Healing Practice Through Dreams: Bringing Ancient Greek Mysteries into Modern Medicine

Imagine living in Ancient Greece: you are suffering from a terminal illness, chronic pain, or depression. Desperate, you go to the temple of the god of healing, Asclepius. There, trained priests guide you through a sleep ritual in which the god appears and prescribes you healing. Two weeks after following his advice, you fully recover. You bring thanks to the god in the form of a small statue with an engraved story of your case (to the delight of archaeologists a thousand years later) and rejoice. Now imagine yourself in the bright fluorescent light of a modern hospital or clinic. To bridge this gap, Dr. Edward Tick has immersed himself for two decades in the Asclepian tradition of dream healing — through intensive research, conducting sacred pilgrimages to Greece, and in his own therapeutic practice. The result is this book, which brings a spiritual dimension back to healing, and, according to the author of the foreword, Stephen Larsen, is so captivating that it is “impossible to put down.”