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If you’re anything like me, you have a love/hate relationship with the dream world. Sure, it can be fun to dream and some whacked out cool things can happen, but nightmares can randomly develop and turn something unusual and strange into something terrifying and soul-crushing in the blink of an eye. I’ve felt ecstasy inside a dream, but I’ve also had bouts of uncontrollable crying and overwhelming pangs of guilt.
And I’m doing it to myself, right? Because dreams, they’re not even real. It’s just a “bit of undigested beef or a blot of mustard“! Well, author and dream teacher Robert Moss doesn’t think so. He calls the dream world “The Imaginal Realm” and believes that we can change our lives by what we see in dreams. He believes that it is a pathway to parallel universes of lives unlived here but fulfilled there. Moss believes dreams are a way to spend time with spiritual beings who live in a different dimension, to talk to the dead, and to receive messages from our higher selves.
Robert Moss has been featured on shows from Charlie Rose to Coast to Coast AM and he joins us to talk about how he uses symbolism (and lots of Jungian psychology) from dreams to help people work through their struggles in waking life.
- How Robert Moss lived a lifetime in a few minutes during a dream he had in a childhood Near-Death Experience
- The dream message that changed his life and led him on a path away from best-selling Cold War thriller novels and onto dream teaching and shamanism
- An almost-miraculous synchronicity with a dominatrix that occurred on an airline flight
- How he helps people deal with and take control of their nightmares
- How to use dreams to speak to the Dead
- The importance of keeping a Dream Journal
- The principles of his Active Dreaming method and how you can start engaging your dreams tonight
Robert Moss’ new book is called Mysterious Realities: Tales from the Imaginal Realm and you can purchase it at his website, www.mossdreams.com
The song this week is a psychedelic dream voyage. “The Land of Nod” is the Biblical place located “east of Eden” where Cain was exiled after he killed his brother Abel. (In fact, in the game Vampire: The Masquerade, Cain is the first vampire and the sacred text of bloodsuckers is called The Book of Nod.) But it’s also a euphemism for dreamland, (you “nod” off to sleep) that was used as early as Jonathan Swift and Robert Louis Stevenson and is still used by authors like Neil Gaiman. And of course we had to shout out some Shakespeare, Poe, and Coleridge (who wrote the world’s most famous unfinished poem inspired by a dream!) Here is Sunspot’s “The Land of Nod”.
We are such stuff it seems
inside in a dream within a dream
a Kubla Khan in Xanadu
A physical transcending
to a world that’s never ending
where the soul does continue
can a lifetime be lived
with what a moment has to give,
Well, the clock is broken anyway
And it is your own creative hand
that flips this to a savage land
where you are nothing more than prey.
Who sent you
You sent you
You’re running
but you can’t move
and You’re trying
your legs are glued
you’re struggling
but you can’t stand
then you’re falling
but you don’t land
and you’re screaming
but there’s no sound
and you’re crying
but your tears drown
inside
before you die
you need to open your eyes
you need to open
We are such stuff it seems
inside in a dream within a dream
a Kubla Khan in Xanadu
A physical transcending
to a world that’s never ending
where the soul does continue
can a lifetime be lived
with what a moment has to give,
Well, the clock is broken anyway
And it is your own creative hand
that flips this to a savage land
where you are nothing more than prey.
Who sent you
You sent you
