Description

Presents effective exercises and techniques inspired by ancient texts to deepen your personal awareness of the dream state and experiment with dreams for healing and divinatory purposes

Each initiatory chapter includes a psychodramatic narrative designed to generate the perfect dream for each stage in the initiation

Explains how dreaming has influenced cultural religious and spiritual thinking

Includes access to a sevenpart hypnagogic guided journey recording

Invoking MnemosyneGreek goddess of memory and eloquence daughter of Heaven and Earth mother of the Muses and archetypal deity of the Asklepion dream temple traditionthis book initiates you into full dream consciousness offering a luciddreaming ritual experience in the spirit of the Mystery Schools of antiquity

Sharing her more than a decade of research on Sleep Temples and Mystery Schools of the Esoteric Tradition luciddreaming instructor Sarah Janes explores the evolution of imagination memory and consciousness throughout the ages and proposes that dreams have been fundamental in the creation and development of culture Dreams play an important role in ancestor worship afterlife beliefs animism religion and wisdom traditions Explaining how a conscious dream life is essential for selfdiscovery deep integration and healing Sarah presents exercises techniques initiations and seven guided audio meditations to help you explore the inner depths of your psyche Sarah reveals how dreams offer us an opportunity to remember and directly experience our divinity to transcend the limitations of our mortality and enter timeless imaginal realms These realms accessible through dreams can help you to form a better understanding of who you are

Employing the power of story to affect the mind and lay down new neural pathwaysas if one were really living the storySarah connects each initiatory chapter with a psychodramatic narrative as well as a guided audio meditation Using symbolism and powerful imagery these stories combined with her meditations help you generate the perfect dreams for each stage in the initiation And by becoming a better dreamer you can make better more aware decisions in your waking life