{"id":155,"date":"2010-11-27T00:58:59","date_gmt":"2010-11-27T00:58:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/dreamgates\/2010\/11\/we-can-bring-magic.html"},"modified":"2010-11-27T00:58:59","modified_gmt":"2010-11-27T00:58:59","slug":"we-can-bring-magic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/dreamgates\/2010\/11\/we-can-bring-magic.html","title":{"rendered":"We can bring magic"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Carlos.jpg\"<\/a><\/span>You never know who’s listening to you, once you’ve been recorded. On a recent plane trip, when we had rolled up to the gate and passengers were reaching for their carry-ons, a woman three rows ahead turned to me and announced in a ringing voice, “You’re Robert Moss!”<\/p>\n

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Before I could ask how she knew me she added, “Your voice is the last thing I’ve heard in bed for the past three months. My husband is getting worried.”<\/div>\n
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I guessed the rest, before she told me. She had been listening to my audio series Dream Gates: A Journey into Active Dreaming<\/i> (published by Sounds True and not to be confused with my book Dreamgates: Exploring the Worlds of Soul, Imagination and Life Beyond Death<\/i>, which was written later and has additional content).<\/div>\n
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I was just sent a link to a YouTube clip with graphics I had not seen before. Against dramatic backdrops of deserts and historical crises, I saw my floating face and heard myself say:<\/div>\n
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?If we know that dreaming is a deeper dimension in reality, a real world, maybe more of a real world than ordinary life, rather than a fantasy world, then we can bring magic from that world in to this one , and we can re-enchant our lives<\/i>.<\/span><\/h3>\n

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From the old light blue bush shirt I’m wearing, and some of the content, my guess is that the YouTube clip, titled “We can bring magic”, is an excerpt from a long interview I recorded about eight years back for an otherwise forgettable documentary titled Carlos Castaneda: Enigma of a Sorcerer<\/i>. They used a few minutes of me – talking about how there is no real boundary between the living and the dead in dreams – right after the opening credits, against an imported background of a cemetery. I wondered at the time what would happen to the remaining 2 hours of me they had in the can. <\/span><\/div>\n

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Anyway, I rather like what the fellow on YouTube has to say about how dreaming is real magic, the art of bringing something from a deeper world into this one. Here’s the link<\/a>.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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