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AT THE ROBERT MOSS BLOG:
Living the Epic

"That's the end of it, my story. May the next who tells it tell it better."  This is the way I once heard a traditional Irish storyteller conclude a spoken tale. What a lovely encouragement for us to improvise and claim the power of a story that calls us by making it our own. Great stories are like this. They are more than twice-told tales; they may be never-ending in their variants. Over the past two weeks, I've been recalled by dreams, bursting through in synchronicity, reincidence and mythic irruptions in daily life, to revisit the world of the epic poems beloved of the Greeks and of many who have heard them since. I dreamed I discovered an epic poem, in a neat typescript of maybe 200 pages, that I had started composing in 1987.  Read more


AT ROBERT'S DREAMGATES BLOG:
Causing a Bear: A Belated Response to Tolkien

I once dreamed I met C.S.Lewis and J.R.R.Tolkien in the New York Public Library. Tolkien told me, “You must study Scandinavian mythology.” Years later, when I was writing my Dreamer’s Book of the Dead, Lewis appeared in a kind of visitation. I asked him, “Where’s Tolkien.” Lewis said, “Tolkien won’t talk to you because you did not do what he told you to do.” I am no deep student of Scandinavian mythology, but here is my version of a wildly shamanic story from the Icelandic sagas. …His name is Bödvar Bjarki, which means “Warlike Little-Bear”. He has a typical Scandinavian genealogy: his father Bjorn was a were-bear (as a result of a witch’s curse); his mother’s name, Bera, means “She-Bear”. He casts a long shadow through the sagas of the North. He is the perfect warrior, stronger and fiercer than the berserkers (“bear-shirts”) who are the champions and bodyguards of kings but must yield pride of place to Bodvar at the royal tables when he makes his entrance, often by knocking the door or wall down.  Read more


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International Dream Adventures
Paris, France in May
Montpellier France in May
Kernave, Lithuania in May
London, England in June
Istanbul, Turkey  in September
Romania in October
Prague in October

Writing as a State of Conscious Dreaming
Duvall, WA in May

Dancing with the Bear
Duvall, WA in July


Dreaming the Soul Back Home
Berkeley, CA in June


Shamanic Dreaming in Paradise
Hawaii in February 2014

 


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Now Available from SUNY Press
HERE, EVERYTHING IS DREAMING
Poems and stories that stream directly from dreams and shamanic adventures in the world-behind-the-world.

Our earliest poets were shamans. Today as in the earliest times, true shamans are poets of consciousness who know the power of song and story to teach and to heal. They understand that the right words open pathways between the worlds and draw closer the gods and goddesses who wish to live through us.

Robert Moss brings this ancient bardic tradition to life in this collection of poems and stories that stream directly from dreams and shamanic adventures in the world-behind-the-world. You’ll be carried into a reality where everything is alive and conscious, where tigers and bears can lend you their forms and raven and hawk can give you their sight, where the ancestors are talking, talking, and the gates to the Otherworld open from wherever you are.


 INTERNATIONAL BOOK NEWS  

  

The German edition of Dreaming the Soul Back Home will be published by Reichel-Verlag in September.  The Spanish edition of Active Dreaming has just been published by Ediciones Obelisco.



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Next show: Tuesday, May 14, 2013

STICKY: The Lightning Dreamwork Game

STICKY: What is Active Dreaming?
Active Dreaming? The phrase is a provocation, designed to shake us free from the assumption that dreaming is a passive activity...  Active Dreaming is a way of being fully of this world while maintaining constant contact with another world, the world-behind-the-world, where the deeper logic and purpose of our lives are to be found. Active Dreaming is a discipline, as is yoga or archeology or particle physics. This is to say that there are ascending levels of practice. In any field, the key to mastery is always the same: practice, practice, practice. [More]

ACTIVE DREAM GROUPS AS MODELS FOR A NEW COMMUNITY
Active Dreaming groups are intentional communities in which each member receives the gift of deep listening, the change to play leader or teacher, and the opportunity to tell their life stories and re-vision those stories.  Read more

 

 
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