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Archaeological findings indicate that Aboriginals have lived in Australia for 40,000 - 100,000 years or longer. Aboriginal means, "the people who were here from the beginning". For the Aboriginals of Australia, spirituality and the sacred is deeply rooted in the landscape and in their relationship to the environment which sustains them. Traditional Aboriginal lands are mainland Australia and most of the islands. For the Aboriginals of Australia, their spirituality and the sacred is deeply rooted in the landscape and in their relationship to the environment which sustains them. The land is their life, their mother, their way, their nourishment, and their spiritual connectedness. During the Dreamtime the Ancestral Spirits gave form to the land and established community relationships. Afterwards, on order to enliven the landscape with their powers, they changed from humans into animals, stars, hills, trees, and other forms that are most commonly referred to as Devas, Nature Spirits, and Elementals. The Nature Spirits, Devas, and Elementals of earth, wind, fire, air, water, streams, forests, plants, trees, mountains, stones, the land, sky, and sea which are sentient in their own right and have their own divine purpose and path which often overlaps and intersects many Sacred Pathways.
The Dreaming Tracks
distinguish all features of the land created by their Spirit Ancestors as they
travelled across it, and delineated the area of land created by the Ancestral
Spirits where a tribe was created, their belonging place.
During the Dreamtime, the Ancestral Spirits travelled across the formless land, and gave it form by creating the rivers, the mountains, the sand hills, the billabongs, the trees, the humans, the animals, the birds, the insects, the marine life, and all other creatures. They also made the sky, the sun, the moon, the planets, and the stars. They laid down the laws the Aboriginals must obey and the Dreaming Tracks which connect all creatures of the sacred world and define the belonging territory of the tribe within the landscape. Afterwards, the Ancestral Spirits changed into aspects of the landscape, empowering it with their numinous presence. Today the journeys of the Spirit Ancestors are brought to life through these Songlines about the Stories of the land and how the law was imprinted upon the Aboriginal sacred spaces. Similar to Shamanic Journeying and Visionquests, the Aborignal Australians perform Corroborees and Go On Walkabout for the purpose of connecting and communing with these Ancestral Spirits who are now part of the Landscape and Natural World. Recognizing the sacred presence of the Devas, Nature Spirits, and Elementals the Aboriginal Shamans gather their wisdom and blessings for others. Like Shamans who achieve heightened states of consciousness, during interdimensional journeying, the Aboriginals perform the appropriate ceremonies and sing certain songs at precise points along the Dreaming Track, gaining direct access to the Dreaming.
The teachings they receive
from the Spirit Worlds are often individually tailored to match the measurements
of understanding of the tribes of the Songlines, Stories of the Dreamtime, and
Totemic Laws. Through the verses of these Songs, Aboriginal Australians know
every part of the landscape and where to find sources of water and food. They
also use the Songlines when they move about within the territory of the tribe or
when visiting other tribes... Continue on
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