I listened again today. Here are my notes: (Sorry for typos!)
Robert Moss Active Dreaming
Dreaming the Soul
Died as a child. Journeyed to other worlds. In midlife moved to upper Hudson Valley NY
Dream people came to him. Mohawk shaman woman. Who spoke in Mohawk. Had to learn to translate.
Dream lays a path for life what the soul wants.
Dreaming is survival stuff. Shows you challenges. Shows the future for self, families, communities.
Enlightenment healing in the soul, recovering soul fragments.
Dreaming is traveling. Journey. Meet other people, go to another world. You are a little bit of
Sacred purpose. Authentic guides or speakers. Healing. Open to us in everyday life once we agree to pay attention to our dreams.
Most human cultures value dreams, but not ours. We are odd in this respect.
Helps society. Maintaining contact w the spirit world and higher self. Dreaming is medicine, healing. Diagnosis of body functions. Simple, old, but up to date. Factory of personal images to help us get well. Work with images that can heal your body and relationship w the world. Helps to heal us.
Soul loss: thru pain, grief, trauma. Active dreaming helps us become the shamans of our souls.
Active dreaming: Made-up term to reflect that it does not have to be passive.
We can learn to do more with our dreams. Messages, energy, things we can apply. It’s real magic. Brings knowledge into this world from the outer world. We can actively go into the dream state. Simply spend more time in the hypnogogic zone. Follow images that rise and fall within that state.
Shamanic techniques: Don’t run away from dreams. Go back to previous symbols (eagle. . . ) Enter a dance, dialog, participate with these symbols. It’s not a spectator sport. Be willing to receive.
Learn to use a remembered dream as a doorway to the journey. Go beyond it. You can travel with a group or by yourself.
A way of being a lucid dreamer 24/7. Not just at night. Sense the world around you, symbols, synchronicity. Coincidence. Value these.
Value dreams you do not like.
Brings guides through. Ask for guidance.
Even a fragment or wisp of a dream can bring guidance. Especially in the inbetween states.
Keep a journal. At least 5 years. Track your symbols, log of parallel lives and realities. Learn about many other worlds. Especially symbols that return.
Examine from multiple angles.
Learn to recover the full experience by returning to a dream. Travel consciously.
Synchronicity. The first unusual thing that enters my awareness is a symbol of how the day is going to go.
Stretch yourself to receive messages from the world around you.
Language of soul. Learn to know what the soul knows.
The most important thing anyone can gain is Ananesis. “Remembering the knowledge that belongs to you from a soul level. People in earlier times knew this. Learn the art of mental communication with them. Science of remembering these important things.
Learn to find more of our selves, parts, missing bits. May be missing 5 different aspects of soul:
Vital energy, child selves that went away when life was hard, ancestral spirits, blood or spiritual kin or animal spirits, higher self. Learn to bring these back. Joy, imagination, wisdom, dealing with difficulties, connect with wisdom keepers. Conscious connection, partnering with animal spirit power. For healing.
Reopening a working communication. Conscious engagement w the self on a higher level. At night we are not controlling everything and can learn.
Set up a good connection with dreaming. Turn the tap on, get a flow going. Set an intention for the night. Learn to be kind to your dream fragments or wisp, a sound or color . . . Use these to pull back in more. In daily life you see things that bring the dream to mind - - this connects waking with dreaming life. Go into the world with an intention on your mind. The first unexpected thing you see will be a symbol responding to your intent. Example: woman on one-way street, losing job, dream of Washington DC, transportation conference, later got a job there in conference planning. Dreams are prior action.
Bring the magic into daily life.
Lucid dreaming. I am often meeting dead people in my dreams. We should be aware and conscious choosers. “I am conscious. I have choice. I can change my way.” Take off from the hypnogogic state. In Peter Pan Tinker Bell talks about this. “There you will find me.” Follow that imagery into a lucid dream. Dialog w inner guide. Transformational.
Dream re-entry. Go back inside it wide awake and conscious. I was dreaming of a bear when I came to North America. He was big, in my bedroom, I was scared. I practiced dream re-entry. Shamanic. Fix intention to go back to the bear to ask him why he is in my space. He hugged me gently. I see something in my heart, an umbilical to the bear’s heart. Burst transmission comes to me that I must call on the bear to heal myself or someone else. I call on the great mother bear to help people bring their lost parts together.
There is power waiting behind the fear. It can be claimed by going back into the place of the dream. For fun and adventure, interpreting symbols, information, avoid a mishap, or where to find future love. Go back into the dream for more.
Take action from your dreams. What action are you going to take to follow up on the dream. Call the person, bring the gifts from the inner world into the outer world.
Fun, entertaining, to keep self, others, spirits in your life.
Dream incubation, conscious dreaming. Write intention or question down, put it under pillow.
Dreams are multi-layered. Personal and transpersonal, social. Yeats became his advisor (could be an aspect of himself). Get beyond the ordinary.
Upcoming 7-week program. “Dreaming the Soul Back Home.” dreamingthesoul.com
Bring soul back to a state of wholeness using dream work.
Wake up the fact that we are more than we allow ourselves to be. Active dreaming awakens this. Connect to higher self. Make a lucid dream journey, bring back younger self. This is soul work. Closer to our creative self. Taking on intuitive abilities. We will do a lot of practices. Deepen creative friendships.
We are going to learn the “lightning dreamwork process” Learn to tell your story well that makes people listen. Creative feedback. Learn to take action based on your story. Fantastic technique. Bringing tools and resources from a deeper world.
Live the deeper life. Embark on a larger journey. Breaking the dream drought. Learn to be lucid. See dream symbols, navigate effectively, game for dream sharing. Shamanic dreamtime. Travel to any time, places not in ordinary reality, meet animal spirits, your true direction, upper world of the shamans. Important foundation building.
Recovering soul, mending the divided self. Use clues from dreams, active dreaming, shamanic spirits. Deeper understanding of how to connect with spiritual guides which travel in disguise. They love to use shock and humor. Dialog w guides. Healing. Discernment in dealing w spirits. Travel to parallel worlds, times. Share experience and gifts with them and bring them back. Soul remembering. Reclaiming the knowledge that belongs to us. Spiritual kin. Releasing, transcending, transforming karma, abuse. Liberate ourselves. Move into life-supporting relationships. How to work with dreams in encounters w the deceased.
Class starts August 5.
Games to play. Set a theme for your night. Get direct message.