Description

Explores hidden soulhealing practices including dream incubation and interpretation as well as sacred pilgrimage

Examines how dreams visions and other nonnormative events reveal the conditions needed to restore the soul and facilitate healing

Includes successful healing techniques practices and case studies to reveal how healings are achieved with these methods

The modern practice of medicine and psychology grew out of the ancient Greek healing tradition said to be founded by Asklepios god of healing and dreams For two thousand years the system spread all over the Mediterranean world and planted the roots of Western medicine and psychology by offering ritual and holistic practices that recognized that healing begins at the soul level Yet since that time the spiritually based practices were cast aside leaving behind only the scientific medical techniques that dominate health care today

Resurrecting and restoring the sacred mythological and cultural origins of medicine and psychotherapy Edward Tick PhD explores the soulhealing practices missing in our contemporary health systems He looks at the dream incubation tradition of Asklepios sacred theater of Dionysos oracle gifting of Apollo special practices of warriors and their roots in Neolithic shamanism and indigenous traditions Demonstrating the ritual use of dreams visions oracles synchronicities and pilgrimage for healing and connecting to the transpersonal and divine he explains how dream incubation is a technique in which you plant a seed for a specific healing or growth goal

Using both ancient wisdom and modern depth psychology alongside stories of healings from his more than 25 years of guiding Vietnam veterans on Greek pilgrimages Tick explores how we all can use ancient healing philosophies and practices to achieve holistic healing today He examines the interaction between mind and body psyche and soma and between physical illness and the soul to heal PTSD and trauma He explains the art of making accurate and holistic interpretations of signs symbols and symptoms to determine what they reveal about the soul Showing how dreams and other transpersonal experiences are essential components of soul medicine the author reveals how restoration of the soul facilitates true healing