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Dream Gates

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You will want to listen to these tapes again and again as you absorb all that Robert Moss covers about dreaming -- an excellent map to the journey within and the portals you enter through dreams. I LOVE the hall of time and tips on exploring its many rooms. After listening to these tapes a few times, I dreamed that I was in a workshop with Robert Moss and in the dream I came into my own as a teacher. Since then I've enjoyed delightful dreams of teaching, one demonstrating to an auditorium of sleeping people how to fly while they're dreaming. So the tape set served as a catalyst into a critical initiation for me. I highly recommend it!

I have read many books on dreaming and dream analysis. This set of tapes presents a very good introduction to the more mystical / shamanic side of dreaming. What sets these tapes apart from Robert's book is the exercises that he presents and walks you through on the tape. They make an excellent gift for anyone interested in dreaming.

This audio set is a course in adventure! Yes, it is complimented by Mr Moss' book of the same title, but it is not some airy thing that you pop in the tape deck for distraction on those long road trips! This is a guide for the Roads to be found in Shamanic journeys. Mr Moss' narration sets the perfect tone for the excursion, and his years of experience teaching workshops on the subject shine through. To complement these tapes, he also has a new series of videos, from Psyche Productions in Milford CT, which deepen the journey even further. The possibilities are limitless!!!

There is an immediacy to these audio tapes that conveys Robert Moss's natural abilities as a teacher and dream bringer. It is a pleasure to hear his voice tell stories and impart information on how to remember our dreams and use them for the benefit of ourselves and our society. I bought sets for friends interested in their dreams who do not speak English as a first language and who might have difficulty reading Robert Moss 's books (which I highly recommend). Any person with a visual difficulty would appreciate the audio cassettes. For those who like to learn from Robert Moss how to navigate in their dreamscapes and discover help and healing through Active Dreaming techniques, these tapes are a marvellous aid. They encourage and enlighten the dreamer within us all. Also on the market now is a video series with Robert Moss, which is very engaging and informative.

These tapes can stand alone or are complimentary to Robert Moss' books, Conscious Dreaming, Dream Gates and Dreaming True. (I have them all.) There is content included on the tapes that is not in the books. Best of all is that the tapes can be used for one's own growth by doing the exercises with the guidance of the voice of Robert Moss. The breadth of knowledge that is shared and the richness of story is sure to stimulate the imagination of the listener. As a workshop leader and teacher, I like to listen to how others teach, so I find it helpful to listen to tapes when I'm on a road trip in order to expand my repertoire. This set is among my favorites!

I liked this tape series. Robert Moss is no stuffy pedant and keeps the listener informed and entertained with his engaging personal style. The information presented is valid and useful but I wish they would make a CD version so you can go back to whatever bits you're most interested in more quickly.

After going through six tapes with no table of contents it's difficult to remember where everything is, so I recommend taking notes unless you're planning to go through the whole thing more than once.

If you already have the book by the same name, it's not really necessary to have these tapes unless you just want to listen to them in the car. There is more information in the book and it's easier to review. You'll want a good shamanic drumming tape or CD to use with the techniques he teaches, and there are many of those available so you shouldn't get these tapes just for the brief drumming segment they offer.

If, like me, you bought the tapes first then you're still ok because they are a very good introduction and may well inspire you to get one or more of his other works to continue your journey, as I did. So it's up to the individual and there's really no wrong way to go about it. Just use your intuition, which is really what it's all about, isn't it? :)

I've had this CD set in the bookcase for a while before I had the chance to use them.

Unlike another reviewer, I found his voice to be very conducive to the "trips" I took while listening to the CD's.

I like that he organizes the points and introductions he makes to various gates of dreaming. The CD's make it easy to go directly where you want to listen.

Because I was able to relax in a meditative position while listening to Robert Moss, I'm pretty sure I got more out of this CD set than I would have a book.

I must gently note that this is not an "audio book" but an independent production. I recorded it without a script over three days in Boulder between the publication of CONSCIOUS DREAMING and the writing of DREAMGATES: EXPLORING THE WORLDS OF SOUL, IMAGINATION AND LIFE BEYOND DEATH. While there is some overlap with material used in both those books, DREAM GATES (the audio series) flies on its own wings, and I continue to hear wonderful stories of how it is helping dreamers not only to understand their dreams, but to enter imaginal realms of healing, adventure and initiation.

Unless you are too lazy or to busy to read, you don't really need to buy this expensive set of audio cassettes: the topics covered can all be found in "Conscious Dreaming" by the same author. Even the anecdotes are the same!
Regarding the techniques covered in these talks, one wonders whether Robert Moss is talking only for people who are innately psychic and highly gifted spiritually, since he gives very few details about how exactly to apply them. One is told to do this and that and that's it! "Arouse yourself sexually and then shift your consciousness", is the kind of fuzzy advice you will find under Robert Moss's pen. Needless to say, things aren't that simple!
The pace of the talks is very quick and Robert Moss's voice is not quite soothing, so don't imagine that you will somehow fall into a trance by listening to the tapes.
There is some drumming and relaxation exercices but they are too short to be effective.
Just buy the books knowing that they are just as sketchy as regards the techniques and remember: you are the greatest authority on your own dreams!!!