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29 of 30 people found the following review helpful:
Dreams enrich our lives in many ways......, October 16, 2000
I have read his previous books, Conscious Dreaming and Dream Gates the book and Dreamgates the tapes.. I found this book to be rich in narrative, vibrant in energy, sort of "the how to" on understanding the many and varied levels of dreaming. His prose is sharp witted, with some very sly humor thrown in. He is humble in his approach so everyone from corporate executives to street cleaners can enjoy a richer more creative life. Dare to dream!
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20 of 20 people found the following review helpful:
Buy this book!, June 14, 2003
Dreaming True is about you. It is about your future as you dream it. It is about your life as you change it for the better. All of Robert Moss' writings are good, whether in his other books, Dreamgates or Conscious Dreaming... he addresses life issues. What I like most about Dreaming True is at its heart, the Soul, our dream Soul. Each of us has likely lost parts of it. Whether through trauma, intense humiliation and betrayal - by others or from ourselves, we are left with a yearning. People sense that their life has holes. They long to be creatively fulfilled and to have freedom from despair. Self-numbing works but the zest, the exuberance of and for life is lost. Your dreams, as Robert discusses them, are a way to be engaged with your deepest Self, to embrace your spiritual manifestation in these few days of your life in this realm. Your dreams bring you back to wholeness. This book is about you taking control of your destiny...
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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
Not your ordinary reality..., June 16, 2003
In Dreaming True, Robert Moss expands his magnificent contribution to dreamers everywhere. He opens up multiple dimensions of dreaming, from practical information to spiritual guidance, physical and emotional healing, all in a way that's accessible, entertaining and inspiring to read.
Through personal experiences, traditional stories from a wide range of cultures, and the teachings of Wise Ones throughout history, he awakens us to the profound role that dreaming plays in every facet of our lives. As the opening line of his preface says, "The common wisdom of most human societies, as far back as we can trace, is that dreaming is central to the human condition." In a world where so many people feel disconnected from their humanness, and certainly from their primal roots, dreaming is a perfectly personalized path to wholeness.
This book offers myriad ways to access the guidance he's talking about. How do you catch and record your dreams so that you can use them? How do you know if you're dreaming the future? What can you do if you foresee disaster? How can dreams enhance your health? How can you transform your nightmares into joyous, healing experiences? Why do the dead appear in our dreams? Can you really change the cellular memory of your body to heal disease? How can you really use your dreaming to create the future you want? Moss deals clearly and explicitly with these issues, and more.
The most fascinating part of the book, to me, was his discussion of the Seven Levels of Dreaming: Dream Recycling (processing the day), Dream Moviemaking (showing us where we are and where our actions are leading), Dreaming with the Body (direct feedback from the physical), Psychic Dreaming (from the shared mind-field), Transpersonal Dreaming (meeting others, living and dead), Sacred Dreaming (encounters with higher beings), and Dreambringing (working on energy and imaginal levels to shape physical reality for the better). This helps me recognize the import of a dream, and gives me a framework for relating it to my growth on every level.
I'll never be without this book in my library.
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28 of 32 people found the following review helpful:
Dreaming True: Becoming Part of a Larger Community - Wanda Burch, author of SHE WHO DREAMS, www.wandaburch.com, August 29, 2000
We are all psychic dreamers--we dream not only our own possible futures but often those of others. We dream within a world networked by invisible paths of communication. Robert Moss in DREAMING TRUE offers practical techniques to those who have already begun their dream journey, to those wishing to become conscious dreamers, to those wishing to activate the messages in their dreams and to those who wish to energize their lives through their dreams. He explores the varied paths of dreaming that can bring the dreamer to new levels of creativity, healing and problem solving; and he highlights Harriet Tubman's magnificent dreams, which led her time and again in and out of danger to bring freedom to hundreds of slaves.
A recent TV documentary quoted a young frightened slave as saying, "I ain't seen no railroad car; I don't know nothin' but my master's land." The response to the slave was: "the railroad is one woman's dream made real--follow her dream and you will know the freedom of touching your own land, of dreaming your own dream." This metaphor of dreaming--the underground railroad of dreams--can open doors to self guidance and can reveal the kind of shared dream wisdom and knowledge that links all of us to a larger community of dreamers. Each of us brings from our dreaming a responsibility to that community. We become collaborators in a universe of dreamers--all with one language in the night, all with the ability to become positive co-creators of our own futures, and thus of the future of our world.
DREAMING TRUE is an exciting companion to CONSCIOUS DREAMING and DREAMGATES, an important continuing journey into the process of becoming part of a dreaming society. By following Robert Moss' guidance and highly effective dream techniques, the new or experienced dreamer will discover the freedom of dreaming his or her own dream, the excitement of becoming part of a larger world community.
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17 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
Must read for shamanic dreamers, July 25, 2003
By A Customer
"Dreaming is undoubtedly the most universal methodology used by shamans for entering shamanic states of consciousness - more common than either ecstatic drumming or psychoactive sacraments - yet there are deplorably few books devoted to the subject of shamanic dreaming...Robert Moss covers a wealth of shamanic dream practices...
Written in a clear, easy-to-read style, this book provides numerous examples of how paranormal dream messages have been used effectively throughout history. For example, Moss relates the inspiring story of Harriet Tubman's gift of dreaming, describing how the famous ex-slave and abolitionist, who personally escorted three hundred slaves to freedom in the North, was frequently guided to safe houses, river crossings and friendly helpers by her precognitive and intuitive dreams.
