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Summary: Enjoyable on so many levels!
Review: Hit home! I shared alot of the same experiences that I was reading about and still do. It opened new doorways to spirit and it was beneficial in helping me use my dreams as a tool for my daily interactions. I have recommended it to everyone and I plan to incorporate some of the lessons I have learned into a discussion group I attend. Sorry I can't make it to Australia in November-Sounds Great!
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Summary: Absolutely a spiritual path for everyday life.
Review: I found Robert Moss's book life changing for me. It is an entertaining read, fast paced and informative, it covers a full range of angles on dream work and dreaming. As a dreamer and dreamworker, it has been an invaluable reference book.
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Summary: Adventures in Dreaming
Review: I highly recommend this book to anyone wishing to integrate their dream experiences into their whole life experience.Robert Moss offers a wide and quite comprehensive view of the range of dream experiences, along with descriptions of the impact such experiences can have. He provides numerous tips and examples of daily practice that are extremely useful in working with dream material which by nature is often enigmatic and can be confusing. He does not clutter his approach with psychological jargon, but is nevertheless clearly familiar with the Jungian perspective on dreams; with the benefit of that knowledge in the background. The methods described in Moss' book are superb, especially for those who want to use their dreams for life guidance without utilizing psychological dream work methods, which often can be loaded with psycho-jargon and can be overwhelming at times. But even those who use psychological methods of dream work will find a richer experience by reading this book. Don't underestimate the value of embarking on this work - dream work can open your life to amazing and wonderful adventures!
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Summary: Not your average dream book!
Review: I read a lot of material on dreaming and dreamwork, so some of the books I pick up seem a bit repetative. Conscious Dreaming takes the standard fare to a whole new and exciting level beyond the struggles with the personal unconscious into fantastic realms that are available to us in dreams
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Summary: Every Dreamer Needs This Book
Review: I've been doing dream work for 11 years now and this book is simply the best available in my opinion. Moss empowers dreamers and teaches no-nonsense ways of working with and understanding dreams. I value this book so much I regularly use it in my career counseling work and as host of Midlife Careers on Bella Online. If you're new to dream work, this book is a must. If you're a veteran, you'll appreciate its richness and great writing.
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Summary: Top Notch, Plus Practice, Practice
Review: Industrialized people such as ourselves are people who have inherited a profoundly distubing situation that has two faces: one is the destruction of our environment, the other are our atrophied spiritual senses, what I call our Otherworldly senses. Moss' book breathes new fire into our situation, calling on us to re-enliven a dreaming culture every bit as in tune with our souls and the living earth as the Australian culture that influenced him in his younger days, and the Scottish-Celtic druidic culture that shaped his ancestors. The problem with some of the other reviews I have read of this book are two-fold: instant, jaded disbelief, and what seems to be a lack of follow through on a pivotal point that Robert makes time and again: that success with active dreaming requires an active dreaming practice. Practice. The book Conscious Dreaming is a profound introduction (or shall I say, reintroduction) of an ancient way of relating to our dreams and ways for apprehending a greater fluency with non-ordinary reality. Anyone interested in dreams or incorporating a more shamanically-based dreaming practice into your life should consider CONSCIOUS DREAMING part of your required reading.
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Summary: Wow!
Review: It's very simple, really. This book changed my life. Robert Moss' basic rule of dream exploration is NEVER to let anybody tell you what your dreams mean. Such integrity is what has attracted me to the practice of Active Dreaming. In Conscious Dreaming, Mr. Moss explains very clearly how to work with dreams and create one's Own dictionary of symbols. What's important to me might not be important to you. He delves appropriately into dreaming with the departed, and into precognitive dreaming - things that drew me to dream work to begin with. He illustrates in practical terms how we can return to night dreams in a waking state and look around some more - or possibly change things if we don't like them! Haven't we all had dreams that we wish we could have enjoyed for longer, or nightmares that we would change if we could? A dear friend used to have horrific nightmares. The kind that had him punching holes in the bedroom wall. Since he has read this book and been sharing his dreams using Robert Moss' Lightning Dreamwork process, his frequency of nightmares is Way down (1 or 2 per Year, rather than per Week). I asked him Why he feels this change has taken place. He replied "Because I'm finally paying attention and honoring my dreams!" To me, this is Healing at its most basic - SELF-Healing! The seeds of which are all very skillfully set forth in this one little book. Mr. Moss now has a series of videos from Psyche Productions called "The Way of the Dreamer". They expand beautifully on Conscious Dreaming, showing the history that brought the author to dream work, and depicting very clearly the practical applications of the principles illustrated in the book. And listening to Robert Moss speak is a remarkable experience in itself! I have given this book to many friends over the years, and it's my sincere hope that everyone who reads it will begin to Pay Attention to their dreams!
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Summary: A sneak-attack on mundane Western society.
Review: MOSS AUTHORS A STEALTH ATTACK ON ALL OUR EXPECTATIONS.
For current dreamers, he seems to present just one more book on what they already know -- but then plus some. For skeptics, he offers safe, metphorical dream interpretations -- and then lures us one more step into the world of the shaman and medicine worker. He sets out to interest the business exec, the real estate agent, the skeptics and everyday schmoes of the world, and once he has them hooked, he pulls them into magic.
THIS IS ONE OF THE VERY FEW BOOKS IN MY "DREAM LIBRARY"
that remains fresh with every reread, preserves itself from redundancy, and continues to have the power to coax my own dreams up to a new level vividness and lucidity. Read him, believe him, and let magic into all of your realities.
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Summary: Accessible and inspiring
Review: Mr.Moss has written a book accessible to a very wide public. The speciallist as well as the beginner may find inspiration. And moreover it stands above all religion: whatever one's faith, if open minded one may be able to integrate these teachings in a definite spiritual path.
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Summary: Better than most of its type
Review: My personal disclaimer for this review is that I'm deeply suspicious about most (if not all) books in the New Age genre. I am not a believer, nor am I on a spiritual path. I'm a writer who's been researching dreams and dreaming and I've become slightly jaundiced from reading so much Jung recast as spiritual clap-trap. In that regard, this book isn't really an exception. However, it covers a much wider base of material with a significantly higher degree of internal cohesion and logic than others of its kind. It also provided a number of excellent references for further reading. I might have given it a higher score, even given that I don't share a common belief with the author, but I found the 'reality check' meanings of various dreams that he provided to be almost wildly stretched examples. What he cites as examples of dreams being reflected in real life the next day are (for the most part) as vague as horoscopes and that seriously dilutes the examples where the application is really striking. Still, an interesting addition to a dream library.
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