanza, it states that certain types of music over prolonged periods in certain conditions were shown to cause seizures.

Watch what music does to our kinds and belief systems.

Scientists have found music trains the brain for higher levels of thinking. In a recent study at the University of California, Irvine it was found that music increases spatial-temporal reasoning—the reasoning used in learning higher forms of math and science. We can conclude from this that when a child studies a musical instrument his abilities in math and science are enhanced. This discovery will have significant ramifications for the next century, as the American Mathematical Society warns that the United States is heading for a shortage of math capability that could undercut its economic and military strength as we enter the 21st century.

In the book, The Secret Power of Music, by David Tame, it says, "music is more than a language, it is the language of languages. It can be said that of all the arts, there is none other that more powerfully moves and changes the consciousness.
It can be said that music is a very powerful and awesome tool that can have positive effects, virtually life saving mentally and physically when used in the right context, but has equally destructive and detrimental potential if used negatively.


VANN JOHNSON
Singer, Songwriter, Actress



With India’s fabled Taj Mahal as the background, the world was introduced to a thrilling new voice in popular music when VANN Johnson took center stage to sing the stirring “Love Is All” in a concert with Yanni eventually viewed by over half a billion people worldwide.

Recognized as a “singer’s singer,” VANN has been invited to blend her unique R&B power in concerts and on recordings with Grammy award winners Michael Bolton and the Temptations, her soulful styling’s with balladeer Gary Taylor and her warm, lyrical interpretations with Grammy nominated singer-songwriter Dan Hill. VANN has also performed on countless award shows and recordings with artists including Patrice Rushen, Ray Chew, Smokey Norfolk, Harvey Mason, Marvin Sapp, Al Green, Jill Scott, Jamiroqui, Wyclef, Smokey Robinson, Mavis Staples, John Legend, Kayne West, Maxwell, and Anthony Hamilton.

This concert was the basis for the highly acclaimed PBS special “Tribute,” VANN responded to worldwide requests to hear more from her as a soloist by co-writing and producing “Messages,” her first solo CD.

FEATURED SONG: "Attention" written by Vann Johnson & Lou Pardini

For the latest news about her performance, touring and recording schedules, visit
Her web site,
www.vannjohnson.com or www.myspace.com/vannjohnson.

Memajm - Make Each Moment A Joyous Masterpiece!


Amber Crosby (stage name) Gilbert Biography



Amber Gilbert has considered the Manhattan Beach Country Club home for the past five years. Several days a week she can be found laughing, singing, screaming (particularly on Wednesday’s Badger Night) and honing her skills on the tennis courts.

Professionally, Amber has enjoyed a career both in front of and behind the cameras, acting in film and television shows such as the ever-popular Days of Our Lives. Behind the scenes her vocal talents have contributed to the success of many jingles, soundtracks, and demos. Currently, Amber is pleased to be in the studio with a Grammy-award winning producer working on a country CD and video.

I was raised in music by my heritage. My family is the Crosby’s, Bob Crosby was my grandfather, and Bing was my great uncle. At that time and age everyone knew who Bing Crosby was and his brother Bob Crosby of the Bob Cats. They were loved cherished and were the standard “American Family”. Christmas wasn’t Christmas without songs from Bing Crosby and his White Christmas.

Music feels like home to me. Like “Chestnuts roasting on an open fire.” Music is like talking to God!

I write and need to sing because it’s like therapy for me when I’m hurting and happiness when I’m happy. It can help me reflect or it can set a mood or get me in a mood.

FEATURED SONG: You Don't Have To Say I Love You written by her Uncle Chris Crosby

To contact Amber Crosby call- 323-930-7368

Join the breakdown of the Declaration of Independence , the ideology of George Carlin and the education of Hal and Sidra Stone/authors of Embracing Ourselves and Embracing your Inner Critic!

Happy Birthday to my son, JJ, who is 18 years old on the 4th of July, 2008.

JJ thought that all the fireworks were for him all these years! Growing up is tough sometimes huh?

I wanted to celebrate Independence Day and the late George Carlin. Isn't that an interesting combo, but felt it appropriate. How about adding authors Hal Stone, Ph.D. and Sidra Winkelman/ Stone, Ph.D. of Embracing Ourselves and Embracing Your Inner Critic!!!!!!!!!!

