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Origin of Animal Guides
Animal guides as a topic is potentially deeper than it might seem. In Taoism they say the 1000 things stem from one thing. This is said in one way or another in every tradition, and it’s reflected in many creation myths; the Native American, the Egyptian, Babylonian, Japanese. Even in the Native Australian belief, and…
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Animal’s Power
We can all learn from animal’s power and to be more like the traits in the animals as they are in their pure form. It brings out good things in us as we have similar power in ourselves. Thus we were able to domesticate previously wild animals. When you sought the guidance of a Shaman,…
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Human and Animal
What if in the course of acting out animal instinct, one fails to see beyond their own desires and harms others? That is a valid point. Can you avoid doing any harm? In trying to avoid harm, is it proof against your harm? If you refuse to engage, can that not itself cause harm? In pursuing…
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Animal Guides Q&A
Sometimes you can crave things that aren’t very good for you? That’s not from instinct. Addiction is a human trait. Most animals will sniff beer and refuse to drink, and they flee smoke. My first power animal was a skunk! Oh yes, mustelids are quite spirited. If you need to understand determination, watch a skunk.…
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Empathy with Pets
I will begin by talking about empathy, and empathy is not compassion. Empathy is the ability to feel the feelings in creatures and places, like entering the presence of someone who’s depressed, and without asking or making a “logical” observation knowing that they are. Has anyone experienced this? Much of the “telepathic” is rooted in…
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Notice More
Have any of you as children just sat, and tried to see the world as an animal does? And it’s not confined to childhood, just many people get jaded. Now, by what process of reason could one explain succeeding at that? Imagination? Ok, if it’s imagination, how is it that we can be correct about…
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Our Animal Teachers
Those who would listen, and I don’t mean with their ears, but with the receptive mind, those who’s hearts are open to the world and other species, are growing and changing. There are those who perhaps don’t even know why. At least they don’t know yet, but their empathy is coupled with a compassionate heart,…
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Sense the World
I had a dog who got very sick, and I had to put him to sleep. He always slept in one particular spot on the bed, and my other two dogs will not sleep in his spot to this very day. It’s been over two years. They do sense his psychic imprint, though his scent…
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The Whole Ecosystem Sings
Today, we are talking about animals as healers. We live in a world that is still alive fortunately, and before much of the change humanity would come to bring into the world, life was the primary rule. Every living thing is a part of a greater whole. An ecosystem is not itself an organism, but…
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New Harmony can Arise and Evolve
Though humanity has taken a less than harmonious stance toward nature in general, animals have been listening to our song. Many have learned to imitate parts of it; birds making machine noises or imitating our music, animals learning at least the simple parts of operating our machines, how to operate levers. Some have even learned…
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Animal’s Motivation to Heal
Perhaps what motivates animals to heal? They have only a limited understanding of medicine, but animals do have a rudimentary understanding of medicine as well as tools. They have found that chimpanzees deliberately select certain plants when they are experiencing stomach upset or other distress, and different items at different times. If that’s not basic…
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Borrow the Gifts of the Animals
Just as animals can learn to imitate us, we can reawaken the parts of our own song that harmonize with their own. We can in a sense borrow the gifts of the animals. We are of course off key, and nowhere near as strong as the original species, but this can still be very useful.…
Category: Animal Guides
The use of nature, and animals in particular, as a mirror had a purpose in spirituality. It was used both as metaphor and as a sort of naturalistic psychology. You are alive in an animal world, find your brothers and sisters, they can maybe teach you something.
“In the beginning of all things, wisdom and knowledge were with the animals; for Tirawa, the One Above, did not speak directly to man. He sent certain animals to tell men that he showed himself through the beasts, and that from them, and from the stars, and the sun, and the moon, man should learn. Tirawa spoke to man through his works.” Chief Letakots-Lesa, Pawnee Tribe
“When the Earth is sick, the animals will begin to disappear, when that happens the Warriors of the Rainbow will come to save them.” Chief Seattle