In divination by dreams, each of us is their own instrument. It is not possible to desert this oracle even if we wanted to do so. If we stay at home the oracle is with us; if we travel it is our companion. A tyrant could only stop us looking into our dreams by banishing sleep. The dream oracle rejects no one because of their race or age or condition or calling. Dream divination is for all, the source of wise guidance for everyone.
— Synesius

Maybe you’ve been missing your dreams (it’s a widespread malaise) or dismissing them because you don’t like them or you find them weird or trivial…

As this journey begins, Robert will explain how dreams can be literal, they can be symbolic, and/or they can depict other realities — and why it’s important to discern which of these categories your dreams fall into.

You’ll spend time with an ancient philosopher who taught that dreams are a personal oracle that travels with you everywhere, and can save your health, your career, even your life.

You’ll discover how to put your questions nicely to your dream oracle and how to read the results.

As your practice grows, you’ll find you’re engaged in real magic — which is the art of bringing gifts from another world into this one. Robert will share helpful feedback and encouragement so you can take action to embody your dreams’ energy and guidance in your everyday life.

In this opening module, you’ll learn how to:

• Break a dream drought using simple techniques
• Use the 9 Keys for Understanding Your Dreams
• Make friends with your nightmares
• Let dreams restore your inner compass and show you the secret wishes of your soul
• Practice a fast, fun process for sharing dreams and life stories that will deepen your relationships
• Approach the night with intention and receive guidance and healing
• Take dreams more literally and waking life more symbolically

It is wise to record your dreams of the night and your sightings during the day and the circumstances around them. Keep a day book as well as a night book to monitor the two lives you are living. Note what you are doing in the world of your imagination, where you also have a body. Treat yourself to a personal history of your waking and sleeping.
— Synesius

Your journal is the most important book you’ll ever write and can be one of the most important you’ll ever read.

As Robert will explain, if you keep a journal in the right format, you’ll find you have a personal dictionary of symbols over time — a scientific log of your experiences of precognition, telepathy, and everyday magic, plus maps that can get you to your chosen destinations on the roads of life.

Robert will share why you should record both your dreams and your observations of signs and symbols in the world around you. He’ll offer the ideal format for maintaining a journal, harvesting its messages, and using it to become a more artful writer, creator, and kairomancer (someone who is poised to recognize and act on kairos — moments of synchronicity).

You’ll learn games to play with your Books of Night and Day, including:

• Writing your way through a difficult life passage
• Making your own dictionary of symbols
• Developing your own scientific log of supernormal phenomena
• Practicing bibliomancy with your secret book
• Releasing the writer and creator inside you
• Growing your powers as a storyteller and communicator
• Coming up with snappy one-liners and aphorisms to make sure others hear you

There is no law that prevents the sleeper from rising from earth and soaring above the eagles. It is in the power of the dreamer to converse with the stars and to meet the unseen gods of the Universe.
— Synesius

The easiest way to become a conscious or lucid dreamer is to start out conscious and stay that way as the action unfolds.

As Robert will share, a remembered dream or personal image is the ideal portal for a lucid dream adventure.

A dream is both a journey and a place. You go places in your dreams, near or far from the fields you know in your regular life. Because you’ve been to that place, you can find your way there again.

Robert will guide you to start constructing a new oracle exclusively for this community — that will give you a personal message on a life theme in your integration session next week.

In this module, you’ll use the powerful technique of dream reentry to:

• Move beyond fear and nightmare terrors to healing and resolution
• Clarify the meaning of a dream — determining, for example, whether it’s literal, symbolic, or the experience of a separate reality
• Dialogue with a dream character
• Develop personal portals to the multiverse
• Have more fun, romance, and adventure in the larger reality

In this first integration session, you’ll receive personal messages from an oracle you’ll create exclusively for this community — an online version of Robert’s celebrated Coincidence Card Game.

As you’ll discover, this game is fun and often incredibly revealing!

Dreams are prophets. The Soul contains the forms of things that come to be. It is not surprising that someone should find a treasure as the result of a dream. But the meaning of dreams is sometimes obscure. The gods require sweat from humans.
— Synesius

When you let down your left-brain inhibitions, you’re a natural psychic of a high order in your dreams, routinely practicing precognition, clairvoyance, telepathy, and more.

