between Hogwarts and Wind in the Willows — near Seattle. The kinship between my surname and the name of my favorite retreat center in North America is a striking coincidence. When Paul and Sandie created their center, out there in a hollow in the mossy redwood forest, and invented their name for it, they had never heard of me. At the time of writing, this Moss has been teaching at Mosswood Hollow for more than a decade. I am grateful to Jeni Hogenson for all the love and care with which she smoothes the ways for adventurous spirits to join me here. I started to make a list of all the dreamers who support my work and are helping to midwife the rebirth of a dreaming society in our world, in our time. When I realized that the number of teachers of Active Dreaming alone runs to several hundred, I decided to forgo the list. I remembered the cautionary tale, from myth and folklore, of the person who tries to name all the goddesses, or all the fairies, but omits one of them, leading to all kinds of trouble with the one who was left off the list. So I shall simply say: thank you, from the heart, to all our community of active dreamers. I give thanks for the love of family and friends. Many thanks to you: dear stranger met on the road or the airplane, who shared a life story and became part of this narrative. Praise is due to the Gatekeeper: Lord of journeys, Lord of crossroads Lord of many ways and many names May our doors and gates and paths be open And our doors and gates and paths between the worlds And may the doors and gates and paths of any who wish to do us or those we love any harm be closed. May it be so.
NOTES 1. MAKING REAL MAGIC Page 2 a child playing with game pieces: Charles H. Kahn, The Art and Thought of Heraclitus: An Edition of the Fragments with Translation and Commentary (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987), 71. 2. A WALK AROUND JUNG’S TOWER Page 18 The explosive force: C. G. Jung to J. B. Rhine, 17 November 1934, in C. G. Jung, Letters, ed. Gerhard Adler and Aniela Jaffé, trans. R. F. C. Hull, vol. 1, 1906–1950 (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1973), 181. Page 18 Someone has been pulling your leg: C. G. Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections, ed. Aniela Jaffé, trans. Richard Winston and Clara Winston (New York: Vintage Books, 1989), 106. Page 19 the origin of all my ideas: C. G. Jung, Analytical Psychology: Notes of the Seminar Given in 1925 by C. G. Jung, ed. William McGuire (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1989), 6. Page 19 We always lose the essential: Jorge Luis Borges, Selected Poems, ed. Alexander Coleman (New York: Penguin Books, 2000), 108, my free translation. Original text: Siempre se pierde lo esencial. Es una /Ley de toda palabra sobre el numen. Page 20 Cicero used the word: Cicero, De divinatione 1.20. Page 20 non haec sine numine: Virgil, Aeneid 2.777, my free translation. Page 20 cannot, strictly speaking: This and the following quotes in this paragraph are from Rudolf Otto, The Idea of the Holy: An Inquiry into the Non-rational Factor in the Idea of the Divine and Its Relation to the Rational, trans. John W. Harvey (London: Oxford University Press, 1952), 7, 11–13. Page 23 took him “out of time”: Deirdre Bair, Jung: A Biography (New York: Back Bay Books, 2004), 324. Page 23 confession in stone: Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections, 212. Page 24 Jung carved the face: Barbara Hannah, Jung, His Life and Work: A Biographical Memoir (Boston: Shambhala, 1991), 308. Page 24 That is my stone!: Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections, 226. Page 24 Fairly soon, he decided: Details in this paragraph are from Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections, 21–23. Page 25 Time is a child: Ibid., 227.
Page 25 Lifetime is a child: Charles H. Kahn, The Art and Thought of Heraclitus: An Edition of the Fragments with Translation and Commentary (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987), 71. Page 26 He dreamed that he saw: Hannah, Jung, 344. Page 26 Synchronicity crackled: Details in this paragraph are from Ibid., 346, 348. Page 26 but clearly looking out: Gerhard Adler, introduction to In the Wake of Jung: A Selection of Articles from Jungian Analysts, ed. Molly Tuby (London: Coventure, 1983), 9–10. Page 28 The Eastern mind: Jean Shinoda Bolen, The Tao of Psychology: Synchronicity and the Self (San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1982), xi. Page 31 The sage. . .takes: Edward L. Shaughnessy, trans. and ed., I Ching: The Classic of Changes (New York: Ballantine Books, 1997), 203 (italics added). Page 32 knows the reasons: Ibid., 191. Page 32 strengthens beings and fixes: Richard Wilhelm and Cary F. Baynes, trans., The I Ching, or Book of Changes (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1990), 294. Page 33 The Yolngu: Karl-Erik Sveiby and Tex Skuthorpe, Treading Lightly: The Hidden Wisdom of the World’s Oldest People (Crows Nest, Australia: Allen & Unwin, 2006), 7. Page 33 the Nhunggabarra: Ibid., 69. Page 34 Him good telephone: Philip Clarke, Where the Ancestors Walked: Australia as an Aboriginal Landscape (Crows Nest, Australia: Allen & Unwin, 2003), 23. Page 34 a vibrational residue: Robert Lawlor, Voices of the First Day: Awakening in the Aboriginal Dreamtime (Rochester, VT: Inner Traditions, 1991), 1. Page 34 Everything in the natural world: Ibid. Page 35 anthropology of Spencer and Gillen: Baldwin Spencer and F. J. Gillen, The Arunta: A Study of a Stone Age People, 2 vols. (London: Macmillan, 1927). Page 35 in Aboriginal Australia: Sylvie Poirier, “‘This Is Good Country. We Are Good Dreamers’: Dreams and Dreaming in the Australian Western Desert,” in Dream Travelers: Sleep Experiences and Culture in the Western Pacific, ed. Roger Ivar Lohmann (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003), 113. Page 35 The spirit goes: Ibid., 112. Page 36 a world full of signs: This and the following quotes in this paragraph are from W. E. H. Stanner, “Religion, Totemism and Symbolism,” in Aboriginal Man in Australia, ed. R. M. Berndt and C. H. Berndt (Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1965), 215, 227. Page 37 For the Nhunggabarra: Sveiby and Skuthorpe, Treading Lightly, 3. Page 39 what we do: This and the quotes in the following paragraph are from Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections, 251–52. Page 41 Wyrd itself is constant: Brian Bates, The Way of Wyrd: Tales of an Anglo-Saxon Sorcerer (London: Century, 1983), 75. Page 41 Man is touched by wyrd: Paul C. Bauschatz, The Well and the Tree: World and Time in Early Germanic Culture (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1982), 28. Page 42 this concept of Wyrd: Jenny Blain, Nine Worlds of Seid-Magic: Ecstasy and Neo-shamanism in Northern European Paganism (London: Routledge, 2002), 15. Page 42 “reading” Wyrd, seeing: Ibid. Page 43 Often I felt as though: Ralph Metzner, The Well of Remembrance: Rediscovering the Earth Wisdom Myths of Northern Europe (Boston: Shambhala, 1994), 10. Page 44 rupture in time: C. G. Jung, C. G. Jung Speaking: Interviews and Encounters, ed. W. McGuire and R. F. C. Hull (London: Thames & Hudson, 1978), 230.
