Our earliest poets were shamans. Today as in the earliest times, true shamans are poets of consciousness who know the power of song and story to teach and to heal. They understand that the right words open pathways between the worlds and draw closer the gods and goddesses who wish to live through us.
Robert Moss brings this ancient bardic tradition to life in this collection of poems and stories that stream directly from dreams and shamanic adventures in the world-behind-the-world. You’ll be carried into a reality where everything is alive and conscious, where tigers and bears can lend you their forms and raven and hawk can give you their sight, where the ancestors are talking, talking, and the gates to the Otherworld open from wherever you are.
You’ll awaken, through these pages, to how shamans use poetic speech to call the soul back home, into the bodies of those who have lost vital energy through pain or trauma or heartbreak. You’ll travel to the Island of No Pain where lost boys and girls are kept safe. And you’ll learn to make the return journey, and sing the lost soul back into the body where it belongs.
Daftar Isi
Part I. Selected Poems 1992–2012
Hunting Power
Chinaberry Gleam
A Flash of Blue
The Fire in the Wood
To the Deer of the Mountain
A Way of Creating
Rose Gate
Bear Giver
Scaffold Tree
The Return Journey
The Stand
Eldorado Kite
Praise for the Mother
Eyes of the Goddess
Birth of Apollo
Delivery Time
Bearing a Child from the Island of No Pain
Sun Stealer
White Wolf
Sunset Road
In Praise of Black Dogs
The Double on the Balcony
The Dragon’s Plan
Angel of the Rushing Waters
The Art of Heronry
Rabbit at the Tree Gate
Bear Sightings
Brushes with the Red Fox
Glory Falls: On Harriet Tubman
I Dreamed I Woke Up
Beginner’s Eyes, and After
Soul Is
A Crack in the House of God
If You Spill a Dragon
Moe’uhane: Island Dreaming
Lightning Paths
To the Blood Pool
Keepers of Time
Proteus
Becoming Caduceus
White Shadows
Night Calls
Kin to Lightning
Grail Knight
A Place to Write From (Red Ink)
Sanctuary
Wild Cherries
Anonwara: Turtle Dreaming
Because
Women Dream Dreams that would Terrify Men
Empathy Dreams
Part II. Tales from the Imaginal Realm
At the Gate of Story
Moon Tiger
The Xibalba Exchange
The Sign Language of the World
Love Tunnel
Unfinished Story
Flight to Deer Mountain
The Threefold Death of Silver Wolf
The Other, Again
The Journey to Absolute Knowledge
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Tentang Penulis
Robert Moss is a novelist, poet, historian, and lifelong dream explorer. For many years he has taught and practiced Active Dreaming, an original synthesis of dreamwork and shamanic techniques. His many books include
Conscious Dreaming: A Spiritual Path for Everyday Life;
Dreamgates: Exploring the Worlds of Soul, Imagination, and Life Beyond Death;
The Three ‘Only’ Things: Tapping the Power of Dreams, Coincidence, and Imagination; and
The Secret History of Dreaming. His novels include the three-volume
Cycle of the Iroquois—The Firekeeper;
Fire Along the Sky; and
The Interpreter. He lives in upstate New York.
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