As Robert will explain, while these powers are sometimes described as examples of ESP, today’s scientists are reviving a better term invented by the great Victorian scientist of the unseen, Frederic Myers: supernormal.

Modern-day scientists like Dean Radin maintain that quantum entanglement means supernormal phenomena are inevitable.

Every night, your dream self goes ahead of your waking self, scouting out challenges and opportunities that lie on the roads ahead. This is part of our human survival kit. Once you wake up to the fact that you dream events before they happen in regular life, you can graduate to changing your possible future for the better — and becoming co-creator of your reality.

In this module, you’ll learn how to:

• Discern when your dreams are showing you future events
• Develop personal markers so you don’t miss dream messages about the future
• Take action to avoid unwanted future events you have dreamed — and manifest happy outcomes
• Embark on conscious journeys, fueled by shamanic drumming, to scout out the possible future
• Dream your way to your dream partner, your dream home, your dream job

All things are signs appearing through all things. They are brothers in a single living creature, the cosmos — they are written in characters of every kind. The deepest scholarship lies in reading the sign language of the world; the true sage is a person who understands the relationship of the parts of the universe.
— Synesius

When you walk your environment with the right kind of awareness, you’ll notice that the world is constantly giving you messages in the form of signs and symbols.

As Robert will share, through synchronicity, powers of the deeper reality come poking and probing through the walls of our consensual hallucinations to bring us awake…

Sometimes they work to confirm or encourage us in a certain line of action; sometimes they intercede to knock us back and discourage us from persisting in the worst of our errors.

You can play fun games anytime you’d like by receiving these messages. The message might be the vanity plate on a car, the overheard snatch of conversation from a stranger, a chance encounter — they’re all tarot cards being dealt to you by the world.

A tarot deck has just 78 cards. When you play Sidewalk Tarot the way you’ll learn in this class, the number is unlimited.

In this class, you’ll learn:

• The 9 Rules of Coincidence
• How to put your question to the world and get an answer from the Sidewalk Oracle
• How to let the world put its questions to you, by scheduling unscheduled time to pay attention as you walk in the forest of living symbols that are looking at you
• How to listen for your daily kledon, a favorite oracle of the ancient Greeks that works well on any day
• How meaningful coincidences multiply when you’re in motion, traveling outside your familiar rounds or going through a major life transition
• How what is in your way may be your way

The oracles agree that the soul’s way of life in the Otherworld is similar to what is imagined in dreams.
— Synesius

Your ancestors are calling — including ancestors of your bloodlines, of the land where you live or travel, and of your spiritual lineage across space and time.

The call is especially strong in dreams, when your left-brain inhibitions are down.

“The dimension that separates the living from the dead is exactly as wide as the edge of a maple leaf,” said Handsome Lake, the Seneca Indian prophet.

In fact, the distance is no physical distance at all. On a cellular level, we carry the collective memory of all our ancestors. On a psychic level, we’re constantly connected to the energies of both the departed and the living.

Robert will explain how, on a spiritual level, we’re at home in realms that are also home to the departed, since we are “spirits” too — spirits that currently have bodies.

At the end of this module, Robert will also announce a dream telepathy game — and he’ll reveal the target of this game in the integration session next week.

As you learn to pay close attention to dreams of the departed, you’ll confirm that:

• Dream encounters with the departed are entirely natural
• Dreaming is the easiest form of communication with the Other Side, and it gives us a direct line
• In dreams we make visits to the departed and receive visitations from them
• Departed friends or ancestors may come to play the role of personal angels, passing on life-helping counsel and psychic information
• Dreams show us when the departed need help from us, because they are lost or confused, mired in old addictions and attachments, or do not even realize they’ve died
• When dreaming, the soul travels beyond the body, which is evidence that it survives physical death

To add to the fun, in this integration session, Robert will reveal the target of a dream telepathy game — and see how our intrepid dreamers perform as receivers.

