Don't know if I would call it "Living in Sorcery" exactly ..... more like "Living in Spirit Guidance", but in the end it all mounts to the same thing I guess ....
Know what you mean Lone Wolf about life in the desert though, it being a place where spirits dwell and the worlds indeed do overlap and are crossed .....
Mythology is said to be the landscape of the soul and a way of expressing the journeys of the soul. Mythological thought thus better described as "seeing" ... seeing Spirit and Matter entwined in eternal embrace, like two lovers .... one being the reflection of the other.
As an example of such overlapping and crossing I'll tell you a story. (A story I have written on another forum board before though).
4 Animal Spirit Helpers
Crow
I had envisaged to see a lot of Crows in Alice Springs. And sure enough there they were. The first morning when I woke up in the backpacker hostel, where I had stayed the night and went outside, it was as though the Crows had come to town ! They were everywhere ! On every lamp post, on every fence, on the ground, in the air, - the town was full of them ! As I walked to the city center, there is council park there and in that park elder Aboriginal men and women sat. Crows all around them made me feel as though some of the crows had "shape-shifted" into these dark skinned human beings, who now sat "silent-as-a-wall" watching the "aliens" that had landed (white people).... go about their alien business. Alien to Sacred or any Natural Law ! "This alien world, although we are dependent of it now ... still doesn't make any sense".
I am not saying that this is how The Aboriginal people saw, this is just how I felt about the situation. And it made me wonder, being "part" indigenous (of Siberian DNA lineage), just which reality will I find my reflection ... black or white, or will I walk in the void between these 2 cultures, these 2 "parallel universes" that co-habit Alice ... relating to them both, yet belonging to neither ... reflecting/belonging to something ... else ?
Even though the situation did feel "special", - I didn't think of it as being synchronistic, nor unusual at the time. Only a couple months later did I realize, that it was synchronistic and unusual, because ever since then I have only seldom seen crows in such huge numbers, though there are always a few of them about.
Lizard
The second "Animal-Spirit-Helper" situation came, when I heard this knocking on my living room window. And there was this "Bearded Dragon" banging it's head and forelegs on the window. Didn't see it chasing anything nor being chased by anything (... but maybe it was ?) Even though I stood right in front of it and it was looking directly at me, it wasn't afraid, just kept on banging ....like: "Let me in, l-e-t m-e i-n !" This, I thought was rather unusual, and remembered a question from Jamie Sams book: "Are you the dreamer ? Or are you the dreamed ?" ... Is this what you are trying to tell me Lizard ? Then suddenly as it had come, it took off. And as I turned my back to the window, there now was a knock on the door. At the door was this man, who then offered me his very dodgy and dishonest services ... which I thanked him for, and promised to think about, got his number .... But afterwards thought that I would have been "h-a-d", I would well and truly have been "the dreamed one", - had I accepted his offer. Thanks for the warning Lizard ! But this question: "Are you the dreamer ? Or are you the dreamed ?" - must have gone into my subconscious, because it still keeps on popping up as a reminder in the many choices I now make. Also the Lizard showing how the dreams we see while asleep, can be Reality, and the reality while awake can be a Dream, made me question what my chosen "Dreaming Reality" is ?
Dingo
Almost ran into my third "Animal-Spirit-Helper" on a street corner, which gave me such a startle, a jolt. But then I was so amazed how big ! and how strong and healthy the Dingo was, to the very tips of it's every hair, it was in superb condition ! Awestruck I stared at this Dingo, that was s-h-i-n-i-n-g ! There is this one tree, right in town, that shines like that, it just has this aura about it, that like "radiates awareness light", no other words to describe it. But this Dingo, it shone like the sun ! The energy of it's aura was so dynamic, radiating optimum health, the Dingo was at the height of it's "power". When I took my eyes off the Dingo, I found myself staring at this big poster/add that had a picture of a dingo on it, and it said: "The Lone Dingo". At that moment something in me changed. Thinking about it afterwards, the startle must have jolted me "out-of-my-mind" into "seeing-in-spirit" for that Dingo to s-h-i-n-e like that .... and even though the situation only lasted a few seconds, the amount of information and teachings the Dingo situation gave ... mind, - that is of time, can only slowly put in words and concepts. When one "sees-in-spirit" there is an energy exchange, and you understand "The-Dreaming-of-The-Witnessed" ... because you feel it's energy and ways within you. This so clearly made me understand the significance of power totems, found in Siberian, Native American and other traditions, about how to increase your own energy by aligning it with the spirit of your totem.
It is said that everything is Spirit, Light Energy .... , but I suppose this is the real magic of desert places, you actually begin to "See" this "Dream" as Reality ! Yet the Dingo had hardly taken any notice of me, it just went past totally focused on it's own path, it's own "Dingo-business".
The Dingo seems to be showing a pathway of "Free-and-Independent-Will" that is "Beyond-The-Mind", (beyond our subjective realities = mind's summary of Life, Universe & Everything Worldview and Order) and beyond the mind's dual occupation (efforts to control, to manipulate i.e. win over; -on one hand negativity, by trying to change it, ..... and on the other hand trying to secure some kind of eternal, positive, happiness-state, by clinging, by trying to make the perceived happiness static etc. etc. etc.) And when you "lose-your-mind" and it's dual occupation, then you lose the mind's army as well (the emotional drama).
