Best Books on Dreams 2017
What are the best books on dreams in 2017? And my question to you: what are the most inspiring books …
Healing the Nightmare Freeing the Soul
I had my last nightmare in December 2008. I stand outside a hospital room looking in. there is a young guy waiting to …
The Ideal World: Is Science Going to Create it?
In an ideal world we would learn from the past and create a future that is based on the progress …
Cailleach: Dreaming about Archetypical Energy
The Cailleach is an ancient mother Goddess associated with winter and rejuvenation. Cailleach means “the Veiled one”. She is the giant blue faced goddess of winter, associated with death as well as with rebirth.
Body in Dreams: Gender, Animals and Out of Body Experiences
In this blog I want to explore how your own body can be a different gender in your dreams, the relationship between health and dreams and out of body experiences.
Dream Song: 5 Mental Notes that Might Help You Attribute Meaning
There are days I wake up humming a certain kind of dream song, playing in my dream. This blog explores the possible meaning of dreams and music.
Catcher in the Rye: One Dream, Two Layers
I have never read The Catcher in the Rye written by J.D. Salinger. When I had to prepare a reading list for my English class, I felt that the yearning and depression of a young teenage male was far beyond my scope of interest.
So why would this book all of a sudden appear in a dream of mine?
The Spiritual Body: Our Connection to Food
This blog is a part of a 4-blog series about the body. The first blog is about Body Image and …
Environment: 3 Ways a Place can Have an Impact on your Well Being
Your environment has got more impact on you and your state of well being than you’d imagine on first sight. Grounding Religion, a Book Review. It was only after reading this book that I could get a grip on how many aspects are involved in the intertwining of Ecology and Environment.
Body Image and Self Esteem
This is the start of a four-part blogs about the body. this one is about the psychological body image of …
The Dream Interpretation Dictionary
The Dream Interpretation Dictionary. Symbols, Signs and Meanings. by J.M. DeBord Visible Ink, 2017, $16.50 paperback ISBN-13: 978-1578596379; kindle $16.09 ISBN-10: 1578596378 …
Woman Most Wild, 3 Keys to Liberating the Witch Within
Danielle Dusky explains in Woman Most Wild, Three keys to Liberating the Witch Within that there are not one, not two, but three keys to unlock your broom closet and fly away to kiss the moon.
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.
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.
Yoga Practice for Enhanced Dream Recall
Do You know about a Yoga Practice to Enhance Dream Recall? Maybe you practice yoga on a regular basis. I …
Dream Journal: The Best Book You’ll Ever Read
This Mindfunda is about how you can set up a dream journal for your daily dream entries in a way …
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 …
7 Common Dreams: Exercise the Dream Muscles
Just like a hand is necessary in life, your dream muscles need exercise at a regular basis. And just like the hand, most of your dream muscles are not located in you dreams but in your daily life. This blog is about 7 common dreams and new ways of approaching them.
Learning Difficulties Can Be a Chance to Excel: The Power Of Different
If you have, a child with learning difficulties, like I do, you have experienced the same heart ache. You know …
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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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Who Has Been Your Best Teacher?
Remember when you were a child? You either hated to go to school or you loved it. But everybody has got one teacher that was special. It does not need to be a school teacher. Life is full of teachers. It can be your mother in law, your husband, your child.
Meaning of Dreams: 8 Ways to Start Interpreting Dreams
The meaning of dreams. If you remember a dream and it was intriguing, or emotional, the first thing you want …
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Spirit: Sensual Guide or Senseless Spirituality?
This Mindfunda is about Spirit. It is not about how to perform a séance. It is about connecting with the …
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Mind Your Motivation
Motivation is a funny thing. It comes and goes like the waves of a tide. I have not published as many Mindfunda’s as I set out to do at the beginning of the year. I wanted to write a Mindfunda every other day. And in numerous textbooks that i had to learn at University, I know that the ultimate form of motivation comes from within. Intrinsic motivation. I agree with you that it is an incredible vague concept. Let’s try to define it in more tangible form.
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
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 …
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, …
Dream Meanings: Should You Use a Dream Dictionary?
This blog is about dream meanings. Whenever someone remembers a vivid, sometimes even terrifying dream they only want to know one thing: what does this dream mean?
Who thinks Dreams have a Place in History? A Review in 4 Questions
Can information about the past gained through dreams, spirit possession rituals, or dancing performances count as history? This Mindfunda Book Review of Dreaming and Historical Consciousness in Island Greece
by Professor Charles Steward PhD, asks you 4 questions to re-write our own narrative.
International Woman’s Day: Be Bold for Change
Each year on March 8, it’s International Woman’s Day. The theme of 2017 is: Be BOLD for change. And …
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.
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
4 Features of the Dreams of the Crone
Each woman goes through phases of life: the young and fertile Maiden, the nurturing Mother and the wise Crone. A Crone is a woman who has been through hell and back, and on her travels she has gained secret knowledge.
Four Fabulous Food Tricks
Food. We all have a complicated relationship with it. Blame it on our mothers: we got something sweet when …
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.
Ramon y Cajal: Father of Neurology and his Vision on Dreams
A Book review of The Dreams of Santiago Ramon y Cajal by Benjamin Ehrlich
In this blog you will find out:
why the Nobel price winner Cajal wanted to proof Freud wrong
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!