Are You A Precog Like Harriet Tubman? Only Time Will Tell
by Lael
Precognition is the stuff of science fiction. Is it also the stuff of dreams? Australian born dream expert Robert Moss, a compelling advocate for and guide to exploring the visions that visit us in sleep, would emphatically answer this question, "Yes!"
Moss' 2000 book Dreaming True: How to Dream Your Future and Change Your Life for the Better
is jam packed with fascinating accounts of everyday people who, through their dreams, demonstrated remarkable powers of precognition. No one he describes, however, outshines Harriet Tubman whose story begins the volume.
Basing his account on both Tubman's earliest biography and more recent tellings of her life, Moss explains the vital importance of dreaming to this escaped slave who came to be called "Moses" for her astounding achievement of returning to slave territory and risking her own freedom and life again and again in order to help liberate over 300 other slaves. Moss describes the violent incident that gave rise to the dreams that would guide her heroic missions. As a young woman, Tubman courageously stepped between an overseer and a runaway slave. When the overseer threw a two pound metal weight at the fleeing slave, it hit Tubman square in the center of her forehead causing blood to pour forth from the wound. Though she'd already been a dreamer, this incident had both physical and psychical aftereffects that intensified this gift.
Tubman became a narcoleptic and in her dreams began receiving specific, helpful information regarding the future. Because of the immense value of her dreams, she warned the slaves she was shepherding never to wake her if she fell into a deep sleep as they journeyed Northward together. Given the urgency of their predicament, the runaways showed great restraint in heeding these instructions. Their reward inevitably was safe passage. Even when the direction that came to Tubman in a dream indicated a return into the South or stopping at an unknown farmhouse, it never steered her wrong.
Moss, a former journalist, is a gifted raconteur. For a fuller version of Harriet Tubman's jaw dropping adventure check out Conscious Dreaming: A Spiritual Path for Everyday Life
. Besides telling great stories, Moss also provides invaluable guidance. For instance, A Simple Experiment for Validating Dream Precognition can be found on his website. There and elsewhere, he convincingly demonstrates ways that many of us, like Harriet, can follow our dreams to freedom.
| 11/30/07
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