For those not familiar with Moss' previous books on shamanistic dreamwork, CONSCIOUS DREAMING and DREAMGATES, it is important to note that his theories and practices are heavily influenced by many ancient dream traditions. This volume is peppered with insightful teachings from the Temiar of Malaysia, the Aborigines of Australia, the Tzutujil Maya of Guatemala, and the Mohawk of the Iroquois Confederacy, as well as from the Tibetan Buddhists and ancient Greeks. Some less familiar but equally interesting historical material on Western dream traditions is also provided. For example, Moss mentions the theories of the early Christian bishop of Ptolemais, Synesius of Cyrene (365-414), who wrote a book discussing the usefulness of prophetic, or precognitve dreams, and he discusses the dream philosophy of the great medieval Sufi philosopher Suhrawardi, who mapped out a detailed geography of the dream realms...
In Part One, 'The Art of Dreaming True', Moss devotes seven chapters to describing and exploring the basic varieties of spontaneous dreaming - his term for those dreams that come unsolicited from the dream mind or Higher Self. This section provides a particularly well-informed introduction to the vocabulary and syntax of dreamwork, and it introduces a broad range of dreamwork practices, from simple techniques for recording and understanding dreams to helpful hints on interpreting them throug dream reentry.
In Part Two, 'Seven Levels of Dreaming,' Moss postulates an innovative typology of dreaming...
In Part Three, 'Deeper Dreaming,' Moss explores how dreams may be used to catalyze much-needed changes in society. By providing examples of people who have used dreams to improve work situations and find solutions to social problems, Moss inspires readers to take action and dream new futures. 'We need community dreamers who will promote the well-being of people where they live, in every section of society, and build bridges between them."
Even experienced dreamers can learn a great deal from the countless examples of dreamwork discussed here. In fact, although I consider myself to be a seasoned shamanic dreamer, I found the book interesting, informative and even inspiring. I heartily recommend it as a 'must read' for all shamanic practitioners who do not already utilize dreams as essential parts of their practice."- Review of "Dreaming True" by Timothy White in SHAMAN'S DRUM, number 59
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
A dream library, June 10, 2008
I had the privilege of attending a Moss dream workshop about two years ago. So when I saw this book I had to get it.
I found myself breezing through this book pretty quickly becoming rapidly absorbed in the different dream examples from himself, students, mentors, friends and even literature.
I particularly liked the Harriet Tubman story and the underground railroad, and how she led the slaves to freedom. In this book you will learn to pay closer attention to you dreams and work with then, you may even find yourself remembering dreams from the past, which may be warning you about potential issues. Some dreams are prophetic, work related, transpersonal, psychic etc.
My favorite chapter was probably body dreams. I realise I have dreams more often than I think, and I am more of a day dreamer than a night dreamer.
This is an excellent read, and I highly recommend. I also recommend Conscious Dreaming, which is probably his best known book.
I trust you find this review helpful, and the book useful.
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Meet Your Portable Mentor, February 10, 2009
In 40 years of trying to find one worthwhile dream book that wasn't "pure entertainment", I'd not found a singly useful source except perhaps Carl Jung (whose observations were from experience, but whose purpose was not to teach people how to dream) -- until now. Robert Moss has not only "been there and done that", he's willing to show you how in a book if you can't afford his workshops. These books are not teasers, designed to tantalize you with what you MIGHT learn if you scrape up enough to enrol. They are actually dreaming manuals. Each one takes you further along, and this is not "Dreaming for Dummies". He assumes you are intelligent, motivated, enthusiastic, and able to discipline yourself enough to practice. No, this is not the "just add water to be an expert" approach. Because it IS real, it makes real demands on your time and energy -- but the returns are very real and the results are VERIFIABLE in outside, "objective" reality. These books are the real thing. If you pass them by, it can only be because you're not really serious about becoming a Dreamer... but when you're ready, this is the place to begin.
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4 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
Dreaming True How to Dream Your Future and Change Your Life for Better, July 4, 2006
The book I needded to understand I can change for better. I can make mistakes and still make something good out of them. I realized that the excitement in life I want to create can be dangerous for me if I am not having best intentions in my heart. I know I can change my environment and my personality for better. I know I can do this! The power is in me and I have to learn how to use it.
The power comes from my dreams, nightmares and all these films of freedom in my mind which are played only for me in the middle of the night.
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9 of 30 people found the following review helpful:
twaddle, June 11, 2003
By A Customer
It seems the author of this tome is popular in the new age circuit. Obviously there are those who like him. In some places in his book he is a very likeable character. If this book were edited properly, and all the fluff, helter-skelter babble and infomercial stuff were cut out, it might about 30 pages long, not 383. It is amazing how scattered and superficial it is and how one can write so much and say so little. One wades through miles of new age sentimental slop in this book. It uses the story of Harriet Tubman as its spring board, but one can't help but reflect on how it trivializes and exploits the extraordinary mission of Harriet Tubman for its commercial purposes. Notwithstanding, the author clearly has a good heart. One hopes one day he will find the way to go into depth and write something good, not this mediocre new age fiddle-faddle that wastes ones time to read. The author, it must be said, spins a few good yarns (he seems to be a pretty good story teller) and his overall book structure is good. nonetheless, he repeats certain literary devices with which he ties the different sections of the book together ad nauseum, and then endlessly throws in bits of this and that, quoting this one and that one, which gives one the impression of a barrage of distracting noise. Often one wonders sometimes just what he's trying to say in all that. There is a great deal in thie book that is poorly thought out, not to mention his opinions and personal differences with other writers whom he attacks without reason. It really mars the book. Then he skitters over the surface of his subject, talking around its issues, and paints a warped picture. He forces the subject of psychic dreams, and he doesn't develop it. If the dreamer want's better information in this direction, they would do better to read Cornelius Agrippa's Three Books of Occult Philosophy, published by Llewellyn. The author of this book writes like a scatter brain. Hopefully the so called new age readership will begin demanding books that either are not so superficial.
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