Conscious Dreaming, Kairomancy, and Storytelling with Robert Moss

Wikipedia:

Robert Moss (born in 1946) is a journalist and author who has written suspense novels and works on dreaming.

. . .Moss joined the editorial staff of The Economist, where he was an editorial writer and special correspondent from 1970 to 1980, reporting from some 35 countries. He edited The Economist’s weekly Foreign Report from 1974–1980, and wrote for many other publications, including The Daily Telegraph, The New York Times Magazine, The New Republic and Commentary. He was a regular commentator on international affairs on British television and the BBC World Service.

In a paper presented to the International Institute for Strategic Studies in 1971 on the emergence of international terrorism. He expanded his paper into his first book, Urban Guerrillas, published in 1971. From 1971–1980, he was a visiting lecturer at the Royal College of Defence Studies in London. Moss drafted a speech for Margaret Thatcher in January 1976 which warned about the Soviet military build-up. In response to this speech Thatcher was labelled the “Iron Lady” by the Soviet Army newspaper Red Star.

Moss co-authored the novel The Spike with Arnaud de Borchgrave; it became a best seller in 1980. Moss then became a full-time writer and published several suspense novels including Moscow Rules and Carnival of Spies.

In 1986, Moss left this work as an author behind and moved to a farm in Upstate New York, where he started dreaming in a language he did not know that he claimed was an archaic form of the Mohawk language[citation needed]. Assisted by native speakers to interpret his dreams, Moss came to believe that they had put him in touch with an ancient healer – a woman of power – and that they were calling him to a different life.

Out of these encounters, he wrote a number of novels and created a technique he terms “active dreaming”, which combines modern dreamwork with journeying and healing techniques. A central premise of Moss’s approach is that dreaming isn’t just what happens during sleep; dreaming is waking up to sources of guidance, healing and creativity beyond the reach of the everyday mind. His first speech on the topic was at the conference of the International Association for the Study of Dreams (IASD) at the University of Leiden in 1994.

Video Title: Conscious Dreaming, Kairomancy, and Storytelling with Robert Moss. Source: Len Davis. Date Published: May 27, 2019. Description:

Robert Moss explores a variety of the concepts presented in his books and lectures in a short interview on the sidelines of one of his workshops at the Mosswood Hollow Retreat Center in Duval WA.