THE VIRTUAL DREAM PALACE SECRET ARCHIVE



SOFIA AZIZ

ANCIENT EGYPTIAN DREAM CHARMS AND SLEEP MEDICINE
Sofia is a Biomedical Egyptologist with a life-long passion for ancient Egypt. She has been involved in a notable list of publications and media consults, and has appeared in a variety of documentaries and TV Series. Her primary interest lies within the realm of Egyptian Medicine and Mummification Methods, which crosses into a multitude of other disciplines and topics. Her focus has been on understanding the health of the ancient Egyptians and the diseases they suffered from.
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RECORDING DATE:
9 SEPT 2023
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NOA ZOLA

SHAMANIC DAYDREAMING SESSION
Sofia is a Biomedical Egyptologist with a life-long passion for ancient Egypt. She has been involved in a notable list of publications and media consults, and has appeared in a variety of documentaries and TV Series. Her primary interest lies within the realm of Egyptian Medicine and Mummification Methods, which crosses into a multitude of other disciplines and topics. Her focus has been on understanding the health of the ancient Egyptians and the diseases they suffered from.
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RECORDING DATE:
12 SEPT 2023
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KASIA SZPAKOWSKA

ANCIENT EGYPTIAN DREAMS AND NIGHTMARES
Kasia Szpakowska is a roaming Egyptologist, author and lecturer specialising in the archaeology of religion, ritual, magic and prophecy. She has written several books about ancient Egyptian demonology, dream interpretation and nightmares. Kasia conducted the experimental archaeology Ancient Egyptian Cobra Project to investigate snake cults and the making and breaking of ritual cobra figurines.
WEBSITE

RECORDING DATE:
18 SEPT 2023
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SARAH JANES AND JONAH EMERSON BELL

PERSONAL MYTHOLOGY AND DREAM MAPPING
Join us for a fascinating, experiential session exploring the dreamer as axis mundi.

Learn ways to increase conscious dream engagement by creating real world cartographies of dreamscapes, by embodying that which is dreamed in your waking life, and by recognising and acknowledging the symbols, archetypes and motifs that have peppered your dreams since childhood. Jonah also has a technique for astrological dream interpretation.

JONAH EMERSON-BELL is a tarot reader, Astrologer, and visual artist with a background in Hypnosis and Integration Coaching. His work uses mythology, symbols, and archetypes to help make the unconscious conscious and to develop agency in the stories we are living out. He is currently based in Santa Fe, New Mexico where he is completing his graduate studies in Mental Health Counselling at Southwestern College.

SARAH JANES is an author, researcher, and lifelong lover of all things dreaming, dream obsessive and a dream mapper since childhood. One of the curators of the Dream Palace, Sarah studies the ancient history and culture of dreaming, magico-religious medicine and incubation sanctuaries. She hosts the lecture series Explorers Egyptology.

RECORDING DATE:
19 SEPT 2023
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VASSILIOS ADRAHTAS

INDIGENOUS AUSTRALIAN DREAMING
Dr Vassilis Adrahtas is an expert on Indigenous Australian religions, which he has taught at the University of Sydney. Currently, he is the convener of Greek Studies at the University of New South Wales, and he also lectures on Islamic Studies at Western Sydney University.
WEBSITE

RECORDING DATE:
07 OCT 2023
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GREGORY SHUSHAN AND PASCAL MICHAEL

CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY OF DIVINE DREAMS AND NEAR DEATH EXPERIENCES
Dream team presentation exploring the Cultural Anthropology of Divine Dreams and NDEs - with Gregory Shushan and Pascal Michael.

About Gregory:
Gregory Shushan is the leading authority on near-death experiences and the afterlife across cultures and throughout history.  He is an Honorary Research Fellow at the Religious Experience Research Centre, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, and was previously Perrott-Warrick Researcher at University of Oxford's Ian Ramsey Centre for Science and Religion; and Scholar-in Residence at the Centro Incontri Umani (The Cross Cultural Centre), Ascona, Switzerland. He has lectured at universities in the UK, Ireland, and Switzerland and has given numerous talks on his research in nine countries.
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About Pascal:
Pascal received a BSc Hons (University of Aberdeen) in Neuroscience, where he identified the neurotrophic capacity of the Omega-3 fatty-acid EPA, and an MSc (University College London) in Clinical Mental Health Sciences, exploring the post-acute effects on wellbeing of DMT. He completed a PhD at the University of Greenwich with Dr. David Luke, where his research encompassed nuanced qualitative analyses of mystical-type human experiences, both neuropharmacological and spontaneous. Specifically, comparing the DMT experience, based on the first conceived field study of DMT use, with the near-death experience (NDE). He is presently a lecturer in Psychology there, teaching and researching on psychedelics; psychical research focussing on survival, ufology and entity encounters; neuroscience and clinical psychology.
WEBSITE

