Robert Moss - Mysterious Realities: A Dream Archaeologist’s Tales from the Imaginal Realm

Praise for Mysterious Realities

Story medicine is a powerful elixir in these uncertain times. Potent word-weavers like Robert Moss shape their stories in such a way that the reader feels instead of knows, journeys rather than arrives. Mysterious Realities offers opportunities to encounter the mystical through story without confining or defining the experience, without placing limits on what is essentially wild, ancient, and infinite.

Danielle Dulsky, E-RYT 500, YACEP, author of The Holy Wild and Creatrix at Living Mandala Yoga

Robert Moss is a mything link, and his new book, Mysterious Realities, is one of the most luminous revelations of those who travel between the worlds. Using words as wands, this magus of the imaginal realm accompanies the reader on visionary journeys, soul-capturing dreams, and encounters with once and future archetypes. This is not an innocent book. The very reading is an initiation, a sea change into something rich and strange. It is a message from a future human, a representative from a parallel world, one who has solved present challenges by entering realms that few as yet dare to enter. Read this numinous book, and enter if you dare.

Jean Houston, author of A Mythic Life

What an utter delight to travel through Robert Mosss rich imaginai world. I feel like my head and heart are seven sizes bigger. What a wondrous inner adventure Ive just had.

Jennifer Louden, author of The Life Organizer and The Womans Comfort Book

Robert Mosss Mysterious Realities opens doors to the worlds beyond the mundane, to the joy and grief, terror and passion of the many-branching universe. There are always more of us, following ever-deeper paths, and if we are going to find the true, the good, and the beautiful of our lives, it behooves us to explore those paths. Sink into this book and luxuriate in all that is possible so that you, too, can cruise through your own imaginai realms.

Manda Scott, author of the Boudica Dreaming series

Praise for Other Books by Robert Moss

Robert Moss removes the veil separating us from the underlying patterns and processes that provide meaning, direction, and joyful wonder in life. This book is urgently needed as an antidote to the deadening chorus of materialistic science that tells us there is no purpose or direction in our world, and intention and will are illusions. Sidewalk Oracles is CPR for the soul.

Larry Dossey, MD, author of One Mind

Robert Moss is peerless in shifting us from seeing our life as boring and ordinary to seeing it as filled with meaningful messages and magic.

Stephen Dinan, of The Shift Network

The historical perspective and broad scope of meaning that Robert Moss brings to his readers are instructive even enlightening.

Joyce Hawkes, PhD, author of Cell-Level Healing

Writing about dreams, Moss is eloquent and authoritative, a wise teacher.

Publishers Weekly

[The Secret History of Dreaming is] captivating, well written, and sure to please.

Library Journal

The Boy Who Died and Came Back is a masterpiece.

Bonnie Horrigan, author of Red Moon Passage

Moss infuses the magical with the mundane in a manner that lends real weight and volume to their narratives.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] 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 The Boy Who Died and Came Back, he entwines the shamanic with the classical, the mythological with the historical with gold-threaded prose. Mosss book is a superb illustration of the restless, exuberant creativity of consciousness.

Julia Assante, author of The Last Frontier

Also by Robert Moss

Active Dreaming

The Boy Who Died and Came Back

Conscious Dreaming

The Dreamers Book of the Dead

Dreamgates: Exploring the Worlds of Soul, Imagination, and Life Beyond Death

Dream Gates: A Journey into Active Dreaming (audio)

Dreaming the Soul Back Home

Dreaming True

Dreamways of the Iroquois

The Secret History of Dreaming

Sidewalk Oracles

The Three Only Things: Tapping the Power of Dreams, Coincidence & Imagination

The Way of the Dreamer (video)

THE CYCLE OF THE IROQUOIS (FICTION)

Fire along the Sky

The Firekeeper

The Interpreter

POETRY

Here, Everything Is Dreaming: Poems and Stories

Copyright 2018 by Robert Moss

All rights reserved. This book may not be reproduced in whole or in part, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic, mechanical, or other without written permission from the publisher, except by a reviewer, who may quote brief passages in a review.

In the story Which Is the Dream? section 4 was first published in Dreamgates ( 1998, 2010) as What to Do When You Might Be Dead in Denver.

Text design by Tona Pearce Myers

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Moss, Robert, [date] author.

Title: Mysterious realities : a dream travelers tales from the imaginal realm / Robert Moss.

Description: Novato, California : New World Library, [2018].

Identifiers: LCCN 2018020150 (print) | LCCN 2018036007 (ebook) | ISBN 9781608685394 (ebook) | ISBN 9781608685387 | ISBN 9781608685394 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Dreams.

Classification: LCC BF1078 (ebook) | LCC BF1078 .M655 2018 (print) | DDC 135/.3dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018020150

First printing, October 2018

ISBN 978-1-60868-538-7

Ebook ISBN 978-1-60868-539-4

Printed in Canada on 100% postconsumer-waste recycled paper

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Here is how this book found its way to publication. At the close of one of my workshops in Berkeley in which synchronicity was a major theme I walked with my coordinator to a restaurant. I talked about three things along the way. The first was Pegasus, the winged horse, born from the blood of nightmare, capable of opening the springs of the Muses the surge of creative inspiration under his stamping hooves. Second, I spoke of how I had many folders of almost complete stories that probably wanted to be put in the hands of the right publisher. I had given the collection a title long ago: