A book that tells about the magical world of Aboriginal Dreamtime and sharing the world's oldest living culture.

While visiting the site of sacred cave paintings in the middle of the Australian outback, John Midas slips back thousands of years and finds himself among a prehistoric aboriginal tribe.

Recounts the aborigine story of creation featuring Goorialla, the great Rainbow Serpent.

A young boy learns from his elder how the animals in the dreamtime created a world in which they could all live in peace and harmony.

Extended discussion of the concepts of time and origin in the work of Durkheim, Muller and Freud; Ch. 5 - contrasts the representation of the Dreaming in Eliade's Australian religions and Munns Walbiri iconography; role of dreams and graphic representation in Walbiri womens lives - their relation to formal analysis of the Dreaming; argues that the Dreaming should be seen as a measure of difference and against its perception as an origin; ground sand designs; historical consciousness.

This beautifully illustrated divination kit is based on Aboriginal dreamings, which acknowledge the creatures and natural phenomena of the world as a living oracle. This is a tradition of storytelling, of passing down the wisdom of Nature through the generations to provide insight and guidance for today. Each of the unique circular cards represents a particular dreaming story. Read the cards individually and in spreads to discover this fascinating and ancient mythology, blending its stories and interpretations for inspiration, guidance and spiritual fulfillment. Five Aboriginal artists provide the illustrations for this kit in authentic Aboriginal style.

In a remarkable book that explores her own past as an incest survivor, her bouts with depression, and crippling inability to pursue her dreams, the author uses shamanic practices rooted in Native American, Celtic, and Aboriginal culture to help others heal.

Essays in which happiness becomes a magic carpet, lifting readers above momentary fret and making the ordinary appears wondrous.