Secret History Of Dreaming (Hardcover)

"This splendid book is destined to become a classic, one that transcends disciplines and provides an agenda for the role that dreams can play in ensuring human survival."
-- Stanley Krippner, PhD, coauthor of "Extraordinary Dreams and How to Work with Them"
"Erudite, brilliant, and delightful...the first history to pay serious attention to the sacred art of dreaming as practiced worldwide by women as well as by men."
-- Barbara Tedlock, PhD, author of "The Woman in the Shaman's Body"
"Robert Moss is dragging us, kicking and screaming, into a new vision of consciousness, space, and time. Our understanding of consciousness can never be adequate without taking into account the dream events chronicled by Robert Moss in "The Secret History of Dreaming," Moss describes how we can acquire accurate information in dreams about future and distant events. This terrific book strikes the perfect balance between information and entertainment. Moss is a storyteller par excellence."
-- Larry Dossey, MD, author of "Healing Words"
""The Secret History of Dreaming" is a masterly survey and exploration of how inner, dreamed realities have generated core historical realities across time and space. A great and very informative read."
-- Iain R. Edgar, PhD, professor of anthropology, Durham University, and author of "A Guide to Imagework"
"Robert Moss is a dynamo in dreaming. A modern-day Waymaker, he guides us as travelers through the sea of dreams, starting at the source in ancient times, and challenges us to a consciousness shift into a future safe harbor as a dream-appreciating culture. Robert's research reveals a treasury of secrets never before published in any book ondreams. Robert makes dreamers such as Harriet Tubman, Joan of Arc, Mark Twain, and Winston Churchill come alive. A brilliant, must-have book!"
-- Rita Dwyer, past president and executive officer, International Association for the Study of Dreams
"Robert Moss is a brilliant teacher of the immense and intimate field of dreaming. Nearly anything imagined, from invention, to strategy to poetry, has its roots in dreams. Moss deftly and powerfully demonstrates that dreams are the spirit body from which this world emerges. "The Secret History of Dreaming" is an essential text and should be included alongside any study of human history or scientific inquiry."
-- Joy Harjo, poet, musician, and author of "How We Became Human"

This exciting and ground-breaking book explores how dreams, coincidence and imagination have been a 'secret engine' of vital importance in evolution and history. In dreaming cultures, like those of most ancient and indigenous people, dreaming is not just about sleep dreams; it involves paying close attention to natural phenomena, coincidence, and the play of symbols in the everyday world. In those cultures, powerful dreamers are trained to become conscious travellers and geographers of the multidimensional universe, bringing back vital information to aid the community.For example, Harriet Tubman used her dreams to map the Underground Railroad and lead former slaves to freedom, and Colonel Harold Dickson followed his dream to one of the largest oil discoveries in the Mid-East. In fact, we cannot understand history unless we grasp that a vital factor at work in all human affairs is the interplay between humans and a larger field, which becomes accessible through dreaming and through imaginal exploration. We have lost this perspective, and by losing touch, we put ourselves at peril and narrow our world and our experience of that world. "The Secret History of Dreaming" is going to make a big contribution to restoring the interplay between humans and this larger field.