Dream Initiation with Sarah Janes

Jan 3, 2026

In this conversation, Sarah Janes, a lifelong lucid dreamer and author, dives into the rich history of dreaming. She reveals how ancient cultures viewed dreams as sacred portals to wisdom and healing. Janes shares her own experiences with dream incubation and its connections to sacred sites. She discusses the transformative power of dreams and the continuity of healing practices from antiquity to modern times. Listeners will learn techniques for navigating dreams and the fascinating interplay between dreams and creativity.

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ANECDOTE

Personal Dream Loss And Return

Sarah Janes has been a lifelong lucid dreamer and lost dreaming temporarily after her daughter's birth, which made her value dreams more.
Regaining dreaming catalyzed her becoming an evangelist and researcher of dream practices.

INSIGHT

Dreams Guide Pilgrimage

Sarah reports dreams call her to real-world places and guide her travels and research choices.
She links pilgrimage and incubation traditions where deities invite seekers via dream to sacred sites.

INSIGHT

Archaeology And Dream Rituals

Ancient sites like Çatalhöyük suggest dream rituals through burial-sleeping arrangements and iconography.
Janes used imaginative incubation tied to archaeology to generate dream-based interpretations and fiction.

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Dream Initiation with Sarah Janes

Sarah Janes is a lifelong lucid dreamer and the author of Initiation into Dream Mysteries: Drinking from the Pool of Mnemosyne. She collaborates with researchers and institutions to explore Egyptology, dream incubation, and ancient healing traditions, and co-operates The Seventh Ray virtual reality mystery school. She also works with Rupert Sheldrake and the British Pilgrimage Trust on reviving dream incubation at sacred sites and is based in the United Kingdom.

Sarah Janes discusses the ancient history and cultural significance of dreaming, lucid dreaming, and dream incubation as initiatory practices for insight, healing, and guidance. She explores how early civilizations, from Egypt to Anatolia and Greece, used dreams as portals to the sacred, sources of prophecy, and catalysts for transformation. She also describes her contemporary work helping people navigate the dream realm, drawing parallels with psychedelic integration, ancestral memory, and the living landscape.

New Thinking Allowed host, Jeffrey Mishlove, PhD, is author of The Roots of Consciousness, Psi Development Systems, and The PK Man. Between 1986 and 2002 he hosted and co-produced the original Thinking Allowed public television series. He is the recipient of the only doctoral diploma in “parapsychology” ever awarded by an accredited university (University of California, Berkeley, 1980). He is also the Grand Prize winner of the 2021 Bigelow Institute essay competition regarding the best evidence for survival of human consciousness after permanent bodily death. He is Co-Director of Parapsychology Education at the California Institute for Human Science.

(Recorded on **** 00, 2025)

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