Robert Moss - Sidewalk Oracles: Playing with Signs, Symbols, and Synchronicity in Everyday Life

More Praise for Sidewalk Oracles

In Sidewalk Oracles, 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: How Our Individual Mind Is Part of a Greater Consciousness and Why It Matters

Sidewalk Oracles grabbed me in the first five pages. The historical perspective and broad scope of meaning that Robert Moss brings to his readers are instructive even enlightening. After using his eighteen games for playing with signs, symbols, and synchronicity, I can attest to the incredible value, as well as delight, in following his guidance. This book is inspiring and indeed brings us to discern interweavings of energy presences from different realities and the crisscrossing of event tracks from parallel worlds. This book will instruct you in how to walk in this expanded reality with a new awareness, a new ability to notice assistance all around you, and a joyful skip in your step.

Joyce Hawkes, PhD, author of Cell-Level Healing

Praise for Robert Moss

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

Moss is an extraordinary guide to dreams and dreaming who also knows the power of storytelling.... Reading [The Boy Who Died and Came Back] 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

[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.... Moss 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

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 2015 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 is available.

First printing, October 2015
ISBN 978-1-60868-336-9
Printed in Canada on 100% postconsumer-waste recycled paper

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CONTENTS

Everything is speaking to you.

The tarot Fool is out of the deck

and walking up the drive

with the patterns of the world in his sack

to remind you (if youll listen)

that to be wise you may need to be crazy

in the eyes of others and not confuse this

with behaving like a bloody fool.

The chickens in the yard can teach you

multiplication and what you need

to hatch that dragons egg you have inside.

Hawk will come over, more interested in you

than a chicken dinner. Are you ready

to soar on his wings, and claim his vision

and see your life roads from his sky?

Everything is conspiring to show you

what heaven and earth want to happen.

When you think your way is lost,

when there are mountains of glass

and concrete between you and your dreams,

the ones who move beyond the curtain

of our consensual hallucinations

and speak as the wind in the trees

as the call of a bird, as the bark of a fox,

will open ways where you least expect them.

All you need are new ears and fresh eyes.

There is one common breathing, one common flow; all things are in sympathy.

HIPPOCRATES

W e are embarking on a path of real magic. Real magic is the art of bringing gifts from another world into this world. We do this when we go dreaming and when we remember to bring something back. In dreaming, we go to other realities that may include places of guidance, initiation, challenge, adventure, healing. When we bring something back from these excursions, and take action in ordinary life to embody the guidance and energy we receive, that is a practice of real magic.

We go dreaming in the night. We do it quite spontaneously. We can do it by setting an intention for our nocturnal adventures. We can do it as lucid dreamers, awakened to the fact that we are dreaming and able to navigate the dreamlands consciously. We can do it in the way of the shaman, traveling intentionally, conscious and hyperawake, riding the drum to locales beyond the ordinary, and bringing back gifts.

We can also walk the roads of everyday life as conscious dreamers, learning to recognize how the world is speaking to us in signs and symbols, and how a deeper order of events may reveal itself through the play of synchronicity. In night dreams and conscious excursions, we get out there; we go near or far into other orders of reality where the rules of linear time and Newtonian physics do not apply. Through synchronicity, powers of the deeper reality come poking and probing through the walls of our consensual hallucinations to bring us awake. Sometimes they work to confirm or encourage us in a certain line of action; sometimes they intercede to knock us back and discourage us from persisting in the worst of our errors.