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www.shamansociety.org 33 By going back inside the dream of the old place in a shamanic journey we may be able to locate that lost aspect of our own identity and energy and nd the way to bring it back into our hearts and our lives. Typically soul recovery of this kind will require reassurance and negotiation. Our younger self may need to be reassured that she is not going to be hurt in the way she was hurt before. She may need to be convinced that we will include things in our lives that she will enjoy and will engage her passions. In this mode of soul recovery we support each other without necessarily playing shamanic practitioner for each other since the heart of this practice is to assist everyone who is able to become a self-healer. The shamanic tracker may be required to play a more activist role than I played with Eva for example by helping the dreamer to move beyond a fear by running interference if there are negative entities in the eld by bringing in the trackers own power animals or by negotiating directly with some of the dreamers younger or other selves. The applications of the dream reentry process for healing are inexhaustible. In this way for example we may be able to travel inside the body and help to shift its behaviors in the direction of health. In her wonderful novel for kids of all ages A Wind in the Door Madeleine LEngle describes a journey into a world inside one of the mitochondria of a sick boy when things are brought into balance inside a particle of a cell the whole body is healed. As we become ac- tive dreamers we can develop the ability to journey in precisely this way. Our dreams will open the ways. In this work I feel guided by women of power of both the past and the future. One is the HuronMohawk dream sha- man I have called Island Woman in my books. She called me to her in a lucid dream quarter of a century ago and showed me how dreaming is central to soul healing. I have also dreamed into the situation of a woman who lives maybe seven generations beyond me. She is a priestess and a scientist and she is part of an order of women who are trying to rebuild our world after various catastro- phes. They are using all the arts and sci- ences of dreaming which we almost lost. I feel that she exists in a possible future and I feel an obligation to help her and her kind come into existence. References 1 John G. Neihardt 1961 introduc- tion to Black Elk Speaks Premier Edition. Albany ExcelsiorSUNY Press 2008 xxiii 2 John G. Neihardt Black Elk Speaks. Lincoln University of Nebraska Press 1979 33. 3 Raymond DeMallie John G. Neihardt and Nicholas Black Elk in Black Elk Speaks Premier Edition 292. 4 Raymond DeMallie ed The Sixth Grandfather Black Elks Teachings Given to John G. Neihardt. Lincoln University of Nebraska Press 1984 43 5 Neihardt 1972 introduction to Black Elk Speaks Premier Edition xxvii 6 Robert Moss Dreamways of the Iroquois Rochester VT Destiny Books 2004. 7 David Rockwell Giving Voice to Bear North American Indian Myths Rituals and Images of the Bear Niwot CO Roberts Rine- hart 1991 78-82. 8 Robert Moss Dreaming the Soul Back Home Shamanic Dreaming fro Healing and Becoming Whole Novato CA New World Library 2012 28-37. 9 cf Delog Dawa Drolma Delog Journey to Realms Beyond Death Junction City CA Padma Pub- lishing 1995. 10 For a full discussion of the methods of Active Dreaming see Robert Moss Active Dreaming Journeying Beyond Self-Limitation to a Life of Wild Freedom Novato CA New World Library 2011. Robert Moss. All rights reserved. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Robert 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 seminars all over the world including a three-year training for teachers of Active Dreaming. A former lecturer in ancient history at the Australian National University he is a best-selling novelist poet and independent scholar. His nine books on dreaming shamanism and imagination include Conscious Dreaming Dreamways of the Iroquois The Secret History of Dreaming Dreamgates Active Dreaming and Dreaming the Soul Back Home. His poetry collection Here Everything Is Dreaming will be published in April 2013. His website is www.mossdreams.com.