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The reptile spirit animals help with how you see yourself both internally and externally.
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Water animal spirit guides connect you to your spirituality and reveal to you your innermost desires and fears. They also assist you in obtaining a higher consciousness. Bird animal spirit guides are symbolic of your strengths, desire for freedom and represent harmony with other creatures. The land animal spirit guides represent your physical and emotional grounding and are linked to intuition and vigilance. The animal spirit guides are grouped by their habitats as they were on earth. Animal spirit guides can also be represented by symbols or can simply be those animals that you have always felt a connection to throughout your life. Animal spirits serve as your guide and come into your life for a purpose however, they choose you, you do not choose them. You do not have to be a shaman to access the animal spirit guides in your life. Both the animal totem and power animal are considered spirit guides. In Native American cultures, spirit animals are also commonly called animal totems. They honor the wisdom and knowledge that each different animal imparts. Shaman practitioners receive a specific animal spirit guide from the spirit world that travels with them to offer insight, guidance and help them with their duties. In Shamanism, the world’s oldest healing tradition, the animal guides are known as power animals. All of these beings help, protect, educate, heal and inspire you along your life path journey. The spirit world is comprised of spirit guides, angels, archangels, ascended masters, departed loved ones and animal spirit guides or totems. The producers have created a 60-page Guidebook to Indigenous Wisdom based on 13 video clips from the movie.Animals and humans inhabit the physical world together therefore, they must also exist in the spirit world together. To put it dramatically, One Heart-One Spirit offers a solution for the quickening demise of the entire human race – show respect for each other and our world.įollowing its bow at the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival, One Heart-One Spirit will tour colleges and universities around the world. However, this film provides a truly moving experience, showing the beauty in seemingly little things. When faced with cultural difference, it is often easy to feel overwhelmed and even alienated. The film covers a lot of unknown or misunderstood aspects of Aboriginal culture, with Jack Thompson inimitable voiceover breaking down all of the ceremonies and items shown in the film for the layperson. This mutual compassion allowed the Yolngu and Little Hawk to connect as part of the one human family. This is not just because their cultures faced similar political struggles and discrimination, it was because Little Hawk approached the community with wishes of love and happiness. When Kenneth Little Hawk, an elder Micmac/Mohawk performing artist from New Jersey flies halfway around the world to meet the Yolngu, despite their differences, they see each other as family. While pretty much every Australian can recognise a didgeridoo, very few understand their significance, or why Aboriginal people care so much about the land and how they consider themselves in relation to all humans that inhabit the earth, past and present.
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Legendary Australian actor, Jack Thompson, a long-time supporter of the festival is our narrator through this well-known but in many ways, unknown way of life. This coming together is of all people, where everyone is invited to witness, celebrate and learn about the Yolngu’s traditional practices, beliefs and art. The word Garma means “Coming Together in Harmony”. In order to make this possible, the Yolngu hold a three day, annual Garma Festival. 40,000 years old and one of the world’s oldest surviving cultures, its people have countless rich traditions and ideas to share with the whole world, both Indigenous and non-Indigenous, if they are willing to listen and learn. John Pritchard and Greg Reeves’ Aboriginal Australian/Native American documentary, One Heart-One Spirit provides an immersive glimpse into the life and spirituality of the Northern Australian Aboriginal Yolngu nation.