"My insecure Western consciousness has to learn to adapt to a more primitive realm within" says the author. His book is a masterpiece of dialectic and exploration in both the real world of daily consciousness and the real world of our dreams. The narrative follows "Robbie" through his dream practicums in the States, all the way to the Australian outback where he sits and enters into the reality of the ngankari (shaman) and back to America to face remarkably similar dreams in his clients.
His teachings are fresh, insightful and well documented. His book ends with a particularly brave sharing of the inner landscape of his dreams over the "wilderness" period in his life following the death of his father, until he comes face to face, in the other world, with the father of dreamwork, Freud. There the author takes his small step for man and giant leap for humanity: breaking from the psychological tradition that would have dreams only serve the conscious life, Bosnak declares that to the dreamer all realities are "as valid" one as the other. As the ancients have taught, we do indeed live in a multidimensional universe. Bosnak blends the yin and yang styles of a true storyteller, teaching and delighting every step of the way.
