Robert Moss – The Dreamer’s School of Soul

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Robert Moss – The Dreamer’s School of Soul

With Bestselling Author and Shamanic Dream Teacher
Robert Moss
New 7-month Training Starts
Wednesday, July 12, 2017
Access the power of dream journeys to discover the answers to life’s most important questions: who am I, where do I come from, and what is my sacred purpose in this world and beyond?
Discover how to navigate your life by listening to the soul messages that come through your dreams — opening you to exciting new possibilities for healing, growing and living fully and joyfully.

Every day, consciously or unconsciously, we’re in the school of life.

Every night, whether or not we remember, we have access to the university of many lives, a greater School of Soul.

That’s because our dreams carry the voice of our soul — the wisdom we came into this life with, but have forgotten. They offer us a powerful form of “soul remembering,” our inner knowing about how to heal, grow and live fully and joyously.

Australian Aborigines believe that our personal dreams open doorways into the Dreamtime, the deeper reality from which the events and circumstances of our lives come, as well as the place where we can encounter our ancestors and touch into our spiritual powers.

Dreaming is also traveling, offering us paths to limitless adventure and possibility.

In dreams, we slip free from the normal constraints of space and time and from our everyday thought patterns and perceptions. We travel to places where our departed are at home, and to cities and schools and pleasure palaces on various levels of the Imaginal Realm, the realm of true imagination.

Dream shamans, mystics and creators have long practiced the art of journeying consciously into this world-behind-the-world, and we can learn similar practices through the techniques of Active Dreaming — a way of slipping into the Imaginal Realm while awake. (Read more about this powerful practice below.)
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In dreams, we go beyond the veil of everyday consciousness. And if we pay attention to what appears behind those veils, we start to notice a play of coincidence in our waking life, as the powers of the deeper world come through to prod or tickle or goad us awake.

Yet, dreaming is not fundamentally about what happens during sleep (though there are great gifts in spontaneous sleep dreams that show us aspects of ourselves and our worlds that the waking mind doesn’t see).

Dreaming is essentially about waking up to the bigger story and the deeper logic of our lives — and of the world.
Dreaming Is About Soul and Survival…

In this 7-month, ever-deepening virtual adventure with one of the world’s most revered dream shamans, Robert Moss, you’ll be invited to find your personal answers to the eternal questions that shape your bigger story:

Who am I? Where do I come from? What is my sacred purpose in this world and beyond this world?

You’ll receive practical guidance to keep your body and soul together on the roads of everyday life. And you’ll learn from the stories of those who dreamed strong in tough times, including Harriet Tubman, whose dream visions guided her in helping 300 escaping slaves to get to freedom before the American Civil War.

You’ll also learn from a forgotten master, Synesius of Cyrene. This philosopher bishop of North Africa taught — as the Roman empire collapsed into chaos — that we must use dreams as our personal oracle, allow no one else to tell us what our dreams mean, and open to the Divine source that “in dreams makes us fruitful with its own courage.”

You’ll be led on a dream journey with Medatia, the first dream shaman of the Makiritare of Venezuela, as he ascends ten levels of the Upper World to gain the wisdom and power to bring his people and his world back from the Dark Times.

And you’ll dream travel to the depths of the Underworld with the female shaman of the Nishan River in Mongolia, who braved the Lord of Death in his inner keep to rescue a captive soul.

You’ll be inspired by stories from dreamers today and from the whole human odyssey to encourage and incite you to apply the gifts of dreaming to bring more of soul into life and to survive and thrive.

This is destined to be the most exciting and powerful virtual dream journeying program Robert has ever offered!
The Three Essential Modes of Active Dreaming

Active dreamers work with the signs and symbols and synchronicities of everyday life as well as with night dreams, conscious visions and liminal states of consciousness.

In this 7-month adventure, you’ll learn techniques to help you become a dreamer 24/7, by playing with all these states of mind.

You’ll grow, week by week, in your practice of Active Dreaming, Robert’s powerful and original synthesis of modern dreamwork, shamanic journeying and creative imagination for which there are three essential modes.

First, Active Dreaming is a way of talking and walking your dreams, of bringing energy and guidance from the dreamworld into everyday life. You’ll learn how to create a safe space where you can share dreams of the night and dreams of life with others, receive helpful feedback, and encourage each other to move towards creative and healing action.