3. BECOMING A KAIROMANCER Page 50 All things which are similar: Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim, Three Books of Occult Philosophy, ed. Donald Tyson (Woodbury, MN: Llewellyn, 1993), 413. Page 52 Mind and body could be: Arthur Koestler, The Roots of Coincidence: An Excursion into Parapsychology (New York: Vintage, 1973), 55. Page 52 ideas are projected: Honoré de Balzac, Louis Lambert, trans. Clara Bell and James Waring, Project Gutenberg, accessed April 28, 2015, www.gutenberg.org/etext/1943. Page 53 We are magnets: This and the following quotes in this paragraph are from Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Resources,” in Complete Works (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1904), vol. 8, Bartleby.com, accessed April 28, 2015, www.bartleby.com/90/0804.html. Page 55 creators actively court chance: John Briggs, Fire in the Crucible: The Alchemy of Creative Genius (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1988), 278. Page 55 The writing of a book: Roberto Calasso, La folie Baudelaire, trans. Alastair McEwen (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2012), 10. Page 56 I found that every: This and the quotes from AE in the following paragraph are from A. E. [George William Russell], The Candle of Vision: Inner Worlds of the Imagination (1918; Bridport, England: Prism Press, 1990), 9–10. Page 56 I feel I belong: P. L. Travers, “The Death of AE,” in What the Bee Knows: Reflections on Myth, Symbol and Story (London: Arkana, 1994), 244–45. Page 62 the imagination is: Letter to Alphonse Toussenel, 1858, in Calasso, La folie Baudelaire, 11– 12. Page 65 In the beginning: Ben Okri, The Famished Road (New York: Anchor Books, 1993), 3. Page 69 Harriet Tubman: Robert Moss, The Secret History of Dreaming (Novato, CA: New World Library, 2009), 182–88. Page 69 the compensations of calamity: This and the following quote in this paragraph are from Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Compensation,” in The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson, ed. Brooks Atkinson (New York: Modern Library, 2000), 170–71. Page 70 If there is divination: Cicero, Cicero on Divination: De divinatione, Book 1, trans. David Wardle (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2006), 108. Page 70 exerted a hold on Freud: Janine Burke, The Gods of Freud: Sigmund Freud’s Art Collection (Milsons Point, Australia: Knopf, 2006). Page 70 The Spirit of Psychology: English translation of Jung’s “Der Geist der Psychologie,” in Joseph Campbell, ed., Spirit and Nature: Eranos Yearbook 1954 (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1954). Page 72 swooping down from the sky: This and the following quotes from the Odyssey in this chapter are taken from Homer, The Odyssey, trans. Robert Fagles (New York: Penguin Books, 1997). Page 75 The poet marries: Quoted in Rollo May, The Courage to Create (New York: Norton, 1994), 85. Page 79 It is not hard to keep: Neil Gaiman, Anansi Boys: A Novel (New York: HarperTorch, 2005), 181. Page 79 Alan Vaughan tells: Alan Vaughan’s story is from his Incredible Coincidence: The Baffling World of Synchronicity (New York: New American Library, 1979), 121–22. Page 80 Mitchell relates: Sam Jordison, “David Mitchell’s Unusual Adventure into History,” Guardian, June 24, 2014. Page 81 Caminante, no hay camino: Antonio Machado, “Proverbios y cantares XXIX” [Proverbs and Songs 29], in Campos de Castilla [The Landscape of Castile] (1917; reprint, Buffalo, NY: White Pine Press, 2005), 238.