RECORDING DATE:
11 OCT 2023
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IRVING FINKEL

MESOPOTAMIAN DREAM OMENS
Irving Finkel specialises in ancient Mesopotamian medicine and magic and is also interested in literature, religion and the history of ideas in the ancient Near East. He is a very well known curator at the British Museum, London and is famous for his discovery of a Babylonian tablet that contains a early version of the biblical story of Noah - with precise instructions for the building of the ark. He wrote about this research in his bestselling book - The Ark Before Noah.
WEBSITE

RECORDING DATE:
15 SEPT 2023
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THE UNGOOGLEABLE MICHAELANGELO

DIVINATORY DRAWING: A Rorschach Worship Workshop  
Originating in The Netherlands, The Ungoogleable Michaelangelo is a creator of cosmic, comedic, and contemplative content. He utilizes pareidolia, wit, wordplay, and a 6th sense of humour to mindfully investigate where the limits of language meet the fringes of reality.

His work finds expression through visual art, written and spoken word, music, film and performance. He is the host and creator of the podcast Self Portraits As Other People, and the author of The He & The She of It and Impatient Transformations.
WEBSITE

RECORDING DATE:
10 SEPT 2023
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ALI RIZA DURU

DREAM ANALYSIS SESSION
Ali started working on dream psychology in 2010. Through the Rüya Enstitüsü - Dream Institute of Turkey, which he founded in 2020, he provides training on the psychology of dreams to people from every walk of life in Turkey. He continues to work on the understanding of dreams and regularly hosts university seminars, dream study groups, workshops, dream retreats.
WEBSITE

RECORDING DATE:
11 SEPT 2023
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DANNY NEMU

HYPNOSIS AND TRANCE STATES
Danny is a hypnotist, activist and speaker, specializing in the drugs mentioned in the Bible, revelation and politics in science, and the connection between linguistics, neurobiology and cognition. Danny also co-directs @rainreforest (Regenerative Agroforestry Impact Network) and has spent over 20 years with the Daime ayahuasca community, including time in the jungle battling a parasite.His books #ScienceRevealed and #NeuroApocalypse are out on #Psychedelic Press.
WEBSITE

RECORDING DATE:
05 OCT 2023
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DAVID LUKE

ONEIROGEOGRAPHY: DREAMING THE LAND THROUGH MYTH AND MAGIC
Dr Luke is currently a module leader of the Psychology of Exceptional Human Experience, which has been running since 2009, and also teaches on the Introduction to Psychology, and Criminology and Forensic Psychology modules.

Dr Luke is also currently an Honorary Senior Lecturer, Centre for Psychedelic Research, Division of Brain Sciences, Imperial College London, and is a lecturer on the MSc Consciousness, Spirituality and Transpersonal Psychology where he leads and teaches a module on Psychedelics and Entheogens for The Alef Trust via Liverpool John Moores University. He was President of the Parapsychological Association between 2009 and 2011, and received an Early Career Research Excellence Award (2011) and the Faculty's first Inspirational Teaching Award (2016) from the University of Greenwich.
WEBSITE

RECORDING DATE:
06 OCT 2023
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DANIEL OLDIS

DREAM RECORDING
Daniel Oldis was one of the early researchers in the modern scientific study of lucid dreams. He recently put together a 'dream team' of sleep and dream researchers from across the United States to research dream recording and communication in sleep laboratories in California. His work explores recording subvocal dream speech, reconstructing dream imagery and plotting time perception and body movements in dream states.
WEBSITE

RECORDING DATE:
08 OCT 2023
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ANTHONY PEAKE

CHEATING THE FERRYMAN: GREEK MYTH AND IMMORTALITY
Anthony Peake is a writer, researcher, and author of 12 books that explore borderline areas of human consciousness. His first book, Is There Life After Death? was published in 2006, and in 2011 - Making Sense of Near-Death Experiences: A Handbook for Clinicians received a “highly commended” award from the British Medical Association. Anthony’s books have also been translated into Greek and published by Kaktos Publications in Athens.
WEBSITE

RECORDING DATE:
11 OCT 2023
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JANET PIEDILATO

Charonium: Dream Incubation Session
Janet is an author, transpersonal psychologist, complementary health care consultant, and ordained Minister. She holds two doctoral degrees: in biology from New York University and transpersonal psychology from Saybrook University where Janet studied with world-renowned dream psychologist, Dr. Stanley Krippner.  Certificates in clinical training, Wellness Counselling and Body/Mind Consciousness, relaxation response therapy from Harvard University, and a certificate in Clinical Training in Hypnosis and Psychophysiological Practice.
WEBSITE

RECORDING DATE:
12 OCT 2023
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