Robert Moss 
Here, Everything Is Dreaming 
Poems and Stories

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.

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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

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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.