Dr Viktória G Duda
Writer,
Hypnotherapist, and
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Consciousness Researcher
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WELCOME TO MY FIREPLACE...
... where stories of the psyche are told

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Deep within us, we all carry stories: not only the memories of our lives, but memories of the karmic and ancestral past. Even our dreams are stories - surrealist tapestries woven of the symbols and archetypes of our human heritage.

Here, we work with stories not (only) to entertain but to reveal something profound about the psyche, to bring forth healing and happiness. 

Stories offer you a portal to explore the deeper meaning of your own existence: to discover why you were born and your unique purpose in this life.  
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Book: Eternal Lives

I work with stories on multiple levels and in different forms:
- As a creative writer, I tell stories that come to me from the non-physical realms. They explore some fundamental questions of our human condition: What is the meaning of life? How does consciousness evolve in the eternal cycles of life and death? What is the ultimate nature of reality?
- As a hypnotherapist, I examine inner narratives that govern our lives, often reaching back into our personal mythology of origin and the karmic past. These stories contain our shadows waiting to be turned - with inner alchemy - into gold. We can also find resources in the past, to reclaim our personal power, dormant energies, and forgotten abilities. 
- As a consciousness researcher, I collect real-life stories that reveal the leading-edge nature of our consciousness, when the seemingly impossible happens, for instance in an out-of-body or near-death experience. 

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The Deeper Meaning of Stories

'God created men because he loves stories,' these words - attributed to Elie Wiesel - I believe, express one of the greatest truths of our existence. People who have suffered an accident or illness that brought them into a temporary state of death (known as near-death experiences or NDEs), frequently say that their consciousness did not cease, but the experience became quite ineffable, as it is something outside our normal storytelling template, which works within the coordinates of time and space. 
"Psychology is ultimately mythology, the study of the stories of the soul."
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(James Hillman)
While we are alive, our experiences unfold along a pattern that is commonly known as the 'hero's journey.' Life indeed is a fairy tale, with all the tests and challenges that come before the happy or tragic end, depending on how well we lived. Life is not meant to be easy, but a terrible-beautiful transformational adventure, a process of inner alchemy where 

archetypal psychology, we can see that not only our mythologies, stories, and dreams but most importantly our lives unfold along a pattern that is commonly known as the 'hero's journey.' Life indeed is a fairy tale and here, we must not only think about the happily ever after but all the challenges and tests we have to bravely face during the adventure. It is not meant to be easy but if we learn to live like heroes instead of being victims or playing supportive roles, we can turn every problem and devastation into a worthy challenge. During this process, a deep secret of our human existence unfolds: even our smallest thoughts, feelings, and decisions influence how reality unfolds. 
Stories have been told since times immemorial...

Once upon a time, so I imagine, a shaman returned from a journey into non-ordinary realities and began to tell the adventure. The tribe - sitting around the fire freshly stolen from the gods - listened with eyes wide open. They sensed that they were hearing something important, not some make-believe tale but a revelation about life itself.
These days, stories are often belittled as mere entertainment or some form of escapism. Many times, I hear people asking: "Wasn't this just my imagination?" - to which I like to answer: "Yes, it was. But why would you use the word just? Isn't imagination the greatest of all human faculties? Without it, there would be no art, no science, no culture, no civilisation..."
The number of reported cases conserning out-of-body and near-death experiences, children remembering past lives, and other spiritually transformative events are too high for us to ignore them. It has become a call of our times to develope a science of consciousness to enable a study into these areas. This new science of the mind must be based on a different assumption than our currently mainstream materialist science. Consciousness can only be studied in any useful way if we assume that it is not matter (i.e. the brain) which produces consciousness but it is consciousness (the mind) which brings forth matter. ​
"I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative of consciousness."
(Max Planck)

"Consciousness cannot be accounted for in physical  terms. For consciousness is absolutely fundamental."
(Erwin Schrödinger)
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I have learned through observing the workings of consciousness that the world we live in is a truly magical place. It responds to changes we create in the inner world of our thoughts, sentiments, and energies, for we are, in essence, the same consciousness that is the fundamental base of all-there-is. We are the creator as well as the created.

We live in a reality born in our imagination...
welcome to a universe of wonder! 
 
With love and all my best wishes,

Viktória

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© Viktória G Duda, 2025.
"It is your mind that creates this world." (The Buddha)