It seems that wanting the "external" world to reflect i.e live-up-to our subjective reality expectations is "The-Dreaming-of-The-Mind".
The Greater ... Sacred Reality ( beyond-the-mind) ... that we are all already sharing in The Silence and Power of The Spirit is "The-Dreaming-of-The-Spirit".
But how can a will, that is "forever" caught in mind's own reflection, occupation and drama ever be free to intend any other "Dreaming-Reality" than (the limits of) it's own self-reflection (of which "Dreaming" it isn't usually even aware of) !
3 Eagles
Prior coming here, I had painted this picture, (of Northern Territory), - where there is this person in the foreground & behind her... rock cliffs, and above her 3 black birds hovering, 3 black Crows. ( One of them was meant to be of fire i.e. "supernatural messenger"... and later such person did manifest, who then brought me a message ... i.e. introduced me to my totem the wolf. But it seems that only now after "s-e-e-i-n-g" the Dingo I am finally starting to "get" the message, what my totem is about).
The place that I found to hang this picture in my new unit was beside my bedroom window. It did register then, that the view from my bedroom window, the outline of The Mc Donnell Ranges is like the outline of the rock cliffs in my painting, but didn't think more about it. Later even the carpet layer who came, noticed it and said: "Hey, If you stand in front of your window, your back & face in between the gap (in that mountain range), then the view is exactly like your painting .... look you have even got those clouds in it !" - pointing at the sky. "Oh, so I have ....." (But still didn't think more about it). A few days later, in the morning, walking back from the shops, I noticed the full moon on the already blue sky, that looked so big, and it was so clear you could see all its craters ... never seen moon like that .... must be the desert effect or something. But the full moon made the whole atmosphere feel rather special, and then I noticed the 3 Eagles circling above me. I knew that they were just as aware of me as I was of them and then one of them flew down to the lamp post by the road, nearest to the footpath I was walking ....for acknowledgment like ... but I had already known that one of them would ....and this Eagle acted "on cue" to this "Silent-Spirit-Agreement" ... that had already been as though arranged. And when the situation is special, then it is like that every detail counts and has a message for you, and I wondered what 3 Eagles circling you might mean ? Then forgot about it, till a couple days later a friend of mine sent me a postcard, and at the back of it there were 3 pictures of an Eagle. Oh, there are my 3 Eagles again, it must mean something ..... Then had to go upstairs, and from my bedroom wall, my painting stared at me .... 3 black birds hovering ... they were not crows after all, they are black Eagles ! (Though the one that came down looked rather grayish in that morning light, maybe it was juvenile). And the position I was walking from, my back & face between the gap in the ranges ...... & then it really hit me, that I actually now am in " the picture of my Dreaming" ! So it looks as though the "3 Crow Messengers" in my painting "shape-shifted" into a "3 Eagle Message"..... of a "Eagle Dreaming Journey".
In summary like:
Reality is but a "REFLECTION" (Crow) ...of your "DREAMING" (Lizard).
Subjective Reality World View and Order & it's Reflection is the "Dreaming of the Mind"
Greater ... Sacred Reality & it's Reflection is the "Dreaming of The Spirit".
Crow is showing that our perception of "Reality" can change "shape-shift" at any time, and that "Mind-Made-Reality" is not the same as "Sacred Reality".
Lone Dingo is showing a Path of Free and Independent Will to choose "T-h-e" Reality, we want to be a Reflection of.
Eagle is showing how to have Faith to go beyond what the Mind can not yet understand.
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So when I first moved here, 2 and half years ago, looked at a lot of town houses and units .... but when I entered into this dwelling, instantly every cell in my body relaxed. Repeated the exercise 2 more times, with the same results .... so I bought the place. My body knew, where it wanted to be, so I listened to it.
Then discovered, when I moved in; - how the painting I had done (intuitively) about Northern Territory .... was a replica of the view from my bedroom window. 4 elements I had envisioned in the painting .... came true in real life in the end.
Had also done a drawing .... prior arriving here .... of a dingo in a desert landscape ..... but the tracks of the dingo were in the sky .... and after seeing that dingo in town, that shone ! ...... In my mind's eye .... I started seeing a dingo in that gap (in the mountain range) I live next to .... beckoning me to come through the gap & follow it.
And guess what ! Then I learned, that I was living on an Ancestral "Dingo Dreaming Track" .... and the gap in the mountain range is a major "Dingo Dreaming Site" !!!!!!!
So no wonder I was seeing Dingos !
This swept away all my doubts about the reality of "Dreaming Tracks" .... "Spirit-of-Place" .... and "Ancestral Animal Spirit Entities" & mad or not, didn't care anymore .... decided to follow the Dreaming-Entity-Dingo through the gap .....
Then met this Elder, who validated my vision of the gap as being a "portal" into other dimensions & he showed me the first of the "Sacred Symbols" of it, a symbol of a man "Riding The Rainbow Serpent".
It turned out to be a hairy trip ..... a path of unification (of my own animal/spirit sides ... the light and the dark .... life/death polarity) and I'm not exactly past the "portal" yet either. But I suppose, this is what I came here to do.
And the corner stone about entering into Aboriginal Dreamtime .... is to know, what your personal totem is. Mine being the Wolf .... this Dreaming Entity Dingo .... related to that .... and on its track I do feel protected and have a sense of a well being, because it accords to my own nature; - in vibration it is so similar.
Hence I call myself Artnwere, which in local laguage means dingo.
