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 Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2006 4:00 pm
Last week, I had the opporutinity to speak with an amazing teacher. We spoke on many subjects with another friend of mine, but one struck out clearly to me: the aboriginal walk.
And aboriginal walk is an journey or progression, physical, mental, or spiritual, that transforms one from a child into an adult. It gets its name from the native people of Australia: at a certain age, a boy will walk into the outback, learning to survive on his own; if he does not return, than the tribe knows he has failed at the transition, but if he returns, he is welcomed back as an adult. The teacher's aboriginal walk consisted of biking and back-packing the Pacific Coast.
Have you done an aboriginal walk? What did you experience? If not, do you have any plans for one?
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Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2006 4:40 pm
I plan to hike the Pacific coast too around when I turn 16...Does that count?
Actually, I heard of this while I was in Australia...It's HOT there where the Aboriginis live. I can't imagine doing an aboriginal walk THERE.
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Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2006 5:08 pm
I plan to do some "soul searching" this summer by doing acitivites like meditation and various types of spiritual studies as an Aboriginal walk; I'm not sure if I will be doing anything physical, though.
If you feel that your journey will change you, I believe it could be considered such an event. 3nodding
When thinking about the Aboriginees, consider that they've lived there all their lives and have a specific attire to suit their environment. They're well adapted for such an excursion. biggrin
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Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2006 6:25 pm
I think my life has been an aboriginal walk of itself. As I keep stretching out into my own self, I find I each change to be a walkabout. Being one of the smartest kids in my class was difficult. Being a feminine boy was difficult. Coming out as trans was difficult. Taking on music as a field was (and IS) extremely difficult. Being open about my spiritosexuality and polyamory are also difficult to get people to understand. Tonight I read about a KIA pagan US soldier's grave that they would not allow a pentagram to be engraved on. I realize that recently becoming pagan isn't making anything easier in my life.... sweatdrop
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Time-traveling Shapeshifter
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Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2006 8:40 pm
Jameta I plan to do some "soul searching" this summer by doing acitivites like meditation and various types of spiritual studies as an Aboriginal walk; I'm not sure if I will be doing anything physical, though. If you feel that your journey will change you, I believe it could be considered such an event. 3nodding When thinking about the Aboriginees, consider that they've lived there all their lives and have a specific attire to suit their environment. They're well adapted for such an excursion. biggrin Oh, yes. I know that. Kinda like the people in Peru. They were awesome hikers in the mountains. No breathing trouble at all. Of course, the coca leaves helped. biggrin
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Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2006 9:30 pm
Coca, as in the substance used to create cocaine, or cocoa, the substance used to make chocolate?
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Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2006 11:10 pm
Jameta Coca, as in the substance used to create cocaine, or cocoa, the substance used to make chocolate? Coca, as in the substance that foreigners have discovered you can make cocaine out of. It its leafy state, without any added things and processes done to it, it is quite harmless and is invaluable when trying to acclimatize. US wants Peru to outlaw it, but it's a huge part of their culture. The Incas used it and they never thought to make something like cocaine. It's not the Peruvians' fault that we use it for things like that. It's illegal in US, but I brought some from home as a souvenir anyway. ninja And no I'm not going to snort it. I have no idea how to make cocaine out of it and I brought just a couple of leaves, not nearly enough to get any effects even if I somehow figured out how to make it. Besides, what a waste of perfectly good coca leaves.
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Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2006 5:56 am
Ahh, that makes sense. 3nodding Funny, how parts of the Caucasian culture have changed things for the worse throughout history. Tobacco did not used to be so dangerous, as well as marijuana. confused
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Posted: Fri Mar 24, 2006 8:23 pm
marijuana has not become any more or less dangerous. As for tobacco, there's a huge difference between cigarettes and tobacco, as cigarettes have so much more in them, unfortunately for smokers. I don't smoke tobacco, or cigarettes.
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Posted: Fri Mar 24, 2006 8:33 pm
I never took walks such as that but I did take tests of the universe which allowed me to become more spiritual. I remember one time I had to buy either what I wanted or what I would need within the future. I chose to go with the thing I needed instead of my own desire. The book that I found in another town was almost like a walk beacause when I came back to where I lived I looked upon my home with new eyes and it seemed that the world had changed. Ever since then my life has been different and I continue to incounter wonderful things. I'am even more good at tarot biggrin 4laugh My abilties have improoved greatly over the past months and realizing a year has already passed makes me feel like I stood still for along time but then finally moved on from that. It just seems so quick but yet peaceful. I'am so glad I took that book that day...it changed me even though I haven't read it hardly lol. But I think the trip its self did me good to actually get it.
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Posted: Sat Mar 25, 2006 12:39 am
crescentdarklight I never took walks such as that but I did take tests of the universe which allowed me to become more spiritual. I remember one time I had to buy either what I wanted or what I would need within the future. I chose to go with the thing I needed instead of my own desire. The book that I found in another town was almost like a walk beacause when I came back to where I lived I looked upon my home with new eyes and it seemed that the world had changed. Ever since then my life has been different and I continue to incounter wonderful things. I'am even more good at tarot biggrin 4laugh My abilties have improoved greatly over the past months and realizing a year has already passed makes me feel like I stood still for along time but then finally moved on from that. It just seems so quick but yet peaceful. I'am so glad I took that book that day...it changed me even though I haven't read it hardly lol. But I think the trip its self did me good to actually get it. Yet another intriguingly odd and interesting post by an equally odd and interesting person. Keep writing them and I'll keep reading them. I'm seriously curious about this world you live in. Your beliefs seem so unique. You find pleasure and spiritual value in the most basic and simple of things, even if they seem to have little or no significance to the grand scheme of things. Many people say they have achieved this ability, but few actually have. This includes me. You got a life-changing experience and revelation out of buying a book that you haven't even read yet...That's kind of cool. You should elaborate. You give us a taste of this alien thought and then let us hang there, wondering.
