How to Go on Walkabout
Everyone needs a vacation now and then. Some need change to escape the monopoly of every day routines, whereas others need time to reflect and evaluate their lives or to find themselves. For a few, what's needed is a spiritual journey. For the aborigines of Australia, taking a holiday or walkabout is a spiritual tradition that's been handed down over thousands of years. Go on walkabout to find inner tranquility.
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Open your mind to a new way of looking at creation that's almost as ancient as Pangaea, when the continents were one. Imagine Dreamtime when ancestral spirits formed the land and the relationships between people; then these spirits changed form to become the stars, trees, hills, landscape and the animals roaming the earth. Find these spirits, called Nature Spirits, Devas and Elementals still empowering the Natural World.
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Know that long before environmentalists protested against the corporate greed and pollution-making of the Western World, Aborigines have honored the sacred earth and the universe, the Natural World, since the beginning of humans, and their spirituality is still directly linked to every part of the environment. Understand that to Aborigines, there is no law other than natural law.
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Find that groups of aborigines go on walkabout, where they perform Corroborees Ceremonies and sing songs on Dreaming Tracks to bring spirit ancestors to life and to gain access to the Dreaming. Visualize Aborigine adults passing on singing stories of the Dreamtime to children while on walkabout and through these song verses they know every intimate detail of the land as well as where to locate food and water.
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Contemplate going on a walkabout as individuals do from Aborigine tribes. Discover that individual walkabouts are different experiences for different individuals. Go on walkabout to where you originated or to a place where you are one with the land--this is known to Aborigines as a place of Sacred Belongingness--maybe to a place where your tribe was created.
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Meditate along your journey to gain direct access to your own spiritual ancestors and to your version of the Dreaming. Gain heightened states of consciousness, and open up to the messages from your ancestors, the universe and your personal Supreme Being or God. Become enlightened and put your life into perspective.
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