How and Why you say? Watch this:

The Declaration of Independence:

Is about freedom from oppression and judgment for differences where all are created Equal!

When it is necessary for one people to leave political connection with another, to live in the power and control of this earth, we need to separate to live as equals. As we have said before-- the Laws of Nature and of Human Nature need a decent respect regarding the opinions and judgments of man. The Declaration of Independence requires that we should declare and announce the causes which have set up such a separation.

We are to Hold the Truth, that all men are created equal, while allowing those to believe in whatever Creator they choose with certain inalienable Rights. This will lead us all to Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness, which is what the Declaration of Independence is about. The Declaration is to secure these rights. Governments are made from and for Men, deriving from fair powers from the consent of the governed. Whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive to these ideas, it is the Right of the People to alter or to get rid of it, and to create a new Government, laying a foundation on these principles and organizing its form, so there is Safety and Happiness for all.

Prudence, indeed, will decide if long standing Governments should not be changed for light and transient things. And know that more people will suffer, while evils are sufferable.

Wouldn't it be great if prisons were full of therapy and programs to grow and heal and evolve as a full world?

But when a long road of abuses and seizing people wrongfully, with such behavior that it reduces anyone, this government is under a tyrant or oppressor, it is the right, and the duty, to throw off such a Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present time King of Great Britain [George III] in 1776 is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world.

This is why I call America "The Runaway Shelter." We are set up from a mentality of being abusees/victims, a master/slave mind set and yes, a recovery people as well. So we are part open and inventive and part tormenting, judgmental, fearful, controlling and punishing of differences.

If a leader refuses his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good, or has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained, and just suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them. He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people. Unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, this is the uprising of a tyrant only. If a leader has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from places of public Records, for the sole purpose of wearing them down and into compliance with his measures, he has dissolved justice. If he has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and payment of their salaries which has been affected---or has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent swarms of Officers to harass our people, without the consent of our legislatures, He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power. Changing Law for one man to decide with no checks and balances by other branches is prohibited.

For depriving us in many cases of the benefits of Trial by Jury: For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences: For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighboring cities or states, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies: For taking away our Rights, abolishing our most valuable Laws and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments: For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.

In other words
You can't take us over!

A Prince, whose character is like that of an oppressor which is defined as a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
We, therefore, the Representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by the authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare.

That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may have right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.

So how do we turn against ourselves? Man, woman, child, different religions, cultures, sexual orientation with this document and commitment? To go against any of us is to internally explode and weaken ourselves in our core. Have we not learned that differences are the way the world has been set up? To be the same is to be a step ford wife.
THINK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!FEEL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And know that someone different than you is your teacher. So learn something versus condemning it and hurting it.

So what does this have to do with
George Carlin?

George Carlin was a Social human behaviorist and Philosopher. George said if you want to be assassinated say you want to have peace and live in harmony like John Lennon, JFK, Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Gandhi and don't forget Jesus!!!!!!!!! He said; "I guess we are not ready for that yet."

George understands human being's absurdities and abuses. So did our forefathers to have written such words. First we must accept all dichotomies within ourselves and each other.

Well how do we do that? That's where George starts off and Hal and Sidra Stone step in to teach us how! This stuff is deep, interesting and can be fun if you get to George's level.

Wanna open up, see all, and play?

Trick!!!!!! No denial or judgment allowed. Ooooooo there's the hook.

Let's laugh at ourselves.
Be straight forward
Accept Imperfections and learn through owning and change
Find our different and conflicting voices good, bad and ugly and be with them and work them.

Carlin was called a genius. Why? What is that?

Webster said, genius is: a high power of mind, tutelary (protecting) spirit, prevalent feeling, taste, character.

Mona's translation: A genius is someone who sees truth without judgment and brings attention to it in a certain taste or style.

So come on and find your genius like our forefather's, George Carlin and Hal and Sidra Stone and Chapter 2 in Invisible Warfare /Crazy Voices/ Titled: I Loved My Neighbor as Myself so I Killed Him.

Happy Internal Independence Day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And thank you for Freeing the Truth for so many George. You will be missed. Died: June 22nd,2008