Writing / Wild Mind Guide on Substack

Field notes from the edge.

Telfer writes the Wild Mind Guide on Substack: essays on parts work, Vedic astrology, dreams and nature-based soul work, and PHASE SHIFT, a newsletter that follows the Moon. Everything here is free to read.

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Start here / Four to begin with

2026

Venus in the Underworld

The story of Inanna, the planet Venus, and the descent to SoulRead on Substack ↗

2026

The True Definition of Soul

The one true remedy for obsessive ascension is courageous descent.Read on Substack ↗

2025

Earth Is in an Ecotone: Are You?

Navigating the peril and promise of liminal space.Read on Substack ↗

2025

Reintroduction: My Name Is Telfer

Allow me to reintroduce myself.Read on Substack ↗
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Internal Family Solar Systems / The dissertation in thirteen parts

Published June and July 2026

The whole framework, one chapter at a time.

Telfer’s Doctor of Divinity dissertation weaves Richard Schwartz’s Internal Family Systems with Vedic astrology and Buckminster Fuller’s tensegrity. New to it? Start with the short explainer.

  1. PrologueThe origin story of becoming a Doctor of Divinity
  2. Chapter 1Introduction to Internal Family Solar Systems
  3. Chapter 2A personal statement on the genesis and necessity of IFSS
  4. Chapter 3The architecture of life: synergetics, tensegrity, biotensegrity and astrotensegrity
  5. Chapter 4Internal Family Systems as psychotensegrity
  6. Chapter 5The process of Internal Family Systems
  7. Chapter 6Astrotensegrity as the map of your internal planets
  8. Chapter 7The sattvic triad: the Sun, Moon and Jupiter
  9. Chapter 8The benefic planetary parts: Mercury and Venus
  10. Chapter 9The malefic planetary parts: Saturn, Mars, Rahu and Ketu
  11. Chapter 10Applications of IFSS
  12. Chapter 11Case study: changing one thing changes everything
  13. Chapter 12The conclusion (for now)
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Essays / Dreams, soul, society and the sky

  1. 2026Dream Craft in ActionHow to analyze, deepen and make sense of a dream, without interpreting it.
  2. 2026To Move Forward, Lower Your VibrationField notes on creative destruction, harmonic dissonance and the geometry of consciousness.
  3. 2026A House Divided Against Its SelfFour parts on the national family: managers, protectors and perpetrators.
  4. 2026A Practical Story about Space CraftThe instantaneous impact of remembering to remember.
  5. 2026How I Stay Engaged with an Overwhelming WorldNotes on appropriate anxiety and how to build inner resilience.
  6. 2026Stung on the TongueThe story of a sting and the sweetness it brings.
  7. 2026Earth Is in an Ecotone: How So?We are zooming through a galactic edge zone.
  8. 2023Intensification, Not InterpretationDreamcraft for mental health professionals.
  9. 2023Why I Practice DreamcraftA personal story and an invitation to remember, decode and embody your dreams.
  10. 2023The War Against IncoherenceAnd the insufficiency of meditation.
  11. 2023Avoidance, Power and PlanetsHow a childhood scene explains so much about my adult self.
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PHASE SHIFT / A newsletter that follows the Moon

New and Full Moon editions

Plant, tend, harvest and rest.

PHASE SHIFT arrives the day before each New and Full Moon. It reads the lunar month as six phases, from germination to seed, and offers each one as a rhythm for when to begin, when to push, when to gather and when to let things lie fallow.

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