Synopses & Reviews
We've all had them dreams that seem to predict the future or revise the past; dream visits from wise elders offering us advice; experiences of communication that seems urgent but needs interpretation. All of these dreams and experiences are buried treasures that need to be carefully excavated and explored, prodded and studied. In this exciting new book, dream expert and shamanic teacher Robert Moss gives readers the tools for doing that.
When he was three years old, Robert died during a severe case of pneumonia. Afterward, illness kept him isolated and still during much of his childhood, but he found ways to explore the world through dreams. This book is about those experiences, and about others who have experienced death or other life-altering events and used dreams to work their way back or forward.
Based on years of offering workshops in shamanism and dreamwork, the examples and exercises in this book will guide readers to understanding what their dreams and experiences have to teach them about living the most fulfilling live possible.
Review
Praise for Robert Moss:"Writing about dreams, Moss is eloquent and authoritative, a wise teacher."
Publishers Weekly
Robert Moss is one of our wisest guides to dreams and dreaming.”
Larry Dossey, MD, author of The Power of Premonitions
Praise for The Secret History of Dreaming:
Captivating, well-written, and sure to please.”
Library Journal
Praise for Dreaming the Soul Back Home:
Robert Moss reveals a powerful map of how to recover our soul through shamanic dreaming. This is an inspiring and important book!”
Sandra Ingerman, MA, author of Soul Retrieval
This inspirational and practical resource guide honors all forms of dreaming and deep remembrance of our inherent wholeness. Robert Moss demonstrates how to explore the universal language of the imagination and the soul, which together bridge the inner world of spirit and the outer world of action. Deeply healing and useful!”
Angeles Arrien, PhD, cultural anthropologist and author of The Four-Fold Way
Review
Moss (
Dreaming the Soul Back Home) is an extraordinary guide to dreams and dreaming who also knows the power of storytelling. While not an autobiography, his book includes many personal stories and memories that offer rich fodder for the imagination....His ability to normalize the idea of communication and movement between this world and the next through story, and to show how reality is layered and time is fluid, is sublime....Reading this book is like embarking on a guided mystery tour through the past, present, and other worlds and discovering the potential to transform ones own life, as well as a path to transform the world.”
Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Robert Moss extraordinary life story, told with beauty and passion, confirms that there is life after life and will inspire all who read it to transcend the fear of death and live richer and deeper lives.”
Raymond Moody, MD, author of Life After Life
Sumptuous language, lush imagery, and fantastic narratives...Moss is a captivating storyteller with an eye for detail, possessed of impeccable timing....Those seeking their own answers may find a sense of direction, deep healing, or a glimmer of insight to help guide them on their own personal metaphysical quests....Its a rare talent that can infuse the magical with the mundane in a manner that lends real weight and volume to their narratives. Moss not only possesses it, he wields it with masterly precision....Believer and skeptic alike will discover that time spent with Moss will be enjoyable and perhaps life-changing.”
ForeWord
The Boy Who Died and Came Back is a masterpiece. Captivated from the very first page, I could not put the book down. Robert Moss is the consummate guide to this grand multiverse in which we live.”
Bonnie Horrigan, author of Red Moon Passage
This wonderfully written book by Robert Moss shares the amazing story of his life and adventures in nonordinary realms. He teaches us about dreams, the multiverse, and death and shares powerful teachings to wake us up to a new awareness of just how many paths we walk through the seen and unseen worlds.”
Sandra Ingerman, MA, author of Soul Retrieval and Medicine for the Earth
Robert Moss is a weaver of worlds. In this book, he entwines the shamanic with the classical, the mythological with the historical with gold-threaded prose. He shows us how conscious dreaming can lead us into the non-space-time regions of the inner universe, where all things are connected from whatever time, place, or reality. Moss book is a superb illustration of the restless, exuberant creativity of consciousness.”
Julia Assante, author of The Last Frontier
This is a thrilling personal account of the farthest reaches of human consciousness. Robert Moss shows us that our mind is more than physical, that it is not limited to the here and now. Being infinite in space and time, it is immortal, eternal, and soul-like. Moss continues to be one of our greatest explorers of consciousness. He is that rarest of authors who brings hope and meaning to every reader.”
