Other Archived Articles
For the benefit of the bonsai community, we are archiving here various other articles which are seen to have value
to fellow enthusiasts.
Please contact us to consider articles for storage, rjb at magiminiland dot org.
Articles for storage here must be submitted in a
.pdf or .doc format, which we will then put in a .pdf format.
(We are also now in the process of setting up an archive for videos with our new YouTube account
MagiMiniLand
.
We will be very happy to accept your DVD-formatted videos, especially of old meetings, teachers, etc.,
again, at no charge to you to donate or access.)
Accepted articles will be preserved at no cost either to the author or to the reader,
but we do request that any reprinting of these
be done ONLY with the written permission of the author,
whose e-mail address will be posted here in a non-robot-harvestable
format (as shown above).
Relevant background material will be included with the author and title listing on this page,
which when clicked will then open
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"Integral Ecopsychological Investigation of Bonsai
Principles, Meaning and Healing" by Caroll Hermann (Final Version June 2015)
© 2015, University of Zululand, South Africa.
This was written as a Doctor of Philosophy
thesis by a clinical psychologist, editor of the Bonsai in South Africa online
magazine,
and newly elected president of the South African Bonsai Association (SABA). (carollh at telkomsa dot net)
See also these follow-up recent articles by Dr. Hermann:
"Eco-psychology:
Using bonsai to heal and find meaning"
(presented to the Psychological Society of South Africa on October 26, 2016),
"Bonsai as a group art therapy intervention among traumatized
youth in KwaZulu-Natal"
(PsyCh Journal, Version of Record online: 09 March 2021), and
"Practitioners' Experiences of the Influence of Bonsai Art on
Health" (co-written with Stephen D Edwards,
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 12
March 2021, 18(6), 2894).
"How Trees Adapt & Respond: The Growth Cycle Vie Hormones, A Review of
the online literature" by Mac Caruthers
This was originally written for the Ft. Walton Beach Bonsai Society club library to help new
members
learn training techniques faster and to become more comfortable
in making decisions on their own. (CaruthAF at aol dot com)
"A Brief Exploration of the Literati Style" by Will Heath
This was published in the Art of Bonsai Project on Mar 19, 2007,
and also printed in the Winter 2008 issue of the American Bonsai Society Journal. (will at artofbonsai dot org)
"The Myth of the Single Front" by Will Heath
This was originally published in the Art of Bonsai Project on
Apr 17, 2006,
and also published in the Unione Bonsaisti Italiani. (will at artofbonsai dot org)
"Babylon: The Origin of Bonsai?" by Will Heath
This was originally published in the Art of Bonsai Project on Jun 26,
2006. (will at artofbonsai dot org)
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A Few Other Archived Links to Early Internet References:
rec.arts.bonsai FAQ, Feb. 18, 1994
Bonsai FAQ, July 22, 1996
Internet Bonsai Club, Nov. 3, 1996
rec.arts.bonsai, some 3030 topics since at least Nov. 30, 2003