Robert Moss - Active Dreaming: Journeying Beyond Self-Limitation to a Life of Wild Freedom

Active Dreaming is a soul-nurturing, imagination-firing book! Avowed storyteller and webmaster of dream landscapes Robert Moss challenges us to dream forward into our personal and collective futures to give the Great Story of humanity meaning and purpose. The dreamscapes he conjures are full of surprises and hope!

Dorothea Hover-Kramer, psychotherapist and author of Second Chance at Your Dream and Healing Touch

If you are searching for a way to reconnect with your authentic self, read Active Dreaming by Robert Moss. This books timeless techniques and thoughtful guidance will bring you back to the springs of personal wholeness. I highly recommend it.

Robert Waggoner, author of Lucid Dreaming

Robert Mosss Active Dreaming prescribes medicine to heal the pervasive drought of dreams in our society. From stories to dreams to instructions on how to navigate the bountiful ocean of dreaming, we readers journey toward the heart of what it is to be human. Illuminating, compassionate, and practical, Active Dreaming will inspire dreamers of all ages and walks of life everywhere.

Denyse Beaudet, PhD, author of Dreamguider: Open the Door to Your Childs Dreams

Dreaming may be our most important natural resource, one that everyone has access to and one that can never run out. Robert Moss teaches us how to tap that resource for the benefit of our waking lives and the healing of our world. Robert is a wizard of the Dreamways and a master teacher. In this exciting, outstanding book he works his special magic, giving us practical tools for bringing our dreams to life and our lives to dream. No one does it better.

David Spangler, author of Subtle Worlds: An Explorers Field Notes

Robert Mosss invitation to wake up and dream opens the door to the world within the world of our sleeping and waking dream life, where the self merges with the Self. In a book both enchanting and practical, he provides the compass and map for the journey and serves as wise, compassionate, and soulful guide.

Judy Reeves, author of A Writers Book of Days

Robert Mosss extraordinary dreamwork, in my opinion, comes from the fact that he is not confined, as are we psychologists, to scientific rationale, methods, and explanations. Instead, his background in journalism has opened his mind as a storyteller. In Active Dreaming, Moss helps us explore the immense possibilities in consciousness that our dreams reveal, leaving us in a new world of meaning and adventure.

Henry Reed, PhD, author of Dream Medicine, known as the father of the modern dreamwork movement

This book sits at the intersection of poetry and practicality. Robert Moss speaks to a world we each inhabit and only dimly understand. Read this book. You will be a little more awake and a little clearer, and you will probably greet the world with a little more acceptance.

Peter Block, coauthor of The Abundant Community

Active Dreaming is a jewel of a book! This is an important, practical guide providing powerful tools to chart a way to choose and live the life we desire. Robert Mosss teachings are clear and empowering. Active Dreaming is a book that we can continue to turn to for deep wisdom, rich teachings, and inspiration time and time again. This book not only helps us to personally transform our lives but also provides a path to transform the world we live in.

Sandra Ingerman, MA, author of Soul Retrieval

In Active Dreaming, Robert Moss shows how we can be active participants in our dream world. Active Dreaming is one of the most practical guidebooks on dreams currently available. Highly recommended.

Larry Dossey, MD, author of Healing Words

Robert Moss gives readers a road map to chart our courses through life, complete with suggestions on how to find the perfect balance of passions and skills to live a life we love. Thanks, Robert, for reminding us and for providing inspiring directions on how to live each day like a holiday, as well as showing us how to become dream guides for others!

Patricia Garfield, PhD, author of Creative Dreaming

Copyright 2011 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.

Text design by Tona Pearce Myers

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Moss, Robert, date.

Active dreaming : journeying beyond self-limitation to a life of wild freedom / Robert Moss.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 235) and index.

ISBN 978-1-57731-964-1 (pbk. : alk. paper)

1. Dreams. 2. Self-actualization (Psychology) I. Title.

BF1091.M789 2011

154.63dc22

2011001544

First printing, April 2011

ISBN 978-1-57731-964-1

Printed in Canada on 100% postconsumer-waste recycled paper

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T oday is the first day of your new life. When you opened this book, you put yourself on a road that will lead you to manifest your life dreams. To follow this road, youll want to define who you are and what your life project is all about. This is essential, because the human being is an animal that must define itself or else be defined by others. Let others tell you who you are, and you can find yourself trapped in the cage of other peoples needs and expectations rather quickly. You can find yourself stuck inside a frame and required to forever remain the same. You might be bent double under the weight of a past history you want to let go of but cant because others keep strapping it on your back. You might find it hard to breathe under the low ceilings of the little box houses of other peoples limiting beliefs about the world and your role in it.

This book will help you get out of those cages and frames and chart your own course in life, to a place of wild creative freedom I call the Place of the Lion. To get there, you need to find your essential life story and tell it and live it so that others can receive it. If you dont know that your life has an essential story, then you have probably been trapped in a little story, one of those confining stories spun by others that crush your ribs and pinch your throat so you cant breathe, let alone speak up. You have come to this book because you are ready to break out and claim your bigger story, and to learn to tell it so well that others will not only hear you but also welcome what is most alive and creative in you. When the lion speaks,