Second, Active Dreaming is a method of shamanic lucid dreaming. It’s founded on the understanding that you don’t need to go to sleep in order to dream. The easiest way to become a conscious or lucid dreamer is to start out lucid and stay that way.

You’ll learn to embark on conscious or lucid dreaming from the liminal state of awareness known as hypnagogia, when you’re between sleep and waking, or between waking and sleep. This becomes simple everyday dream yoga.

You’ll learn to use the doorway of a remembered dream to embark on a wide-awake and conscious dream journey. You’ll learn to embark on mutual and group adventures in conscious dreaming, journeying into non-ordinary reality with one or more partners and bringing back gifts and mutual confirmation.

Third, Active Dreaming is a way of conscious living. This requires you to reclaim your inner child, and the child’s gift of spontaneity, play and imagination. It requires you to claim the power of naming and defining your life project. It invites you to discover and follow the natural path of your energies.

It calls you to remember and tell and live your bigger story in such a way that it can be heard and received by others. It’s about navigating by synchronicity and receiving the chance events and symbolic pop-ups on your daily roads as clues to a deeper order.

Beyond this, it’s about grasping that the energy you carry and the attitudes you choose have a magnetic effect on the world around you, drawing or repelling encounters and circumstances.
The Power of an Expert Guide

The secrets to unlocking your Dreamtime as a time for “soul remembering” are best learned from a master guide.

Robert Moss is one of the world’s most respected and beloved dream experts, who has inspired hundreds of thousands around the world with his books and workshops during a lifetime teaching on this subject.

Robert was initiated early into the life of a modern-day shaman, having three near-death experiences as a child, which provided him with early access to other realms. Some of his own dreaming capacities also come from his Australian upbringing and his early learnings from native aborigines. This led to a lifetime committed to mastering the Dreamtime and sharing what he has learned.

He has since traveled the world sharing his teachings, acting as an independent scholar. His dozen books on dreaming, shamanism and imagination have been heralded as essential reading for those on this path.

In his popular short virtual Shift Network course, Dreaming Into the Dreamtime, he harvested wisdom and insight from seven world traditions of dreaming for healing and transformation.

In this advanced course — over 24 classes — he’ll range deeper and wider, drawing from creative masters and scientists of consciousness, from Paleolithic cave artists to the pioneers of quantum physics and Many Worlds theory, from dream yogis to Jane Roberts and her mentor Seth.

You’ll go deep with Western masters, studying word magic and “mutual visioning” with William Butler Yeats, “far memory” with Joan Grant, psychic defense and astral travel with Dion Fortune.

You’ll travel back to ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt for apotropaic rituals to turn away negative energies. You’ll go to the shrines of Sequana in France and Nodens in England, and along the deer tracks of Elen of the Ways, to revive ancient Celtic modes of dream incubation and healing.

And, you’ll share in Robert’s cutting-edge new work involving parallel worlds, time travel, reality creation and exploration of the multiverse and the multidimensional self.

You may awaken to the fact that some of your dreams are glimpses of continuous lives you are living in parallel worlds, where you made different choices. You may then find it possible to reach into those parallel lives and bring gifts and lessons for your current life.

You’ll be guided on dream journeys to meet members of your soul family who are living in other times and other dimensions. You’ll come to understand that all times — past, future and parallel — are accessible to you now, and may be revisioned and reshaped for the better.

You’ll also discover how to travel, hyper-awake and conscious, to connect with other aspects of your multidimensional self, and with a Higher Self at the hub of these many lives.

Should you choose to join this true School of Soul, you’ll not only experience what’s described here, but much more, because Robert is constantly creating new journeys and experiments and bringing fresh stories, the fruits of his work as a teacher in many countries and of his deep and constant research.

And perhaps the best part is that you’ll engage in these journeys and experiments within a remarkably supportive, wise and adventurous global community of fellow dream explorers who are experiencing them with you and sharing their results, breakthroughs and insights. In previous trainings, we’ve witnessed the online community lead into profound, enduring friendships.

