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 …
Mindfunda Miscellaneous
Miscellaneous Matter, found and curated by Mindfunda
Hecate, Dark Goddess, Bright Star of the Holy Nights
‘When the light of the outer sun is faintest and its warmth feeblest, now is the time when the soul withdraws into the darkness but can find within itself the inner, spiritual Light that is kindled in the other darkness.
But for one whose eyes of spirit are opened the Thirteen Days and Thirteen Nights between the 25th of December and the 6th of January are a time of deep spiritual experience’.
Rudolf Steiner about the Holy Nights.
The Holy Wild: A Heathen Bible for the Untamed Woman
Book review of The Holy Wild: A Heathen Bible for the Untamed Woman. Danielle Dulsky asks us to look at our own stories and “tiny soulful treasures long-buried” for spiritual truth and to embrace our right to an authentic relationship with the sacred.
Improve Dream Recall using Supplements (I am not a doctor, inform yourself before using)
A short Mindfunda Movie about using supplements to improve dream recall
The Hidden Worlds: Book Review
The Hidden Worlds is an easy to read book aimed at teen readers about using shaman techniques to address environmental problems. The Hidden Worlds introduces power animals, the four elements and mutual dreaming to enter the hidden worlds of perception.
Me too, But Now What?
I have decided that I refuse to share he humiliating stories that I and many women have to live through. But this touches my heart so much that I can not stay silent. Please let there finally be the change in society that women long for.
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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Civil War and Dreams: The Home Voices Speak Louder Than the Drums
Wanda Burch re-writes the American civil war in terms of dreams. She has collected a multitude of dreams that make you realize how important dreams were in that time period. Newspapers published dreams about the end of the war as a way to shed some light on the question when the war should end. A book filled with remarkable dreams. If you like history and love dreams, this is a book for you.
The Fiction of Dreams, A Book Review
Dreams are a manifestation of fiction. In The Fiction of Dreams Otto Rheinschiedt takes us on a journey to discover how dreams and fiction are part of the universal creation.
Writing in the House of Dreams by Jenny Alexander
Dreams are stories that beg to be written. Writing an dreaming both seem to tap into another real of reality with different laws. A Mindfunda Book Review of Writing in the House of Dreams, written by Jenny Alexander.
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 …
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.
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.
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.
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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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.
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.
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
Aging and Becoming: A Roadmap Towards Authenticity
Aging and Becoming, A Reflective Inquiry, written by Susan Scott and Susan Schwartz is a book that will try to paint a roadmap of your journey through aging, using the letters of the alphabet as gps points.
Five books to Read on Dreams in the first Three months of 2017
Here is Mindfunda’s selection for books you can read on dreams. Books on the cutting edge of psychology, mythology and (neuro)science that will make your life better
Is a Dream A Story? Philosophy, Dreaming and Literary Imagination
People are story tellers. I have always had that romantic notion of Homo sapiens siting around the campfire in ancient times listening to stories. Like we, in this day and age sit around our television set and watch story after story. In the night we follow the stories of our dreaming mind.
But why hasn’t there been any book that explores the intersection of dreaming and literary imagination. A book that draws together neurocognitive, empirical, philosophical and literary sources. Until Michaela Schrage Früh stepped up the plate and wrote this juicy, well written book.
Freud in His Time and Ours
Freud in His Time and Ours by Roudinesco contains more than 400 pages of information about Freud, his life, his disciples and his personality. A must read for anyone who is interested in dreams.
Nutrition, Neurons, and the Brain: Your Brain on Food Book Review
Your Brain on Food, How Chemicals Control Your Thoughts And Feelings by Gary L. Wenk Oxford University Press, 2010, 2015, …
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Conan Doyle: Gothic Tales,
Gothic Tales, by Arthur Conan Doyle Edited with and Introduction and Notes by Professor Darryl Jones Oxford University Press, 2016, $14,95 …
The Krampus and the Old, Dark Christmas: Roots and Rebirth of the Folkloric Devil
As a figure of ritual importance since the pre-Christian era, the Krampus is of archetypal significance. He lives in the cultural unconscious … and bidden or not, he will come.
Lovely Lunatic Supermoon Gazing
I hope your Lunatic alert is buzzing this week, because it will be a Supermoon November 14, 2016. This is …
Book Review: 11 titles on Mindfunda 2016
Welcome to this years’ list of book review’s that I put on Mindfunda. At its core, Mindfunda is here to …
Cat Call for the Soul: the Bond between Cats and Humans
Call of the Cats What I Learned about Life and Love from a Feral Colony by Andrew Bloomfield New World …
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Consciousness: the Ripples in the Lake of the Brain
‘A Day in the Life of the Brain – The Neuroscience of Consciousness from Dawn Till Dusk’ by Susan Greenfield …
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3 things you should know about a Visitation Dream
A Visitation Dream is like an orgasm. If you had one, you know it. There is no doubt about it. …
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Children Dream about Sleep Monsters and Superheroes
Sleep Monsters and Superheroes: Empowering Children through Creative Dreamplay Clare R. Johnson and Jean M. Campbell, Editors ABC-CLIO, LLC 2016, …
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Sleeping Well, Remembering Dreams
Today’s Guest Blog: Sleeping Well, Remembering Dreams is written by Christian Gerike M.A, who teaches The Psychology of Dreams at Sonoma State …
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 …
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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The Power of Ritual: Informative and Intriguing
The Power of Ritual by Robbie Davis Floyd and Charles Laughlin Daily Grail Publishing, 2016, $26.95 paper, ISBN 978-0-9874224-9-1 Reviewed …