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Posted: Sat Mar 25, 2006 11:46 am
Lethkhar crescentdarklight I never took walks such as that but I did take tests of the universe which allowed me to become more spiritual. I remember one time I had to buy either what I wanted or what I would need within the future. I chose to go with the thing I needed instead of my own desire. The book that I found in another town was almost like a walk beacause when I came back to where I lived I looked upon my home with new eyes and it seemed that the world had changed. Ever since then my life has been different and I continue to incounter wonderful things. I'am even more good at tarot biggrin 4laugh My abilties have improoved greatly over the past months and realizing a year has already passed makes me feel like I stood still for along time but then finally moved on from that. It just seems so quick but yet peaceful. I'am so glad I took that book that day...it changed me even though I haven't read it hardly lol. But I think the trip its self did me good to actually get it. Yet another intriguingly odd and interesting post by an equally odd and interesting person. Keep writing them and I'll keep reading them. I'm seriously curious about this world you live in. Your beliefs seem so unique. You find pleasure and spiritual value in the most basic and simple of things, even if they seem to have little or no significance to the grand scheme of things. Many people say they have achieved this ability, but few actually have. This includes me. You got a life-changing experience and revelation out of buying a book that you haven't even read yet...That's kind of cool. You should elaborate. You give us a taste of this alien thought and then let us hang there, wondering. Lol, the whole thing about it is to keep your self open to the world you live in your self. If you know that all things are possible then anything can happen. I my self got most of my beliefs just out of pure experance. Others get them from books and such but mine are 99% of my own experance in life. I first started off reading books about paganism but then it lead to a whole new thing. After so many years I have grown into a very experanced and strong person. Many people think I might be weird or completly insane but the truth is, is that I live a world completly involved with energy. My life is constantly going through changes and certain experances. I see things others would think to be just imagionation or just being dilusional. The only differance is about me is that I can actually feel and touch the things I see. To many they are invisible, but you must have a pure heart and a good knowing that these things are there. The book I picked up symbolized one path while the other sybolized a path I wished to go into but yet I knew the other book was right for me. That whole trip its self changed me, I hadn't been in that town since I was a young child and not knowing where I was shifted my looking and perspective on things. When I look outside even now I see differently then I did before. Even though that the city seems to humanitised, it still has its natural glory of nature hidden within. The creatures are as happy as they were before our time. To me it is a very inspiring and wonderful thing to see. I'am apart of nature as with some people don't even think of being part of that. I have a strong will to fight for the creatures of this planet and would even risk my own life saving something which seemed so meaningless to others. The things I have seen amazed me in such a way that I completly devoted my self to it and my own path. My mother, has almost the same abilities that I do, she can tell what others feel and sometimes know what they are thinking. My abilties consist of energy, I constantly receive messages from our angels that guide us. On the computer there has been thousands of things where they would channal through my body allowing me to know what to say and how to make the person I'am talking to feel about their current situation. With their help I have been able to save lives and even teach people older then me things which they never knew about. My whole family within the past has these things, even if they are different belief systems we all still work for the same goal. That goal is to help who ever we can to make their lives worth meaningful. Nothing is by accident, the people I meet either change me or I change them, and sometimes its both. We stay friends and continue to help each other through this world that we all live in. Through out the years it has been so wonderful to meet people like my own self and to also teach others what I have learned and that I may also learn from their experances. It was long ago...probley about 5 years ago that I decided to do this, I told my self that if I were granted ability to help others then I would do so putting asside my own life and also using those abilties to help my self when needed. During all that time I learned from many people and found different know how of life. I had also learned that the love of friendship was the most important thing that made my power grow ever stronger. With out my friends I would have never gotten as far as I did. People truly forget what powers they really have in this world. If you open your self to all things then more and more things will come to you. Remember that nothing is by accident and that there is always a reason why things happen in your life. Even if you don't know why there is still a reason. I have come to terms of who I could possibly be and I'am having an interesting time trying to solve the riddles to certain things about my self and other people. One thing for sure, I may act a little crazy sometimes but I know what I'am talking about. All and all my life has been all about friendship and love and trying to find the things which so call to me. I await for the day when I realize what my true self is. Until that day I will continue to help my self and others by giving my advice and traveling upon this path I have chosen. Just remember that all things have meaning and just because they don't mean anything to you doesn't mean they arn't something to anyone else. I hope this post has been interesting for you. Blessed be people of Terra smile
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Posted: Sat Apr 01, 2006 5:42 am
I'm an Australian but i've never heard of this walk. I suppose I don't know much about the Aboriginals. But I do like their story of the Rainbow Serpant.
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Posted: Sat Apr 01, 2006 9:57 am
LadyVIolence I'm an Australian but i've never heard of this walk. I suppose I don't know much about the Aboriginals. But I do like their story of the Rainbow Serpant. An Aboriginal Walk does not have to do exactly with the Aboriginees. Perhaps you misread my post? sweatdrop
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Posted: Sun Apr 02, 2006 2:15 pm
LadyVIolence I'm an Australian but i've never heard of this walk. I suppose I don't know much about the Aboriginals. But I do like their story of the Rainbow Serpant. Isn't it interesting that in every culture of the world there has always been a dragon-like thing in their stories? The Rainbow Serpent would wake up to the crying of children and eat entire villages. I went to the place where the Rainbow Serpent was said to dwell. Unlike many, though, I did not swim in it the pondish-like pool. It seemed disrespectful to me. The waterfall was cool, though.
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