Mysterious Realities: A Dream Traveler's Tales from the Imaginal Realm

In all of the books Robert Moss has artfully delivered on dreams, he shares some amazing locales beyond the ordinary world. This book is no exception. His description of the costume dept for spirit guides in the moon café and half-armored police with the heads of hounds patroling the seedy neighborhoods, represent only the preface to some amazing worlds.As Robert Moss warns us, "words have the power to call things...and bring creatures from one world into another," and here he has done that masterfully.Here is a great collection of short stories. You will encounter good fiction, wonderful snippits of fantasy, except...you shouldn't read this as fantasy. It's a traveler's guide to the countries you visit in dream, "for those who always go beyond the roadmaps."Go beyond them; Professor Moss does. This is no light, New Age dip into the shallow end of the dream pool. We meet magicians - the real kind, daimons, and not a few spirits that may qualify as demons, if not of the rich, certainly of the famous. We are taken by a master storyteller into the realms of our psyches; into realms that Yeats, Einstein, Jung, and Eliade knew to be real, and sometimes terrifying.In this book, Robert Moss goes far beyond his previous voyages into dreaming. He in essence takes off his gloves, imparting not only the magic of dream worlds and the multiple universes in which they reside, but the roadmaps with which to reach them.As we all will admit when we're truly being honest with ourselves, the worlds we dream in are more real than not. This book is an inspiring trip through dreamland. Book your ticket today, if you dare.

Mysterious Realities is the latest book from author/dream shaman Robert Moss. There are two ways to read this book. You might be reading as an initiate into the world of shamanic dream journeying wherein you will discover the possibilities open to you as you practice your own dream travels beyond your day to day existence in present time. On the other hand, you might simply be looking for entertainment in which case you will delight in the author’s storytelling abilities. Either way, you’re in for a treat. The yarns being spun here are taken from Robert Moss’s very real—and wild!—experiences with dreaming into what he calls The Imaginal Realm. If you are looking for an imaginative romp through non-linear time and extraordinary situations to read by a cozy fire, this anthology of tales will satisfy. I am a fan of this author and feel he shines brightest sharing stories with O’Henry-like hooks of synchronicity. “The Ride to Tethys” near the end of this book is one such wonderful story. There are many others within the pages of “Mysterious Realities”. I leave you to discover them for yourself. If you feel the pull of these Mysterious Realities, consider exploring the ways and means of how to become an adept dreamer yourself by seeking out a class by Robert Moss and/or picking up one of his more practical guides to dream techniques you can master with his help.

Robert Moss is a combination of storyteller, folklorist, historian, and dreamer. In this book, he gets to be all of those things at once. And readers get to go along for an incredible ride.Moss dips into the imaginal realm: the space between dreams and wakefulness; between life and death; between this life and a parallel one. Here he finds adventure, learning, and time traveling rolled into a tale of dreams.If you don't believe that dreams are instructive, that we are a combination of archetypes who live in a multiverse, or plays in which we learn to chose and accept consequences of our choices--you can still enjoy the book as a series of wonderful and imaginative tales.Each chapter is a separate story of one of Moss's dreams. Each chapter begins with a brief explanation to provide context and a gentle hint of how the story may be important to you, the reader. That is a difficult balance point, and Moss handles it with ease, inviting you into his dreams and then back into yours.I found this book most useful as before-sleep reading. Prepared by one of Moss's dreams, and his exploration of meaning, I've been remembering more of my dreams and using them to help me explore the creative meaning in life.

I've read three of the Robert Moss books on dreams and dreaming. This one, though, is off the wall for its content. Bizarre is probably the closest word I can muster to describe the chapters and the material in each chapter----each one seems to get stranger and stranger as the book progresses. Moss relates all these dreams (experiences???), but he never explains the meaning----the reader is left to try to figure things out. Since each dream has a particular meaning to the dreamer, exactly why he's sharing this material is beyond me. Some dreams should remain in a dreamer's journal and not be shared with other readers. This is one book that Moss should have kept to himself since each little chapter moves on with more and more bizarre material, making me wonder if this so-called dreams/experiences really originated in the dream state or in some other corner of his mind with help from some type of outside influence. After reading two of his other dream books, I was keenly disappointed with this one.

This book must be read slowly and savored, but can be read again and again. The dream journeys and places beyond ordinary reality personally touch my soul and give me hope. I even had my own synchronicities as I recall my friend recently finding meaning in several “blue butterflies” she had been coming across and now reading about that image in the chapter called “dream takers.” There’s truth and many treasures, some buried and some easy to spot in this book. It’s full of insight, triggering deep emotion and certain truths we all know but have perhaps consciously forgotten. There’s more to say but for now I’ll just say it’s worth more than you might suspect.