When you join Robert in this most comprehensive virtual dream journeying adventure he’s offered yet, you’ll discover:

The nine keys to opening the meanings of your dreams, including trusting your feelings, running “reality checks,” and dream re-entry
How to break a dream drought
Ways to deal with nightmares, night terrors and scary dreams
How to improve your powers of visualization
How to practice dream incubation and solve problems in your sleep
How to receive first-hand evidence of precognition, telepathy, clairvoyance and the existence of parallel universes
How to embark on lucid dream adventures in your moments between sleep and awake
How to screen your energy field, set good psychic boundaries and maintain flight security during your journeys beyond the physical realm
How to communicate with inner guides and practice discernment in this liminal state
Ways to take action to avoid unwanted future events you have dreamed and manifest happy outcomes
Practical methods for spiritual cleansing and releasing unwanted energy attachments
How to recognize what you are inviting into your space, and how to call on higher guidance and protection
How to make shamanic journeys to the ancestors for cultural soul recovery, reclaiming authentic traditions and spiritual practices
And so much more…

Your invitation to this phenomenal virtual dream adventure calls you to a path of real magic, which is the art of bringing gifts from another world into this one.

Follow this road, and you’ll find you can hear the wise and wondrous voice of your soul calling to you clearly — night and day — guiding you in expanding your life in the most exciting and joyous ways.

What’s that? You’re going through a dream drought? And you don’t notice much magic in the round of your days? Don’t worry: you have a world-class dreamer inside you who is ready to help you reopen your dream gates.

This is the child in you who is the beautiful dreamer and knows the magic of making things up. She is going to come out to play with you. And she will be accompanied by the Wise One, a timeless aspect of your Greater Self — your soul, remembering.
What You’ll Discover in These 7 Months

Course sessions are on Wednesdays at 5:00pm Pacific.

During this 7-month program, Robert will take you on an exciting and life-enriching virtual adventure as he shares insights, skills and practices you’ll need to discover and cultivate expanded possibilities for your life and heal and grow in the ways that your soul guides you — through nighttime dreams and Active Dreaming.

Each weekly, LIVE teaching, dialogue and “play” session will build upon the next, so that you’ll develop a complete, holistic understanding of the practices, tools and principles that can allow you to travel into hidden realms of the multiverse and the multidimensional self for personal healing, enlightenment and initiation.
PART 1: DREAM CLINIC

Dreaming is fun and is also a discipline, which means you get good at and ascend to higher levels through practice, practice, practice. We start with a high-octane introduction to the core techniques of Active Dreaming, with guidance on how to handle issues that have prevented many from joining in the dream adventure: absence of dream recall, nightmares and night terrors, difficulty in visualizing, self-limiting habits and beliefs.

You’ll find these first classes fast and frisky. If you are new to this, you’ll find your wing feathers growing back. If you are already an advanced practitioner — and we have certified teachers of Active Dreaming in this course — you’ll find you are growing your power to assist and inspire others, in any life situation.
Module 1: Opening the Dream Gates (July 12)

We’ll study the reasons why so many in our society have been suffering a chronic or transitional dream drought. You’ll be invited to journey to the kind of Cosmic Video Store where you can pick up some of the dreams you’ve lost.

Then we’ll introduce our signature method of dream sharing. Lightning Dreamwork is a simple 4-step process that enables you to create a safe space to share dreams or personal stories, exchange helpful feedback and guidance towards action that you can practice just about anywhere, anytime.

You’ll discover how to:

Break a dream drought
Deal with nightmares, night terrors and scary dreams
Improve powers of visualization
Practice dream incubation and solve problems in your sleep

Module 2: Raising & Feeding Your Animal Spirits (July 19)

When shamans go dreaming, they are often accompanied by spirit allies who appear in animal form. Developing a strong working connection with power animals will give essential guidance and protection. This is one of the quickest ways to raise your vitality and discern the natural path of your energy. You may already be working with animal guardians. You will discover new things and may be able to expand your shamanic menagerie. You may find it includes mythic beasts and beloved pets that have shared your life.

You’ll discover how to:

Deepen and grow your connection with spiritual allies who will appear as animals and birds
Learn from the natural habits of your animal allies and their role in folklore
Call on power animals for healing, psychic protection and help in journeying
Feed and honor your animal spirits in everyday life

Module 3: Nine Keys to Your Dreams (July 26)

We’ll briefly review what different human cultures have looked for in dreams — from interaction with the gods to “day residue” in the dyspeptic shallows of the personal subconscious — and how dreams have been shared.

