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A dream warning from a dead smoker

Here’s a spooky but instructive story of a dreamer who received a caution about her cigarette smoking. She approached me for help with a dream that had scared her during one of my workshops. In her dream, she is with [...]

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Back to basics Q&A #2: First steps in working with dreams

posted by Robert Moss

What are the first steps we need to take to work with our dreams? First, consider your feelings on waking. Those feeling will be your first and best guidance on the nature and meaning of the dream – whether it [...]

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When you’ve got a gorilla on the back seat

posted by Robert Moss

She’s driving, and she notices in the rear view mirror that there is a very large gorilla in the back seat. When she gets to the family house, she takes the gorilla inside with her. Her mother and sister are [...]

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Dream sharing in the time it takes to brush your teeth

posted by Robert Moss

I had great fun on my “Way of the Dreamer” radio show yesterday. It was a live show with callers, and I agreed with the producer that we would seek to keep everything tight and swift by allowing just four [...]

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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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