Robert Moss – Adventures for Healing in the Dreamtime

Everyone who dreams is a little bit shaman.
— Kagwahiv, an Amazonian dreaming people

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 appropriate treatment. They travel — wide awake and lucid — in their dream bodies to find lost souls, intercede with the spirits, fight sorcerers, and guide spirits of the departed along the right roads.

As you embark on your own 13-step adventure along the many roads of dreaming, Robert will offer essential tools and resources, encouraging you to grow to a place of sanctuary and healing deep in your imagination… a place you can visit at any time, to raise your energy and feel rooted and protected.

You’ll also be invited to connect or deepen your connection with a spiritual guardian who will stand with you in all your journeys, in all the worlds.

In this first class, you’ll:

• Discover how to break a dream drought
• Explore simple techniques to understand your dreams and take action to embody their energy and guidance
• Connect or reconnect with spiritual allies and guardians
• Confirm that you can travel without leaving home
• Learn from the stories of ancient dream shamans and modern shamanic dreamers
• Explore highly effective invocations and rituals for protection

Australia’s First People believe we dream our way into this world, and dream our way out of it.

They look to dreams as the place of encounter with spiritual guides and sacred healers — who often appear as totem animals, but may come in many other forms.

In this module, you’ll discover how, in the Aboriginal tradition, dreaming is a highly social activity. You get out and about, make visits and receive visitations.

So the first questions to ask about a dream are those of a detective, rather than an analyst: Who, what, where, why, when?

Our lives follow Dreaming Tracks, or Songlines. We travel through “countries of belonging.” And those who can hear the inner songs of the land can cross a thousand miles of desert without maps.

In this class, you’ll explore:

• How the ancestors speak to you in dreams
• Why your Big Story is hunting you
• The ways you walk in a Speaking Land — and why you want to expand your attention to listen to its many voices
• How your personal dreams can be portals to the dreamtime
• Your Songlines, which comprise a personal map for your soul’s journey — starting from when your spirit decided to enter your mother’s womb (maybe even before)
• How to make a map of your Dreaming Tracks and the landscapes of your soul

In the Mohawk language, the word for shaman or healer is ratetshents, which means “dreamer.”

Robert’s life was changed by his visionary encounters with the ancient Mohawk shaman and Mother of the Wolf Clan he calls Island Woman. In her tradition, dreams reveal the “secret wishes of the soul” and the daily task of the community is to gather round a dreamer, help her recognize what the soul is saying, and then take action to honor the soul’s purpose.

In Native American tradition, dreaming is also about human survival. Dreams show us what’s happening at a distance in time or space. If you see a future event you don’t like, you can take action to avoid that possible future.

Dreaming is a way of connecting with the ancestors and of looking at the consequences of human actions, down to the seventh generation beyond ourselves — as the Iroquois insist that wise leaders must always do.

The Beaver Indians of British Columbia say strong dreamers may travel to higher realms of reality where they will encounter “Six Grandfathers,” spiritual beings who are their ancestors.

With each encounter, the dreamer absorbs energy and memory from each of these beings, as well as their songs of power. When such a dreamer returns, they’re viewed as the Seventh Grandfather — actually regarded as seven beings in one, because they’ve brought the wisdom of the spiritual teachers to live with them and their people in the ordinary world.

In this class, you’ll learn how to:

• Recognize the secret wishes of the soul, as revealed in dreams
• Honor the wishes of the soul for healing and integration
• Recognize and clarify future events revealed in dreams
• Connect with ancestors on your bloodlines, the land where you live, and your spiritual lineage
• Make giving thanks an everyday prayer in the animate world around you

Inanna
daughter of the Moon
silken bud unfolding
riding out on your wild blue bull
through the Gate of Wonder.
— Inanna and Elih, c2300 BCE

The poem in honor of the Sumerian goddess Inanna was written by the first named author in history, a priestess of the moon god at Ur. What was happening with the cult of the bull — and the cow — that was central to the ritual life and imagination of the ancient Near Eastern and Mediterranean worlds?

It’s a mystery that must be experienced rather than explained.

It is embodied in another text from the same culture, the oldest recorded dream in history. In “The Dream of Dumuzi,” Inanna is hungry for her lover and he enters her like a wild bull. This poem takes us where great writers do not fear to go: into the inner chambers of the heart, into the demon-haunted mind, into the mysteries of death and rebirth. Thanks to its survival, we can say without hesitation that one of the first uses of writing was to record dreams, and that one of the great things that emerged from dreaming with the Goddess, at least 5,000 years ago, was literature.

Come to class ready to take a tour of ancient cultures where the bull was evoked and often subjected to ritual sacrifice — and where the cow was associated with beauty as well as mothering and nurturing…

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During this module, you’ll:

• Journey with shamanic drumming to an ancient Sumerian temple
• Travel to Egypt and Çatalhöyük in Anatolia, where a matriarchal culture flourished In Neolithic times — and perhaps as far west as Ireland, as far east as India, and as far north as Scandinavia
• Enter the life story of a poet-priestess of ancient Sumer and be thrilled by her creations
• Learn the practices of the ancient Mesopotamian Dream Questioner
• Study ancient Egyptian rituals of the bull, including dream incubation in the mausoleum of the Apis bulls and the “opening of the mouth” of the dead
• Seek blessing and nurturing in the precinct of the cow goddess Hathor and her sisters in other cultures

The ancient Egyptians understood that in dreams, our eyes are opened. Their word for dream, rswt, also means “awakening” and was written with a symbol representing an open eye.

By recalling and working with dreams, we develop the art of memory — tapping into knowledge that belonged to us before we entered this life journey.

The Egyptians developed an advanced practice of conscious dream travel. Trained dreamers operated as seers, remote viewers, and telepaths, advising on state and military strategy and providing a mental communications network between far-flung temples and administrative centers.

