The essence of the shaman’s power to travel and heal is the ability to dream strong. In our everyday modern lives, we stand at the edge of such power when we dream and remember to do something with our dreams. In this first module, Robert will explain how real shamans are — first and foremost — dreamers who can step in and out of other dimensions.

You’ll discover how to:

• Create a sacred space and set intentions for your nighttime dreams and your dreams of life
• Improve your dream recall and break a dream drought
• Sing for soul and the spirits
• Use words of power
• Grow a Tree of Vision, a place to which you can return again and again, to use as a portal for adventures across time and in other worlds
• Keep a dream journal

We’ll discover that each of us can play guide for others, and that by sharing in the right way we claim our voice, grow our power as storytellers and communicators, build stronger friendships, and lay foundations for a new kind of community. We’ll also explore fun ways of talking and walking our dreams, and for bringing energy and guidance from the dreamworld into everyday life. Above all, we’ll learn to take action to embody this energy and guidance for incorporation into our lives.

You’ll discover:

• Robert’s Lightning Dreamwork game: a fun, fast way to share dreams and life stories, receive helpful feedback, and encourage each other to move towards creative and healing action
• How dreams can be both literal and symbolic — and experiences of another reality
• Why we need to take dreams more literally — and the incidents of waking life more symbolically
• Why dreams, even nightmares, are not on our case, but on our side

The easiest way to become a conscious or lucid dreamer is to start out conscious and stay that way as the action unfolds. The border state of hypnagogia — the place between sleep and awake — is a wonderful launch pad for lucid dreaming.

A remembered dream or personal image may be the ideal portal for a lucid dream adventure.

A dream is a journey; it is also a place. You went somewhere in your dream, near or far from the fields you know in your regular life; and because you have been to that place, you can find your way there again.

Yet we don’t have to travel alone on the roads of dreaming. By learning the skills of the dream tracker, we can accompany friends on their journeys — to reclaim souls and move beyond fear and regret — as true soul companions.

You’ll discover how to:

• Use a dream or personal image as the portal for a shamanic journey
• Re-enter a dream to confront and resolve a nightmare terror, solve a mystery, or claim a power
• Dialogue with a dream character
• Use the liminal space between sleep and awake as your launch pad for lucid dream adventures and your rendezvous place for contact with inner and transpersonal guides

Robert invented the word kairomancy because he wanted a new word to define the art of living by synchronicity. The key element is to recognize and act in those special moments when the universe gets personal and you feel something coming through from a deeper reality.

Kairomancy literally means “divination by special moments.” For the ancient Greeks, the special moment is a god by the name of Kairos. He’s the antithesis of the old god Chronos, who represents linear time. Kairos is now time, jump time, opportunity time.

To become a kairomancer, you need to learn to trust your feelings as you walk the road of this world, to develop your personal science of shivers, and to recognize in your gut and your skin that you know far more than you can access on the surface of consciousness.

You’ll discover how to:

• Play wonderful fresh games of coincidence, in which you’ll receive direct messages on your life issues from the oracle of the universe
• Use some of the life rules of the kairomancer:
  • Whatever you think or feel, the universe says “Yes”
  • You live in the Speaking Land
  • The passions of the soul work magic
  • You are not alone in the universe — look for the unseen hand
  • Coincidence multiplies when you’re in motion
  • You are walking in Many Worlds
  • Take care of your poetic health

Our dreams are constantly coaching us for challenges and opportunities that lie ahead on the road of life. It’s possible that we rehearse everything that will take place in the future in our dreams, though we forget most of it — until later events catch up with a dream, and we experience that familiar sense of déjà vu.

Seeing things in our dreams that later happen is called precognition. We also see things that may or may not happen, depending on what we choose to do with the information.

In this module, we’ll embark on wide-awake visionary journeys to scout out the possible future for ourselves, our families, and our world. If we don’t know where we’re going, we’re likely to end up where we’re headed. The future we can see is often a future we can reshape for the better.

You’ll discover how to:

• Clarify information in dreams of the future
• Discern personal markers that indicate when a dream contains a literal advisory about a coming event
• Take appropriate action to avoid an unwanted future event or manifest a desirable one
• Call on shamanic allies to help you see clearly across time and space
• Embark on conscious journeys into the future to gather life-supporting information for yourself or a partner

When shamans go dreaming, they characteristically operate under the protection and guidance of animal guardians. Forging a close relationship with one or more “power animals” is central to developing the arts of shamanic dream travel and tracking. It’s invaluable in maintaining healthy boundaries and defending psychic space.

