Most societies, ancient and modern, have professional dream interpreters. India has its Brahmin oneirocritics; in Japan the om myoshi; the Hasidic rabbis in Europe fulfilled this role; in ancient Egypt the pa-hery-tep; ancient Greece had the priesthood within the Asclepian temples given to dreams; among the Aztecs, dream interpretation and divination were the prerogative of the priestly class teopexqui, the Masters Of Secret Things; in today’s world the Freudian and Jungian psychoanalysts fulfil this role – the author works as resident analyst for both London Broadcasting Company and television’s channel four Teletext.
