The Golden Times between Sleep and Awake
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by Robert Moss
1w ago
  Iamblichus (c.250-325 CE), the famous philosopher and theurgist descended from the priest-kings of Emesa (in modern Syria) was very clear that the liminal space between sleep and awake is prime time for contact with spiritual guides, such as gods:  "Either when sleep departs, just as we are awakening, it is possible to hear a sudden voice guiding us about things to be done, or the voices are heard between waking and going to sleep, or even when wholly awake. And sometimes an intangible and incorporeal spirit encircles those lying down, so that there is no visual perception of it ..read more
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Gods in disguise
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by Robert Moss
1w ago
When it comes to gods, human kind cannot bear very much reality. Jung, the sun of a disaffected Protestant minister, observed that organized religion exists to protect humans against a direct experience of the sacred. The Hebrews appeal to Moses to speak to Yahweh on their behalf and play middleman, because he terrifies them. God counsels Joshua “I am near you, but you must hide your head or you will be destroyed." The closest Joshua can come to seeing the deity is to get a glimpse of his back as he withdraws. In the Bhagavad Gita, Arjuna begs to see Krishna’s cosmic form, but can't bear it ..read more
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Mutual dreaming and remote healing in The Temple of Asklepios
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by Robert Moss
3w ago
  Of all the testimonies that survive from the temples of dream healing consecrated to the god Asklepios and his divine family, the most fascinating, for me, is the case of the mother of a young Spartan woman named Arata. The mother made the  long and often dangerous journey to the great Asklepian temple of Epidaurus to seek healing for her daughter. Arata, we are told, was υδρωπ, "dropsical". Today, we might say that she had an edema, a serious swelling due to the build-up of fluids in the cavities of the body. When ordinary medicine could do nothing for her, the mother embar ..read more
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The Angel of the Rushing Waters
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by Robert Moss
1M ago
    I have seen you as a purple bruise in a yellow sky, as a Scottish soldier with drawn sword at the edge of the tame land and the wild wood, as a snowy owl with fierce talons and fiercer eyes as an Indian death-lord traveling abroad in a Johnny Cash outfit, swinging a lasso.   I have felt you enter as a gentle breeze stirring the curtains of a window in a hospital room, and in the raw, thrusting horse-power of the dark lord bursting into the sunlit maiden meadow.   You are a sexy devil. I love you better than your brother Sleep. Through aching nights of absence I have ..read more
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Location, location, location - and other keys to dream reentry
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by Robert Moss
1M ago
  The realtor's familiar slogan applies to the technique of dream re-entry as well as the property game. The easiest way for you to back inside a dream is to hold your focus on the dream location. Your initial memories may be fuzzy, but a single landmark - even a single shape or color - may be sufficient to enable you to shift your consciousness into a vivid and complex scene. Be open to possibility! The geography of the dream world is not that of the Times atlas or the Mobil guides. In dreams you may find yourself in familiar locales, including places from your past – Grandpa ..read more
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Using dream symbols to interpret the world
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by Robert Moss
1M ago
 In 1814, Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert (1780-1860), a German physician and naturalist, published a most interesting book on The Symbolism of Dreams at a time when Napoleon was still campaigning across Europe. Schubert suggested that in dreams “the soul seems to speak an altogether different language than it usually does” a language resembling poetry than that he also sometimes characterized as “hieroglyphic”. If we can only remain conscious of what happens inside the dreamspace, we don’t have to learn the language of dreams, because it is the soul’s own language. He speculated t ..read more
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When Your Dead Friend Brings You a Song That Sniffs You
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by Robert Moss
2M ago
Bob Weir, Grateful Dead singer and rhythm guitarist, told the Los Angeles Times that his long-time bandmate, Jerry Garcia, visited him in a dream 27 years after his death. “He wanted to introduce me to a song,” Weir reported. “He invited the song into the room and it had the look and feel of an English sheepdog. It was about the size of the room. It was enormous, but you could see through it. “The song came up and sniffed me. We got to know each other and be friends. Then, as it turns out, it was a jazz ballad that Jerry and I were going to sing, and it was a duet.” The ballad, however, was ..read more
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Walking a Dream
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by Robert Moss
2M ago
  Jung said that one of the things he liked to do with a dream was to “circumambulate” it, wander around it, considering it from many angles. He liked to do this while in physical motion, wandering around his house on the lake, through the garden, into the woods. This is a grand way to get greater perspective on a dream. Walking with a dream for a while, you may find that more of the dream narrative returns to you. You are almost sure to get commentary of some kind from what you notice playing around you, wherever you happen to be going. You may find that both inner and outer percepti ..read more
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Pressfield’s War of Art, and the Muse
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by Robert Moss
2M ago
    I was sent a copy of a little book on creativity by Steven Pressfield, the author of The Legend of Bagger Vance, and found it so delicious I devoured it in a single sitting. Some readers may have trouble with the military metaphor suggested by the title, The War of Art but no writer will fail to recognize those days when the forces resisting the creative process seem to have laid minefields and blown up bridges. Pressfield divides his little book into three even smaller books. Book One is devoted to what blocks and derails the creative process. Pressfield itemizes many ways of ..read more
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Dreams as Sunshine in the Night
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by Robert Moss
2M ago
  The word dMamud, which signifies “Dream (deity)”, is listed in the divine genealogies as the daughter of the Sun God. Since dreams usually occur at night, the close genealogical connection between the god of dreams and the Sun God may seem puzzling. The riddle may be solved, however, by considering that dreamers see a world which is just as bright as the day. [1] I am a wild cross-reader, forever with my nose in a dozen books in as many genres at the same time. One of the pleasures is to notice things that resemble each other over great distances. A recent example. I have long been ..read more
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