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When we sleep do we travel to otherworlds in our dreams?

Can we contact ancestors and gods in dreams?

Can we find clues about the future in dreams?

Can we heal our body in dreams?

Can we perfect our soul in the dreamstate?

Do we stop dreaming when we die?

What do my dreams mean?

Dreams have inspired and amazed humanity for millenia. Join Sarah Janes for a truly unique dream quest around the collections of the British Museum to wake up the sleeping gods and goddesses of dreams.

The word MUSEUM comes from the ancient Greek Μουσεῖον/Mouseion ‘Place of the Muses’. So let the museum really inspire you. The British Museum in London holds some of the most extraordinary, magical, supercharged and sublime artifacts from all over the ancient world, and there are endless objects, sculptures, statues, inscriptions and tales that relate to ancient dreamers and their dreamworlds. From carved wooden headrests for ritual dreaming with ancestors, to dream stories, spells, omens, potions and dream gods, this tour will illuminate the golden dreaming thread that runs through the greatest cultural, spiritual and artistic acheivements of mankind.

See you there!

Your ticket includes:

A DIVINE DREAM INCUBATION KIT

All ticket holders will also receive a link to Auset: Queen of Dreams a hypnagogic dream incubation audio track and a dream incubation practice kit which includes a handmade herbal weighted eye mask and my aphrodisiac lucid dream tea (Afroditea) made from herbs from my perfumed dream garden in Epidavros, Greece. Aphrodisiac herbs are excellent for lucid dreaming, they create a peaceful, pleasurable bodily state - this invites pleasant dreams, often with hints of love and eroticism, which in turn encourage more vivid dream scenes, lucidity and therefore better recall. Lucid dreams do not evaporate upon waking. The kit also includes beeswax prayer candles from Greece and a dream offering dish for dream rituals and divine requests (with a recipe for an ancient honey cake to share with the gods).

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STAR LEOPARD: DREAM THEATRE OF DIONYSOS

HASTINGS MUSEUM & ART GALLERY

JANUARY 21 2025

7pm - 10pm

Don your leopardskins, grab your thyrsus, bang your drums, shake your rattles and tambourines! Come join the local Bacchae for an evening of participatory dream theatre with dramaturge, storyteller and writer Rosanna Lowe. Divine soundscapes will be provided by Maria Christofi of The Sound Apothecary, and a Dionysian dream incubation session will be led by Sarah Janes of Dream Mysteries.

Each participant will also receive a dream incubation kit to deepen home practice - see below for contents.

ABOUT THE EVENT

Inside the carved heart of the ancient forest, storyteller and dramaturge Rosanna Lowe will lead participants to co-create a reworking of Euripides’ final masterpiece - The Bacchae. This play is uniquely centred on the god Dionysos, supreme lord of ancient Greek theatre, fecundity and religious ecstasy. Dionysos is one of the most intriguing and complex deities of the ancient Hellenic pantheon.

Rosanna Lowe is an award-winning writer and storyteller who has adapted the Greek tragedies: Medea, Elektra and The Bacchae for theatres in Bristol, Cambridge and Northampton. Her adaptation of The Bacchae was part of the 2012 Cultural Olympiad and was reviewed by Michael Billington in the Guardian: ‘this one leaves you shaken and stirred’.

To book a place please email : 22sarahjanes22@gmail.com

Very limited spaces available.

Your ticket also includes:

A DIVINE DIONYSIAN DREAM INCUBATION KIT

• Aphrodisiac Dream Tea

• Guided hypnaogic journey audio file for home practice

• Greek beeswax prayer candles

• Offering dish

• Recipe for ancient Greek honey cake (a popular offering to the gods) - which you will sample at the event.

  PAYMENT
  £50
  Payment can also be made by sending £50 via PayPal || STARLEOPARD click the button below to pay.

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DREAM MYSTERIES OF AUSET

NEW HERMOPOLIS, EGYPT

12 - 18 APRIL 2025

Join me for a unique dream retreat in Egypt at the Hermetic oasis of the visionary Egyptian philosopher, Egyptology researcher and psychiatrist Mervat Nasser - New Hermopolis!

Mervat and I have been planning this collaboration for five years and finally it is happening!

I will also be joined on the retreat by sound alchemist Maria Christofi.

Mervat Nasser (MD, MPhil, FRCPsych) purchased a section of desert in Minya about 20 years ago and over time has succeeded in turning it into a flourishing oasis filled with plants, birds, trees and wisdom seekers.

Mervat has reintroduced many threatened native species including the sycamore fig sacred to Hathor, she's planted an olive grove and developed a biodynamic farm and kitchen.

New Hermopolis sits just back from the banks of the Nile - opposite Akhetaten - city of Akhenaten.

New Hermopolis is actually within the boundary of the ancient footprint of the city of Hermopolis - the city where Thoth and the Ogdoad created the world and where writing and the word were born!

Each room at New Hermopolis is a perfect dream chamber, constructed from high quality limestone quarried - from the very same source as the casing stones used for the great pyramid on the Giza plateau.

Auset is the ancient Egyptian name for the goddess Isis. Auset means throne in the ancient Egyptian language and she represents the primordial seat of kingship in ancient Kemet. She is creatrix of a sacred landscape. Upon her lap all pharaohs are nourished, they become divine. 

Auset is Queen of Heaven, Giver of Life and Great of Magic. She has a special relationship with the medu netjer (god's words)/what the Hellenes called the hieroglyphs (sacred carvings) and her speech, her words, have magical powers. Her spoken words are a cure, they are dreamspells and enchantments. Alongside magical images of her son Horus subduing the wild beasts, Auset's Words of Power are carved into the Horus cippus - a type of stelae that was used in the treatment of patients in ancient sanctuaries of healing. 

In the Greco-Egyptian pantheon Auset/Isis and Serapis became associated with miraculous dream cures and they were syncretized with Asklepios and Hygieia at the holistic healing sanctuary of Asklepios at Epidavros. It is believed the Mysteries of Isis in the Greco-Roman period were inspired by the Mysteries of Eleusis and that the rites were performed in the Sanctuary of the Egyptian Gods at Epidavros. The rites for both these Mysteries were designed to improve the soul, and divine dreams were a well-attested way to have contact with the goddesses and gods - it was through such direct theurgic experiences that the soul's 'perfection' was achieved.

This retreat will focus on Auset's as a goddess of rebirth, regeneration, possessor of the Words of Power, magical healer, and as a goddess who appears in dream epiphanies. We will recreate the Mysteries of Auset and call her to our dreams.

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(includes audio only file of guided hypnagogic meditation)

Payment of £20 can also be made by PayPal using the email address here:
sarah@awakeandaway.co.uk
Please be sure to include ref. 'godesses' and your name and email address for recording.

Each session is 1hr and 30 minutes and both include a dream incubation practice.
A fumigation of frankincense, comfortable place to lie-down and an eye mask are recommended accoutrements.

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