4. THE BOOK OF SIDEWALK ORACLES Page 84 Karen Smyers visited: Karen A. Smyers, The Fox and the Jewel: Shared and Private Meanings in Contemporary Japanese Inari Worship (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1999), 4–5. Page 93 anthropologist Mubuy Mpier: Mubuy Mubay Mpier, “Dreams among the Yansi,” in Dreaming, Religion and Society in Africa, ed. M. C. Jedrej and Rosalind Shaw (New York: Brill, 1992), 100–111. Page 93 We do not always: Mary Watkins, Waking Dreams (Dallas, TX: Spring, 1992), 141. Page 93 You not only see: Kathleen Raine, Defending Ancient Springs (London: Oxford University Press, 1967), 113. Page 101 a recurrence of the same: Arthur Koestler, The Roots of Coincidence: An Excursion into Parapsychology (New York: Vintage, 1973), 95. Page 101 a quasi-gravitational attraction: Ibid., 110. Page 104 At Pharai in the Peloponnese: Robert Moss, Conscious Dreaming: A Spiritual Path for Everyday Life (New York: Three Rivers Press, 1996), 166–68. Page 104 the friendliest of gods: Ibid., 167. Page 107 Crows communicate: John M. Marzluff and Tony Angell, In the Company of Crows and Ravens (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2005), 196. Page 109 king named Tarquinius: For the story of Tarquinius and the sibyl, see Dianne Skafte, When Oracles Speak: Opening Yourself to Messages Found in Dreams, Signs, and the Voices of Nature (London: Thorsons, 1997), 173–74. Page 112 If we love: Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, 1845–1846, ed. Elvan Kinter, vol. 1, January 1845 to March 1846 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004), 470. Page 113 My dear Mrs. Crowley: C. G. Jung to Alice Lewisohn Crowley, 20 July 1942, in C. G. Jung, Letters, ed. Gerhard Adler and Aniela Jaffé, trans. R. F. C. Hull, vol. 1, 1906–1950 (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1973), 319. Page 118 There is no energy: C. G. Jung, Two Essays on Analytical Psychology, trans. R. F. C. Hull (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1972), 53–54. Page 120 I had sweet company: A. E. [George William Russell], Collected Poems, 2nd ed. (London: Macmillan, 1926), 230. Page 122 The Book of the Road: W. F. Ryan, The Bathhouse at Midnight: An Historical Survey of Magic and Divination in Russia (University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 2011), 123– 24. Page 122 We talked, and although: Jung in conversation with Miguel Serrano, September 1960, C. G. Jung, C. G. Jung Speaking: Interviews and Encounters, ed. W. McGuire and R. F. C. Hull (London: Thames & Hudson, 1978), 464–65. Page 126 When two people meet: Jean Shinoda Bolen, The Tao of Psychology: Synchronicity and the Self (San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1982), 51. Page 128 Think not you can direct: Khalil Gibran, “Love,” in The Prophet, Wikilivres, last modified August 10, 2010, http://wikilivres.ca/wiki/The_Prophet/Love. Page 133 Exoriare aliquis nostris: Virgil, Aeneid 4.625. Page 135 If I had his nuts: Mark Twain, Autobiography of Mark Twain, ed. Harriet Elinor Smith et al. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010), 1:106 (italics in the original). Page 136 could persuade a fish: Ron Powers, Mark Twain: A Life (New York: Free Press, 2005), 545. Page 144 In surveys, 75–92 percent: Arthur Funkhouser and Michael Schredl, “The Frequency of Déjà Vu (Déjà Rêve) and the Effects of Age, Dream Recall Frequency and Personality Factors,”
International Journal of Dream Research 3, no. 1 (2010):60. Page 144 survey of 444 students: Ibid. Page 146 Émile Boirac: Émile Boirac, The Psychology of the Future, trans. and ed. W. de Kerlor (London: Kegan Paul, 1918), 233. Page 146 Almost any mental tempest: Frederic W. H. Myers, “The Subliminal Self, Chapter 8: The Relation of Supernormal Phenomena to Time; Retrocognition,” Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research 11 (1895): 354. Page 146 a suddenly evoked reminiscence: Ibid., 341. Page 148 as if someone were at my ear: Paul Edwards, Reincarnation: A Critical Examination (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2001), 54. Page 148 At sunset, when I: Charles Dickens, Pictures from Italy (London: Penguin Classics, 1998), 73–74. Page 153 This being human: Coleman Barks et al., trans., The Essential Rumi (San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1995), 109. Page 153 treat each guest honorably: Ibid. Page 161 In Cicero’s time: Cicero, Cicero on Divination: De divinatione, Book 1, trans. David Wardle (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2006), 118. Page 166 Victor Hugo did not like: Graham Robb, Victor Hugo: A Biography (New York: Norton, 2007), 459. Page 166 When Hugo moved back: Ibid., 494. Page 185 Mark Twain developed: Robert Moss, The Secret History of Dreaming (Novato, CA: New World Library, 2009), 200–202. 6.FOX TALES Page 211 The oldest evidence: Barbara Tedlock, The Woman in the Shaman’s Body: Reclaiming the Feminine in Religion and Medicine (New York: Bantam Books, 2005), 3–4. Page 212 The druid prince: Anne Ross and Don Robbins, The Life and Death of a Druid Prince (New York: Summit Books, 1989), 57–59. Page 212 the Japanese word for fox: Karen A. Smyers, The Fox and the Jewel: Shared and Private Meanings in Contemporary Japanese Inari Worship (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1999), 72. Page 212 the story of Lord Tadzane: Ibid., 84. Page 213 the mystery and fundamental: Ibid., 98. Page 213 Strange happenings in nature: Ibid. Page 222 Here is my secret: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince, trans. Richard Howard (New York: Mariner Books, 2000), 63. Page 223 Ogo remains for the Dogon: Roger D. Pelton, The Trickster in West Africa: A Study of Mythic Irony and Sacred Delight (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1980), 207. Page 223 Under the movement: Marcel Griaule and Germaine Dieterlen, Le renard pâle, vol. 1, Le mythe cosmogonique (Paris: Institut d’Ethnologie, 1948), 280, my free translation. Page 223 A team sponsored: The National Geographic account of the Dogon diviner is from Chris Rainier, “Unique Dogon Culture Survives in West Africa,” National Geographic News, May 29, 2003, http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/05/0529_030529_dogon.html. Page 224 an “everlasting” impression: The quotes in this and the following paragraph are from C. G. Jung, Letters, ed. Gerhard Adler and Aniela Jaffé, trans. R. F. C. Hull, vol. 1, 1906–1950 (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1973), 395.
Page 225 In August 1962: Ben Macintyre, A Spy among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal (New York: Crown, 2014), 230–31, 241. Page 227 Each of our days: P. Aelius Aristides, The Complete Works, trans. Charles A. Behr, vol. 2, Orations XVII–LIII (Leiden: Brill, 1981), 279. Page 229 Whether it be sweet: Alexander Eliot, The Timeless Myths: How Ancient Legends Influence the Modern World (New York: Truman Talley Books, 1996), 23.
