I'm not sure if anyone is familiar with Robert Moss, but he is one of the leading spiritual authors on shamanic, healing and divinatory dreaming.
"Robert Moss is the pioneer of Active Dreaming, an original synthesis of shamanism and modern dreamwork. Born in Australia, he survived three near-death experiences in childhood. He leads popular seminars all over the world, including a three-year training for teachers of Active Dreaming and a lively online dream school. A former lecturer in ancient history at the Australian National University, he is a best-selling novelist, journalist and independent scholar. His seven books on dreaming, shamanism and imagination include Conscious Dreaming, Dreamways of the Iroquois, The Three "Only" Things: Tapping the Power of Dreams, Coincidence and Imagination and The Secret History of Dreaming.
Moss describes himself as "a dream teacher, on a path for which there has been no career track in our culture." He identifies the great watershed in his adult life as a sequence of visionary events that unfolded in 1987-1988, after he decided to leave the world of big cities and the fast-track life of a popular novelist (already the author of four New York Times bestsellers, including Moscow Rules) and put down roots on a farm in the upper Hudson Valley of New York. Moss started dreaming in a language he did not know that proved to be an archaic form of the Mohawk language. Helped by native speakers to interpret his dreams, Moss came to believe that they had put him in touch with an ancient healer - a woman of power - and that they were calling him to a different life.
Out of these experiences he wrote a series of historical novels (The Firekeeper, Fire Along the Sky, The Interpreter) and developed the practice he calls Active Dreaming, an original synthesis of contemporary dreamwork and shamanic methods of journeying and healing. A central premise of Moss's approach is that dreaming isn't just what happens during sleep; dreaming is waking up to sources of guidance, healing and creativity beyond the reach of the everyday mind.He introduced his method to an international audience as an invited presenter at the conference of the Association for the Study of Dreams at the University of Leiden in 1994.
Core techniques of Active Dreaming include
The "lightning dreamwork" process, designed to facilitate quick dream-sharing that results in helpful action; the use of the "if it were my dream" protocol encourages the understanding that the dreamer is always the final authority on his or her dream
Dream reentry: the practice of making a conscious journey back inside a dream in order to clarify information, dialogue with a dream character, or move beyond nightmare terrors into healing and resolution
Tracking and group dreaming: conscious dream travel on an agreed itinerary by two or more partners, often supported by shamanic drumming
Navigating by synchronicity: reading coincidence and "symbolic pop-ups" in ordinary life as "everyday oracles"."
You can view his bibliography and website. He's hosting an online dream workshop that runs 8 weeks long via Spiritualty & Health. I thought some of you might me interested in partaking in it. There is a fee of $25, which you could cancel out by smoking one less dub sack .
Lastly, here is the information on the workshop and where to sign up:
In "Conscious Dreaming, Conscious Living" you’ll learn that dreaming isn’t just what happens during sleep; dreaming is waking up to sources of guidance, healing and creativity beyond the reach of the everyday mind. You’ll acquire tools for understanding and exploring your dreams, and for bringing energy, healing and guidance from the dreamworld into everyday life. You’ll be encouraged to navigate by synchronicity, using coincidence, symbolic pop-ups and natural phenomena in the world around you as homing beacons. You’ll learn the practice of imagination: how to develop personal imagery for self-healing, how to grow a vision of a richer and fuller life so strong that it wants to take root in the world, and how to transfer that vision to others. Best of all, you'll join a virtual community of creative dreamers who will support you in your life journey and help you to deepen your practice. The heart of the course is a very lively interactive forum where you can play any time you choose. Dreamers who will be sharing in this forum range from absolute newcomers for whom this is a first experience of recording and exploring inner experiences in this way to seasoned travelers in the multiverse.
http://spirituality-health.com/spirit/e-course/conscious-dreaming-conscious-living-2010 It starts on the 25th so you can most likely sign up until then.
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