BUREAU OF LOST CULTURE – Dreaming of Ancient Gods (06/07/2024)
*Whatever happened to the Greek Gods? if you are a teenager living half way up a 1970s tower block listening to Drill, should you even care?
*On this epside we travel in time and space to Ancient Greece, the classical psycho-geographic birthplace of Western Culture (and therefore of counterculture), specfically to the mythic landscape of Epidavros and the sacred temple of Asclepius.
*Our guide and guest is Sarah Janes, one of Britain’s foremost lucid dreamers, explorer and teacher of ancient mysteries.
*We hear how the Temple of Asclepius’s treatment of the sick involved diet, excercise, theater – and comedy – in addition to surgery and medicine.
*We revisit the subject of dreams, nightmares and countercultural consciousness – and hear why the gods are still with us, whether we ignore them or not.
•And the Scottish band The Proclaimers make a surprise apearance….
