The modern practice of medicine and psychology grew out of the ancient Greek healing tradition. Exploring the soul-healing practices missing in our contemporary health systems, Edward Tick, Ph.D., looks at the dream incubation tradition of Asklepios, sacred theatre of Dionysos, oracle gifting of Apollo, and their archaic roots. He includes techniques and case studies to reveal how healings are achieved with these methods and how we can restore soul healing in individuals and culture and integrate the sacred and mythological dimensions in contemporary medicine and psychotherapy.

An intimate portrayal of a woman’s unfolding inner journey through her Jungian analysis, her dreams and her terminal illness as she is guided deeper into the mysteries of life and the extra-ordinary transformation of her death. This is the story of Laura’s creative journey towards her completion, with all its longing, pain, transcendent beauty and love. After the conclusion of her Jungian analysis, Laura becomes terminally ill and her former analyst comes to live with the family to help her to die. The intimacy and depth of relationship between the two women and the foundation of guiding dreams form a container for an unfolding spiritual journey with numinous experience and sacred visions. We witness the tender care of Laura through and after her death as well as the experience of the author, who undergoes her own transformation through an awe-inspiring initiation into the realm of death itself.