We’ll visit the booth of a Minoan dream interpreter whose shingle was a painting of a bull, and listen in as Jung encourages a patient to work a dream towards healing and resolution through active imagination.

You’ll discover nine keys to open the meaning of dreams:

Trust your feelings
First associations
Running a reality check
Dream reentry
Dialogue with dream characters
Tracking your dream self
Symbol exploration
Playing the “What part of me?” game
Playing the “Space alien” game

Module 4: Keeping Your Books of Night & Day (August 9)

The most important book about soul and dreaming that you will ever read is your own journal. Kept over many years, you’ll find it is a treasure chest. In this module, you’ll receive expert guidance on the art of creative journal keeping.

You’ll discover:

How to use your journal to keep dates with your Self and track your many aspects
How to produce your personal Encyclopedia of Symbols
How to develop a personal database that will provide first-hand evidence of precognition, telepathy, clairvoyance and the existence of parallel universes
How journal keeping and “journaling from journals” (favored by Thoreau and other writers) will help you grow your gifts as a writer and artist
How to do bibliomancy and play other games with your journals

PART 2: FLIGHT SCHOOL

You are born to fly and in dreams you remember the soul has wings.
— Robert Moss, Dreamgates
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Module 5: Welcome to the Twilight Zone (August 16)

Tinker Bell told Peter Pan, “Look for me in the place between sleep and awake. There you will always find me.” It’s no fairy story. In the history of science, as in many other fields, the liminal state of hypnagogia has been the solution state in which creative breakthroughs are made and inner guides are easily accessible.

This is an ideal launch pad for lucid dreaming and astral travel. It is recognized in dream yoga, as in the mystery traditions, that by learning to maintain a state of relaxed attention on the cusp of sleep, we develop heightened awareness and the ability to operate in more than one reality simultaneously.

You’ll discover:

How to maintain awareness on the cusp of sleep and have more fun in the “twilight zone”
How to embark on lucid dream adventures from the Twilight of the Dreamer, between sleep and awake
How to screen your energy field, set good psychic boundaries and maintain flight security during your journeys beyond the physical realm
How to communicate with inner guides and practice discernment in this liminal state

Module 6: Shamanic Lucid Dreaming (August 23) (Pre-recorded)

The dreams you remember are your best portals for travel into the deeper reality, and your royal road to lucid dreaming. A dream is a journey; it is also a place. You went somewhere in your dream, near or far from the fields you know in your regular life. Because you have been to that place, you can find your way there again.

You’ll discover how to:

Use a dream or personal image as the portal for a shamanic journey
Re-enter a dream to confront and resolve a nightmare terror, solve a mystery and claim a power
Dialogue with a dream character
Construct personal doorways to places of healing, discovery and initiation in the multiverse

Module 7: Flight Security & Paleo Psych 101 (September 6)

As we embark on adventures in other worlds, we need to be careful to stay grounded in this world, to establish and maintain good psychic boundaries and to discern different entities and energies we may encounter. This week, we’ll consult with Dion Fortune, a true priestess of the Western way, on how to prevent psychic intrusion and stay away from bad neighborhoods.

You’ll discover:

How to maintain flight security during soul journeys
A quick course in Paleo Psych 101, learning the nature and operations of the subtle energy bodies in life and after death
A simple and powerful exercise for raising energy and setting good energy boundaries
Practical methods for spiritual cleansing and releasing unwanted energy attachments
A low-maintenance everyday plan for psychic wellbeing
How to recognize what you are inviting into your space, and how to call on higher guidance and protection

PART 3: DREAM DIVINATION &
KAIROMANCY

Our earliest records of the work of a dream interpreter come from ancient Mesopotamia. Here the person you asked for help with your dream was called the “questioner.” Dreaming was understood to be close kin to divination. In Ur or Uruk, the questioner may decide to go beyond the dreamer’s imperfect recollection of a dream into the fuller dream experience, by transporting herself to the place where the dream action unfolded and asking questions inside that space. A tablet describes the questioner as “one who lies at a person’s head.”
— Robert Moss, The Secret History of Dreaming
Module 8: Dream a Better Future (September 13)

You are a natural psychic of a high order in your dreams, when you let down your left-brain inhibitions and just do it. You routinely practice precognition, clairvoyance, telepathy. Such powers are sometimes described as examples of ESP. Today scientists are reviving a better term invented by the great Victorian scientist of the unseen, Frederick Myers: supernormal. Scientists like Dean Radin maintain that quantum entanglement means that supernormal phenomena are inevitable.

