Dreams & Astral Travel
Connecting to Your Dreams
C.J. Liu interviews NY Times Bestselling author, Robert Moss about his newest book, “GROWING BIG DREAMS: Manifesting Your Heart’s Desires through 12 Secrets of the Imagination”.
Shamanic Lucid Dreaming: Speaking to Your Soul with Robert Moss // Part 1 of 4
Robert describes how his form of dreaming is active dreaming. He explains that active dreaming is a way of being fully of this world while maintaining constant contact with another world; the world-behind-the-world. Here, the deeper logic and purpose of our lives are to be found. Active dreaming offers three core areas of practice:
1. Talking and walking our dreams to bring energy and guidance from the dreamworld into everyday life;
2. Shamanic lucid dreaming; and
3. Conscious living.
He shares his experience as an active dreamer, and how his dreams and real life intertwined. He views dreams as the soul speaking to us. In his own life story, he describes how he choose his home in upstate NY based on an interaction with a hawk and a tree and how he gained closure when he left his home and this sacred site. Active dreamers learn to grow a dream of possibility. That is a dream strong enough to take them beyond fear and despair to a place of freedom and delight.
At the end of the interview, Robert walks us through an experience of interpreting dreams.
“Traditional Iroquois say bluntly that if we have lost our dreams, it is because we have lost a vital part of our soul. This may have happened early in life through what shamans call soul loss, when our magical child went away because the world seemed too cold and cruel. Helping the dream bereft to recover their dreams may amount to bringing lost souls back to the lives and bodies where they belong.”
Life Hacks for Dreaming with Robert Moss // Part 2 of 4
How do you make the most of your dream time? Robert shares his best tips on how to set-up your dream state before you sleep, how to make when you wake up in the middle of the night, and how to mine for gold nuggets after you wake up.
• Before you got to sleep: Make sure to set your intention. When you start out, it may simply be to “remember my dream” or “have a fun dream”. Over time, you may ask for something more directional such as — “I would like to be healed” or “I want to meet my soul mate” or simply, “Show me what I need to see?”
• Dream Reentry in your Liminal State: If you happen to wake up in the middle of the night or if you want to have dream fragments when you wake up that you are curious about, then go back inside your dreams. Focus on a specific scene from your dream and let it become vivid on your mental screen. As you re-enter, see if your dreams show you answers or show you secret wishes of your soul. After you are finished ask yourself what you need to know and what you intend to do inside the dream.
• After a Dream: Even though most of us jump out of bed and into action after we wake, Robert suggests taking your time after you wake to jot down your thoughts. Tune into your feelings as your first contemplation. Perhaps, there are elements in the dream that may be played out in your waking life. If you share your dreams with your loved ones make sure that neither part steals the dreamer’s power through verbal analysis. Gentle inquiry such as “What are you going to do to honor this dream?” Try observing, “If it were my dream, I would think about such and such.” Finally, you’ll want to ask the dreamer.
• Squeezing the Juice Out of Your Dreams: If you really want to mine your dream’s wisdom, then Robert offers several ideas in his book such as:
- Turn the dream into a story or poem. Draw from it, paint from it, make it into a comic strip.
- Take a physical action based on the dream. Celebrate an element in the dream, such as by wearing the color that was featured in it, traveling to a place from the dream, or making a phone call to an old friend who showed up in it.
- Use an object or create a dream talisman. A stone or crystal may be a good place to hold the energy of a dream, so you can return to it at will.
- Use the dream as a travel advisory. If the dream appears to contain guidance on a future situation, carry it with you as a personal travel advisory. Summarize the dream information on a cue card or hold it in an image you can physically carry.
SYNCHRONICITY and Dreams with Robert Moss // Part 3 of 4
Robert shares an incredible story about his synchronicity on a flight from Seattle. Robert explains that the world around us is speaking through the people we meet, symbols, and more. He explains that some times you are dreaming your life in a parallel world.
Types of Dreams and What They Mean with Robert Moss // Part 4 of 4
Robert explains that our dreams convey many things:
- Recurring Dreams
- Precognition
- Forewarning
- Scouting out challenges/problem solving
In addition, Robert shares that while many of us think that we are out of physical body with a dream, that we are actually embodied if we extend our bodies to include our astral body, causal body. It’s because of this that during dreams we experience:
- Healing at the subtle body
- A portal to God State with messages from our guides
More on Robert Moss
Robert Moss describes himself as a dream teacher, on a path for which there has been no career track in our culture. He is the creator of Active Dreaming, an original synthesis of dreamwork and shamanism. Born in Australia, he survived three near-death experiences in childhood. He leads popular seminars all over the world, including a three-year training for teachers of Active Dreaming. A former lecturer in ancient history at the Australian National University, he is a best-selling novelist, journalist and independent scholar. He has published twelve books on dreaming, shamanism and imagination.
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