Dreamgates: An Explorer's Guide to the Worlds of Soul, Imagination, and Life Beyond Death (Paperback)

by Robert Moss (Author) "I came because I don't want to miss the movies," explained a man at the start of one of my dream workshops..." (more)
Key Phrases: dream reentry, active dreamers, death workshop, Little Course, New York, House of Time (more...)

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly
Insisting that we are each born with the ability to experience different ways of seeing and knowing, Moss (Conscious Dreaming) invites readers through the portals of "the twilight zone. The cusp between waking and sleeping, and between sleeping and waking." Beyond this entrance to the dreamworld, according to Moss, dreamers encounter spirit guides, experience physical and emotional healings, see and create their own futures and are given answers to specific questions. Likening these trips to flying, the author eschews the "consensual hallucination" that the physical world is real and the dreamworld is not. Travel in "dreambodies," he contends, is quite real and is an important part of everyone's total life experience, whether or not it is remembered in conscious states. Moss rejects traditional dream analysis, and offers an unusual alternate explanation for "alien abduction" stories?that they are actually dream experiences of encounters with spirit beings. Teaching his method of "active dreaming," he provides many provocative individual and group exercises, including breathing, drumming and a variety of visualization techniques. According to Moss, the ultimate purpose of reconnecting dreaming and conscious states is "soul remembering"?the revelation of where we came from before birth and where we will go after death?illuminating whatever lies in between with new meaning.
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Review
Dreamgates offers insights from cultures with strong dreaming traditions, insights which profoundly challenge the ruling paradigms of a culture that confuses the real with tehe physical. While this author offers a startling vision of the new places you can go via your dreamgates, I found his writing to be clear, grounded, balanced and very practical, as well as visionary. This is a powerful combination, putting ths book well above similar efforts.

Very well-written and organized, each section incorporates stories that illustrate the ideas and concepts, as well as detailed exercises for the reader to actually get involved and see what their own experience is like. These instructions make travels into the other worlds a safe and frequently healing experience. Whether you are new to this sort of exploration, or what he calls a frequent flyer, you are bound to find many new and challenging directions here.

I highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to use their dreams to explore new territory. -- Dream Network Journal vol 18 no 2, Summer 1999

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Product Details

• Paperback: 368 pages
• Publisher: Three Rivers Press; 1st edition (May 5, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 060980216X
• ISBN-13: 978-0609802168
• Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 5.2 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #460,230 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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31 of 31 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Book of Wonders!, April 10, 2003

By	"amodney" (Delmar, NY United States) - See all my reviews

I have been interested in dreams for decades, and in that time have read many books on the subject. By comparison with other popular books on dreams, Robert Moss's books are singular in breadth and depth of subject range, readability, and usefullness of the exercises presented to the reader. Moss takes the reader through an exploration of known dream territories and further, to the exciting outside edge of dream possibilities. He cites historical and cultural information to show that many of these concepts are not new, but have been practiced since ancient times. The wealth of information in this book is invaluable. Moss knows that there are many kinds of dreams, and many ways of dreaming. Dreaming is an education and an adventure, and Moss's books are wonderful guides for both the casually curious and the seasoned dream explorer. (I also highly recommend both Conscious Dreaming and Dreaming True by Robert Moss. Conscious Dreaming would be an excellent place for someone new to dream study to begin their explorations.)

40 of 42 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Open the Dream-gate to the unexplored corners of your soul., June 5, 1998

By	Wanda Burch "Wanda Burch" (Fultonville, NY USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

DREAMGATES is the marvelous new "explorer's guide to the worlds of soul, imagination, and life beyond death." One of the earliest definitions of a "dreamgate" is a "hole left in the steeple of a church to admit light," a wonderful metaphor of the physical and spiritual. The old form of the word "gate" referred to a "hole," and later to a "removeable barrier," words that could easily become metaphors for a dreamer's maturing beyond the simple dreaming of unexplored images, to the recording and exploring of the visible and invisible realities of their individual dream experiences, the admission of light, the removing of barriers that prevent us from understanding our dream images.

In his book DREAMGATES, Robert Moss guides his readers, through individual and group exploration, into the very personal meanings of their dream images and leaves his readers with the confidence to continue working with their dream imagery until they are familiar with their own dream landscape. The dream explorer can then use their dreams to work with current and past experiences, some brought with them to prepare them for destinies chosen before birth--memories so fragile that they come and go with a word or action or supposed chance meeting--some given for the better understanding of the most painful or most joyful parts of their psyche; some presented to assist the dreamer or those close to the dreamer with death and beyond, through the mesmerizing overlays of dream experiences that take each of us back and forth through the multiple layers of realities that make up our spiritual and physical bodies. The dreamer will learn when to open themselves to help others, how to contact higher entities and explore their higher selves and when to protect themselves against confused and dangerous entities that might enter unbidden or be unwittingly invited.

Creative exercises abound in this book and assist the dreamer in special journeys of self-discovery that are des! igned to allow the dreamer entrance into the advanced exploration and incubation of dream query and dream problem-solving. For the truly advanced explorers DREAMGATES will lead them to the exciting "5-D Vision" of "hyperdimensional space," a multi-dimensional world that can be experienced by each one of us through awareness and dream exploration.

Take the trip with Robert Moss in DREAMGATES and learn to fly with new wings, to see with new eyes, and to discover your own unique path to other worlds.

32 of 33 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A wonderful invitation to stretch your imagination!, September 6, 1999

By	Carol Davis (USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Robert Moss writes: "You are born to fly, and in dreams you remember the soul has wings." Well, here is a flight manual filled with stories and the dreams of frequent fliers.

There are lots of exercises and visualizations that I have found personally helpful. I have used the exercises in this book to visualize my way to a "personal dream library" and to a "house of time", to affirm my creativity and to seek guidance in the dreaming. I have used the exercises in this book when leading workshops. The beautiful meditations on the heart, the weighing of the heart, and on behalf of the dying have all facilitated healing for participants in my workshops.

This book is readable and filled with wonderful anecdotes and personal experiences of dreamers. It includes deep appreciation for the many ways in which spirituality is expressed through shamanic experiences and religious traditions. I also like the extensive notes and the bibliography which includes both popular and scholarly works.