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Creative Rx: The right kind of Brownies
By
Robert Moss
Robert Louis Stevenson received some of his best-beloved stories in dreams and a twilight state of “reverie” in which benign visitors he called “Brownies” helped him to compose, and we have lots to learn from his practice. RLS described the central role of dreaming and dreamy states in his creative process in “A Chapter on…
Dreaming like an Egyptian
By
Robert Moss
The ancient Egyptians understood that in dreams, our eyes are opened. Their word for dream, rswt, is etymologically connected to the root meaning “to be awake”. It was written with a symbol representing an open eye. The Egyptians believed that the gods speak to us in dreams. As the Bible story of Joseph and Pharaoh reminds…
What’s in your dream mirror?
By
Robert Moss
Have you ever dreamed that you looked at yourself in a mirror and noticed you were quite different from the way you think of yourself in waking life? While we look in a mirror in some of our dreams, the dream is also looking at us. The whole of a dream may function as a…
Dream mirrors of the Self
By
Robert Moss
One of the most important gifts of our dreams is that they put us in touch with more aspects of ourselves than we have recognized in what Yeats called our “daily trivial minds.” Among these aspects is the famous Shadow, composed of parts of our selves we have repressed or denied (and tend to project…
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