Robert Moss – Dreaming into the Dreamtime

Module 1: Shamanic Dreaming With Island Woman
Learning From Native American Tradition

In the Mohawk language, the word for shaman or healer is ratetshents, which means “dreamer.” Robert’s life was changed by his visionary encounters with what appeared to be an ancient shaman and Mother of the Wolf Clan he calls Island Woman. In her tradition, dreams reveal the “secret wishes of the soul” and the daily task of the community is to gather round a dreamer, help her to recognize what the soul is saying, and then to take action to honor the soul’s purpose.

According to this teacher, dreaming is also about human survival. Dreams show us what is happening at a distance in time or space. As you’ll learn in this illuminating session, if you see a future event you don’t like, you can take action to avoid that possible future.

Dreaming is a way of connecting with the ancestors and of looking at the consequences of human actions down to the seventh generation beyond ourselves, as wise leaders must always do.

In this module, we will journey into the great mythic creation story of “The Woman Who Fell from the Sky,” and learn from her how to dance a new world into being.

In this module, you’ll learn how to:

• Recognize the secret wishes of the soul, as revealed in dreams
• Take action to honor the wishes of the soul for healing and integration
• Recognize and clarify future events revealed in dreams
• Take action to avoid unwanted possible events — and manifest
  desirable ones
• Journey through mythic gates to discover how to re-vision and re-create your world

Module 2: Dreaming With the Speaking Land
Learning From Aboriginal Traditions

Australia’s First People look to dreams as the place of encounter with spiritual guides and sacred healers, who often appear as totem animals but may come in many other forms. They believe that we dream our way into this world, and dream our way out of it.

In this tradition, dreaming is a highly social activity. We get out and about, we make visits and receive visitations. As you’ll discover in this session, the first questions to ask about a dream are those of a detective rather than an analyst: Who, what, where, why, when?

Dreaming in the night is not segregated from dreaming wide awake. We live in the Speaking Land, where everything is alive and conscious and will speak to us if we pay attention.

Our personal dreams can take us into the Dreamtime, where we encounter the Ancestors on a higher level and are present at the creation of events.

In this module, you will:

• Learn how dreaming is central to spiritual parenting
• Understand why ancestors may speak to you in dreams
• Discover your animal spirits through dreaming and how to interact with them
• Listen to the Speaking Land to receive navigational guidance from what is going on around you in everyday life
• Find ways to utilize personal dreams as portals to the Dreamtime

Module 3: Dreaming Like an Egyptian
Awakening in Two Worlds

The ancient Egyptians understood that in dreams, our eyes are opened. Their word for dream, rswt, also means “awakening.” It was written with a symbol representing an open eye.

As you’ll learn in this session, the Egyptians believed that the gods interact with us in dreams. They developed an advanced practice of conscious dream travel. Trained dreamers operated as seers, remote viewers and telepaths.

Through conscious dream travel, ancient Egypt’s “frequent flyers” explored the roads of the afterlife and the multidimensional universe. It was understood that true initiation and transformation takes place in a deeper reality accessible through the dream journey beyond the body. The dream journey could even take the traveler to the stars.

In this module, you’ll:

• Learn how to practice dream telepathy
• Recognize and work with multiple energy bodies and soul vehicles
• Gain access into the Hall of the Gods and find your spiritual allies
• Discover powerful ways to journey with birds and other enlightening animal allies

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Module 4: Dreaming With the Sacred Healer
Learning From Asklepian Dream Practice

He is the archetype of the wounded healer. He is both human and divine, the son of Apollo by a mortal woman. He is deeply connected to the realm of the animal spirits. He is mentored by Chiron, the centaur.

His symbol is a long staff with a snake wrapped around it. We see this everywhere today. Our doctors still take the oath that ancient physicians dedicated to him and his divine family, though the god-names have been removed. Western medicine begins in his precinct, though it no longer honors his name and often omits the essentials of his way.

His name is Asklepios, which means “unceasingly gentle.” He is the principal figure in a tradition of holistic healing that was prized in the ancient world for over one thousand years.

The helpers of Asklepios — the original therapeuts, or therapists — and his followers looked to dreams for diagnosis, prescription and an invitation for direct contact with the sacred guide and healer. The pilgrims traveled in hopes of a big dream that would be a “showing forth” of the god (or one of his family) and might, in itself, deliver healing from complaints that human remedies could not cure.

In this module, you’ll:

• Learn how dreams diagnose what is going on in the body
• Understand the importance of shedding the old skin (basics of spiritual cleansing)
• Discover ways to approach the Sacred Guide and Healer
• Learn how to meet your animal doctors and work with them
• Find techniques for building your inner Temple of Dream Healing

Module 5: Dreaming Many Lives & Many Worlds
Learning From India’s Dream Masters

In the mind of India, Vishnu is dreaming this world, which will continue until he ends the dream and disperses his dream characters — including ourselves. The god with skin the color of rain-filled clouds sleeps on a great serpent, drifting on the Ocean of Milk. While Vishnu sleeps, his mind generates dreams — and this is the stuff we and our world are made of.

A Sanskrit name for dream travelers, kamacarin, means “those who can transfer themselves at will.” The sacred writings of India are a treasury of tales of dream travel, grounded on experience. In this session, we’ll explore the teachings of the Yogavasistha, where dream travelers find that time is elastic. You may live a hundred years in a dream world and return to find that only a day has passed in ordinary time.

What is experienced in the dream worlds is real and has real consequences in the traveler’s waking world. Spiritual apprenticeship and initiation can take place in this way.

