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In my strange, sickly, lonely youth, I received a visitor in the drifty, half-dream state between sleep and awake. He was a beautiful young man, and I knew he had come from the eastern side of the Mediterranean, somewhere like Lebanon or Syria. His culture was Hellenic, and though he spoke to me in English, he used difficult Greek-derived words beyond my vocabulary at fourteen. The most important thing he told me is that all knowledge worth having comes through anamnesis.

The word is in English dictionaries and much later I discovered that it is used in psychology. It literally means “remembering” or “recollection”. For Plato and his followers, however, it has a larger meaning. Anamnesis is soul remembering. It is recovery from the waters of amnesia every human must drink on the way to embodiment in this world. To perform anamnesis is to rise in consciousness to reclaim what you knew on the level of nous – of mind or spirit – before you came into the body this time. It is to make contact with the world of Forms from which the material world emanates. It is to recall your soul family, your connection with personalities in other times. It is to join with more of your higher self and embody more of your larger purpose.

Creative Lucidity and Ethics of Lucid Dream Sex

Robert’s recent conversation with Dr. Clare Johnson 

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GROWING BIG DREAMS

Here’s a fun note on the pre-history: A year ago, I had a clear vision in the space between sleep and awake of the manuscript of my new book being delivered to my door in a baby basket.

July 6, 2019: Hypnapompic zone

Baby Basket at My Door

Someone is at the door, making a delivery. I go to the door and look out into a narrow street of whitewashed houses, flooded with sunlight. At my door someone has left a baby basket. Really? I look more closely. Instead of a baby there is a bundle of typed pages, neatly stacked and tied with both pink and blue ribbons. I know this is the next book I will publish. Feelings: happy, excited

At that point I had not decided what my next book would be or made a publishing plan. After I shared my dream and the drawing with my wonderful editor Georgia Ann Hughes we agreed on a plan for the book.  GROWING BIG DREAMS, which contains a chapter on the creative gifts of hanging out in that liminal space between sleep and awake, was officially published on September 29. The audiobook version, narrated by me, is available on Audible.