The Secret History of Dreaming
1st Edition
Published on 7. September 2010
352 pages
978-1-57731-833-0 (ISBN)
Description
Dreaming is vital to the human story. It is essential to our survival and evolution, to creative endeavors in every field, and, quite simply, to getting us through our daily lives. All of us dream. Now Robert Moss shows us how dreams have shaped world events and why deepening our conscious engagement with dreaming is crucial for our future. He traces the strands of dreams through archival records and well-known writings, weaving remarkable yet true accounts of historical figures who were influenced by their dreams. In this wide-ranging, visionary book, Moss creates a new way to explore history and consciousness, combining the storytelling skills of a bestselling novelist with the research acumen of a scholar of ancient history and the personal experience of an active dreamer.
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Robert Moss is the creator of Active Dreaming, an original method of dreamwork and healing through the imagination. Born in Australia, he survived three near-death experiences in childhood. He leads popular seminars all over the world, including a three-year training for teachers of Active Dreaming and a lively online dream school. A former lecturer in ancient history at the Australian National University, he is a bestselling novelist, journalist, and independent scholar. His nine books on dreaming, shamanism and imagination include Conscious Dreaming, Dreamways of the Iroquois, The Three "Only" Things, The Secret History of Dreaming, and Dreamgates: Exploring the Worlds of Soul, Imagination, and Life Beyond Death.
His books have been published in more than twenty foreign languages. His website is www.mossdreams.com and his lively blog is at www.mossdreams.blogspot.com.
Content
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Introduction: Fields of Dreaming
- Part One: Secret Engines of History
- 1. Earth Speakers and Dream Travelers
- 2. Interpreters and Diviners
- 3. Divine Dreaming
- 4. The Angel That Troubles the Waters
- 5. From the Dream Library
- 6. How Dreaming Gets Us Through
- Part Two: Masters of the Three "Only" Things
- 7. Joan of Arc and the Tree-Seers
- 8. The Beautiful Dream Spy of Madrid
- 9. The Underground Railroad of Dreams
- 10. Mark Twain's Rhyming Life
- 11. The Man Who Blew Things Up
- 12. Winston Churchill's Time Machines
- Epilogue: The Future History of Dreaming
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author
