Dream Gates

Dreaming our way to the heart of the world

Robert Moss — Wed, 15 May 2013 16:15:40 +0000

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 is one of the most important developments of the modern era. In my brighter vision of what is to come, our society will be guided by dream helpers who are dreaming with and for the Earth itself. Their constant work is to help those around them to use dreams for guidance and healing, as a direct line to the...

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Celtic dream healing with Sequana

Robert Moss — Mon, 13 May 2013 12:00:52 +0000

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 journeyed with their offerings, which included models of the organs that needed healing, carved from oak or stone. They bathed in the sacred spring, prayed to the goddess, and placed their offerings beside a sacred pool. They entered a long portico or dormitory, hoping that in the night - during sleep or in the twilight state...

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May your roses bloom

Robert Moss — Sun, 05 May 2013 14:12:38 +0000

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, or make models of...

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Causing a bear: a belated response to Tolkien

Robert Moss — Sat, 04 May 2013 11:47:47 +0000

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 Read the full post here »

Carl Jung, shaman of the West

Robert Moss — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 23:48:41 +0000

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 -...

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Shamans as dreamers

Robert Moss — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 15:15:48 +0000

What is a shaman? First and last, the shaman is a dreamer. Shamans typically receive their calling in dreams and are initiated and trained in the Dreamtime. The heart of their practice is the intentional dream journey. They may incubate dreams to diagnose a patient and select the...

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Memories of the future

Robert Moss — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 02:39:02 +0000

You have dreamed the future. You say you don't remember? Think again. Surely you've had the experience of déjà vu. The cat crosses the street in front of you, the tall guy steps into the restaurant, the light shimmers on the water or on your new lover's hair just so, and you know you have been in this scene before. I have yet to meet anyone who hasn't felt a tingle at a moment like this, a shiver that brings with it the knowledge that the world is deeper than we have been...

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If it were my dream

Robert Moss — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 15:11:54 +0000

Don’t let anyone tell you what your dreams mean. And never do that to anyone else. This is the golden rule of dream-sharing. One of the great contributions of the American dreamwork movement has been to insist that dreams belong to the dreamers. As Henry Reed, a PhD in psychology and one of the founders of the movement, likes to say, “dreaming is too important to be left to psychologists.” Montague (“Monte”) Ullman, a clinical psychiatrist, made a giant...

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When the door between the worlds is round and open

Robert Moss — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 14:37:27 +0000

Don’t go back to sleep. People are going back and forth across the threshold where the two worlds touch. The door is round and open Don’t go back to sleep. These wonderful lines from Rumi remind us that the easiest way to become a lucid or...

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Joseph Campbell on love among the wreckage

Robert Moss — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 19:30:34 +0000

"Follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and doors will open where you didn't know they were going to be." - Joseph Campbell On Joseph Campbell's birthday, I want to recall one of the rules for living that he...

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