Dreaming into the Dreamtime – Robert Moss

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 what appeared to be an ancient 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 to recognize what the soul is saying, and then to take action to honor the soul’s purpose.

According to this teacher, dreaming is also about human survival. Dreams show us what is happening at a distance in time or space. As you’ll learn in this illuminating session, 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 wise leaders must always do.

In this module, we will journey into the great mythic creation story of “The Woman Who Fell from the Sky,” and learn from her how to dance a new world into being.

In this module, you’ll learn how to:

• Recognize the secret wishes of the soul, as revealed in dreams
• Take action to honor the wishes of the soul for healing and integration
• Recognize and clarify future events revealed in dreams
• Take action to avoid unwanted possible events — and manifest
  desirable ones
• Journey through mythic gates to discover how to re-vision and re-create your world

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

In this tradition, dreaming is a highly social activity. We get out and about, we make visits and receive visitations. As you’ll discover in this session, the first questions to ask about a dream are those of a detective rather than an analyst: Who, what, where, why, when?

Dreaming in the night is not segregated from dreaming wide awake. We live in the Speaking Land, where everything is alive and conscious and will speak to us if we pay attention.

Our personal dreams can take us into the Dreamtime, where we encounter the Ancestors on a higher level and are present at the creation of events.

In this module, you will:

• Learn how dreaming is central to spiritual parenting
• Understand why ancestors may speak to you in dreams
• Discover your animal spirits through dreaming and how to interact with them
• Listen to the Speaking Land to receive navigational guidance from what is going on around you in everyday life
• Find ways to utilize personal dreams as portals to the Dreamtime

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

As you’ll learn in this session, the Egyptians believed that the gods interact with us in dreams. They developed an advanced practice of conscious dream travel. Trained dreamers operated as seers, remote viewers and telepaths.

Through conscious dream travel, ancient Egypt’s “frequent flyers” explored the roads of the afterlife and the multidimensional universe. It was understood that true initiation and transformation takes place in a deeper reality accessible through the dream journey beyond the body. The dream journey could even take the traveler to the stars.

In this module, you’ll:

• Learn how to practice dream telepathy
• Recognize and work with multiple energy bodies and soul vehicles
• Gain access into the Hall of the Gods and find your spiritual allies
• Discover powerful ways to journey with birds and other enlightening animal allies

He is the archetype of the wounded healer. He is both human and divine, the son of Apollo by a mortal woman. He is deeply connected to the realm of the animal spirits. He is mentored by Chiron, the centaur.

His symbol is a long staff with a snake wrapped around it. We see this everywhere today. Our doctors still take the oath that ancient physicians dedicated to him and his divine family, though the god-names have been removed. Western medicine begins in his precinct, though it no longer honors his name and often omits the essentials of his way.

His name is Asklepios, which means “unceasingly gentle.” He is the principal figure in a tradition of holistic healing that was prized in the ancient world for over one thousand years.

The helpers of Asklepios — the original therapeuts, or therapists — and his followers looked to dreams for diagnosis, prescription and an invitation for direct contact with the sacred guide and healer. The pilgrims traveled in hopes of a big dream that would be a “showing forth” of the god (or one of his family) and might, in itself, deliver healing from complaints that human remedies could not cure.

In this module, you’ll:

• Learn how dreams diagnose what is going on in the body
• Understand the importance of shedding the old skin (basics of spiritual cleansing)
• Discover ways to approach the Sacred Guide and Healer
• Learn how to meet your animal doctors and work with them
• Find techniques for building your inner Temple of Dream Healing

In the mind of India, Vishnu is dreaming this world, which will continue until he ends the dream and disperses his dream characters — including ourselves. The god with skin the color of rain-filled clouds sleeps on a great serpent, drifting on the Ocean of Milk. While Vishnu sleeps, his mind generates dreams — and this is the stuff we and our world are made of.

A Sanskrit name for dream travelers, kamacarin, means “those who can transfer themselves at will.” The sacred writings of India are a treasury of tales of dream travel, grounded on experience. In this session, we’ll explore the teachings of the Yogavasistha, where dream travelers find that time is elastic. You may live a hundred years in a dream world and return to find that only a day has passed in ordinary time.

What is experienced in the dream worlds is real and has real consequences in the traveler’s waking world. Spiritual apprenticeship and initiation can take place in this way.

In this module, we’ll learn from the dream yoga and Vedic traditions of India that:

• We can enter dreaming as a sleeping lion
• True initiation and apprenticeship can take place in dreaming
• We can enter and retrieve other life experiences as conscious dreamers
• When we awaken inside our dreams, we are ready to create realities
• We are dreaming all the time, including when we suppose we are awake

Wanda Burch, author of She Who Dreams a Journey into Healing through Dreamwork, is a long-term breast cancer survivor, alive because of vivid dreams of warning and diagnosis. Wanda presents healing retreats for women surviving chronic illness and for women veterans. Her programs use dreams and music as gateways for claiming easily accessible gifts of the imagination that can help those suffering from illness, trauma, pain and everyday anxiety find a place where souls and hearts can mend. Her current book is The Home Voices Speak Louder Than the Drums: Dreams and the Imagination in Civil War Letters and Memoirs.

We are ready for a deep journey into the dreaming of the Celtic and Nordic ancestors. We will practice dream incubation and open to flow states of creativity in the realm of Sequanna, the “Fast-Flowing” goddess of the River Seine, patron of dream travelers and dream healing.

In this session, we will follow the tracks of Elen, Lady of the Dreamways of ancient Britain. We will enter the Sacred Grove and dream, wide awake, with the tree that chooses us. We’ll rediscover that in dreaming, flying is a natural human ability and that the gate to the Otherworld opens from wherever we are.

We may travel as far as the precinct of the Antlered Goddess of the North and learn from her secrets of regeneration and spiritual connection.

In this module, you’ll learn how to:

• Practice Celtic dream incubation for healing and bardic inspiration
• Dream with the ancient Goddesses of the North
• Travel across time and space with the eyes and wings of Raven
• Journey to the Otherworld through mythic gates
• Practice the arts of “goodly speech”

Jung labored to bring together the best of Western science and scholarship with ancient ways of soul travel and soul remembering. Throughout his life, he was guided by dreams and synchronicity, and in this class, we will learn from his practice rather than his theories.

In this session, we’ll journey, like Jung, through the many-tiered House of the Soul. We’ll walk with the Sacred Guide, as Jung walked with his Philemon. We’ll meet the Shadow. We’ll discover that dreams unlock the limitless field of nonlocal mind he called the collective unconscious.

And we’ll develop field perception, as Jung practiced that as he watched the movements of wind and water, of a fox or a beetle, as he counseled his clients by Lake Zurich.

In this module, you’ll learn how you can:

• Utilize dreams as research assignments
• “Amplify” a dream through active imagination in the service of guidance and healing
• Walk and talk with a Sacred Guide, as Jung walked with Philemon
• Journey through many levels of the House of Your Life
• Get a second opinion on your issues by reading the sign language of the world