The Dreamer's Book of the Dead

314 Pages·2011·1.99 MB·English

by  Robert Moss

The
DREAMER’S
BOOK DEAD
of the

“The Dreamer’s Book of the Dead is one of the finest books I have read in
many a year. It offers deep and healing insight into the journey beyond death,
which will be a help to anyone who has lost a loved one. More than that it offers
wisdom for living our lives in powerful and spirit-filled ways. With each new
book, but especially with this one, Robert Moss adds to his reputation as one of
the greatest spiritual teachers of our time. Outstanding!”
DAVID SPANGLER, AUTHOR OF BLESSING: THE ART AND THE PRACTICE
AND EVERYDAY MIRACLES

“Since time immemorial, dreams of the dead have been a common occurrence.
Our scientifically based culture has attempted to close this door of
communication, but has failed; dreams of the dead continue to occur, as always.
Robert Moss sheds light on how to enter this doorway and benefit from the
wisdom and comfort that often result from these experiences.”
LARRY DOSSEY, M.D., AUTHOR OF HEALING WORDS, RECOVERING THE
SOUL, AND THE EXTRAORDINARY HEALING POWER OF ORDINARY THINGS

“Robert Moss’s ambition to give us a Western Book of the Dead has been fully
realized in this captivating and inspiring guide to the land of the dead. Moss
shocks and thrills by revealing the hidden truth—that the Otherworld is in fact
the familiar landscape of our dreams, where we go every night. There we can, if
we intend it, meet up with our lost loved ones and encounter the great mentors
of the past. Moss’s own mentor is the great Irish poet W. B. Yeats, with whom
he has in-depth, meaningful conversations.
“Moss reminds us that by our night dreaming and waking dreams we prepare
for the great journey to the world beyond the mists the Celts call the Blessed
Isles. Our dreams are the measure of what we aspire to, and it is in this life,
through practicing our imagination, that we can draw our roadmap and our
destination. For a better death and life beyond death—but also for a better life in
the world of the living—do not miss this extraordinary book from a true
Western Master.”
CATHERINE SHAINBERG, AUTHOR OF KABBALAH AND THE POWER OF
DREAMING

“An important work for a world in which we quickly dispose of our dead and
move on—or don’t, being left isolated with our grief in the only existence we
know. Robert Moss shows us how false a view this is. He opens us to the other
side of life—to our multi-dimensional existence through which we travel every
night. Learn to become a voyager of the imagination where you can meet with
loved ones and guides in a place as true as this one. Take a guided tour of the
land of the dead, as recorded by explorers through the centuries. Learn how to
communicate with and assist the dead and let them help you.
“This book is filled with stories from people who have taken Moss’s
workshops and discovered for themselves the knowledge and serenity that
comes from contact with the other side. It also reveals the mentoring
relationship that Moss established with William Butler Yeats, demonstrating how
such a communion with spirits (whether within or without) can be a source of
strength and encouragement. An inspiring book that should be close at hand for
whenever the other world comes calling or we have need of knowledge of the
other side.”
MARY K. GREER, AUTHOR OF WOMEN OF THE GOLDEN DAWN AND TAROT
FOR YOUR SELF
The
DREAMER’S
BOOK DEAD
of the

A SOUL TRAVELER’S GUIDE TO DEATH, DYING,
AND THE OTHER SIDE

ROBERT MOSS

Destiny Books
Rochester, Vermont
for Wanda, who met Death
and returned with a new contract for life
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Many friends and dreamers have contributed their personal stories and insights
for this book—so many that I cannot possibly list them all, and I fear that if I
tried to do so I would still leave out, inadvertently, some of those who most
deserve to be acknowledged. So I simply offer my thanks, from the heart, to all
of you who have so generously shared your lives, your dreams and your
experiences of spirit with me.
There are four women who must be named because they helped, in so many
important and loving ways, to birth this book: my soul-sister Carol Davis, a
gifted healer and counselor who contributed her own visions of what she calls
the “moreness;” my fabulous creative friend Elizabeth Dimarco, who
interviewed Dorothy Parker, grilled me on my relationship with Yeats, and
contributed her own rich dolphin dreaming; my wife Marcia, who helped to
create and maintain a yeasty, nurturing space for my writing and visioning and
was endlessly tolerant of my constant travels in two worlds; and my lifelong
dreaming companion Wanda Easter Burch, who brought me a wealth of story,
synchronicity, and scholarly research, and all the dreams she says (correctly, I
believe) that she dreams for me.
I am grateful to the wonderful editorial team at Inner Traditions—to Jeanie
Levitan, Vickie Trihy, and Jon Graham—and all the “farmers of the imagination”
Ehud Sperling has brought together among the green mountains of Vermont.
My deepest debt is to the “pioneers of death” who have gone before me to the
Other Side and have returned—in sleep dreams and waking visions—to share
their knowledge of the territory with me. They include both my parents, two of
my former professors, the Huron/Mohawk “woman of power” I call Island
Woman, my beloved black dog Kipling, and above all, W.B.Yeats.
May your paths be open.
CONTENTS

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Pioneers of Death
Prologue: The Night When the Veil Thins

I DREAMING WITH THE DEPARTED

1 The Presence of the Dead
2 Dream Visitations
3 Thirteen Reasons Why the Dead Come Calling
4 Night Travels among the Departed
5 Healing Our Relations with the Dead
6 Spiritual Release
7 Assisting the Imaginations of the Dead

II THE POET AS GUIDE TO THE OTHER SIDE

8 A Friend in the House of Time
9 Through the Muslin Walls
10 The Bureau of the Spirits
11 Eminent Victorians Report from the Other Side
12 Spiritual Gravitation and the Mingling of Minds
13 Visioning the Western Book of the Dead

III DREAMING THE WAY FROM DEATH TO BIRTH
14 Houses of Death and the Art of Dying
15 Death and Rebirth through the Goddess
16 Taking Flight
17 The Crossing
18 Way of the Heart
19 Getting a Life on the Other Side
20 Active Dreaming to Help the Dying
21 Soul Choices and Parallel Lives

APPENDIX I: Dreaming Resources
APPENDIX II: The Dream Reentry Technique
Footnotes
Notes
Bibliography
About the Author
About Inner Traditions
Copyright
There is no death, we just change worlds.
CHIEF SEATTLE

In sleep we enter upon the same life as that we enter between death and
birth.
W. B. YEATS, A VISION (1925)

Immortals are mortal, mortals immortal, living the others’ death, dead in
the others’ life.
HERACLITUS, FRAGMENT 92