Conscious Dreaming

Zusatztext " Conscious Dreaming is a triumphant conttribution.... This book contains revelations for the advanced dreamer as well as the neophyte. Highly recommended." —Patricia Garfield! author of Creative Dreaming and The Healing Powers of Dreams "This book is highly recommended for anyone wishing to explore dreams and how they can be used constructively in the craft of life." —Larry Dossey! author of Healing Words and Recovering the Soul Informationen zum Autor Robert Moss is the creator of Active Dreaming, a synthesis of shamanism and modern dreamwork. Born in Australia, he survived three near-death experiences. He leads popular seminars all over the world. A former lecturer in ancient history at the Australian National University, he is a bestselling novelist, journalist, and scholar. Klappentext A leader of dream workshops and seminars details a unique! nine-step approach to understanding dreams! using contemporary dreamwork techniques developed from shamanic cultures around the world. Conscious Dreaming shows you how to use your dreams to understand your past! shape your future! get in touch with your deepest desires! and be guided by your higher self. Author Robert Moss explains how to apply shamanic dreamwork techniques! most notably from Australian Aboriginal and Native American traditions! to the challenges of modern life and embark on dream journeys. Moss's methods are easy! effective! and entertaining! animated by his skillful retelling of his own dreams and those of his students-and the dreams' often dramatic insights and outcomes. According to Moss! some shamans believe that nothing occurs in ordinary reality unless it has been dreamed first. In the dreamscape! we not only glimpse future events! we can also develop our ability to choose more carefully between possible futures. Conscious Dreaming's innovative system of dream-catching and transpersonal interpretation! of dream re-entry adn keeping a dream journal enables the reader to tap the deepest sources of creativity and intuition and make better choices in the critical passages of life. Introduction CALLED BY SEA EAGLE  My fascination with dreams springs from my early childhood in Australia, and that is where my exploration of the dreamworld began.  I had a strange, solitary boyhood—blighted or blessed, according to your point of view. Between the ages of two and eleven, I suffered twelve bouts of double pneumonia. After the third of these attacks, a Melbourne physician with a memorable bedside manner told my parents, "You'd better give up on this one and think about having another baby. This one is never going to make it."  But somehow "this one" seemed to keep dying and coming back. The doctors could never quite figure out why, just as they could never find a treatment for the swarm of allergies that for years made it dangerous for me to breathe normal air and then vanished overnight. Drugs had dwindling effect. The doctors eased off prescribing penicillin toward the end of these ordeals for fear my body would become completely impervious to it.  To survive, I had to learn how to breathe, even when I was drowning inside my own lungs. I had to learn how to shift attention so I could shut out sensations of physical pain. I became so good at this that shutting out the pain became another of my vulnerabilities. When I was nine, I mentioned a mild discomfort in my lower right abdomen to my father. He ran to fetch a doctor who lived nearby, knowing that there could be a serious problem since I had long since ceased to complain about pain. When the doctor came, he had me rushed to the hospital. My appendix was about to burst. The surgeon told my family that if I had arrived an hour later, I would almost certainly have died. My resistance had been weakened by yet another bout of pneumonia; the doctors d...

Product details

• Authors: Joel Ed. Moss, Robert Moss
• Publisher: Harmony
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.05.1996
• EAN: 9780517887103
• ISBN: 978-0-517-88710-3
• No. of pages: 384
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 202 mm x 14 mm
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology