Dream Initiation with Sarah Janes

Summary

In this episode, Sarah Janes, a lifelong lucid dreamer, delves into the ancient practices of dream incubation and their significance in various cultures including Egypt and Greece. She discusses how these practices served as portals to the sacred and tools for prophecy and healing. Janes also parallels contemporary practices in dream navigation with psychedelic integration and ancestral memory.

Key takeaways

• 1Sarah Janes is the author of 'Initiation into Dream Mysteries: Drinking from the Pool of Mnemosyne.'
• 2She collaborates with institutions to explore Egyptology and ancient healing traditions.
• 3Janes emphasizes the role of dreams in ancient civilizations as sources of prophecy and transformation.
• 4Jeffrey Mishlove, host of the podcast, is a noted figure in parapsychology and the recipient of the only doctoral diploma in parapsychology from UC Berkeley.
• 5The episode discusses contemporary dream incubation practices that revive ancient traditions.

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Transcript excerpt

There's a bit of a cult of wakefulness in the modern world and dreaming is vastly underrated. There's now this sort of psychedelic renaissance happening. But one of the interesting things that's occurring on my retreats is I'm getting a lot of people who are training as psychedelic integration therapists coming on the retreats because they're recognising that learning how to navigate the dream realm is very similar to making like grounded integrations with psychedelic experience as well. Keep watching to learn more. Book 4 in the New Thinking Aloud Dialogue Series is Charles T. Tartt, 70 Years of Exploring Consciousness and Parapsychology, now available on Amazon. New Thinking Aloud is presented by the California Institute for Human Science, a fully accredited university offering distant learning graduate degrees that focus on mind, body, and spirit. The topics that we cover here. We are particularly excited to announce new degrees emphasizing parapsychology and the paranormal. Visit their website at cihs.edu. You can now download all eight copies of the New Thinking Aloud magazine for free. Or order beautiful printed copies. Go to newthinkingaloud.org. Thinking Aloud. Conversations on the leading edge of knowledge and discovery with psychologist Jeffrey Mishlove. Hello and welcome. I'm Jeffrey Mishlove. Today we'll be exploring the topic of dream initiation. My guest is Sarah Janes, who has been a lucid dreamer since childhood. She is the author of Initiation into Dream Mysteries, Drinking from the Pool of Memosyne. She runs Explorers Egyptology, an online lecture series, and with Carl Hayden Smith, she operates The Seventh Ray, a virtual reality mystery school. She also has been producer and co-host for the Anthony Peake Consciousness Hour podcast. Sarah is also currently working with Rupert Sheldrake and the British Pilgrimage Trust to reinvigorate the practice of dream incubation at sacred sites.…

Excerpt from New Thinking Allowed, Jan 3, 2026. Rights remain with the original creators. Hear the full episode at the source.