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Visiting the Dream Library

From Alessandra, in Brazil:
I love your books, and I need to ask a question! Where can I find the dream library you describe in Dreamgates? What can I find there? Is it an infinite library? Can I write what I want there? Can I explore any subjects that interest me?

Robert replies:
What an excellent question!

Australian Aborigines believe that our personal dreams may open doorways into the Dreamtime, a limitless world of contact with deeper sources of wisdom and healing.

In a similar way, our personal memories and impressions of a certain kind of library (or museum, or art gallery) can provide portals to the Dream Library, whose contents are limited only by our courage, imagination, and our willingness to stretch our understanding.

Sometimes we enter a space of this kind in our dreams. One dreamer I know dreamed that her house had an extra floor, containing a room with her personal encyclopedia, where she could look up anything she needed to know. If you have a dream like that, the easiest way to get to the Dream Library is to go back inside your dream – through the process of conscious dream reentry – with the focused intention of pursuing whatever you most wish to discover.

The Dream Library may or may not contain the "Akashic Records" or the entire contents of what Jung called "the collective unconscious." It certainly opens into what scientists now call the quantum information field. It is a way of visualizing - and thereby opening access to - the whole field of data derived from the collective experience of humanity on this planet.  

Some versions of the Dream Library - like the Library of the House of Time I describe in Dreamgates - are guarded by Gatekeepers, and are not accessible unless we are traveling by invitation and/or are willing to clear our minds, drop old habits, and face some tests. The role of the Gatekeepers, in journeys of this kind, is to make sure we are ready for powerful experiences in a deeper reality.

In some versions of the Dream Library, we can have contact with master teachers in the fields that most interest us. In my Dreamer's Book of the Dead, you can read about my encounters with the poet Yeats in a certain library. Whether such encounters are with a wiser aspect of ourselves, putting on a certain costume - or with the essence of a great individual's thought - or with the personal intelligence of that teacher, is something we must test for ourselves.

The Dream Library is a wonderful creative studio. If you are a writer, you can not only find great material; you can sometimes read the books or stories or screenplays you have not yet written! I know a singer-songwriter who travels to her version of the Dream Library – a kind of music school – to play the CDs she has not yet recorded, and get coaching from a great chanteuse from the past. I know a boat designer who redesigned the hull of a racing yacht after consulting a book in his Dream Library, and a landscape gardener who redesigned an estate in the Hamptons after a Dream Library encounter with an architect who claimed to be Inigo Jones. For the Nobel laureate Wolfgang Pauli, a pioneer of quantum physics, the Dream Library was the “secret laboratory” where he first discovered and tested his breakthrough ideas.