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INDEX Abbott, Edwin Abbott, 194 Acedia (noonday demon), 155 Active Dreaming circles, 174–75 Adams, Douglas, 171–72 Adirondack Mountains, 174 AE. See Russell, George (“AE”) Aeneid (Virgil), 20 Agrippa von Nettesheim, Heinrich Cornelius, 50 air travel: chance encounters during, 124–25; Kairos moments during, 187–209 Akwesasne (Mohawk reservation), 164 Alaric (Goth leader), 110 Albertus Magnus, 51–52 Albright, Madeleine, 187 Alcheringa (Dream Times), 35 Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Carroll), 3 alternate event tracks. See parallel event tracks ambiguity, tolerance for, 61 American Civil War, 60, 69 Amma (Dogon deity), 223 Anansi (West African deity), 79, 227 Anansi Boys (Gaiman), 79, 227 Anatolia (Turkey), 177, 182, 213 Ancestors, 34–36 Angell, Tony, 107 angelology, 112 angels, 123–24 anger, 155 animal sacrifice, 86 animism, 208–9 anticipatory symptoms, 168–73 Anubis (Egyptian deity), 78, 157 anxiety, 155 archery, kairos in, 48 archetypes, 70–71, 77–80 Aristotle, 61
Artemidorus, 61 Ashanti people, 79 Asklepios (Greek patron of dream healing), 24 Association of the Study of Dreams conference (New York, NY; 2000), 174 Athena (Greek deity), 71–73 Athenians, 200 attitude, choice of, 50–53, 203 attraction, law of, 13, 50 Auden, W. H., 75–76 Austin (TX) poster campaign, 42 Australian Aborigines: Ancestors of, 34–36; Dreaming/Dreamtime of, 34–37; Speaking Land of, 33– 34, 36, 37, 59–60, 209 Australian National University, 200 Autobiography (Twain), 135–36 Autobiography (Yeats), 119 Bali, 66–67 Balzac, Honoré de, 52–53 “Banana Boat Song, The” (song), 140–41 Barks, Coleman, 114 Barrett, Elizabeth, 112 Bates, Brian, 41 Baudelaire, Charles, 62–63 Bauschatz, Paul, 42 bears, 58–60 Belafonte, Harry, 141 Berra, Yogi, 61 Biano, Ochwiay, 39–40 Bible, 111 bibliomancy: ancient history of, 109–11; defined, 109, 111; as divination system, 86; favorite books for, 114; game rules for, 115; journaling and, 102–3, 114–15; religious, 111; secular, 111–14; shelf elves and, 112, 118–19 Big Fish (film; 2003), 91 birds, kledons from, 105–7 Black Elk (Lakota holy man), 39 Blain, Jenny, 42 body, anticipatory symptoms felt by, 168–73 body movements, 32 Boirac, Émile, 146 Bolen, Jean Shinoda, 27–28, 126 Bollingen (Switzerland), 22–27 book-dipping, 86, 102. See also bibliomancy Book of Changes (I Ching), 27; commentaries on, 30, 32; as divination system, 28, 29–30, 86; emergence of, 29; Jung’s studies of, 28; Mawangdui text of, 30–32; Tao in, 41; world-switching with, 31–32; yin/yang interplay in, 28–29, 30 Book of Sand, The (Borges), 117 Book of the Road, The (Putnik), 122
bookshops, shelf elves in, 116–17 Borges, Jorge Luis, 19–20, 117 Boy Who Died and Came Back, The (Moss), 190 Bozeman (MT), author’s flight to, 188–90 Brazil, author’s flight from, 206–8 Briggs, John, 55 Brill, A. A., 132 brontomancy, 73 brontoscopy, 200 Bronze Age, 29 Browning, Robert, 112 Brzezinski, Zbigniew, 150–51 Buddhism, 67–68 bumi ndoey (“turn a dream”), 93 Burch, Wanda, 130, 184–85 Burroughs, Augusten, 111 Calasso, Roberto, 55 “Calling All Angels” (song), 140 Candle of Vision, The (Russell), 56 Cape York Peninsula (Australia), 33 Carroll, Lewis, 3, 169, 189 cars, as personal omen, 165–66 Chance an Encounter (game), 122–29 chance encounters: during air travel, 124–25; as called, 122–24; with significant others, 125–28 Chardonnet, Hilaire de, 54–55 Check Your Inner Sound Track (game), 139–43 Chicago (IL), 191–92 China, 212 Chronos (Greek deity), 49, 68 Chronos time, 69 Cicero, 20, 70, 161, 201 Civil War, 60, 69 Clarke, Philip, 34 Cloud Atlas (Mitchell), 80 cluster chucks, 46, 54 clustering, 101 coincidence, 6; “hidden hand” in, 73; meaningful (see synchronicity); movement and, 64–68; presentiment and, 157–60; riffs of, 3, 45; in series, 44, 101 coins, as personal omen, 162 Collected Essays (Emerson), 114 Collected Poems (Yeats), 114 Collected Works (Jung), 118–19 collective unconscious, 70 Colorado state motto, 20 Confession on the Road, 39 Confucius, 29
Conscious Dreaming (Moss), 14 conscious dreaming, everyday life experienced through, 1–2 Consult the Index Card Oracle (game), 178–82 Cooper, David, 205 “Correspondances” (poem; Baudelaire), 62–63 counterpart personalities, 75 Country Bookshelf (Bozeman, MT), 189 Country Life, 225 courage, 87 creative action, 75–77, 177 creative imagination, 53 creative writing, 55, 105 crossed letters, 183–84 crossroads, 60–61 crows, 107, 162–63, 196–97 Cunningham Steps, 216 Czech Republic, 212 Dane County (WI) Airport, 194 Dao. See Tao (the Way) dating, 127–28, 129 death, author’s rhyming experiences with, 190–209 De divinatione (Cicero), 70, 201 déjà rêvé experiences, 146–48 déjà vécu experiences, 148–49 Déjà Vu All Over Again (game), 144–52 déjà vu experiences, 71; author’s experience, 149–51; defined, 144; dreams (déjà rêvé), 146–48, 149–51; game rules, 151–52; past life memories (déjà vécu), 148–49; rates of occurrence, 144– 45; reactions to, 145–46; use of term, 146 Dejima trading factory (Nagasaki, Japan), 80–81 demons, noonday, 155 depression, 155 desire, 56 despair, 155 Dick, Philip K., 32 Dickens, Charles, 148 Dictionary Game, 111–12 Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency (Adams), 171–72 divination, 70, 73, 86, 104, 109, 199–202, 223–24 Divining the Etruscan World (Turfa), 200 Dogon people, 211, 222–24 dogs, as personal omen, 163, 164–65 Dog Walk Chronicles, 90–91 Do It by the Book (game), 109–15 Dominator, The, 155 Donahue, Phil, 164 Dossey, Larry, 170
