Being and Unbeing in Dreams and Death SARAH JANES www.themysteries.org Inhalation, exhalation, expansion, contraction; life pulses in patterns, in ever increasing and decreasing cycles. The recognisable and coherent throbs of our independent lives are nested into an infinite, pulsating celestial matrix, where existence and non-existence shimmer like scales on the…

Earthly Reflections of a Fluid Cosmos Mirror: From Vulgar Latin *mirare “to look at,” variant of Latin mirari “to wonder at, admire” Ancient mirrors are extraordinary items of magic and prestige, they allude to intangible existences, otherworlds and alternate dimensions; to an archaic awareness of identity and self-image. Ancient mirrors…

A Divine Archetype Par Excellence — for the Winter Solstice “O my Mother Nut, stretch Yourself over me, that I may be placed among the imperishable stars which are in You, and that I may not die.” Nut was thought to draw the dead into her star-filled sky, and refresh…

NDE, OBE, DMT…Life By Sarah Janes Seen by some as the oldest cop out narrative device in the book, the dream gets a bad rap when it serves as an explanation as to why anything unusual or interesting ever happens. But a bit like the weird way the magical efficacy…

The World of Stonehenge: Exhibition Review 17 Feb 2022–17 Jul 2022 #TheWorldOfStonehenge British Museum The World of Stonehenge is one of the best exhibitions I have seen at The British Museum (my favourite since Sunken Cities actually). Richly atmospheric and artfully curated with twilight-inspired lighting and natural soundscapes, you feel…

Evolving Dream Themes When I was a very small child, perhaps even a baby, I remember that my dreams were just white. That white became a large empty room, and that room slowly filled up with red shelves and a long bench-style desk. Over time, the shelves accumulated increasingly large…

For ancient and modern dream seekers Sarah Janes, Jan 2022 SLEEP, DEATH AND SPIRIT Could dreams have provided ancient humans with the first inkling of the existence of an afterlife? One of the most compelling features of dreaming is that it allows the living to gambol with the dead. Even…

By Sarah Janes Gula Puppies The Mesopotamian goddess known as Gula, appears to emerge sometime during the first Babylonian Dynasty, already entwined with earlier goddess figures — Baba/Bawa and Bau — themselves protective, healing dog deities of Sumer and Akkad. Some scholars believe the name Bau/Bawa/Baba to be onomatopoeic, mimicking…

Dream Memory and Sleep Hypnosis Workshop this SATURDAY (19th June) SARAH JANES www.themysteries.org Whilst I walked through the valley yesterday, I got to thinking about how ancient people interacted with the landscape around them and how perception of time and space might differ in the modern mindset. The earliest people…