mindfunda about mythology
Discover the profound symbolism of the snake in dreams as a guardian of ancient wisdom, a healer bridging intuition and reason, and a grounded companion of the earth. Drawing from mythology, Jungian analysis, and dream interpretation, this blog explores the snake’s enduring connection to the divine feminine, rebirth, and primal energy.
Snake in dreams: 4 archetypical implications Read More »
Explore the symbolic meanings of dogs in dreams. From loyalty and aggression to depression and transformation, this blog uncovers the rich archetypical implications of our canine companions in the dream world.
Dog in dreams: 3 archetypical implications Read More »
Guided by the Star: A Holy Night Dream Journey
Embark on a transformative 12-night experience this holiday season! From December 25, 2024, to January 6, 2025, explore the sacred wisdom of the Holy Nights—a time when dreams hold the power to guide your year ahead. This unique event blends ancient traditions, Jungian archetypes, and spiritual growth as we journey through universal symbols like the Star of Bethlehem, the Divine Child, and the Three Wise Men.
Each night offers a new archetype, guided meditations, and reflective insights to illuminate your inner wisdom. Uncover personal growth, connect with like-minded seekers, and honor the light within.
✨ Sign up today to begin your journey into the profound mystery of the Holy Nights!
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Discover how the Moon influences your dreams and explore the transformative power of lunar cycles. Learn how alchemy’s stages—nigredo, albedo, and rubedo—connect to dreamwork, and find inspiration for personal growth through guided dream incubation and Moon-based practices
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Join a transformative month-long journey of dreaming with the Moon. Explore the phases of the Moon—New, First Quarter, Full, and Last Quarter—and their deep connection to dreams. Through mythological stories, guided dream incubations, and shared reflections, uncover the wisdom of your subconscious and embrace the Moon’s mystical energy.
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Embark on a transformative spiritual journey with our annual Holy Nights’ Journey 2024. Explore the 12 Labors of Hercules, from conquering the Nemean Lion to navigating the underworld. Each night offers profound reflections and mythological insights, helping you tame inner struggles, embrace patience, and balance your life’s challenges. Dive into this epic adventure and rediscover the hero within.
Travel Brochure Hercules’ Holy Nights 2024 Read More »
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.
I have strange dreams… At night but also fantasies… No I have to disappoint you, this is not going to
Early Christmas present Read More »
I was on the verge of waking up from a powerful dream. Roaming around a castle a voice over said
Holy Nights 2021 – 2022: Arthur and his Ladies Read More »
This year, now we have been in isolation for so many months, we crave connection. Join us for a Christmas
Holy Nights 2020-2021 Winter Solstice Bonus Read More »
Just when I got downstairs to make some morning coffee, I heard my phone ring. A darkness clenched itself around
Odin Opens Up this Year’s Christmas Celebration Read More »
Unveiling the Hero’s Journey of Joseph Campbell: A Review of Correspondence 1927–1987
Dive into the intricate tapestry of Joseph Campbell’s life as chronicled in Correspondence 1927–1987. This compelling collection of letters offers an intimate look into the mind of the legendary mythologist whose “Hero’s Journey” framework reshaped storytelling. From his early days in Paris discovering symbology, to his intellectual exchanges with luminaries like Angela Gregory and Jiddu Krishnamurti, the book maps Campbell’s evolution as both scholar and seeker.
Follow Campbell through trials of personal and professional struggle during the Great Depression, his transformative insights into mythology, and his eventual triumph with The Hero with a Thousand Faces. The letters also confront controversies, offering a nuanced exploration of Campbell’s philosophies, relationships, and the era’s intellectual currents.
If you’re a fan of Campbell or intrigued by the roots of modern mythology, this book is a treasure trove. Read on to learn how Campbell’s hero’s journey mirrored the mythic structure he so famously championed.
Joseph Campbell Correspondence Read More »
“What am I? Am I the bulb that carries the light, or am I the light of which the bulb
Imbolc Celebration Read More »
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.
Invitation to join the Holy Nights Read More »
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.
Halloween, meet the Banshee Read More »
Are you looking for an online event that will help you to upgrade your ability for precognitive dreaming? Steven Ernenwein tells about the Holy Nights and how these nights have predicted his future year. It’s fun, affordable, feel invited to join us
Precognitive Dreaming During the Thirteen Holy Nights Read More »
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.
Nature Narrates its Wisdom Read More »
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.
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.
Trickster Archetype: An Exploration in Writing the Tale Read More »
This Mindfunda Book review is written by Misa Tsuruta, Ph.D. I have asked Misa, a Japanese psychologist,to write this review as
Asian Journals: the Allegory of American Mythologist Joseph Campbell Read More »
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?
Wonder Woman: A Female Perspective Read More »
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.
Heinrich Zimmer: Myths and Symbols in Indian Art and Civilization Read More »
Alhambra, the palace in Granada, is a book you can live in. There are poems everywhere… Alhambra is as magic
Alhambra: a whisper of desire, filled with promises. Read More »
Explore The Agony of Eros by Byung Chul Han, a profound analysis of love’s decline in modern society. From Eros’ connection to the Other to the ‘inferno of the same,’ this book challenges our views on love, relationships, and individuality in a consumer-driven world. Is Eros truly dead?
Byung Chul Han: Agony of Eros, a Book Review Read More »
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?
The Greek Gods, we know about them. We read stories, we secretly laughed about Zeus who was always fooling around
What you need to know about Greek Gods Read More »
Easter Origin. Every time at Easter, Facebook postings and blogs are (re)published that talk about Eostre or Ostara. Let me tell
Easter Origin: A Pagan Eastern Fertility Goddess? Read More »
This Mindfunda is about the film Girl Interrupted, directed by James Mangold in 1999. The film is based on the
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
Tarot Card Hanged Man Read More »
This is a blog about Loki, subject of our third lesson in the online Norse Mythology Course. The first lesson,
Loki, a Loud Loser or a Lucky Lord? Read More »
Odin is the Norse Father God. This blog is about my new online Norse Mythology course that starts March 20,
Odin: Ongoing Original Inner Wisdom Read More »
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.
Start of Spring: An Invitation to Dream an Ode to Freya Read More »
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
Joseph Campbell: 5 Secrets to Yield Your own Yoda Read More »
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.
Trickster Gods: Tricky Ways to Discover the Self Read More »
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!
The 5 Finest Fundamental Female Ways to Become Authentic Read More »
Explore the profound symbolism of Yggdrasil, the Tree of Life in Norse mythology, through Maria Kvilhaug’s illuminating book The Seed of Yggdrasil. From Odin’s universal spirit to the serpent gnawing at the roots, this book offers a deep dive into Old Norse myths, their parables, and their connection to the human experience. Discover Yggdrasil as a metaphor for the human body, psyche, and collective unconscious, interwoven with comparative mythology and Goddess traditions. Ideal for mythology enthusiasts, this book unlocks the rich wisdom of ancient Norse tales.
Yggdrasil: Tree of Life, Portal to Nine Worlds Read More »
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.
4 Secrets about Male Mythology: What you Should Know Before You Get One Read More »
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.
The Amazing Animal: The Animal in Mythology Read More »
“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.
From Genesis to Big Bang: a Mythological View on Creation Myths Read More »
Discover the hidden strengths of introverts and how to thrive in an extroverted world. Explore the psychology of introversion, Jungian insights, Susan Cain’s “Quiet,” and the symbolic power of dreams to embrace your true self.
Extrovert Ideal versus Introvert World Read More »