Dream Assembly, The (Schachter-Shalomi), 205 Dreamer’s Book of the Dead, The (Moss), 8, 60 Dreamgates (Moss), 60, 124–25, 206 dreaming/dreams: author’s experience, 43, 149–51; déjà rêvé experiences, 146–48, 149–51; as divination mode, 73; flying with, 191–92; personal, vs. ancestral Dreaming, 35; playing out in reality, 93–95; real magic and, 1; shamanic, 189; sharing, 174–75; shelf elves and, 117–19; of significant others, 126; visitations from the dead during, 197; walking (game), 93–98, 191 Dreaming/Dreamtime, 34–37 “Dreaming Like an Egyptian” (workshop; Moss), 63, 157 dream journals, 44–45, 102–3 dream self, 147 drumming, 31–32, 219 Earth, Wind & Fire (band), 140 Earth-in-the-Sky, 37, 38 e-cigarettes, 66 Eddas, 40–41 Egyptian Book of the Dead, 9 Egyptian mythology, 78, 157 Einstein, Albert, 44–45, 46, 134 Eleggua (West African deity), 78 Eliade, Mircea, 44, 135 Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 47, 53, 69, 114 emotions, 51–53, 69, 153–56, 176 Emoto, Masaru, 53 empathy, 154–55 England, author’s flight from, 198–202 Eros (Greek deity), 112 Esalen retreats, 81, 217–18 Eshu (West African deity), 78, 80 etrusca disciplina, 201 Etruscan divination methods, 199–202 everyday life: conscious dreaming and, 1–2; real magic in, 3–12 Expect the Unexpected Guest (game), 153–56 extispicy, 199 Fagles, Robert, 73 Famished Road, The (Okri), 65–66 Faust (Goethe), 23–24 fear, 155 feeling, 21–22 Fehlleistungen. See Freudian slips Ferrara (Italy), 148 field, marrying the, 75–77 Fierz, Markus, 17 Findhorn experiments, 53 Finney, Albert, 91 Firkin and Fox (Dulles, VA), 2–6, 12
Flatland (Abbott), 194 Fleming, Alexander, 54 Florianópolis airport (Brazil), 207 Fox: author’s experience, 2–6, 214–17; author’s workshop on, 217, 218–21, 227–28; curse of, 225– 27; in Dogon cosmology, 222–24; female spirits, 212; “gentling” of, 222; as Inari animal, 83– 84, 181–82, 213; in Jung’s garden, 224–25; as lord of spirit roads, 216; as shaman spirit/ally, 211–12, 213–14; as totem animal, 221–22; as Trickster, 211, 212, 214–15, 218–21 fox divination, 223–24 FOX News, 222 “Fox Who Came to Stay, The” (Philby), 225 Freiburg (Germany), 79–80 Freud, Sigmund, 19, 70, 95, 132–34 Freudian slips, 132–34 Fu Xi (Dragon Emperor), 29 Gaiman, Neil, 79, 227 game rules: Chance an Encounter, 129; Check Your Inner Sound Track, 143; Déjà Vu All Over Again, 151–52; Do It by the Book, 115; Expect the Unexpected Guest, 156; Listen for Your Daily Kledon, 107–8; Look for the Spiral Question Mark, 160; Notice What’s Showing through a Slip, 138; Play the Lightening Game, 175–77; Play with Shelf Elves, 121; Recognizing Personal Omens, 167; Walk a Dream, 97–98; Write a Message without Sending It, 185–86 games: Chance an Encounter, 122–29; Check Your Inner Sound Track, 139–43; Consult the Index Card Oracle, 178–82; Déjà Vu All Over Again, 144–52; Do It by the Book, 109–15; Expect the Unexpected Guest, 153–56; how to use, 15–16; Keep Your Secret Book, 99–103; Listen for Your Daily Kledon, 104–8; Look for the Spiral Question Mark, 157–60; Notice What’s Showing through a Slip, 130–38; Play Sidewalk Tarot, 86–92; Play the Lightening Game, 174– 77; Play with Shelf Elves, 116–21; Recognizing Personal Omens, 161–67; Try the White Queen Gambit, 168–73; Walk a Dream, 93–98; Write a Message without Sending It, 183–86 Ganesa (Hindu deity), 78, 191–92 García Márquez, Gabriel, 40, 83 Gatekeeper, 77–78, 80, 162 gelignite, discovery of, 54 “gentling,” 222 Gettysburg (PA), 60 Ghana, 228–29 ghosts, 34 Gibran, Khalil, 128 Gillen, Francis James, 35 Goddess, 177 gods, 70–73, 122 Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 23–24 Goodyear, Charles, 55 goose bumps, 6, 19 Goths, 110–11 Gran Hotel (Spanish telenovella), 17–18 Grant (MS), 199 gratitude, 142
gratitude journal, 21 Great Mother Bear, 58–59 Great Treatise, The (I Ching commentary), 30, 32 Greek antiquity: bibliomancy during, 111; dream interpretation during, 15; Gatekeeper figures during, 78; gods as present during, 71–73; haruspicy during, 200; kledon as everyday oracle during, 6–7 grief, 155 Guarulhos airport (São Paulo, Brazil), 207 guidance, game for seeking, 178–82 guilt, 155 “gut feelings,” 170 Hafiz (Persian poet), 111 hallucinogens, 66 Han dynasty, 31 Harney Peak, 39 Harper’s magazine, 183 haruspex, 201 haruspicy, 199–200, 201–2 hawks, as personal omen, 163–65 Hebrew angelology, 112 Hecate (Greek deity), 78 Hemingway, Ernest, 100 hepatomancy, 199 hepatoscopy, 199 Heraclitus, 2, 25, 46, 97, 138 Here, Everything Is Dreaming (Moss), 117 Hermes (Greek deity), 78, 104 Herodotus, 114 “He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands” (song), 140, 143 Heti, Sheila, 116 Hiei, Mount (Japan), 212 Hinduism, 78, 191–92 Hippocrates, 1 Histories (Herodotus), 114 History of the Conquest of Peru (Prescott), 116 Hofmann, Albert, 54 Homer, 71–73, 111, 114 homunculus, 24–25 Hughes, Georgia, 130–32 Hugo, Victor, 166–67 humor, sense of, 8, 79, 190 Huxley, Francis, 66 Icelandic sagas, 40–41 I Ching. See Book of Changes (I Ching) Idea of the Holy, The (Otto), 20