Larry Dossey, MD, author of One Mind
The Boy Who Died and Came Back is a fascinating travelogue of visionary journeys into nonordinary realities. The rich spectrum of these remarkable adventures in consciousness ranges from near-death experiences, memories of previous incarnations, lucid precognitive dreams, encounters with spirits and archetypal beings, and stunning synchronicities, to shamanic experiences of psychospiritual death and rebirth. Robert Moss unique ability to navigate these experiences; use them as sources of inspiration, healing, and spiritual insight; and integrate them into his everyday life makes this book an invaluable guide for people interested in self-discovery, spiritual quest, and learning about the nature of reality.”
Stanislav Grof, MD, author of Beyond the Brain, Psychology of the Future, and When the Impossible Happens
Synopsis
After his first of three near-death experiences, when he was three years old, Robert Mosss parents were told, Your boy died and came back.” Moss finds died and came back” more accurate than near-death” and proof that soul or consciousness is not dependent on the physical body.” Mosss death experiences revealed reality to be layered and time fluid. Past and present, other worlds, and brilliant sources of wisdom were all accessible. As the creator of Active Dreaming, Moss has taught thousands to use their night dreams to improve their waking lives. Now Moss teaches readers to be archaeologists, excavating and exploring experiences such as temporary death, dreams, and synchronicity. He describes how to seek wisdom and guidance from great minds and seekers, both past and present, and use the multiverse to pursue and live our big stories.” Through stories and shamanic dreamwork, readers discover truths that illuminate not just the nature of life but also the paths they walk here and now.
Synopsis
Travels in Many Worlds with a Master StorytellerJoin Robert Moss for an unforgettable journey that will expand your sense of reality and confirm that there is life beyond death and in other dimensions of the multiverse. Moss describes how he lived a whole life in another world when he died at age nine in a Melbourne hospital and how he died and came back again, in another sense, in a crisis of spiritual emergence during midlife. As he shares his adventures in walking between the worlds, we begin to understand that all times — past, future, and parallel — may be accessible now. Moss presents nine keys for living consciously at the center of the multidimensional universe, embracing synchronicity, entertaining our creative spirits, and communicating with a higher Self.
About the Author
Robert Moss is the creator of Active Dreaming, an original synthesis of dreamwork and shamanism, and leads creative adventures all over the world, including at many leading human potential centers. He has taught many thousands of people in all walks of life to heal their lives, discover their personal mission and awaken to the reality of the multidimensional universe. He has a very strong online following. A master storyteller, he is also a bestselling novelist, poet and independent scholar. His vast media experience ranges from the
Today show and
Charlie Rose to
Parade, the
Diane Rehm Show on NPR, and
Coast to Coast. He spends half his year on the road, from the Carpathian Mountains to Chicago, and half at home in upstate New York.
Table of Contents
Contents
Introduction: Kiss of Death
Part I: Through the Moon Gate
Death in a Teacup
The Other Side of the Moon Gate
Neither Folk nor Fairy
Crumpet Time
Serpent Staff in the Sky
Kali Ma
The Pilots Cap
Night of the Hawk
Part II: The Years of Writing Dangerously
The Hawk and the Oak
Theater of Time
Heart of the Bear
Through the Black Sun
Seth Speaks
Making a Bear
The Incredible Shrinking Man
What Is Your Contract with God?
Dreams and the Art of Memory
Dream Archaeology in Johnson Country
The Hawk in the Hearth
Part III: The Return Journey
The Change in the Very Hungry Caterpillar
Saying Good-Bye to the Happy Hooker
The Drowning Boy and His Sister
Among Children
The Wrong Bus and the Right Gas Station
Part IV: At Home in the Multiverse
The Time Is Always Now
We Are Sleeping till Were Dreaming
The Place between Sleep and Awake
When the Universe Gets Personal
Practicing Death
Dancing with the Bear
The Double on the Balcony
At the Center of All Times
Entertaining the Spirits
Part V: Adventures in Dream Archaeology
Where Dreams Are Passports
Return of the Ancient Deer
In the House of Time
Mutual Visioning with Yeats
Flights of the Simurgh
What Sings and Cries
Dreaming with the Goddess
The Shaman from the Eagles Nest
On the Magic Mountain
Epilogue: Ambassador of the Other Side
Acknowledgments
Endnotes
About the Author