A Walkabout in Dreamtime
by Anna-Karin Bjorklund M.A
Life is timeless in so many beautiful ways. We live in a world filled with amazing opportunities for travel and exploration. As we connect with ancient traditions and teachings from different cultures and places around the world, the past comes alive, powerfully bringing us all together and connecting us to where we’ve come from. The rich history and sacred energy of some places not only has the ability to be admired and explored, but can be filled with such timeless energies that the wanderer begins to feel and experience the stories and the past, here and now in this present moment, and is taken on a journey in time.
One of these timeless places is Australia.
Australia with all its radiant beauty, natural wonders, breathtaking outback, majestic waterfalls, tropical rain forests and coral reefs, is by many one of the most beloved places on earth. From colorful birds to exotic wildlife, the abundance of the sacred energies of this landscape reverberates all around, and the dreams are told and felt through the land.
The Australian Aboriginals, one of the oldest cultures of the world, live on a land that not only tells the majestic stories of the ancestors, but the Australian landscape more than anything helps connect the wanderer with the energies of the Dreamtime, the realm which according to the Aboriginal tradition is where everything was created, where we’ve come from, and will return.
The Dreamtime
Australia is the ancient land of the Dreamtime. As one of the richest cultures on earth with the longest continuing cultural and spiritual history dating back by some estimates to over 60,000 years ago, and with actual paintings depicting Dreamtime myths, such as the Rainbow Serpent legend found as far as 7,000 years ago on rocks in the Kakadu National Park, this is by far one of the oldest living cultures of the world.
Dreamtime stories have been shared over time, passed through generations, not only verbally but also through totems and the landscape itself, and Dreamtime continues living through the land…
The Aboriginal Dreamtime is the story of creation, the cultural history, and the majestic lives and struggles of the ancestors, and explains how the landscape and cultural traditions were formed and created.
In the Australian Aboriginal culture, the landscape was formed during the Dreamtime, and shaped through the stories of the ancestors. The land and the people are powerfully connected, and inseparable. By connecting with the land, we connect with ourselves, and where we’ve come from.
The Walkabout
Popularly referred to as the “Walkabout”, this is an initiatory and ancient journey that is undertaken by a young Aboriginal man, as a rite of passage when he is ready to know himself on a higher level, and to reconnect with the land. With land and the people being so beautifully interconnected, they belong together, and a journey on this sacred land helps the wanderer connect with himself, his ancestors, and his
The Return to Dreamtime
The Dreamtime is timeless. Dreamtime was long ago, and at the same time it keeps on living in the present, and can be revisited and reconnected to, through dream journeys on the land, and can also be entered through meditation, nighttime dreams and initiations.
In the Aboriginal tradition, when we connect with Dreamtime, we connect with ourselves. Our spirits have been initiated from Dreamtime into physical form, and will return to Dreamtime when our time here has ended…
By learning and experiencing the way of different cultures, we have the amazing opportunity to not only explore our world, but also connect with our own sacred energies. We also get to philosophize on life’s most beautiful questions, and view life from abundant new perspectives…
If we have dreamed ourselves here…and will dream ourselves back…is this maybe all a dream?
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About the Author
Anna-Karin Bjorklund, M.A. is a Dream Expert and Author, with an M.A. in Counseling Psychology from Argosy University, an M.A. in ParaPsychic Science from AIHT, and a BA in Tourism Management from University of Technology, Sydney. She is the Author of Dream Guidance: Interpret Your Dreams and Create the Life You Desire!
