Across most of human history, most cultures have valued dreams and dreamers for three reasons. They have known that dreaming, we encounter deeper sources of wisdom in realities that are no less real than waking life. They have recognized that in dreams, we are prepared for challenges and opportunities that lie ahead, and may be able to shape the future for the better if we read and apply the information correctly. And they have seen that dreaming is related to healing: dreams diagnose what is going in in the body, they provide imagery for healing, and above all, they show us the state of the soul.

In this continuing series, Robert draws on the wisdom of many traditions and the minds of some great dreamers to help us reclaim ways of seeing and healing that once belonged to all our ancestors.

Module 1

Dreamways of the Iroquois: Honoring the Secret Wishes of the Soul

In the Mohawk language, the word for shaman or healer is ratetshents, which means “dreamer.” Robert’s life was changed by his visionary encounters with the ancient Mohawk shaman and Mother of the Wolf Clan he calls Island Woman. In her tradition, dreams reveal the “secret wishes of the soul” and the daily task of the community is to gather round a dreamer, help her to recognize what the soul is saying, and then to take action to honor the soul’s purpose.

For the Iroquois, dreaming is also about human survival. Dreams show us what is happening at a distance in time or space. Iroquois dreamers were skilled at scouting the future with the help of their animal and bird allies and developed a distinctive practice for changing the possible future for the better.

Dreaming is a way of connecting with the ancestors and of looking at the consequences of human actions down to the seventh generation beyond ourselves, as the Iroquois insist that wise leaders must always do.

In this module, you’ll learn how to:

· Recognize the secret wishes of the soul, as revealed in dreams.

· Take action to honor the wishes of the soul for healing and integration.

· Recognize and clarify future events revealed in dreams.

· Take action to avoid unwanted possible events — and manifest desirable ones.

· Meet your animal spirits and authentic spiritual guides

Module 2

Joan Grant, Far Memory and the Dream School of Anubis

Let Robert escort you into the fabulous worlds of Joan Grant – a natural seer, a socialite in the world of Bertie Wooster, and one of the most popular novelists of her time. Under the veil of fiction, Joan gave us the fruits of her “far memory” of lives lived in different times, most famously in ancient Egypt. Her novel Winged Pharaoh is a manual of dreaming practices taught and mastered in the Temple of Anubis, including remote viewing, telepathy, precognition and psychopomp work.

Academic Egyptologists may object that much of this is fiction; the fact of the matter is that it works, as you will discover in the experiential part of this class., which melds delightful biography (starting with Joan’s conception in the Blue Grotto on Capri) with dream archaeology and the exploration of our relations with past lives and other worlds. You will learn, with Joan:

·         Ancient Egyptian dreaming practices

·         “remembering previous personalities” through the art of far memory

·         How to test and verify your memories of other lives

·         How to monitor how your present life may be influenced by the dramas of other lives, and how personalities across time may be linked by what Joan came to call the “Integral”

·         How to grow your awareness and lucid dreaming skills in the fertile space between sleep and awake, often the launch pad for Joan’s excursions across time.

Module 3

Dream Travel with Tolkien & C.S. Lewis

“You are a more important person than you imagine,” a wise woman tells a dreamer in C.S. Lewis’ novel That Hideous Strength. This is because she has “a tendency to dream real things”

Both Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien were fascinated by the possibility of “true dreams” and came to believe that dream travel is the royal road to other worlds and other times. In his unfinished novel The Notion Club Papers, Tolkien left us a fascinating  manual of dream practice, from following the discipline of dream recall and dream reporting, to dreaming a dream onward to make a better and fuller story, to embarking on shared adventures in mutual lucid dreaming.
 

Enjoy rich exploration of great writers dreaming on paper and harvest insights you can apply to your own creative dreaming. You will be offered offer new exercises and journeys inspired by Lewis’ and Tolkien’s fictional worlds. You will

• Discover that “in dreams, strange powers of the mind may be unlocked” (Tolkien)
• Learn how to discern the difference between “serious, free, deep dreams” and “scrappy” ones
• Play dream detective with mystery words and dream fragments
• Confirm that in dreams the mind travels across time and visits other minds
• Dip your pen or brush into your dreams for new creative expression
• Validate that you can travel with others in mutual lucid dreaming

If you complete this short course, you will have fulfilled a key prerequisite for Robert's  Dream Teacher Training. The new training cycle begins on 4 February.

Details here: https://onlineteachertraining.mossdreams.com/dream-teacher-training-level-1