Every night, your dream self goes ahead of your waking self, scouting out challenges and opportunities that lie on the roads ahead. This is part of our human survival kit. Once you wake up to the fact that you dream events before they happen in regular life, you can graduate to the good stuff, which is changing your possible future for the better and becoming co-creator of your reality.

You’ll discover:

How to discern when your dreams are showing you future events
How to develop personal markers so you don’t miss dream messages about the future
Ways to take action to avoid unwanted future events you have dreamed and manifest happy outcomes
Ways to embark on conscious journeys to scout out the possible future
How to dream your way consciously to your dream partner, your dream home, your dream job

Module 9: Way of the Kairomancer (September 20)

A kairomancer is someone who is ready to recognize the special moments when synchronicity is at work — and to seize on the revelation or opportunity that is now available. To be a kairomancer, you must be open to new experience, willing to set aside plans, grateful for secret handshakes and surprises, and ready to honor your special moments of revelation by taking appropriate action.

This week, we’ll learn from an American master of navigating by synchronicity — Mark Twain, no less — who will also remind us never to leave home (or return to it) without our sense of humor. And we’ll play a wildly entertaining and instructive digital version of Robert’s celebrated Coincidence Card Game that will give you instant guidance on a life issue.

You’ll discover:

The essential rules of living by synchronicity
How to practice bibliomancy and other everyday forms of divination and develop a working list of personal omens
How to become a “strange attractor” for happy encounters by checking your attitude and following the laws of spiritual gravitation
How any setback can offer an opportunity
How to listen to the Speaking Land
How to recognize what rhymes in a day, or a life

Module 10: Play Sidewalk Tarot (September 27)

We need to be more literal about dreams and more symbolist about everyday life. Walk your environment with the right kind of awareness, and you’ll notice that the world is constantly giving you messages in the form of signs and symbols. You can play fun games any day by receiving these messages — the vanity plate on that car, that overheard snatch of conversation from a stranger, that chance encounter — as tarot cards being dealt to you by the world. A tarot deck has 78 cards; in Sidewalk Tarot, the number is unlimited.

You’ll discover:

How to put your question to the world and receive guidance on a life theme
How to let the world put its questions to you, by scheduling unscheduled time to pay attention as you walk in “the forest of living symbols that are looking at you”
How to listen for your daily kledon, a favorite oracle of the ancient Greeks that works well on any day
How meaningful coincidence multiplies when you are in motion, traveling outside your familiar rounds or going through a major life transition

PART 4: HOUSE OF HEALING

You hear the ripple of water and smell the flowering gardens before you reach the outer gate of the House of Healing. You are reminded that you must lay down old mindsets in order to get to the place of transformation. And you must bring your dream of invitation. You will be cleansed and prepared for a direct encounter with the sacred guide and healer. After this, you will be different, and ready to learn the arts of soul healing.
Module 11: Healing Through Imagination (October 11) (Pre-recorded)

The body believes in images. Abundant evidence from medical science and sports psychology demonstrates that the body responds to an image as it might do to a physical event, pump out self-generated pharmaceuticals according to where we place our attention. Any image that belongs to you can be a source of power and healing, even the scary stuff you would rather keep in a locked box. The trick is to learn how to develop your personal imagery so it can help you to get well and stay well. Your body is waiting for you to get good at this.

You’ll discover:

How to harness the diagnostic power of dreams
Ways to stock your mental shelves with healing imagery from dreams and meditation
How to use active imagination and dream reentry to transform scary dreams and disturbing images
How to seek direct healing from a sacred guide and healer
Ways to grow a personal House of Healing in your imagination where you can return for sanctuary, healing and regeneration

Module 12: Soul Recovery & Transtemporal Healing (October 18) (Pre-recorded)

You know this in your heart and in your gut: soul loss — the loss of vital energy and identity as the result of pain or trauma or wrenching life choices — is at the root of many of our existential complaints. We lose vital soul energy through pain and trauma and heartbreak, through wrenching life choices, and by giving up on our big dreams and ceasing to live the soul’s purpose.