A conscious connection with animal guardians shows us how to follow the natural paths of our energy. A strong working connection with the animal powers brings the ability to shapeshift the energy body and project energy forms that can operate at a distance from the physical body.

Animal dreams may be the doorway to developing strong working relations with animal guardians. These dreams may hold up a mirror to our health or habits. They may show us how we need to feed and attend to our bodies. They may reveal a potential we have not yet developed. They may tell a story — like one of Aesop’s fables — about our lives or relationships. They may be the place of encounter between our dream self and a spiritual ally or guardian.

You’ll discover how:

• Animal spirits may be seeking you in dreams
• Animals that have shared your life can become shamanic allies
• You can journey to places of power to connect or reconnect with animal guardians
• You can gain wisdom from the natural habits of your animal spirits, and the folklore and shamanic traditions surrounding them
• You can feed and embody your animal spirits in everyday life

Our authentic spiritual allies and teachers come looking for us in dreams. They put on masks or costumes adapted to our level of understanding. There’s an old Greek saying that “the gods love to travel in disguise.” The sacred guide may appear in a form that has been shaped by our religious upbringing — or in a form that is wildly shocking to conventional beliefs. Genuine teachers often love to shock us awake.

The encounter with the guide may challenge us to brave up, to move decisively beyond the fear and clinging of the little everyday mind in order to claim our connection with deeper sources of wisdom and true power. And it may be that the most important spiritual teacher we can know is no stranger, but the Higher Self. The liminal state of consciousness between sleep and waking is an especially propitious time for conversation with this guide.

You’ll discover how to:

• Recognize the many forms of the dream guide
• Dialogue with spiritual guides who introduce themselves in dreams
• Use spiritual dreams as doorways to realms of initiation and healing
• Communicate with inner and transpersonal guides in “the place between sleep and waking”
• Practice discernment in dealing with the spirits, and in testing and verifying communications

We have natural communication with the departed in our dreams, and for many dreamers this is direct and life-changing evidence of the reality of the soul and its survival of physical death.

The departed appear in our dreams either because they have not really left, or because they come visiting, or because in dreaming we enter their realms. These encounters offer us important opportunities for healing, closure, and giving or receiving forgiveness and guidance.

Our departed may come as “family angels,” with life-supporting counsel and information. Or they may need help and guidance from us – because they have unfinished business, or are lost or confused or crippled by guilt or unable to detach from old environments and addictions. In such cases, as Yeats observed, the living may be able to “assist the imaginations of the dead.”

This week, we will seek timely and helpful communication with the departed. We will share personal experiences and needs — and develop the skills and spiritual resources to serve as guides and healers for survivors, and for the departed themselves. We’ll also develop personal rituals to honor our ancestors. We’ll learn that healing and forgiveness are always available, across the apparent barrier of death.

You’ll discover:

• The 3 reasons why contact with the deceased is not weird or unusual, especially in dreams
• How to enter into timely and helpful communication with the departed and learn first-hand about conditions on the Other Side
• How to cleanse and release ancestral karma
• How to call on the wisdom of the great ones in your ancestral lineage who have stayed close to Earth to guide and protect

Our dreams show us what’s going on inside our bodies and what we need to stay well. When we do become ill, our dreams give us fresh and powerful imagery for self-healing. By working with personal imagery — and changing the images in positive ways — we can actually create a new blueprint for the body.

When we learn to go back inside our dreams and dream them onward, we open paths of healing for others and ourselves. Active Dreaming is central to soul recovery — reclaiming any vital energy we’ve lost through pain, heartbreak, guilt, or addiction.

You’ll discover how:

• Dreams can show you what’s going on inside the body and what you need to do to stay well or get well
• You can work with your dream doctor, including the “animal doctors” that shamans consult
• You can harvest imagery for self-healing from your dreams and life memories
• You can go to a personal House of Healing in the Imaginal Realm where help is always available
• Any image that belongs to you, even the most terrifying, can offer a doorway to healing and wholeness if you are willing to work with it

Soul-loss, in shamanic understanding, is a primary source of illness, depression, and mental confusion. We lose vital soul energy through pain, trauma, and heartbreak, through wrenching life choices, and by giving up on our big dreams and ceasing to live our soul’s purpose.

When we lose the energy of soul, the magic goes out of life. We are often fatigued for no apparent reason, we can’t experience joy or love, and there’s a gaping hole in us that we try to fill with addictive behaviors. Soul-loss can put us in the procession of the walking dead, playing the roles that other people cast us for, no longer knowing who we are or why we are in this world.