They also practiced shapeshifting, crossing time and space in the dream-bodies of birds and animals.

In this class, you’ll visit the dream school of Anubis, patron of astral travel and the gatekeeper between the realms of the living and the dead, using shamanic drumming to power your direct experience of what is possible.

In this module, you’ll explore:

• Dream telepathy and dream communication with the departed
• The nature and operations of the different subtle bodies
• How, through conscious dream travel, ancient Egypt’s “frequent flyers” explored the roads of the afterlife and the multidimensional universe
• The meaning of trueinitiationand transformation that takes place in a deeper reality, accessible through the dream journey beyond the body
• The power of heka, or magic words
• Why, in the age of Cleopatra, the Egyptian priests who specialized in dreaming were called the Learned Ones of the Magic Library

When they were in need of healing, the peoples of the Greco-Roman world often turned to Asklepios (Aesculapius to the Romans), “the kindest of gods to humans,” and his divine family…

Asklepios popularized dream incubation, which flourished for more than a thousand years, from as far east as modern Ankara to as far west as the British Isles.

The practice of Asklepian healing begins as a quest. You go on a pilgrimage, when you have failed to find other remedies for what ails you. You travel to a holistic center. You are cleansed and purified. You pray. You are shown images of the gods, and evidence of “what happened before.” You see hundreds, maybe thousands of votive offerings and inscriptions depicting healings that have taken place. This stirs up the psyche, fires the imagination, and primes you for a big experience in the sacred night.

The temple helpers will ask you about your dreams as they look for a dream of invitation, noting when the caliber of your dreams indicates that you’re ready for the big experience.

Contact with animals and animal spirits is a vital part of this tradition. The snake is a primary healing ally of Asklepios. There were snake pits in the Asklepian sanctuaries, and seekers of big dreams often had to brave up to serpents (nonvenomous, but still scary for many) slithering over them in the night. In the testimonies, healing was often delivered by the experience of a snake licking or biting or coiling round an afflicted part of the body.

In this class, you’ll learn how to:

• Find and bring the dream of invitation to open your doors to the inner temple
• Step out of your old mindsets and self-limiting beliefs
• Learn from the healing that pilgrims before you received within this sacred space
• Address the sacred guide and healer — and seek healing for others in this temple
• Receive the gifts of the animal doctors
• Practice dream incubation whenever you need guidance of healing from a deeper source
• Create a shamanic journey to an inner version of the Temple of Dream Healing — and go through several phases of spiritual cleansing, dream incubation, and instruction before you’re admitted to the inner sanctuary… where a direct encounter with the sacred guide and healer may become available to you

Module 7: Dreaming the Celtic Soul Back Home

Gabriel is the archangel of dreams for all three peoples of the Holy Book — Jews, Christians, and Muslims.

Gabriel also appeared during a critical passage in Robert’s own life. While walking in bright sunlight on a dusty farm road beside a cornfield, he had a clear vision of Gabriel. It brought him to his knees, tears streaming down his face. The angel’s beauty was so great, he thought of him/her as feminine more than masculine…

Robert will share “Song for Gabriel,” the poem he wrote about that encounter. Together you’ll lay the foundations for a journey of ascension as Robert shares:

• The many forms of the messenger
• How angels appear in everyday life
• Rumi’s account of Gabriel’s appearance to Mary
• Angels in literature, including C. S. Lewis’s Cosmic Trilogy and Ginzberg’s Legends of the Jews
• A simple-yet-deep meditation to open your heart, allowing the light of your yearning to know the angel of your being — so you can rise and invite an answering fire from heaven

In this pivotal session, you’ll make a visit to the dream clinic.

Together with your classmates, you’ll share your reports and ask questions surrounding your narratives, themes, and preoccupations, as you receive Robert’s guidance.

You’ll help each other find and grow the myths you can all live by.

In this module, you’ll explore:

• How much energy can be generated through the process of sharing
• The magic of empathy, compassion, intuition, and guidance — in action
• Robert’s simple 4-step process for sharing dreams and life stories
• How to carry this sharing process with you wherever you go in life
• How to deepen your relationships and grow friendships on the level of the heart

You know that place between sleep and awake, the place where you can still remember dreaming? That’s where I’ll always love you. That’s where I’ll be waiting.
— Tinker Bell to Peter Pan in the movie version of J. M. Barrie’s story

These fairy directions are excellent guidance for developing an everyday yoga of consciousness in horizontal meditation.

You’ll discover how to train yourself to maintain relaxed attention in this in-between state. Through this process you’ll build a creative studio, a private movie theater open at any hour — and a departure lounge for lucid dream adventures.

Robert will explain how the fertile space of hypnagogia (the transitional state between wakefulness and sleep) has led to breakthroughs and solutions in nearly every field, including science…

In this class, you’ll discover how to:

• Find an effortless cure for insomnia
• Open yourself to inner and transpersonal guides as you seek imaginal healing in the twilight state
• Visit a night cinema where the movies are exclusively for you — and step through the screen to become scriptwriter, director, and star of your own productions
• Learn from the powerful reflections of Aelius Aristides, a famous orator who had the ear of emperors — and walked very close to his healing god
• Move towards the continuity of consciousness so prized by masters of inner work — in realms of waking, sleeping, and in-between

The Imaginal Realm, as described by the great medieval Sufi philosophers, is a region of mind between the world of time and the world of eternity.

In this realm, human imagination meets intelligences from higher realities, and they co-construct places of healing, instruction, and initiation. There are structures here — temples and palaces, schools and cities, pleasure gardens and places of initiation and healing.

This realm is beyond the physical, yet people don’t move through it as disembodied thought forms. Instead, it’s a world of subtle bodies that has even more reality than the physical world.