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How spiritual guides appear in dreams

posted by Robert Moss

  In the passage in Dante’s Purgatorio where he encounters his radiant guide in the form of a lovely woman called Beatrice, she reproaches him for not heeding the dreams in which she sought him, over many years. The message [...]

The warning from Ur: Don’t lose the Goddess’ gift of dreams

posted by Robert Moss

When we lose the dreaming, we may lose everything that matters. There is a haunting warning about this, echoing down across the millennia, from an ancient Sumerian inscription that gives voice to Ningal, the goddess-protector of Ur, who shared the [...]

When your guardian angel is Garfield the Cat

posted by Robert Moss

“Can I meet my guardian angel in my dreams?” The question came from an elderly woman with a kindly but careworn face. She approached me during the break in an evening dream workshop that I had agreed to conduct for [...]

Jumping off the high board with Jesus

posted by Robert Moss

Kathy wrote to me just before Easter about what happened when she started practicing the exercises for meeting a spiritual guide in my book Dreamgates. Lying back in bed, fully conscious of her intention, she had the following experience: I [...]

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May your roses bloom
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Causing a bear: a belated response to Tolkien
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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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