Initiation into Dream Mysteries

by Sarah Janes

• ISBN13: 9781644115145
• ISBN10: 164411514X
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2022-12-27
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Summary

A psychomagic journey to awaken lucid dream consciousness

• 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 seven-part hypnagogic guided journey recording

Invoking Mnemosyne—Greek goddess of memory and eloquence, daughter of Heaven and Earth, mother of the Muses, and archetypal deity of the Asklepion dream temple tradition—this book initiates you into full dream consciousness, offering a lucid-dreaming 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, lucid-dreaming 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 self-discovery, 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 pathways—as if one were really living the story—Sarah 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.

Author Biography

Sarah Janes has been an enthusiastic lucid dreamer since childhood. She is a writer, public speaker, and sleep hypnosis workshop facilitator. She runs Explorers Egyptology, an online lecture series, and with Carl Hayden Smith operates The Seventh Ray, a virtual reality Mystery School. She is also producer and co-host for the Anthony Peake Consciousness Hour podcast. Sarah is currently working with Rupert Sheldrake and The British Pilgrimage Trust to reinvigorate the practice of dream incubation at sacred sites. She lives in the UK.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

INTRODUCTION
Ka, the Creative Spirit
Dreaming, Memory, and Consciousness

PHASE 1
The Dawn of Dreams
Paleolithic to 10,000 BCE
Initiatic Story: Chrysalis

PHASE 2
Into the Bronze Age
Neolithic, Chalcolithic, Bronze Age 10,000 to 4500 BCE
Initiatic Story: Death in Anatolia

PHASE 3
Dream Writing and Ritual
The Ancient Near East 3300 to 1200 BCE
Initiatic Story: Threshold

PHASE 4
Temple Sleep and Dream Sanctuaries
Ancient Egypt 3150 to 332 BCE
Initiatic Story: Amunet’s Dream

PHASE 5
Island Dreams
Minoa 3500 to 1450 BCE
Initiatic Story: Bee Asleep

PHASE 6
Dream Panacea
Ancient Greece 500 to 530 BCE
Initiatic Story: The Pool of Mnemosyne

PHASE 7
Dreams of the Future
Starting . . . Now
Initiatic Story: My House Is Arkady

Meditations

Notes

Bibliography

Index