Iliad, The (Homer), 111 impatience, 154 Inari (Shinto deity), 83–84, 213 Inari shrine (Osaka, Japan), 83–84 index card oracle, 178–82 inner sound track, 139–43 inner voice, 141 intention, focusing, 84–85 interconnectedness, 40–44, 59–60 Internet dating, 128 Interpretation of Dreams, The (Freud), 132 Interstellar (film; 2014), 14 In the Company of Crows and Ravens (Marzluff and Angell), 107 Ireland, 80 Iroquois people, 37–40 Islam, 111 Istanbul (Turkey), author’s flight to, 202–6 Ivan the Terrible (czar of Russia), 122 Jackie (fox), 225 James, William, 193 Japan, 83–84, 181–82, 212–13 Joker, The, 8 journal/journaling, 156, 173; author’s experience, 44–45, 90; benefits of keeping, 99; bibliomancy using, 102–3, 114–15; daily entries in, 100–101; gratitude, 21; Lichtenberg’s, 101–2; partners spying on, 99–100; types of, 100 joy, 155 Judaic mysticism, 205 Julius Caesar, 148, 201 Julius Caesar (Shakespeare), 47–48 Jung, Carl Gustav: Albertus Magnus and, 51–52; archetypes as viewed by, 70–71; chance encounters of, 122; correspondence of, 113; death of, 26–27, 30; fox in garden of, 224–25; influence of, 101; on precognition, 113; Red Book of, 23; self-knowledge as viewed by, 133; shelf elf experiences with, 118–19; stonework of, 24–25, 27; on synchronicity and time, 44; synchronicity as defined by, 19; synchronicity in everyday life of, 18–19; Taoist studies of, 28; Taos Pueblo visit of, 39–40; tower built by, 22–27, 33, 37, 40; unus mundus concept of, 52; on walking dreams, 93 Jung, Emma, 23, 26 Kabbala, 205 Kahn, Charles H., 97 kairomancy: defined, 13, 49–50; oath of, 82, 85; storytelling and, 227–29 kairomancy—twelve rules of: attitude choice, 50–53, 203; chance and prepared mind, 54–55; gods as present, 70–73; interconnectedness, 59–60; marrying the field, 75–77; movement and coincidence, 64–68; parallel selves, 74–75; poetic health, 15, 60–64; setbacks as opportunities, 68–69; spiritual gravitation, 56–59; Trickster archetype, 78–80; the way as showing the way, 80–82
kairos, 13, 47 Kairos (Greek deity), 47, 49 Kairos moments, 17; acting on, 177; during air travel, 187–209; author’s experience, 48–49; availability to, 49, 82, 85; chance and taking advantage of, 54–55; chance encounters and, 128; choices open during, 61; defined, 13; energy present in, 14; linear time and, 47; as time of opportunity, 47–48 kami (Japanese spirits), 213 Kammerer, Paul, 101 kapukurri (personal dreams), 35 karma, 42, 67–68 Keep Your Secret Book (game), 99–103 Kellogg brothers, 55 Kernave (Lithuania), 227–28 Kingsley, Peter, 195–96 kledon: author’s experience, 7–8; from birds, 105–7; defined, 6–7, 104; listening for (game), 104–8; as oracle, 73, 104; from street conversation, 104–5 koel, Pacific, 105–6 Koestler, Arthur, 112 Koran, 111 Kukatja people, 35 kundalini, 63 Küsnacht (Switzerland), 224–25 Lakota people, 39 Langres (France), 147–48 Lao-tzu, 28, 31 Lawlor, Robert, 34 “Lawrence, KS” (song; Ritter), 139 Ledson’s Hotel (Sonoma, CA), 215–16 Legge, James, 29 letters, crossed, 183–84 Library Angel, 112 Lichtenberg, Georg Christoph, 101–2 Lightning Dreamwork process, 138, 174–75 Lincoln, Abraham, 111 Lindow Moss (England), 212 Listen for Your Daily Kledon (game), 104–8 Little Prince, The (Saint-Exupéry), 222 Live at Five (CBS interview program), 194 liver, divination from, 199–200, 201–2 Living Torch, The (Russell), 119–21 Look for the Spiral Question Mark (game), 157–60 Lord of the Rings, The (Tolkien), 5 LSD, discovery of properties of, 54 Macbeth (Shakespeare), 42 MacEowen, Frank, 130
Machado, Antonio, 81 Madison (WI), author’s workshop in, 14, 192–95 magic, real: defined, 1; in everyday life, 3–12; games and, 15–16; kairomancy and, 49–50 “Magnet” (poem; Russell), 120–21 “Making Death Your Ally” (workshop; Moss), 60, 192–95 manhattan (cocktail), 67 manifestation, law of, 25 Man in the High Castle, The (Dick), 32 manteia (oracle/divination), 13 mantras, personal, 141–42 Many Worlds theory, 74–75 Mariana Islands, 209 Marketplace (NPR radio program), 136–37 marrying the field, 75–77 Marzluff, John M., 107 Matrix, The (film; 1999), 2–3 McKean, Karen, 194 Mehen serpent (Egyptian mythological figure), 63 Melbourne (Australia), 216 Memories, Dreams, Reflections (Jung), 25, 118 “Mental Telegraphy” (Twain), 183 Mesopotamia, 199 messages, unsent, 183–86 Metzner, Ralph, 42–43 Midway Airport (Chicago, IL), author’s flight from, 208–9 mind-body medicine, 170 Mist-Filled Path, The (MacEowen), 130 Mitchell, David, 80–81 Mohawk tribe, 164, 174 Monaghan, Patricia, 80 Montale, Eugenio, 88 mood, 139–40 Moss, Richard, 131 Mosswood Hollow (Seattle, WA), 217, 218–21 movement, 64–68, 187–209 Mpier, Mubuy, 93 multidimensionality, 74–75 “mutual visioning,” 9 Myers, Frederic W. H., 146–47, 172 Nagasaki (Japan), 80–81 name substitution, 133–34 Nandi (Hindu bull figure), 191, 192 National Geographic, 223–24 National Public Radio, 136–37 Nazism, 42–43
