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Ecospiritual Renewal & Aboriginal Songlines

Ecospiritual Renewal & Aboriginal Songlines. Dr Geoffrey Berry, Phoenix Institute of Australia. The Yanyuwa kujika. The song of the earth – ‘country lines,’ the land and its creatures Vitality sung up into ‘ supervitality ’ – always available.

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Ecospiritual Renewal & Aboriginal Songlines

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  1. Ecospiritual Renewal & Aboriginal Songlines Dr Geoffrey Berry, Phoenix Institute of Australia

  2. The Yanyuwakujika • The song of the earth – ‘country lines,’ the land and its creatures • Vitality sung up into ‘supervitality’ – always available • Wirrimalaru (dancing lights) keep things ‘in line’ • Wandayarra a-yabala: following a road both pre-existing and alive

  3. The Dreaming &/as Anima Mundi • Indigenous Australians believe dreams feature real, external characters with their own lives • Similar features between the Dreaming & our dreams – symbolic characters sing to us of deeper aspects of the psyche • In Jungian dream interpretation, we “stick with the symbol” (hear it speak) and discover otherwise hidden archetypal energies

  4. Archetypal Energies & Ecospiritual Regeneration • An already complex, open system like the Jungian “psychic topography” manifests a deeper connection to nature • Archetypal energies can be experienced as alive in their own right, reinvigorating our sense of self beyond personal or even anthropocentric realms (compare “allies” or other totemic powers)

  5. Storm Gods & the Sacred Marriage • The Storm God brings fertility & destruction with heavy rains; and the Rainbow Serpent also presents danger & opportunity • Ritualising relations with nature deepens the psyche & reunites inner & physical topographies (cf Sacred Marriage & wasteland)

  6. Ecospirituality & Psyche • Cosmology & consciousness: ontology or creation myth, kinship relations, regeneration myth – how we make a world • Corroborree concentrates ‘supervitality’ in the now • http://artsonline.monash.edu.au/countrylines-archive/the-dreamings-from-the-saltwater-country/

  7. The Indigenous Soul & the Tao • The wirrimalaruwandayarra a-yabala, opening us up to the earth’s power of regeneration • There are laws related to this; we are thus kept “in line” with the flow of the lifeforce • But there are no certainties; even if we work with the best intentions and wisdom, Trickster still awaits …

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