Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

Microcosm and macrocosm. Like a fractal, like a hologram, the small part recapitulates the whole. You are a microcosm of the human species and of the universe. If you fully comprehended yourself (an almost impossible task) you would know about the species and the whole universe. By looking within you can see everything. You are…

Find your animal totem. What animal essences do you need to access at this phase of your life? A young woman once came to me with a dream that involved an elk and asked, “What do native Americans say an elk means?” I told her it was more relevant what an elk means to her.…

“Murmur at nothing: if our ills are reparable, it is ungrateful; if remediless, it is vain.” Shakespeare “Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson “What poison is to food, self-pity is to life.” — Oliver C. Wilson “Self-pity is a death that has no resurrection, a sinkhole…

Be wary of absorbing toxins of any kind. The positive aspect is that this is a propitious time to work on detoxification. “I can resist anything except temptation.” — Oscar Wilde Temptations are very, very tempting and that is probably why they are called temptations. It is foolish to underestimate their power. Before you reach…

A portal opens in the mundane world. A portal opens for you every night when you enter the dreamtime, and death awaits as a magical doorway for the integrated spirit, but you may access portals in all sorts of other ways as well. Empowered imagination can open portals into other worlds. For example, both the…

Don’t lose your power and magic to infatuation and other forms of relationship obsession, or to the longing for glittering objects. The positive aspect is that this is a propitious time to work on that. Many human beings are extremely vulnerable to romantic obsession, falsely believing that they can only find wholeness through capturing someone…

A portal opens in the mundane world. A portal opens for you every night when you enter the dreamtime, and death awaits as a magical doorway for the integrated spirit, but you may access portals in all sorts of other ways as well. Empowered imagination can open portals into other worlds. For example, both the…

Toys in the attic — what is happening in your personal unconscious? Few things take as much courage and are capable of producing such valuable results as exploring the unconscious. Nothing could be more crucial than Socrates’ great commandment: “Know thyself.” Those who don’t know themselves act out their unknown contents in the world, and…

This is a propitious time to pay great attention to detail. For some, particularly introverts, it easy to lose track of details while cognitive energy is being spent lavishly in inner worlds. Meanwhile, details of the mundane physical world are neglected or missed until they bite us in sensitive areas. At other times the inner…

I Stood Upon a High Place I stood upon a high place, And saw, below, many devils Running, leaping, and carousing in sin. One looked up, grinning, And said, “Comrade! Brother!” — Stephen Crane (1871-1900) There is no such thing in nature as an H-Bomb, that is all man’s doing. We are the great danger.…