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February 2011 Archives

Scottish dreaming: an ancestral call

posted by Robert Moss

My Scots ancestors have been on my case for a while. In the mid-1980s, when I started dreaming in an archaic form of Mohawk, in contact with a woman healer of long ago, I found myself obliged to study the [...]

Soul recovery and licorice sticks: making deals with our younger selves

posted by Robert Moss

She was there, before I thought of her, a beautiful little girl with flame-red hair. She looked very like her adult self, except that in the adult the flame had dulled, and a great loose rampart of flesh had been [...]

Dream roads from soul loss to soul recovery

posted by Robert Moss

Soul loss, as shamans know, is at the root of many of our existential complaints – of chronic fatigue and depression, of addictions and autoimmune problems, of creative blockage and even “bad luck”. If we are missing vital soul energy, [...]

Soul loss: the shaman’s diagnosis of our existential complaints

posted by Robert Moss

The greatest contribution of the ancient shamans to our medicine and healing today is the understanding that in the course of any life we are liable to suffer soul loss – the loss of parts of our vital energy and [...]

Previous Posts

Dreaming our way to the heart of the world
If we could fold time, travel forward a century or two, and then look backward, I believe we would find abundant confirmation that the rise of the dreamwork movement

posted 12:15:40pm May. 15, 2013 | read full post »

Celtic dream healing with Sequana
At the shrine of Sequana, at the source of the River Seine in the Dijon area of France, ancient Celts came to seek healing dreams in the sacred night. Cloaked pilgrims jou

posted 8:00:52am May. 13, 2013 | read full post »

May your roses bloom
Tonight and tomorrow, May 5-6 are Hidrillez, a major bayram, or festival, in Turkey and among Turkic communities that celebrates the meeting of Khidr and Elijah on earth. The word Hidrillez conflates the Turish versions of their names. This is a time to write wishes and tie them to rose bushes, o

posted 10:12:38am May. 05, 2013 | read full post »

Causing a bear: a belated response to Tolkien
I once dreamed I met C.S.Lewis and J.R.R.Tolkien in the New York Public Library. Tolkien told me, "You must study Scandinavian mythology." Years later, when I was writing my Dreamer's Book of the Dead, Lewis appeared in a kind of visitation. I asked him, "Where's Tolkien." Lewis said, "Tolkien won't

posted 7:47:47am May. 04, 2013 | read full post »

Carl Jung, shaman of the West
If you want to know what a true shaman of the West would be like, consider Carl Jung, as he is now revealed in his Red Book. He culled the material for the Red Book - whose fine calligraphy and vivid illustrations and decorative features make it resemble a medieval illuminated manuscript - from the

posted 7:48:41pm Apr. 24, 2013 | read full post »


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