Dreaming with the New Moon
I have always wondered if the Moon influences dream content and dream memory. Professor Cajochen found evidence in 2013 that […]
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MYTHOLOGY
mindfunda about mythology
Dreaming with the Moon in March 2024
I want to invite you to a month of dreaming and dream sharing that starts March 10, 2024. Four weeks
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Travel Brochure Hercules’ Holy Nights 2024
Our Travel Brochure for the Holy Nights 2024. Guided by Hercules we travel through Ancient Greece learning spiritual lessons that are still valid today
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Chasing the Light
Join us for the online event Chasing the Light where we are going to learn about Icelandic myths and sagas during the month of May 2023.
COMING SOON: Chasing the Light
COMING SOON Chasing the Light: May 01 2023 The cold green wind embraces your shoulders. You reach out to the
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Early Christmas present
I have strange dreams… At night but also fantasies… No I have to disappoint you, this is not going to
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Holy Nights 2021 – 2022: Arthur and his Ladies
I was on the verge of waking up from a powerful dream. Roaming around a castle a voice over said
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Holy Nights 2020-2021 Winter Solstice Bonus
This year, now we have been in isolation for so many months, we crave connection. Join us for a Christmas
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Odin Opens Up this Year’s Christmas Celebration
Just when I got downstairs to make some morning coffee, I heard my phone ring. A darkness clenched itself around
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Joseph Campbell Correspondence
Correspondence 1927-1987, Joseph CampbellEdited by E. LANSING SMITH, PhD & D. PATRICK SLATTERY, PhD.New World Library Novato, California$17.67 for a
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Imbolc Celebration
“What am I? Am I the bulb that carries the light, or am I the light of which the bulb
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Invitation to join the Holy Nights
Holy Nights are a special time for dreaming. It’s believed that the air between the different realms of being is thin, and that information about past, present and future can be communicated with more ease in this time frame.
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Halloween, meet the Banshee
Happy Halloween! Tonight, Banshees, and other fairies and spirits visit freely to reunite with loved ones.
Want to learn more about the Banshee that enchanted the God of Love of the Celts? Sign up and join tonight for a myth, an invitation to interpretation, questions to see how you have lived this myth and an incubation to tune into the energy of the Banshee.
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Nature Narrates its Wisdom
When you seem to have lost purpose in life, give yourself permission to spend four moments every season to reflect on your inner wisdom. Tapping into the well of your inner wisdom by reading a mythological story. Being challenged to interpret it. Getting guidance on how to work with mythology and archetypes. And last but certainly not least, to use the technique of dream incubation you’d be tuning into the wisdom that is locked in mythology.
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Celtic Mythology
Celtic Mythology is rich in symbolism of life death and transition. No wonder that Halloween or Samhain is a remainder of Celtic Mythology. This blog explores it’s origin, and how it still influences our lives.
Trickster Archetype: An Exploration in Writing the Tale
The Trickster carries an enormous number of opposites and many of the adventures could be seen as arising from the tension that is found between these opposites. Let the Trickster inhabit the darker side of life, while we use that force, through his stories, to bring us to the good side of life. Let us have balance by leaving evil in the realm of the gods and keeping good in the realm of humanity.
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Asian Journals: the Allegory of American Mythologist Joseph Campbell
This Mindfunda Book review is written by Misa Tsuruta, Ph.D. I have asked Misa, a Japanese psychologist,to write this review as
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Wonder Woman: A Female Perspective
Wonder Woman, the film entered the cinema’s and got a lot of positive feedback. Women have even reported that they were crying when they saw the film. I wanted to see the film to investigate if it isn’t an ultimate form of misogyny to admire a woman simply because she can fight like a man? Is Wonder Woman just a male soldier with big breasts and a vagina? Or is something else going on?
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Heinrich Zimmer: Myths and Symbols in Indian Art and Civilization
Myths and Symbols in Indian Art and Civilization Heinrich Zimmer, edited by Joseph Campbell shows how much Zimmer contributed to our current concepts of mythology.
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Alhambra: a whisper of desire, filled with promises.
