Are you dreaming the future, or is the future dreaming through you?
The annual Oracle Dream Retreat with Dream Mysteries and guest facilitators:
Have you ever had a dream and acted on it?
Ever seen a place in your dream and decided to go there? Ever spoken to someone in a dream, and decided to tell them what you said in waking life?
The best way to cultivate a potent dream life is to attend to the messages, future memories, and reminders we receive in our sleep. To bring material out of dreamspace and play with it - eyes open.
Learn the art of conscious dreaming, practice dream discernment, and finesse your personal dream language and inner relationships. 'Dreaming it' really has always been a special kind of knowing, an ordinary intuitive oracular superpower, and it has been practiced since the Stone Age - whether it's dreaming to see where the herds are grazing, to commune with ancestors, or to frolic with the gods.
Dreaming is a vital source of wisdom and insight. When dream clues and gifts present themselves we can transform our lives and work magic - change happens first in a dream. Dreaming is our true ‘inner alchemy’. We work wonders when we create the elixir of life in dreams.
And what if you never remember your dreams, or you never dream? Something magical happens when we dream together, messages come through for others, dreamsigns lead us along the way. The dreaming is always trying to show us, to help us remember:
You are a child of Earth and Starry Heaven, but your race is of Heaven alone, this you already know yourself. When you taste the Water of Mnemosyne in dreams, you will remember.
Oracle Dream Retreat 2027
May 8th - 18th
WITH NEW EXCITING ORACULAR STOPS!
“ΕΛΘΕ ΜΟΙ Ω ΠΑΙΑΝ ΦΕΡΩΝ ΤΟ ΜΑΝΤEΙΟΝ ΑΛΗΘΕΣ”
"Come to me, O Paean, and bring with you the true oracle”
Email: sarahjanes@themysteries.org for infosheet and to reserve with £500 deposit.
Athens: The Oracle of Kerameikos. The only ancient oracle of Athens (this site is currently closed, due to reopen summer 2026) In 2012 during some cleaning work on the site, the German Archaeological Institute found that an omphalos was mounted on a marble slab that covered an opening. The following year, the omphalos was raised with a crane to reveal what it had been concealing for thousands of years: a circular well nine meters (30 feet) deep constructed out of semi-cylindrical clay tiles engraved with more than 20 inscriptions of the phrase “ΕΛΘΕ ΜΟΙ Ω ΠΑΙΑΝ ΦΕΡΩΝ ΤΟ ΜΑΝΤEΙΟΝ ΑΛΗΘΕΣ,” which translates to “Come to me, O Paean, and bring with you the true oracle.” Paean was an epithet of Apollo, son of Zeus and brother of Artemis. The repeated phrase was a prayer, an invocation to the deity that he reveal faithful and accurate answers to believers’ questions. The well lies within a sanctuary dedicated to Apollo and Artemis.
Guest faciliatators: Magic Prof. Emily Selove and Psychedelic Prof. David Luke are back, and our marvellous mutual friend Dr. Sam Gandy will be joining us for the first time. Sam is an ecologist, biophile, and psychedelic researcher specialising in how altered states influence our experience of nature connection. Arielle Guttman, Mythic Astrologer, author, tour leader, and the creator of the Venus Star Point system is also joining us for a third time and as well as presenting on the astromyth of the oracles, Arielle and I shall be plotting together for some Planetary Hours dreamworking sessions. Also coming along is Maria Christofi, sound, bodyworker, and acupoint therapist. We shall of course also be meeting with Epidavrian Asklepiade Eleftherios Makridopoulos at his alchemical laboratory near the ancient sanctuary too.
Sites we shall visit:
Loutra Edipsou, Evia: The hot springs of Edipsos are mentioned in ancient texts written by Aristotle, Strabo, and Plutarch. The Roman emperors Hadrian, Septimius Severus, and Marcus Aurelius were known to frequent the baths. Thermal springs are frequently related to Hades and believed to be both portal to the underworld and site of healing. The mythological origin story of these springs is that they were created by Athens to heal a wounded Herakles.
Dodoni: The Oracle of Zeus, oracular consulting was given through the interpreting of the rustling of oak-leaves, or of the cooing of doves (peleiai), of the flight of birds nesting in the oak trees, as of the murmuring of the waters from the sacred spring or of the clanking of brazen vessels which were hung on the branches of the oak-trees. The oracle here was said to be connected to an ancient oracle in Egyptian Thebes. Two doves flew from either the Siwan Oasis, or the temple complex at Karnak, one went to Libya and established the oracle of Ammon Zeus there and the other landed in an oak tree in Dodoni and began speaking in a human voice.
Necromanteion of Acheron (a river in the Epirus region of northwest Greece): Use of the Necromanteion involved elaborate ceremonies wherein celebrants seeking to speak to the dead would start by gathering in a ziggurat-like temple and consuming a meal of broad beans, pork, barley bread, oysters, and some sort of narcotic compound (probably opium). Following a purification ceremony and the sacrifice of sheep, the faithful would descend through a series of underground meandering corridors, leaving offerings as they passed through a number of iron gates. The Nekromanteia would pose a series of questions and chant prayers and the celebrants would then witness the priest rise from the floor and begin to fly through the temple assisted by theatrical cranes.
Patras: The spring of Demeter in Patras, also the site of the oracle of Demeter, today it is the holy spring of Agios Andreas. The oracle was tied to a sacred spring located next to the temple. To divine the future—a mirror was lowered into the spring on a cord. Upon looking into the submerged mirror, the seeker would be shown a true, infallible reflection of the person in question, revealing either their health and survival or their fate.
Delphi: The most famous oracle site in perhaps all of the world. On the slopes of the great Mount Parnassos is the Sanctuary of Apollo, and the omphalos - navel of the world. Here the Pythia (high Priestess of Apollo) was sought out by leaders, artists, and royalty. This is the place where dreamers tend to get the most vivid dreams.
Livadeia: Oracle of Trophonios - the Cave of Nightmares in Boetia.
Epidavros: Home to Epidavros and the local nymphs who preside over oracular springs.
Eleusis: Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore at Elefsina - where the Mysteries of Elefsis took place.
Return to Athens.
What is included:
Price includes all accommodation, all transportation within Greece (including pick up and drop off to Athens), meals (breakfast and late lunch), all site and museum entrance fees, all workshops and materials - some guest facilitators might charge extra for 1:1 sessions at their discretion.
Prices:
£2850 (single occupancy)
£3950 (double occupancy - double or twin)
Available Discounts:
£150 for full payment in advance upon receipt of invoice and £150 discount for repeat retreaters - these discounts can be combined for a maximum of £300 discount.
Deposit and Instalments: Minimum deposit £500 - instalments can be paid at anytime and in any amount, as long as full payment is received no later than end of January 2027.
Contact for any questions and queries:
Sarah Janes
+30 693 126 8374 (Greece)
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