Some are taught in waking hours, others in dreams. An unliterary person, falling asleep, may meet the Muses in a dream, speak to them and listen to them, and prove to be a skillful poet. Through dreams we constantly enter into relationship with gods and can be united to the realm of Mind.
— Synesius

In the passage in Dante’s Purgatorio where he encounters his radiant guide in the form of a lovely woman called Beatrice, she reproaches him for not heeding the dreams in which she sought him, over many years.

The message is clear and enduring: Our true spiritual teachers are looking for us, which is why they can always be found…

As Robert will share, they especially come looking for us in dreams, when we move beyond the self-limiting beliefs and consensual hallucinations of the little everyday mind.

Your guides may put on masks or costumes adapted to your level of understanding. There is an old Greek saying that “the gods love to travel in disguise.”

In this class, you’ll learn to:

• Recognize the many forms of the guide
• Confirm that dreams and half-dream states can be Night School and an Institute of Advanced Learning
• Practice spiritual discernment
• Work with your animal guardians
• Meet a spiritual teacher on the highest level accessible to you now
• Connect with the life teacher who is always near you: your Witness Self on the level of awareness above you

There are people for whom sleep has been a doctor and made their illness harmless.
— Synesius

In your dreams, you have access to a personal doctor who makes house calls, provides an impeccable diagnosis of your physical, emotional, and spiritual condition, and doesn’t charge a cent.

The dream doctor is also a spiritual mentor and friend who shows you the hidden sources of wellness and illness. Dreams are a rich storehouse of imagery for self-healing.

Dreams are also experiences of the soul, and reveal the spiritual sources of wellness and illness. The Iroquois say dreams reveal the “secret wishes of the soul” — as opposed to the narrow agendas of the ego.

If you honor your soul’s purpose, as revealed in dreams, you move toward health and balance. In traditional Iroquois practice, it’s the duty of the community to listen to dreams — to help the dreamer identify and honor the wishes of the soul.

In this class, you’ll learn how to:

• Harness the diagnostic power of dreams
• Stock your mental shelves with healing imagery from dreams and meditation
• Use active imagination and dream reentry to transform scary dreams and disturbing images
• Recognize and honor the secret wishes of your soul as revealed in dreams
• Grow a personal House of Healing in your imagination where you can return for sanctuary, healing, and regeneration

A dream may open the way to the most perfect vision of reality to someone who has never thought about where they come from and what they are meant to become. In our world, this can be a supreme experience: to ascend to the knowledge of higher mind.
— Synesius

Whatever you think or feel, the Universe says Yes.

What you encounter on any day has a great deal to do with what you bring to that day. You draw or repel different events and encounters according to your attitude. You choose every day, whether you’re aware of this or not.

As Viktor Frankl reminded us, as he used his imagination to survive the collective nightmare of Auschwitz, we always have freedom to choose our attitude — and this can change everything.

Synesius, in urging us to make constant use of the oracles of night and day, had a driving agenda — he wanted us to lift up our minds from everyday confusion and despair to approach Mind on a higher level, to remember who we are, where we come from, and what we are meant to become.

An aristocrat, a Mystery initiate, and a philosopher and rhetorician of the highest rank in a mostly illiterate society, Synesius may have seemed an unlikely person to throw open the gate to absolute knowledge to whoever was waiting outside.

Yet, in his fierce dedication to offering the gifts of dreaming to all, we feel deep affinity, not unrelated to the “affinity of all things” (sympatheia ton holon) he, like the Stoics, recognized.

We are all parts of a cosmic body as a limb or a cell is part of an ordinary body; what stirs in any part may move the whole.

Robert is leaving the exact content of this module veiled for now — because throughout the course, great things will be stirring and forming new shapes…

In this final Integration session, Robert will guide you and your fellow participants to play another version of the digital Coincidence Card Game.

Robert will also share and highlight the most important discoveries, techniques, and resources to take with you from this course.

Active Dreaming Toolkit
A Medley of Tools From Robert Moss

Enrich your Active Dreamer’s repertoire with these three essential tools designed to deepen your dreaming. These experience-enhancing tools include a 12-minute audio drumming track, Robert’s signature Lightning Process for Sharing Dreams & Life Stories (audio recording and transcript), and a Creative Journaling teaching in which Robert offers you fun games to play in the most important book you may ever read or write — your dream journal.