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Dream Gates
Dreaming as soulcraft and survival tool in Iroquois tradition
By
Robert Moss
“The Iroquois have, properly speaking, only a single Divinity – the dream. To it they render their submission, and follow all its orders with the utmost exactness.” – Father Jacques Frémin, S.J., 1669-70 Long before the first Europeans arrived in Northeast America, the peoples of the Longhouse, or Iroquois, taught their children that dreams are…
How dreams get us through
By
Robert Moss
During an interview I did for Wisconsin Public Radio, the callers produced a harvest of personal examples of how dreams help us to get through life. A songwriter described how he has woken in the middle of the night with new songs playing in his mind. Sometimes they are complete, with words and music. Sometimes…
Wake up and dream
By
Robert Moss
The bumper sticker on my car reads WAKE UP AND DREAM. I am not the first to realize that dreaming may be a way of waking up. The Egyptian word for dream is rswt. It literally means “awakening,” and in hieroglyphics it often appears followed by a determinative depicted as an open eye. This makes…
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