Prepare to Encounter Goddesses, Daimons & Parallel Worlds
Sigmund Freud called dreams the "royal road to the unconscious," but to bestselling author and world-renowned dream explorer Robert Moss, they are more: portals to the imaginal realm, a higher reality that exists at the intersection of time and eternity. The traveler's tales in this book are just-so stories in the sense that they spring from direct experience in the many worlds. As you journey from the temple of the Great Goddess at Ephesus to an amazing chance encounter on an airplane, from Dracula country in Transylvania to the astral realm of Luna, you'll confirm that the doors to the otherworld open from wherever you are. You'll see what it means to live on a mythic edge and to make a deal with your personal Death for a life extension. At any moment, you may fall, like the author, into the lap of a goddess or the jaws of an archetype. Travelogues from the realm of dreams, compiled by a world-renowned dream explorer Robert Moss is the author of Conscious Dreaming, Dreamgates, and Sidewalk Oracles, among many books on dreaming, shamanism, and alternate realities. He is a bestselling novelist, poet, independent scholar, and the creator of Active Dreaming, an original synthesis of dreamwork and shamanism. He leads creative and shamanic adventures all over the world.
Contents
Beforetale: Under the Wings of Pegasus
1. A Storytelling of Crows
2. The Lost Girl and the Fairy of the Copper Beech
3. A God of Freud
4. At the Moon Café
5. Conversation with a Daimon of Luna
6. The Tower in the Clouds
7. Which Is the Dream?
8. Dog Shows
9. How Much Ephesus Have You Had?
10. Heaven and Earth
11. The Other Bollingen
12. Dream Interruptus
13. Mircea on the Isthmus
14. Do You Still Fool Around?
15. When the Same Dream Keeps Playing
16. Where Women Have Four Husbands
17. World War I Will End in 2018
18. The Fifty-Ninth Swan
19. The Emperor of Enchantment
20. Lady of Changes
21. The Silent Lovers
22. Flight Conditions
23The Ride to Tethys
24. Ghost Platoon
25. Dreamtakers
26. The Other Novelist
27. Birth Funeral
Aftertale: The First Santa
Index
About the Author "Mysterious Realities opens doors to the worlds beyond the mundane, to the joy and grief, terror and passion of the many-branching universe. . . . sink into this book and luxuriate in all that is possible - so that you, too, can cruise through your own imaginal realms."
- Manda Scott, author of the Boudica Dreaming series
"What an utter delight to travel through Robert Moss's rich imaginal world. I feel like my head and heart are seven sizes bigger. What a wondrous inner adventure I've just had."
- Jennifer Louden, author of The Life Organizer
"Robert Moss is a 'mything link,' and his new book, Mysterious Realities, is one of the most luminous revelations of those who travel between the worlds. Using words as wands, this magus of the imaginal realm accompanies the reader on visionary journeys, soul-capturing dreams, and encounters with once and future archetypes. This is not an innocent book. The very reading is an initiation, a sea change into something rich and strange. It is a message from a future human, a representative from a parallel world, one who has solved present challenges by entering realms that few as yet dare to enter. Read this numinous book, and enter if you dare."
- Jean Houston, author of A Mythic Life
"Story medicine is a powerful elixir in these uncertain times. Potent word-weavers like Robert Moss shape their stories in such a way that the reader feels instead of knows, journeys rather than arrives. Mysterious Realities offers opportunities to encounter the mystical through story without confining or defining the experience, without placing limits on what is essentially wild, ancient, and infinite."
- Danielle Dulsky, E-RYT 500, YACEP, author of The Holy Wild and