Alhambra, the palace in Granada, is a book you can live in. There are poems everywhere… Alhambra is as magic
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Byung Chul Han: Agony of Eros, a Book Review
This is a Mindfunda blog about the book The Agony of Eros, written by Byung Chul Han.
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Egg: Symbolism
Let’s celebrate Easter with a Mindfunda Blogpost about the symbolism of the egg. Don’t you find it is strange that eggs and easter have become so close?
What you need to know about Greek Gods
The Greek Gods, we know about them. We read stories, we secretly laughed about Zeus who was always fooling around
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Easter Origin: A Pagan Eastern Fertility Goddess?
Easter Origin. Every time at Easter, Facebook postings and blogs are (re)published that talk about Eostre or Ostara. Let me tell
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Girl Interrupted:
This Mindfunda is about the film Girl Interrupted, directed by James Mangold in 1999. The film is based on the
Tarot Card Hanged Man
What does the tarot card of the hanged man have in common with Odin, God of Norse Mythology? This blog, part of the Mindfunda online Norse Mythology course finds out
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Loki, a Loud Loser or a Lucky Lord?
This is a blog about Loki, subject of our third lesson in the online Norse Mythology Course. FIND OUT MORE ABOUT
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Odin: Ongoing Original Inner Wisdom
Odin is the Norse Father God. This blog is about my new online Norse Mythology course that starts March 20,
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Start of Spring: An Invitation to Dream an Ode to Freya
The Start of Spring is always a very good time of year to start dreaming. Literally, in the night, and mentally by visualising new goals to take you to new places on your life’s path.
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Joseph Campbell: 5 Secrets to Yield Your own Yoda
A Mindfunda Book Review: Joseph Campbell The Mythic Dimension, a compilation of essays. This book will help you undertand groundwork of mythology according to Campbell
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Trickster Gods: Tricky Ways to Discover the Self
Trickster Gods are tricky. They tease you, they obstruct your path, and when you look back at your life you see how much they have helped you.
A trickster breaks the rules. The Trickster Gods have knowledge beyond this world. They can be mean, but they always put the hero on the path of his life.
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The 5 Finest Fundamental Female Ways to Become Authentic
Female mythology is about being initiated into the secrets of femininity. Mindfunda Mythology offers archetypes and questions to discover your authenticity in five steps. This blog gives you a bonus tip as well!
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Yggdrasil: Tree of Life, Portal to Nine Worlds
The Seed of Yggdrasil explores the symbolism of the old Norse poems of the Edda, poetry, by Snorri Sturluson. Maria Kvilhaug treats the Edda as a parable. Using symbolism she tries to relate the ancient wisdom to modern times.
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4 Secrets about Male Mythology: What you Should Know Before You Get One
Mindfunda Mythology of Men explores hormones as messengers, social expectations, typologies, the four male archetypes and gender differences in dreams. You can take this course at your own speed, in the privacy of your own home.
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The Amazing Animal: The Animal in Mythology
Myths are about the human struggle to deal with the great passages of time and life – birth, death, marriage, the transitions from childhood to adulthood to old age. Michael Shermer, Publisher of Skeptic magazine. Do you want to understand more about yourself, your dreams and the struggles of your life? Join our online course now.
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From Genesis to Big Bang: a Mythological View on Creation Myths
“Myths are about the human struggle to deal with the great passages of time and life – birth, death, marriage, the transitions from childhood to adulthood to old age” Michael Shermer, Publisher of Skeptic magazine. Do you want to understand more about yourself, your dreams and the struggles of your life? Join our online course now.
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Mythological Themes and Modern Movies
I have recently launched Mindfunda Movies; Four film interpretations that help you apply the mythological themes to your own life. Mindfunda
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Film Feature: Four Stories about Gender
I want to thank Jungian Author Susan Scott, artist Brenda Ferrimani and Psychoanalyst Lou Hagood for their advice on Mindfunda Movie.
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Extrovert Ideal versus Introvert World
An Introvert is a person who is energized by spending time alone. Often found in their homes, libraries, quiet parks that
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Schizophrenic Dreams and Art: Mythology of the Soul
Mythology of the Soul A Research into the Unconscious from Schizophrenic Dreams and Drawings by H.G. Baynes Routledge 2015, $61.18 paperback,
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