IRELAND-FREY, Louise 1912- (Louise I. Frey)

PERSONAL:

Born November 12, 1912, in Meridian, ID; daughter of Harry Arthur (in animal husbandry) and C. Myrtle (a homemaker; maiden name, Kahl) Ireland; married Charles T. Frey, June 10, 1939 (divorced November 12, 1971); children: Lawrence W., Robert C., William I., Stephen J. Ethnicity: "Caucasian." Education: University of Colorado—Boulder, B.A., 1934; Mount Holyoke College, M.A., 1936; Tulane University, M.D., 1940; studied hypno-therapy, 1955-57, 1978-79. Politics: Liberal. Religion: Unitarian-Universalist. Hobbies and other interests: Music, astronomy, metaphysics, religions.

ADDRESSES:

Home—1322 Florida Rd., No. 4, Durango, CO 81301. E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER:

Physician in private practice, Wichita, KS, 1942-43, and in Colorado, 1971-85; hypnotherapist and teacher of hypnosis classes, 1979-99.

MEMBER:

Federation of American Scientists, Union of Concerned Scientists, Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi, Alpha Omega Alpha.

AWARDS, HONORS:

Gold Medallion, Colorado Centennial Essay Contest, 1976; Life Achievement Award, American Council of Hypnotist Examiners, 2001.

WRITINGS:

Freeing the Captives, Hampton Roads Publishing (Charlottesville, VA), 1999.

O Sane and Sacred Death: First-Person Accounts of Death, Blue Dolphin Publishing, 2002.

Contributor to periodicals, including Journal of Regression Therapy. Some writings appeared under the name Louise I. Frey.

WORK IN PROGRESS:

Revising booklets for hypnosis classes; material on the metaphysical and spiritual uses of hypnosis for research and therapy; research on self-hypnosis and directive hypnosis.

SIDELIGHTS:

Louise Ireland-Frey told CA: "From childhood I planned to write many books (and made up catchy titles for them), but writing was postponed for many decades by the Depression years, schooling, ill health, rearing four sons, et cetera. There were many things I wanted to say; some of them I wrote as letters to editors. Some were things I had learned and eagerly wanted to share.

"Kipling of the nineteenth century and Pearl Buck of the twentieth were two of my heroes, both as human beings and as writers. They wrote 'from the heart' as well as from the head, using beautiful language for their messages. They put themselves into the characters they wrote about, not standing back.

"During long years of chronic fatigue, when I was threatened by depression, as an antidote I chose a subject with a cheerful, triumphant ending, the life of Gautama Buddha, and I began by reading numerous books on the fauna, flora, and geography of northern India. This work, based on the ancient Pali scriptures, did help to counteract the horrors of World War II. Before each writing session I meditated, formally or informally, and 'lived' each episode along with the persons who actually did live it, so that the long ago became Now. The short book I had in mind became, over the next fifteen years, a trilogy: the historical novel The Blossom of Buddha. It has not been published.

"Aside from that I have written of events and experiences from my own life and learning, including personal experiences as hypnotic subject or facilitator. The several hundred hours of amateur experimentation with regression that a few friends and I did in the mid-fifties (largely unfettered by previous teachings) revealed that the altered state of consciousness contains amazing potential and far fewer limitations than we expected. Years later professional training qualified me for certification as a clinical hypnotherapist, and I began a new career at age sixty-seven. Results of the work with hypnosis have included a short book on the awareness of embryos and fetuses, the changes and pathways of consciousness after death of the body, and several different metaphysical aspects in between. Two books have been published so far.

"My motivation for writing? To share these fascinating experiences and knowledges that have been coming my way!"