near-death experiences, 190, 195 Newark (NJ) airport, author’s flight from, 202–6 New World Library, 130–32 New York (NY), 87–89, 174 Ngarrindjeri people, 34 Nhunggabarra people, 33–34, 37 Nobel, Alfred, 54 Noble, Stephen, 193 Nonviolent Communication (Rosenberg), 113–14 noonday demons, 155 Nordic mythology, 11 Notice What’s Showing through a Slip (game), 130–38 numbers, as personal omen, 167 numen, 19–20 numinous, the, 19–20 nurses, in author’s workshops, 96, 189–90 Odin (Norse deity), 43 Odyssey (Homer), 71–73, 111, 114 ogham script, 109 Ogo (Dogon deity), 223 “Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin’” (song), 139–40 O’Hare International Airport (Chicago, IL), 67–68, 189, 191, 193 O’Keeffe, Georgia, 180 Oklahoma! (musical), 139–40 Okri, Ben, 65–66 omens, personal, 161–67 One Hundred Years of Solitude (García Márquez), 40, 83 Onkwehonwe (Real People), 38 online dating, 128, 129 opportunity, setbacks as, 68–69 oracles: approach methods, 86. See also sidewalk oracles orenda (Iroquois power concept), 37–38 ørlbög (personal wyrd), 42 Oskar (dog), 7 “Other, The” (Borges), 117 Other Side, 65, 106 Otto, Rudolf, 20 oversouls, 75 Oversoul Seven novels (Roberts), 75 Ovid, 91 owls, 182 Oxford English Dictionary, 155 Pacific koel, 105–6 Paige, James, 135–36
parallel event tracks, 14, 68, 74–75, 165, 204–5, 220 parallel lives, 149, 220 parallel selves, 74–75 Paris (France), 166–67, 192 passions, 51–52 past, the: déjà vécu experiences, 148–49; learning from, 157–60; voices from, 141 Pasteur, Louis, 54, 55 past life memories (déjà vécu), 148–49 Patton, George S., 147–48 Pauli, Wolfgang, 17, 52 Pavlov Hills (Czech Republic), 212 Peloponnese, 104 penicillin, discovery of, 54 personalities, counterpart, 75 Pharai (Peloponnese), 104 Philby, Kim, 225 Philemon (spiritual guide), 23–24, 34 Phoenicians, 197–98 physis, 52 Pictures from Italy (Dickens), 148 play, 25 Play Sidewalk Tarot (game), 86–92 Play the Lightening Game (game), 174–77 Play with Shelf Elves (game), 116–21 poetic health, 15, 60–64 Poirier, Sylvie, 35 Porter, Cole, 139 Prague Winter (Albright), 187 “Precautions” (poem; Montale), 88 precognition, 113 Preiswerk, “Helly,” 18–19 Prescott, William Hickling, 116 presentiment, 157–60, 168–73, 189 priests, 86 probability bundles, 45–46 promnesia, 146. See also déjà vu experiences psyche, 52 Psychology of Everyday Life, The (Freud), 132–34 psychopomps, 189–90 Puranas, 71 quantum effects, 13 Ra (Egyptian deity), 63 Radin, Dean, 170 Raine, Kathleen, 93 Ratatosk (Nordic mythological squirrel), 11, 12 ravens, 107, 162, 196
rayon, discovery of, 54–55 reality: dreams playing out in, 93–95; perception and experience of, 32 Recognizing Personal Omens (game), 161–67 Red Book (Jung), 23 Red-Haired Girl from the Bog, The (Monaghan), 80 regret, 155 reincarnation, 25 reincidence, 3, 44 remorse, 155 Renard (landscaper), 214–15 resentment, 155 retrocausality, 206 retrokinesis, 13 Rhine, J. B., 18 rhyming, 15, 61, 64, 194 Rider-Waite tarot deck, 88 Ritter, Josh, 139 ritual purification, 86 Roberts, Jane, 75 Roman antiquity: bibliomancy during, 109–11; divination priests during, 200–201; superstition during, 161 Romania, author’s workshop in, 225–27 Rosenberg, Marshall, 113–14 Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 148–49 Rumi, Jalaluddin, 111, 114, 153, 154 runes, carving/casting, 41, 86, 109 Running with Scissors (Burroughs), 111 Russell, George (“AE”), 56, 119–21 Russia, 122 Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de, 222 Saipan, 209 Santayana, George, 161 São Paulo (Brazil), 207 scapulomancy, 199 Schachter-Shalomi, Zalman, 205 Science of Interstellar, The (Thorne), 14 séances, 18–19 Secret of the Golden Flower, The (Taoist treatise), 28 seed power, 34 seiðr (ancient Norse shamanic rituals), 42 self-importance, 155 self-knowledge, 133 self-pity, 155 self/selves: dream self, 147; parallel, 74–75 Seriality, 101 serpentine symbolism, 63–64
setbacks, as opportunities, 68–69 Seth Material, The (Roberts), 75 “Shake It Off” (song; Swift), 140 Shakespeare, William, 42, 47–48 shamanism, 1, 19, 29, 31, 34, 42, 66, 189, 211–12 Shang dynasty, 29 shape-shifting, 212 Shaughnessy, Edward, 31 shelf elves: author’s experience, 14, 116–21; bibliomancy and, 112, 118–19; dream interpretation and, 117–19; game rules for, 121; synchronicity and, 14 She Who Dreams (Burch), 130 “Shining Star” (song; Earth, Wind & Fire), 140 Shiva (Hindu deity), 191 Sibylline Books, 109–10 sidewalk oracles, 12, 54, 83–85, 104 sidewalk tarot: Dog Walk Chronicles, 90–91; drive-by version, 87; question from the world, 90, 92; question put to the world, 89–90; straphanger’s version, 87–89; use of term, 87 significant others, 125–28 signs, 2, 43–44 Sirius, 223 skepticism, 161 Sky World, 37 slips: author’s experience, 130–32, 136–37, 175; Freudian, 132–34; game rules, 138; typos, 134–36, 175 Smyers, Karen, 84, 213 Society of Shamanic Practitioners, 65 sorrow, 155 Speaking Land, 33–34, 36, 37, 59–60, 209 Spencer, Baldwin, 35 Sphinx of Bucegi (Romania), 225–26 spiral path, walking, 158–59 spiral question, asking, 159–60 “Spirit of Psychology, The” (Jung), 70–71 spirits, 65–67, 188 spirits of the deceased, dealing with, 60, 97, 186, 197, 216 spiritual gravitation, law of, 56–59 spiritual guides, 106, 189 squirrels, 9–12 Stanner, W. E. H., 36 stichomancy, 97 Stilicho (Roman general), 110–11 Stoics, 70 storytelling, 227–29 Story Waiting to Pierce You, A (Kingsley), 195–96 “Subliminal Self, The” (Myers), 146–47 superstitions, practical, 161, 166. See also omens, personal Swift, Taylor, 140
