As we wound our way past stone walls and isolated columns, we found, tucked in the far Northwestern corner, a mysterious structure, an ancient sound temple archeologists call the Thymele.

No patient entered the healing sanctuary at Epidaurus without first experiencing a profound emotional reset, catharsis. This somatic shift was precipitated by the narrative power of legend, mythology, and story. It was underscored by music, words and images entering the psyche more deeply when wrapped in the harmonic power of tone and melody. It is hard for the modern mind to conceive of how powerful and all encompassing this divine theater was.

The Ancient Greek healing rites around the Asklepius movement are purported to have healed people in a hypnagogic dream state. Ritual and music were used to open the consciousness to this state of lucid dreaming.

Ancient Greeks cultures had a deep understanding of sound, its sacredness and how the dimensions of spaces could be used to enhance the psycho-spiritual effects of voice and music.

Music in its purest form is a direct translation of the unknowable, the great mystery.  It is part of humankind's deep striving for sacred connection. Like many of the conditions that support life on our planet, air, water, ideal proximity to the sun, the physics of sound and the harmonic series supports a hidden vibratory world that both influences and mirrors human consciousness.

Thomas Edison considered sleep to be an unproductive state, and legend has it he slept no more than four hours a night. Edison did, however, hold the hypnagogic dreaming state in high regard and developed a technique for ‘hacking’ the hypnagogic phase between waking and sleep.