For the Aborigines of Australia, the Dreamtime is a place before time and outside of time in which ancestral spirit beings came to Earth and gave all of Life its form. Once the work was done, these spirits remained in the very forms they created--including the animals, hills, stars, and other features of the land--and continue to be present today.
Since I like to explore the connection between the human world and the spiritual one in this blog, a recent reading of an article on "Earth Magic" captured my attention. In the article, it noted that the Dreamtime was a group's spiritual template, laviously littered with songs and stories that have been handed down for at least 60,000 years--although the Aborigines would argue that the template has been around since the beginning of time. We are born, we die, and we are reborn again.
This Dreamtime theme is prevalent in most spiritual studies, I have found. The world of Astrology charts our current "mission" here on Earth, and how to have the happiest life available while traveling the human path. If that's not a spiritual template, I don't what is. It also contains a reaffirming "template" that our souls undergo many incarnations here on Earth, each with its own "story" and "song". Astrology's sister, ,Numerology, reveals that each soul has a "master plan" for its run here on Earth. And like the Dreamtime, that template takes many forms, with no end in sight. Again, we are born, we die, and we are reborn again.
It seems to me, that no matter how hard I try to prove that there is NO connection between the spirit world and the human one, I simply can't do it. The template works. Period. I don't know why it does, or how it does, but it does. Having said that, it also seems to me that if your "song" is sung correctly, and your "story" is told honestly, your spirit can never die. It passes on to a new generation, and for just a moment, the human spirit obtains a little piece of heaven here on earth. Wow! Is that a Dream to die for? It makes little ol' me wonder.
