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On conscious dreaming

 

Some 10 years ago I came across 'Conscious Dreaming: A Spiritual Path for Everyday Life' by Robert Moss. When I read it I found an approach that jibed with my own experience of dream guidance. It offered some approaches to dream interpretation and dream work that I found more helpful than those in the area of so-called 'lucid dreaming' I had previously encountered. The latter always had suggested to me an attempt to control the dream state rather than, as in conscious or, as it is sometimes called, active dreaming, to surrender to it. I neither could nor wanted to get into that kind of 'lucid' dream state where you aim to control your dream state so you can (supposedly) make things happen there just as you (supposedly) do in the waking state. For me, the difference between the two approaches is telling, each coming from a spirituality that is a polar opposite of the other. Those who follow conscious dreaming techniques, call dreams their Night School, and the one who brings us our dreams our Dreamer or Dream Teacher. Being with them, following their lessons, I have come to honor and love them!

conscious dreaming 

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"on Conscious Dreaming" personal essay 

A piece I wrote awhile back, illustrated by my friend Chaffyn

Over the years I've shared with friends some of my experiences with using my dreams in waking life and vice versa. This essay is a revision of the latest message I sent to one of them. As with friends in the past, I hope to get feedback, suggestions, questions and your own stories about the value of dreams in your life.
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Conscious Dreaming: A Spiritual Path for Everyday Life

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The Way of the Dreamer with Robert Moss

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About BeatHippieRaver

BeatHippieRaver? I chose this Internet moniker for myself back in
1995 at the height of the last of those three countercultural movements
because I thought then and I still believe now (1) they influenced me
more than any of the other cultural movements during my lifetime, and
(2) that appellation gives you-and me-an idea of where I've come from
and gone to in my personal cultural life.


I was born in San Francisco in 1937, the same year as notables
Margaret O'Brien, Vanessa Redgrave, Philip Glass, Tommy Smothers,
Roberta Flack, Warren Beatty, Colin Powell, Jack Nicholson, Saddam
Hussein, George Carlin, Madeleine Albright, Bill Cosby, Hunter S.
Thompson, Jane Fonda and Dustin Hoffman, among others. My friend from
high school days, composer David Del Tredici is a notable as well. Also, the Golden Gate Bridge, Spam, Superman, Daffy Duck, the Marijuana Tax Act, The Hobbit, and Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs appeared that year. I feel all of their influences, too.


Just a suggestion: Please feel free to go on anywhere in your
readings, viewing and making comments here, but I suggest you might
want to start out in my How did I get here from there? section, with my "Why Beat? Why Hippie? Why Raver" piece to give you a taste of what's coming up! And thanks for dropping in!


Will


March 2007

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