The Iroquois say that if we have lost our dreams, we have lost our souls. But when we reopen to our dreams, they can show us where our soul energy has gone, and how to bring it home.

You’ll discover how to:

• Recognize the symptoms of soul-loss
• Use dreams and life memories as clues to where vital energy and identity that have gone missing can be found
• Travel to a place where you can reclaim soul energy and reconnect with younger selves, including the “child of wonder” who may have left your life because the world seemed too cruel
• Entertain your spirits — your child self, your teen self, your Goddess self, your animal spirits — in your body and in your life

You are ready to claim the power of an open secret: the only time is Now. All other times — past, present, and parallel — can be accessed in this moment of Now, and may be changed for the better. You stand at the center of all times. The dramas of lives being lived in other times and in parallel realities may be intensely relevant to understanding and navigating your current relationships and life issues.

Part of the secret logic of our lives may be that our paths constantly interweave with those of numberless parallel selves, sometimes converging or even merging, sometimes diverging ever further. The gifts and failings of these alternate selves may influence us when our paths converge, in ways that we generally fail to recognize.

You’ll discover how:

• You can travel into the life experiences of personalities in other time periods with whom you’re connected in our multidimensional family of selves
• Direct knowledge of past-life experiences can affect your current life experience and relationships
• You can experience mental communication with personalities in other times for mutual benefit
• You can receive counsel from an older and wiser self
• By traveling across time you can play mentor and protector for a younger self who may desperately need help in his or her own time

We dream for our communities and our world, as well as for ourselves and those near to us. We can learn to do this as a conscious practice in the service of peace and healing. By bringing dreams into the lives of people around us, we can heal and revitalize all our relations, our workplace, our schools, our health care, and our communities.

You’ll discover how:

• Being an Active Dreamer makes you a Speaker for the Earth, as you rise to full awareness of the truth of this Indigenous wisdom: we must be mindful of the consequences of our actions down to the seventh generation beyond ourselves
• Active dream groups offer a model of intentional community — and foster a new mode of leadership devoted to empowering each member to claim their voice and play guide to others as they learn to speak and embody their own truth
• You can harvest the core techniques and discoveries you’ve made in this course, make them everyday practices, and play dream-bringer and dream ambassador for others

Your present life is intimately related to dramas and relationships that are playing out in other times — past, future, and parallel. In these powerful journeys, Robert offers you the keys to a fascinating locale in non-ordinary reality that can become your basecamp for adventures in time travel, soul remembering, and communication with other selves in other lives.

The House of Time is a created locale in the Imaginal Realm. It has been developed through the active imagination of hundreds of dream explorers and archaeologists who have traveled there over many years. It stands on the foundation of ancient structures dating back thousands of years. It offers multiple portals for traveling to past or future, and into parallel worlds, fully conscious. You can connect mind-to mind with personalities in other times whose life dramas, gifts, and challenges are related to your own. You may find a doorway to a limitless field of information that some may regard as the Akashic records. You may be able to converse with a master teacher in any field.

In this exclusive bonus package, you’ll receive the following audio journeys, totaling 56 minutes:

• Journey to the Gatekeeper of the House of Time
• Journey to the Gallery of Time
• Visit to the House of Time

The Kawahiva people of Brazil have said, “Everyone who dreams is a little bit shaman.” In this audio program, Robert explains how the most interesting and strongest shamans are initiated through their dreaming, and how they can enter the dreamworld at will. Dreaming to a shaman is all about soul and the relocation of soul. In Robert’s Active Dreaming practice, dreaming meets shamanism in the realm of the soul and offers us techniques for recovering the lost parts of our souls and our vital energy — the antidote to immune system burnout, depression, and our tendency to push away what could actually heal us.

Any Active Dreamer’s repertoire will be enriched by these three tools for deepening their experience. For your convenience, we’ve gathered together these fundamental resources from Robert’s previous courses at The Shift Network and offer them to you as the basic toolkit for Active Dreaming.

• • Drumming Track Audio Recording
    This 12-minute drumming track was created by Robert to complement your Active Dreaming practice.

• The Lightning Process for Sharing Dreams & Life Stories Audio Recording and Transcript
  The Lightning Dreamwork Game, invented by Robert Moss, is a fun, fast way to share dreams and life stories, receive helpful feedback, and encourage each other to move towards creative and healing action.
• Creative Journaling Audio Recording and Transcript
  In this powerful recording, Robert Moss offers you many fun games to play with your journal, from formulating your daily one-liner… to reading signs and symbols from the world around you… to turning reports into poems, stories, and scripts.