The lean mean dream washing machine
What if we could create a database filled with dreams about dreaming? Dreamed up by people who seriously look at […]
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Wayne Dyer: dreams are the place to create
We recently lost some inspiring men. Oliver Sacks and Wayne Dyer. Wayne Dyer was not only the self-help-best-seller guy. I read
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Persephone or how mythology is still relevant
Kore, later known as Persephone, loved flowers. One beautiful day she saw and extraordinary flower. So much beauty she had
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Oliver Sacks, the man from Awakenings, about dreaming
“Waking consciousness is dreaming – but dreaming constrained by external reality” ―Oliver Sacks Oliver Sacks, one of my hero’s died
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5 year Paleo
Five years ago I changed my diet. Big time. I changed from ‘average’: 2 times a day eating sandwiches and
Meditation
Reading ‘The Buddha Pill’ written by Miguel Farias and Catherine Wikholm gave me some insights into meditation I want to share with
3 ways to look at your Animal Totem
‘When you call upon the power of an animal you are asking to be drawn into complete harmony with the
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Create the life that you want using your dreams
Have you ever had that feeling that you are just going through the motions? You say what you need to
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Can I quote you on this? A list of the 7 best quotes
Today’s Mindfunda is about quotes. Don’t you love it when you are reading a good book and a chapter
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Birthday dreams: an example
Celebrating the 10th birthday of my youngest son made me think about birthday dreams. Not the dreams you have about
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Golden Dawn: Talking to the Gods using magic
“The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.” W.B. Yeats Almost every one
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Gossip: the ghost that glues together because it separates
A few years ago I received a mail from a former best friend I had at University. It said: “I
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John Dee, betrayed friend or accomplice?
What if you were held in high regard at the court of the English Queen, lost her favor, dwelled over
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Music and dreams
Sometimes I wake up humming a song. Sometimes I sing in me dreams. I wrote a mindfunda about it earlier (click
Trickster tactics: from archetype to evolution
The minute the builders of the Titanic announced that it was “unbreakable” the Trickster yawned and stretched and looked around for an iceberg”
Jeremy Taylor
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3 reasons to watch Pixar Inside out
The Pixar film Inside out gives an amusing look inside the head of a girl growing up to be a
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Dreaming at the crossroads of Life
This blog is a guest blog for I wrote for Patti Allen. You can find her website by clicking here. Patti
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Dreaming: Do you know Where your Consciousness Goes when You fall asleep?
You are tired. You lie down in bed, close your eyes, yawn and drift away… What happened to your consciousness? Dreaming by Jennifer Windt addresses this question. Philosophical groundwork for modern dream research.
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When a Near Death Experience (NDE) comes close
I was so glad that I could escape from my body that was aching all over, I felt like a
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Mindfunda 100, a look behind the scenes
Today I celebrate the #100th blog post of Mindfunda. The number 100 is a special number. All ratios can be
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3 ways of being creative like van Gogh
To remember the death of one of the mosr famous painters in the netherlands, Vincent van Gogh, Mindfunda was invited to give a presentation on how we can use dreams as a creative gateway to improve the quality of our lives
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James Randi, honest liar, let’s us focus on our own spirituality
James Randi, an honest liar tells in his film about his live as a magician and his crusade for the truth. But theer is a deception near that he does not know about.
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Must an Artist Struggle?
Today’s Mindfunda is written by Brenda Ferrimani. Brenda began her artistic work in the 1980’s. She was President of the Berthoud Arts and
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Sense8: a mythology of connection and magic
Mindfunda explores Sense8. The Netflix series of the Wachowskis (yes from the Matrix) has some intriguing mythological themes. Watch the show to take you to an inner journey for your personal mythology.
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Starry night, a painting as a dream
This Mindfunda looks at Starry night from Vincent van Gogh as if it was a dream. Vincent wrote his brother Theo: I dream of a painting, and then I paint my dream”.
If Starry night is a dream of Vincent, what does it tell us about him?
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Mindfulness: Muse, be Alert, Aware and amazed
Ellen Langer is a professor in psychology at Harvard university. She is also known as the mother of Mindfulness. In
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Dalai Lama dreams: here is looking at you kid!
Today Mindfunda’s guest is blogger Patti Allen. Have you ever had a dream about a famous person and wondered what
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Summer solstice: when the sun does not seem to move
Summer solstice the shortest night of the year, the longest day. How is the earth magnetic field that has an effect on your dream content affected by the summer solstice?
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Tryptophan, the royal road to sleep
If dreams are the royal road to the unconscious as Freud once said, then tryptophan is our royal road to sleep.
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Lucid dreaming book tips
How to become aware in a dream that you are dreaming? A lot of books have been written on the
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Spiritual retreats for this summer
The summer is getting near. This is the month of June and on June 21 there will be the solstice.
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Time Travel: tasting the future while dreaming the present
Lately, I have had several dreams about time travel. In my first dream, at the beginning of 2015 I was
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Astrology
Astrology is a very ancient way of dealing with crops. The Indo European people (More info here). As far back
Psychology professor Stanley Krippner about dreams myths and visions
Mindfunda had the honor of interviewing Stanley Krippner, professor in psychology on Saybrook University about his life. You can watch
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Mandorla, a way to see the other side of the coin
“The message is unmistakable our own healing proceeds from that overlap of what we call good and evil, light and
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What my near death experience did for my life
Never write about yourself is a golden rule in blogging, unless you had a near death experience. So here is my story. Hope you will tell me yours.
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Well of Remembrance: what goes down must come up
The well is a familiar symbol in Myths and dreams. I talked about it with Ralph Metzner this month for a
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Take a nap to improve your hippocampus
German researchers have showed in a recent research that taking a nap improves your grades at school
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Good books on Mindfunda
Mindfunda’s three month anniversary! An overview of the most popular blogs featuring books
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Aboriginal ancient secrets scientifically explained
Aboriginals have lived a life confirmed to the earth. Tuning into the energy of their environment, their mythologies proof to be a valuable source for scientific research
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