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Time for the Psychopomp
September 17, 2026
We do not know where Death is waiting for us, so let us be ready to meet Death everywhere
Please join me on Thursday, October 1 for a free online adventure on The Shift Network to introduce my new 18-week Psychopomp Training. We’ll confirm that dreaming is the best preparation for dying. We’ll travel together in a shamanic journey to a place where you can pick up your messages from departed loved ones and ancestors.
Our society is desperately in need of people who are prepared to help midwife Death: to help others approach the last stages of life, and the journey into life beyond life, with courage and grace. The role of the psychopomp is not confined to helping the living to travel the roads beyond Death. It involved helping spirits of the deceased to find their ways.
This extraordinary training marries the powerful and original techniques of Active Dreaming – my original synthesis of dreamwork and shanism – to a vitally important agenda: to help souls on both sides of the swing doors of death. It will require you to brave up for a close encounter with your personal Death, and to travel the roads of the afterlife and develop a working geography of the many options available after physical death.
PODCAST: The Living Power of Your Dreams
Robert talks to Katherine Bell on Dream Journal
PODCAST: A Vast Journey into the Underworld of Dreams
with Andrew Holocek on Edge of Mind
PODCAST: Growing Big Dreams
with Jim Lefter on Big Universe
DREAM DRAWINGS
Dream-inspired art by Robert Moss
Dreams require action, to bring their creative, guiding and healing energies into the everyday world. My journals are filled with drawings I make from dreams and shamanic journeys, very often shared experiences in my playshops and trainings, where a whole flight of 30 or more dreamers may travel together through an agreed portal on an agreed assignment. Here is a selection of drawings inspired in this way, from my journals and sketchbooks. All pictures are (c) Robert Moss and may not be reproduced in any form without written permission. In this age of AI or data generated images, I will note that nothing here is produced that way. Very occasionally I may use some digital help with adding color and effects to an original piece. That will be noted.
I love it when my dreams demand that I pick up pencils and colors. I made this sketch from a mysterious dream in which renowned European magicians have come to a kampong – a village on the water, often with stilt houses – in Malaysia. I dreamed again last night of occult activities in a kampong. This time I was engaged with scholarly occultists in editing and publishing a hitherto unknown Hermetic text about how divine knowledge becomes available to humans.
Beyond drawing from these dreams, it seems I am being drawn into them. For now, i will simply indulge myself by posting the picture I made from my original kampong dream in the spring with my raw journal report.
UPCOMING PROGRAMS
FREE VIDEO EVENT
Thursday, October 1 ONLINE
The Psychopomp’s Path Between Worlds
Presented by The Shift Network
DREAM TEACHER TRAININGS ONLINE
Level 1: Starts January 12, 2027
Level 3: Starts October 7
3-PART WORKSHOP SERIES
December 2, 9, 16: ONLINE
Dancing with the Bear: Healing through Dreams and Imagination
Presented by Alternatives, London, UK
WAY OF THE DREAMER RADIO SHOW with Robert Moss
Listen and call in to Robert LIVE every second Tuesday of the month at 9-10am Pacific Time (Noon-1pm Eastern Time) or listen to recent shows anywhere, anytime at Healthy.net, or download archived radio programs HERE
Next Show: Tuesday, October 13
Robert’s online courses for The Shift Network are available as downloadable packages of recordings and transcript at affordable prices. (Completion of one or more courses fulfills a prerequisite for acceptance for Dream Teacher Training.)
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