In this module, we’ll learn from the dream yoga and Vedic traditions of India that:

• We can enter dreaming as a sleeping lion
• True initiation and apprenticeship can take place in dreaming
• We can enter and retrieve other life experiences as conscious dreamers
• When we awaken inside our dreams, we are ready to create realities
• We are dreaming all the time, including when we suppose we are awake

Wanda Burch, author of She Who Dreams a Journey into Healing through Dreamwork, is a long-term breast cancer survivor, alive because of vivid dreams of warning and diagnosis. Wanda presents healing retreats for women surviving chronic illness and for women veterans. Her programs use dreams and music as gateways for claiming easily accessible gifts of the imagination that can help those suffering from illness, trauma, pain and everyday anxiety find a place where souls and hearts can mend. Her current book is The Home Voices Speak Louder Than the Drums: Dreams and the Imagination in Civil War Letters and Memoirs.

Module 6: Dreaming With the Antlered Goddess
Journeying Into Celtic & Nordic Traditions

We are ready for a deep journey into the dreaming of the Celtic and Nordic ancestors. We will practice dream incubation and open to flow states of creativity in the realm of Sequanna, the “Fast-Flowing” goddess of the River Seine, patron of dream travelers and dream healing.

In this session, we will follow the tracks of Elen, Lady of the Dreamways of ancient Britain. We will enter the Sacred Grove and dream, wide awake, with the tree that chooses us. We’ll rediscover that in dreaming, flying is a natural human ability and that the gate to the Otherworld opens from wherever we are.

We may travel as far as the precinct of the Antlered Goddess of the North and learn from her secrets of regeneration and spiritual connection.

In this module, you’ll learn how to:

• Practice Celtic dream incubation for healing and bardic inspiration
• Dream with the ancient Goddesses of the North
• Travel across time and space with the eyes and wings of Raven
• Journey to the Otherworld through mythic gates
• Practice the arts of “goodly speech”

Module 7: Dreaming With Jung
Learning From the Dream Shaman of Switzerland

Jung labored to bring together the best of Western science and scholarship with ancient ways of soul travel and soul remembering. Throughout his life, he was guided by dreams and synchronicity, and in this class, we will learn from his practice rather than his theories.

In this session, we’ll journey, like Jung, through the many-tiered House of the Soul. We’ll walk with the Sacred Guide, as Jung walked with his Philemon. We’ll meet the Shadow. We’ll discover that dreams unlock the limitless field of nonlocal mind he called the collective unconscious.

And we’ll develop field perception, as Jung practiced that as he watched the movements of wind and water, of a fox or a beetle, as he counseled his clients by Lake Zurich.

In this module, you’ll learn how you can:

• Utilize dreams as research assignments
• “Amplify” a dream through active imagination in the service of guidance and healing
• Walk and talk with a Sacred Guide, as Jung walked with Philemon
• Journey through many levels of the House of Your Life
• Get a second opinion on your issues by reading the sign language of the world

Active Dreaming Toolkit

Any Active Dreamer’s repertoire will be enriched by these three tools for deepening their experience. For your convenience, we’ve gathered together these fundamental resources from Robert’s previous courses at The Shift Network and offer them to you as the basic toolkit for Active Dreaming.

Dreaming Like Harriet Tubman
Audio Recording From Robert Moss

Harriet Tubman is a heroine in American history, the most successful “conductor” on the Underground Railroad that helped escaping slaves to gain freedom before the Civil War. Yet the secret of her achievement has rarely been told. She was a dreamer and a seer. In her dreams and visions, she could fly like a bird, over landscapes she had never seen with her physical eyes. From her aerial maps, she was able to find the right roads and the river fords and the safe houses to get escaping slaves out. In this fascinating audio, Robert Moss tells Harriet’s riveting story, including how she came fully into the power of the Ashanti dream shamans in her ancestry — and how you, too, can dream your way to a brighter future, for yourself and your communities.

Everything Dreams of Wholeness: Dreaming With Jung & the Shamans
Audio Dialogue With Robert Moss and C. Michael Smith

Carl Jung wrote in 1949 that “everything living dreams of individuation, for everything strives towards its own wholeness.” In this fascinating audio, Jungian psychologist and shamanic teacher C. Michael (“Mikkal”) Smith and shamanic dream teacher Robert Moss explore what Jung and indigenous shamans have in common as dreamers and healers. You’ll hear how the Jungian archetypes relate to the spirits and power animals of the shamanic cosmos; how in both traditions, healing is all about soul and the ultimate therapeutic resource is direct engagement with the sacred, often facilitated by dreams; and how in the convergence of the two traditions, you will find paths with heart, leading to wholeness and healing, and clues to everyday practice.

C. Michael Smith is Director of Crows Nest Wilderness Retreat and Conference Center, Dowagiac, Michigan. He is also Director of Crows Nest Centers for Shamanic Studies International: Paris, France; Mean, Belgium; Payzac, France; Capetown, South Africa, Iquitos and Tarapoto, Peru. He is a keynote speaker and workshop teacher in the field of Jungian psychology and shamanic studies. Lecture and keynote at major Jungian events and conferences. He has led more than 200 workshops and retreats worldwide.

Meeting Mr. Death
Audio Dialogue With Robert Moss and Wanda Burch

Author and dream teacher Wanda Burch knows death quite well. She was traveling in Africa, decades ago, when her deceased father approached her in a dream and told her, “Go to a doctor. You have cancer.” She followed her father’s advice, and when breast cancer was detected she entered an ordeal that lead to healing and recovery through what she calls — in her brave and beautiful memoir She Who Dreams — a “healing cocktail” of modern treatments and Active Dreaming. Full healing required her to enter and survive a terrifying encounter with the council of her own death, in which she was able to renegotiate her life contract.

Following her contract, she has become a remarkable advocate and healer, guiding retreats in which she melds music and performance with the core techniques of Active Dreaming, which she has studied and helped to develop over the many years of her friendship with Robert.