The Dreamer's Book of the Dead

A Soul Traveler's Guide to Death, Dying, and the Other Side

A guidebook for communicating with the departed and gaining first-hand knowledge of life beyond death

• Reveals that the easiest way to communicate with the departed is through dreams
• Offers methods for helpful and timely communication with deceased loved ones
• Provides powerful Active Dreaming practices from ancient and indigenous cultures for journeying beyond the gates of death for wisdom and healing

We yearn for contact with departed loved ones. We miss them, ache for forgiveness or closure, and long for confirmation that there is life beyond physical death. In The Dreamer's Book of the Dead, Robert Moss explains that we have entirely natural contact with the departed in our dreams, when they come visiting and we may travel into their realms. As we become active dreamers, we can heal our relationship with the departed and move beyond the fear of death. We also can develop the skills to function as soul guides for others, helping the dying to approach the last stage of life with courage and grace, opening gates for their journeys beyond death, and even escorting them to the Other Side.

Drawing on a wealth of personal experience as well as many ancient and indigenous traditions, Moss offers stories to inspire us and guide us. He shares his extraordinary visionary relationship with the poet W. B. Yeats, whose greatest ambition was to create a Western Book of the Dead, to feed the soul hunger of our times. Moss teaches us the truth of Chief Seattle's statement that "there is no death; we just change worlds."

Dimensions: 8.86" x 6.44"
Details: Paperback, 310 pages
Author: Robert Moss

Testimonials

"The Dreamer's Book of the Dead is one of the finest books I have read in many a year. It offers deep and healing insight into the journey beyond death, which will be a help to anyone who has lost a loved one. More than that it offers wisdom for living our lives in powerful and spirit-filled ways. With each new book, but especially with this one, Robert Moss adds to his reputation as one of the greatest spiritual teachers of our time. Outstanding!"

—David Spangler, author of Blessing: The Art and the Practice and Everyday Miracles

"Since time immemorial, dreams of the dead have been a common occurrence. Our scientifically based culture has attempted to close this door of communication, but has failed; dreams of the dead continue to occur, as always. Robert Moss sheds light on how to enter this doorway and benefit from the wisdom and comfort that often result from these experiences."

—Larry Dossey, M.D., author of Healing Words, Recovering the Soul, and The Extraordinary Healing Power of Ordinary Things

"Robert Moss's ambition to give us a Western Book of the Dead has been fully realized in this captivating and inspiring guide to the land of the dead. Moss shocks and thrills by revealing the hidden truth--that the Otherworld is in fact the familiar landscape of our dreams, where we go every night. There we can, if we intend it, meet up with our lost loved ones and encounter the great mentors of the past. Moss's own mentor is the great Irish poet W. B. Yeats, with whom he has in-depth, meaningful conversations.
"Moss reminds us that by our night dreaming and waking dreams we prepare for the great journey to the world beyond the mists the Celts call the Blessed Isles. Our dreams are the measure of what we aspire to, and it is in this life, through practicing our imagination, that we can draw our roadmap and our destination. For a better death and life beyond death--but also for a better life in the world of the living--do not miss this extraordinary book from a true Western Master."

—Catherine Shainberg, author of Kabbalah and the Power of Dreaming

About Robert Moss

Robert Moss is a lifelong dream explorer, a shamanic counselor, novelist and historian. His fascination with the dreamworlds springs from his early childhood in Australia, where he survived a series of near-death experiences and first encountered the ways of a Dreaming people through his friendship with Aborigines. For many years he has taught and practiced Active Dreaming, an original synthesis of dreamwork and shamanic techniques.

His many publications include Conscious Dreaming which has now been translated into seven foreign languages (the most recent foreign editions being Russian and Japanese), Dreamgates, Dreamways of the Iroquois, The Dreamer's Book of the Dead, the novels The Firekeeper and The Interpreter, the popular Sounds True audio series Dream Gates: A Journey Into Active Dreaming and the recent DVD series The Way of the Dreamer. He leads a three-year training for teachers of Active Dreaming.

Robert Moss leads workshops and classes in Active Dreaming – his original synthesis of modern dreamwork and shamanic techniques for shifting consciousness and embarking on conscious dream travel – all over the map. He has founded a school of Active Dreaming and the Mystery Traditions, offering workshops and trainings at many levels, including a three-year training for teachers of Active Dreaming.

Robert's Lightning Dreamwork process is now being widely taught and practiced. This is a method for dream sharing that makes it possible to open a safe space to share a dream, receive helpful and non-intrusive feedback, and develop an action plan to honor the dream – all in 8 minutes or less (which means we can do it just about anywhere, anytime). He introduced this process at ASD in Washington DC in 2000 and there is an article about it at his website. He is working on new books, both fiction and nonfiction, exploring the limitless adventure of dreaming.