AIRED: January 30, 2023
SPECIAL GUEST: Edward Tick PhD
The modern practice of medicine and psychology grew out of the ancient Greek healing tradition, said to be founded by Asklepios, god of healing and dreams. For two thousand years the system spread all over the Mediterranean world and planted the roots of Western medicine and psychology by offering ritual and holistic practices that recognized that healing begins at the soul level. Yet, since that time, the spiritually based practices were cast aside, leaving behind only the scientific medical techniques that dominate healthcare today.
Resurrecting and restoring the sacred, mythological, and cultural origins of medicine and psychotherapy, Edward Tick, Ph.D., explores the soul-healing practices missing in our contemporary health systems. In his new book, Soul Medicine, he looks at the dream incubation tradition of Asklepios, sacred theatre of Dionysos, oracle gifting of Apollo, special practices of warriors, and their roots in Neolithic shamanism and indigenous traditions. Demonstrating the ritual use of dreams, visions, oracles, synchronicities, and pilgrimage for healing and connecting to the transpersonal and divine, he explains how dream incubation is a technique where you plant a seed for a specific healing or growth goal in order to facilitate dreaming and work toward soul restoration.
Using both ancient wisdom and modern depth psychology alongside stories of healings from his more than 25 years of guiding Greek pilgrimages, Tick explores how we can use ancient healing philosophies and practices to reveal how the restoration of the soul facilitates true healing today!
EDWARD TICK, PhD
Prolific author, psychotherapist, educator, international activist and journey leader, Ed Tick, PhD is honored for his forty years of pioneering work healing the invisible wounds of war and violent trauma. He was Co-founder/Director of the non-profit Soldier’s Heart, Inc. for 13 years and continues to support war-healing internationally.
He is the Pentagon-appointed subject matter expert on Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and Moral Injury. In addition to his forthcoming title Soul Medicine: Healing Through Dream Incubation, Visions, Oracles and Pilgrimages (Healing Arts Press | Inner Traditions, 2023), Ed has authored four nonfiction books including the groundbreaking War and the Soul and Warrior’s Return, and two books of poetry. His works have been translated or are being translated into Ukrainian, Greek, Vietnamese, Bulgarian, Japanese, and Italian.
Ed guides war and trauma survivors to achieve healing, meaning, reconciliation and friendship. His work is devoted to healing from millenniums of collective trauma and restoring soul and spirit in our modern world.