When we lose the energy of soul, the magic goes out of life. We are often fatigued for no apparent reason, we can’t experience joy or love, and there is a gaping hole in us that we try to fill with addictive behaviors. Soul loss can put us in the procession of the walking dead, playing the roles that other people cast us for, no longer knowing who we are or why we are in this world.

As a time traveler, you can journey to a younger self in her own Now time. As a voice in her mind, you can provide the encouragement and counsel she may need at a time of unbearable pain or challenge. You can be the friend and protector she lacked when her need was great. From this can flow tremendous healing for both of you, for you in your present time and for her in her own time.

In the House of Healing, you’ll discover how to:

Use dreams and life memories as clues to where vital energy and identity that have gone missing can be found
Travel to a place where you can reclaim soul energy and reconnect with younger selves, including the “child of wonder” who may have left your life because the world seemed too cruel
Journey across time to younger selves who need help and support in their own Now time
Entertain your spirits — your child self, your teen self, your Goddess self, your animal spirits — in your body and your life

Module 13: Becoming a Word Doctor (October 25)

We can heal the body and our experience of the world by telling better stories about them. We can do this for others as well as ourselves. We can grow a bigger and better story — a healing image, a vision of life possibility, even a map to the next world — for someone who is bereft of images or stuck in an old, confining story.

You’ll discover:

How to grow a dream for someone in need of a dream
How to develop positive imagery for healing and empowerment you can offer to others
How to offer your visions in a way that avoids manipulation by inviting the intended beneficiary to receive only what they choose to take from you
How to become a “word doctor” who can help people to heal by telling better stories

PART 5: CO-CREATION

You are becoming aware that you can step outside time and move towards the source of the events and circumstances that will be played out in your life. You can stir the quantum soup of possibilities, and select what will emerge into form and manifestation.

In the Faculty of Co-creation, you’ll be encouraged to build your own place of creation in the Imaginal Field, where you can entertain friends, converse with masters, and grow the life projects you wish to see manifest in your world. All of this is more important, and more practical, than we may be able to grasp in what Yeats called “the daily trivial mind.” The poet in the soul of each of us knows why. It is because (as Tagore said), “the stronger the imagination, the less imaginary the results.” It is because imagination, working in the field of nonlocal mind, can create worlds.
Module 14: Tap the Creative Power of Dreams (November 1)

The Inuit says that the spirits like “fresh words.” They want to be entertained. They are easily bored with humans who go on repeating old formulas and old ways. When we bring something fresh and new into the world, we entertain the spirits and delight our own creative genius, and our lives are infused with natural magic, confirmed by the play of synchronicity. To create is to bring something new into the world. Dreams and twilight states of consciousness have inspired great scientists, inventors, musicians, writers and liberators of human possibility throughout history.

You’ll discover:

How dreaming has been the secret engine of creation in every field of human endeavor — from science to rock music — over the centuries
How to build your own creative studio in the Imaginal Realm
How to turn dreams into poems and stories, art and scripts and creative life projects
How to entertain your creative genius and bring fresh creation into your world

Module 15: Journey to the Magic Library (November 8)

You have access to a Magic Library whose doors are never closed to you, through you may be required to show some ID and put down your baggage. How it looks and what it contains are conditioned by your interests and your passions. It could look like an art gallery, or a fashion museum, or a music school.

Within this space, you can have access to inspiration and information in any area that attracts you. There are guides available. They may include master teachers in any field. I meet a lot of dead writers here who are very much alive to me. Whether they are the spirits of those authors, or personality essences, or aspects of myself is less interesting to me than the creative discoveries they share with me and the surge of creative energy and direction I receive from these encounters.

In your version of the Magic Library, you may be able to find the Big Story you need for your life right now.

In this adventure you’ll:

Enter a creative space you can access any time
Find your personal entrance to the Akashic Records or quantum information field
Communicate with master teachers in any field that is calling you
Find the Big Story you need to recognize and embody in your life right now

Module 16: Co-creating With Your Genius (November 15)

When we take on a creative project — and its element of risk — and step out of whatever box we have been in, we draw supporting powers, especially the power that the ancients called the genius or the daimon. Most people understand this intuitively, even though we may fumble for an agreed language to describe it.

The Romans never described a person as a genius. They might say, “Apollonius has a genius” — i.e., a special relationsh