symbols: journals as encyclopedias of, 99; recurring, 61–62; serpent as, 63–64; signs vs., 2; totem animals vs., 33 synchronicity: during air travel, 187–209; as applied science, 15; defined, 2; gods as present in, 71; journaling and, 99; Jungian definition, 19; Jung’s death and, 26–27; in Jung’s everyday life, 18– 19; knowing by feeling, 19–22, 49; navigating by, 2, 13, 49–50, 82, 85 (see also kairomancy); numen and, 19–20; personal connections through, 56–58; play and, 25; probability bundles and generation of, 44–46; shelf elves and, 14; significant others and, 125–28; as special moment, 49; Tao and, 27–28; time and, 44; Trickster and, 15 Tao (the Way): in Book of Changes, 41; Chinese understanding of, 28; defined, 27, 28; synchronicity and, 27–28 Tao of Psychology, The (Bolen), 27–28 Taos Pueblo, 39–40 Tao Te Ching (Lao-tzu), 28, 31 tarot cards, 86, 88, 92. See also sidewalk tarot Tarquinius Superbus, 109 telepathy, 172, 183–86 Telesphoros (Greek mythological figure), 24–25 Tetragrammaton, 205, 206 Thacker, Nance, 71 thanksgiving, 38–40, 82, 85, 142 Thorne, Kip, 14 Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, The (Mitchell), 81 Three “Only” Things, The (Moss), 54, 130–32, 187 Through the Looking-Glass (Carroll), 169, 189 Tibetan Book of the Dead, 9 Ticknor (Heti), 116 time: Kairos, 47–48; linear, 44, 47, 49, 68. See also Kairos moments Tjukurrpa (ancestral Dreaming), 35 Tolkien, J. R. R., 5, 43 Torres Islands, 34 totem animals, 33, 221–22 transitions, 64–68, 187–209 Travers, P. L., 56 Tree of Light, 37 trembling, 19 Trickster: during air travel, 187; animal forms of, 211; dancing with, 78–80; in everyday life, 12; Gatekeeper and, 78; Jung’s stonework depiction of, 24, 40; as lord of spirit roads, 216; in online dating, 128; synchronicity and, 15. See also Fox triskaidekaphobia, 166–67 Trump XXI (tarot card), 92 Try the White Queen Gambit (game), 168–73 Tubman, Harriet, 69 Turfa, Jean MacIntosh, 200 Twain, Mark, 61, 102, 135–36, 183–84, 185 Two Essays on Analytical Psychology (Jung), 118–19 typesetting machines, 135–36
typographical errors, 134–36, 175 Underground Railroad, 69 Universe card (tarot card), 92 University of Mississippi, 199 University of Nevada, 170 unsent messages, 183–86 unus mundus, 52 vaguing, 80 Valéry, Paul, 60–61 Vaughan, Alan, 79–80 Vestrinius Spurinna, 201 Virgil, 19–20, 111 Vision, A (Yeats), 9 visions, 9, 69, 73 vulcanized rubber, discovery of, 55 wadjet (uraeus serpent), 63–64 “Wake Up and Dream” (song; Porter), 139 Walk a Dream (game), 93–98 Waste Books (Lichtenberg), 102 Watkins, Mary, 93 way, finding the, 80–82 Way of Wyrd, The (Bates), 41 weaving, kairos in, 48 Well of Remembrance, The (Metzner), 42–43 West African mythology, 78, 79, 80 “What the Fox Knows” (workshop; Moss), 217, 218–21, 227–28 White Queen Gambit, 169, 189 “Who Goes with Fergus?” (poem; Yeats), 11 Wild Fox (Novato, CA), 215 Wilhelm, Richard, 28, 31 will, 56 Wolff, Toni, 26 Woodchuck cider company, 46 word amnesia, 133–34 World card (tarot card), 92 World Tree, 11, 43 Worldwide Web, 43–44 Wright (Twain’s newspaper colleague), 183–84 Write a Message without Sending It (game), 183–86 Wu Wen, 29, 31 Wyrd (web of connection), 41–44 Yama (Hindu deity), 192 Yansi people, 93
Yeats, William Butler, 8–9, 11, 56, 77, 114, 119, 120 Yggdrasil (World Tree), 11, 43 YHVH (Hebrew name for God), 205, 206 yin/yang duality, 28–29 Yolngu people, 33 Yoruba people, 78, 80 Yurugu (Dogon pale fox), 223 Zeus (Greek deity), 72–73 zlogo le (Aboriginal shaman), 34 Zone, the, 77
R ABOUT THE AUTHOR obert Moss is the creator of Active Dreaming, an original synthesis of modern dreamwork and shamanism. Born in Australia, he survived three near-death experiences in childhood. He leads popular workshops all over the world, including a three-year training for teachers of Active Dreaming and online courses for the Shift Network. A former lecturer in ancient history at the Australian National University, he is a New York Times bestselling novelist, poet, journalist, and independent scholar. His many books on dreaming, shamanism, and imagination include Conscious Dreaming, The Secret History of Dreaming, Dreaming the Soul Back Home, and The Boy Who Died and Came Back. He has lived in upstate New York since he received a message from a red-tailed hawk under an old white oak. His website is www.mossdreams.com.
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