Robert Moss is not for everyone, but, if you can set aside any preconceived notions about what this book should be, I think that you’ll find at least some chapters that will speak to you. Read this book if you want to adjust the lens with which you perceive reality or if you just want to read a book that is completely different from anything else that you’ve ever read. This review has really only touched the tip of the iceberg that is Active Dreaming. … Learn to do that, and you can survive the worst nightmares of history and bring heart and healing to others…” pg 134 Properly conducted, the journey raises a tremendous amount of life force and channels the movement of that energy into harmonious, unrestricted flow.” pg 98Īnd finally, a passage that really resonated with me: “You must know your story and tell your story and have your story received. It encourages spontaneous art and creativity and offers rich personal mythology, which is healing in itself. It introduces and strengthens connections with the animal guardians and brings their vitality, tracking skills, and healing energies richly alive in the body.
Here are some of the benefits of practicing Active Dreaming: “The journey opens gateways for soul recovery and the release of life blockages. When you become an active dreamer, you’ll notice that the world speaks to you in a different way.” pg xii introduction Photo by GEORGE DESIPRIS on Robert Moss’s definition of Active Dreaming: “This approach includes paying attention to night dreams, but it is not only, or even essentially, about what happens at night. I think I’m going to cherry pick a few of Moss’s techniques and see how I do.
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Some of the concepts in this book were a bit far out there- things like shared dreams or visions in which, theoretically, you invite another person into your dreamspace to help you address whatever is going on for you or instructions on how to start Dream Groups.Īctive Dreaming is a call to action, but in so many directions that it is difficult to really know where to start. Moss invites the readers to fully live their lives and to “wake up” through drumming circles, sharing and interpretation of dreams, choosing your names and how you define yourself, practicing mindful creativity, noticing synchronicities, journaling, storytelling, creative visualization (and more). Moss takes the Aboriginal practices of his native Australia and develops a living practice wherein one treats the world, whether waking or sleeping, like an lucid dream.
Active Dreaming is more than just another book about lucid dreaming or dream interpretation.