When the body sleeps, the soul awakens.
This workshop will explore the soul-revealing potential of dreams, using tried and true techniques to encourage lucid and intentional dreaming. Dream historian and author Sarah Janes will also discuss the historical context of dreamwork - how these techniques were used by ancient Greek, Egyptian, Mesopotamian, and Anatolian peoples to communicate with the dead, the divine, and the daimonic.
Dreaming is thought to be the oldest form of divination practiced by humanity. For millennia, and in nearly every known culture, dreams have provided people with a portal through which it has been possible to visit deceased loved ones, be visited by benevolent or nefarious ghosts, and make contact with gods and goddesses.
A lucid dream—what an ancient dreamer might have considered a “true” dream—can sometimes have profound physical, emotional, psychological, and spiritual benefits, offering the dreamer something of an apokalypsis: ultimate revelation, an embodied experience of the interconnected nature of the visible and invisible worlds.
We'll be learning about the essential elements of lucid dreaming and “dream incubation” in this two-hour experiential session. You will learn how to apply various techniques, including mechanisms from ancient times that still appear to be effective today.
Participants will receive a recording of a guided sleep hypnosis session that Sarah will do as part of the presentation.
About Sarah Janes
Sarah runs workshops and events as Dream Mysteries. She is co-founder of Dream Palace Athens, for which she curated a 10-day artist residency, lecture series, workshop, and performance programme in Athens in 2023.
Sarah has collaborated with Rupert Sheldrake and the British Pilgrimage Trust to reinvigorate the practice of dream incubation at sacred sites around the UK.
Currently leading dreamwork retreats in the ancient incubation sanctuaries of the Mediterranean, Sarah is now based between the UK, Istanbul, and Archaia Epidavros in the Peloponnese, where she lives on the road of a small ancient theatre, a place where pilgrims once began their journey to the holistic healing sanctuary of Asklepios and Apollo Maleatus 10km down the road.
Sarah’s book: Initiation into Dream Mysteries: Drinking from the Pool of Mnemosyne explores the history and culture of dreaming in the Western esoteric tradition and is available from all book sellers and on Audible.
Website: themysteries.org
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