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Shamanism Shaman Shamanic Journey Healing
Aboriginal Walkabout Journeying
When Aboriginal Australians Go on Walkabout, they undertake a spiritual journey to a Belonging Place to renew their relationship with their Dreaming and the Landscape. 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, in order to enliven the landscape with their powers, these Ancestral Spirits changed from humans into animals, stars, hills, trees, and other aspects of the landscape, empowering the Natural World with their numinous presence in forms that are most commonly referred to nowadays as Devas, Nature Spirits, and Elementals.
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. There are many different Aboriginal Australia tribes who have their own Dreamtime folklore, customs, languages, and totems; but, there are also many commonalities they share such as: Animal Totems, strong kinship, and family structures.
Dreaming Tracks or Songlines distinguish all features of the land created by their Spirit Ancestors as they Journeyed and travelled across it. The story of the Aboriginals is in the land; the law is imprinted upon their Sacred Spaces. These Songlines are the footprints of their Spirit Ancestors as they sang Beingness into the landscape, setting the law.
Today the Journeying Walkabouts of the Spirit Ancestors are brought to life through these Songlines. By performing the appropriate Corroborees Ceremonies and singing certain songs at precise points along the Dreaming Tracks, the Aboriginals gain direct access to the Dreaming.
Many groups travell Journeying along these Dreaming Tracks with their children, educating them by telling them stories of the Dreamtime. 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 these
Songlines when they move about within the territory of the tribe or when
visiting other tribes. Clan members regularly move camp and go on cultural Journeys for Taking Care and for
Corroborees, initiations, and other cyclical, ritualized ceremonies of the
Dreamtime.
Aboriginal Taking Care Animal Totem Koala
An individual can also Go on Walkabout. When an individual goes on a Walkabout, it is different for different people. It can be a walk to where they originated; or it can be a walk to where they are part of the land and the land is part of them, a place of Sacred Belongingness.
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.
Today the Shamanic 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.
Like Shamans who achieve heightened states of consciousness, during interdimensional Journeying, the Aboriginals Australians perform the appropriate ceremonies and sing certain songs at precise points along the Dreaming Track, gaining direct access to the Dreaming.
The teachings and knowledge 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 Animal Totemic Laws.
Similar to Shamanic Journeying, the Aborignal Australians perform Corroborees and Go On Walkabout for the purpose of connecting and communing with these Ancestral Spirits.
The Ancestral Spirits are now part of the Landscape and Natural World, animating and
empowering it with their spiritual numinosity. Recognizing the sacred presence of these Devas, Nature Spirits, and Elementals, the
Aboriginal Shamans gather their wisdom and blessings for others.
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