Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

  • Dedicated to Anachronism

    There was a small pop up that the first week of August is dedicated to society of creative anachronism. (SCA) me being me… kept wondering how could there be a day for anarchism!! It was only when I went to slow paced reading I realized it was anachronism. And anachronism meant a person or a…

  • win with civility

    Win with civility month. August is also winning with civility month. This was even more amusing than what is your legacy yet after the research on legacy yielding profound value I decided to research what this was all about. Before even venturing into the foray of celebration I needed to know what precisely civility meant,…

  • Breaking family cycles

    Breaking family cycles is the start of change. Dealing with family patterns I realized is the important work during healing be itself or someone’s it is also the hardest. Though we tend to believe that in leaving our childhood homes and embarking upon the journey of adulthood we have effectively removed ourselves  from the harmful…

  • Leaving a Legacy.

    I found out that the month of   August had another interesting observation—what is your legacy Month. I was quite surprised, not only did not know about it, but neither could I comprehend it for usually legacy meant something that is received from someone who has died. I decided to research more about it and I…

  • Finding the answers within

    The conference of birds is a lovely book, where this bird goes in search of the divine, only to find it within itself. Somewhere our fundamental questions of life are the same, we are looking for answers without.  When I say answers outside it is not about question and answer sessions but issues that we…

  • Choosing a new response to fear,

    I was viewing the advertisement of Mountain Dew,”darr kea age jeet hai” Sounds interesting. But fear is a fundamental experience that triggers a behaviour change. Actually when we think about it, like John Lennon summed it up– there are two basic motivating forces  fear and love, when we are afraid, we pull back from life,…

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