The Secret of Dreaming: An Australian Aboriginal Myth of Creation

This is an Australian Aboriginal myth of creation adapted by Rowan Walking Wolf, and is part of a research made for the University of Granada, Spain, on traditional stories as educational tools for the transmission of complex systems thinking and the values of social justice, peace and sustainability framed within the Earth Charter.
This video will be publicly displayed at the Scottish International Storytelling Festival 2015.
We encourage the use of this film for educational purposes both in formal and non-formal education, both for children and adults. This story encourages a change in our worldview, while stimulates systemic thinking and instils those values which we most need in this time of social and environmental crisis.
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"The Secret of Dreaming: A Tale from Indigenous Australia," adapted by Rowan Walking Wolf. Anti-copyright, 2009, in yggdrasildistr......
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[@kaelaelliott4237]

So we can imagine anything, because the dream has passed through everything to us... this is the most beautiful story I’ve ever heard. Human beings are the keepers of the dream so we have the intellectual responsibility to protect Earth.

[@HillAmirah1982]

I know right❤❤❤❤❤

[@ryan0348]

goddamn that is fucking beautiful. our reality consists of the experiences of all. and this reality ultimately is the same interconnected. people are the protectors of the land. no wonder the Australian aborigines have survived living this way for 50,000+ years

[@Midnightsunvideo]

Yes, ryan0348. :) Thank you for your comment.

[@TheAngeltinks]

@@Midnightsunvideo you should be ashamed telling a made up Dreaming story…… this is just something made up. You’ve mixed up stories from different Mobs and told a story. Who are you anyway?/??

[@deedoyle4069]

If not of their tribe.....how do we join THIS kind of open thinking? We CAN choose it.

[@SLD3_playz]

@@TheAngeltinks shut up bro nobody cares 💀

[@HillAmirah1982]

I love it. Its the most beautiful creation story I've ever heard. Absolutely beautiful!!!!!!❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@ferox35]

Haters in comments section don't understand the importance of the collective consciousness.

[@emmaphillips6588]

Elizabeth Thornton or maybe as First Nations people we don't appreciate the colonizer stealing that which does not belong to them

[@ferox35]

Narrator doesn't sound as a colonizer. Mitakuye oyasin

[@theavalonproject2410]

@@ferox35 yes, too much haters. People judges without having a clue about what they are talking about. Thank you for your defence.

[@herrklamm1454]

David Lynch fan?

[@booplemyshnoople341]

@@emmaphillips6588 as a pitjantjatjara woman I stand with you on that. This is really not the best presented story of our dreaming, it isnt an accurate representation of our many stories, and it certainly isnt narrated by a bloody aboriginal, and we have our own voices.... and look at the resources, half arent even australia, they are rando nature scapes... =.=

[@clintalexander6836]

Anybody else weirded out by how closely this mirrors evolution and what we know about being conscious? It's almost like it goes back to when we another species that didn't separate ourselves in any way from the other species of the world.

[@Romer411]

Sounds like the Bible teachings

[@maxman4006]

This doesn’t make any sense compared to what we know today

[@TheAngeltinks]

@@maxman4006 not our dreaming, don’t know why a non Australian Aboriginal is even making this rubbish up…….. this isn’t Dreaming

[@TheAngeltinks]

No because THIS is complete BS

[@mariakekkonen9897]

@@Romer411 nah the bible teachings aren't even close to abororginal's myth

[@Arjetube]

This is so deep, I am not sure to have entirely understood it

[@FlxAlxFlx]

Keep watching it until you do, it is worth more than all the money in the world.

[@TheAngeltinks]

@@FlxAlxFlx oh get real this isn’t our Dreaming…..this isn’t even told my someone who knows. This is just rubbish

[@jessyo12]

If the light is in you to learn "the secrets of the universe" in time you will. you probably do now just noticed this was 3 years ago

[@howedelamitri]

its an endless dream. relax and enjoy

[@DaughterOfZion8888]

Dreams imagined, conceived, expressed and manifested. Problem is - with the effects of colonisation, nightmares emerged. That tide has turned... dreaming power in its fullness has now returned.

[@brettheath7127]

I so love my country and my fellow original brothers and sisters ❤

[@Melih_R_Calikoglu]

Beautiful story to explain existence. Linking reality to consciousness. And wouldn't be ironic if after 4.000 years of search and research to uncover the nature of existence, we the Sumero-Egypto-Judao_Greeko_Romanic_Islamic-Chrstian-Western culture may end up learning that we are in the dream of a consciousness all that time.

[@cheekygoddess71]

Its why we are all part of the one and return when we are done in pure love. We are all expressions of the one. Keepers of the dream to feed ot and keep it going. If we don't everything in it and it will seise to exist

[@whitneymacdonald4396]

This is so beautifully told. Masterful. Thank you. I will add: if you wish to share this story with children, learn it by heart and "adapt" it to each soul who hears it.

[@carolynpayne4333]

Awesome story telling with a message for everyone 🙏

[@coneyisland4568]

On a wet, busy morning in London, this was just the right 'juice' to start my day. Thank you for a very beautiful video. It was a gentle reminder of who and what we really are, and I have no doubt that it will be a better day for me and everyone I encounter because I watched it.

[@Midnightsunvideo]

What a wonderful comment, Coney Island. Thank you very much.

[@James-kv6kb]

On behalf of all Australians I would just like to thank you and the British people that came here and caused all the problems that we're still paying for lol 40 billion dollars of our taxpayer money given out every year

[@bartholomewlemonhead3029]

Dreaming...as in consciousness...wow! The world's oldest culture may have the most interesting creation story of all.

[@m.n.9013]

Yes the flow of the ultimate ground of being and how it moved to create all things and all life

[@hmelonify]

The term "the dreaming" was coined by a non indigenous anthropologist in the 1950s and that is where this wording stemmed from. WE. H. Stanner in his 1953 article 'The Dreaming'

[@DaughterOfZion8888]

Oldest yes.. so go with that thought... it means that dreaming wisdom is the original foundation of all the interpretation that followed it. Our stories retold in different ways accross the globe. Your initial reaction may to be laugh such a suggestion ...but I implore you to cross reference our dreaming stories with Those of first peoples worldwide, cross reference to Egyptology, South American, North American, African : namely South Sudanense and Ethiopic - Numbian even.

[@shaneclarence6696]

There's always one hey... Can't accept facts about our lore and culture... remember a thief never owns what you stole ​@@hmelonify

[@Cbx452]

⁠@@shaneclarence6696 Thats right brother, dreaming was long before 1950s, us mob has been passing on our stories and song lines for years. We use the dream time to heal, that's why western mental health systems can heal us because we heal different! When they accept this we can start healing our mobs spiritually.

[@daisyduke843]

I called on the deity osoosi from the yoruba culture last night. I had a dream about the stars and geometric patterns and portals. Then a dream time keeper came to me in real life today. Now I'm watching this. I'm speechless.

[@bobclues2]

How can I learn to call on the orishas too?

[@fronsmcnoteworth4811]

This comment is bringing me the most familiar sensation. Like I'm remembering something significant. This consciousness we share truly is one. What a wild experience

[@ivanguthrie0420]

We are The Secret of Dreaming in the dream of The Spirit of Life.

[@anthonyhudson3158]

The idea of dreaming could also be connected with the idea that uncreated consciousness spawned a simulation . When the creative consciousness had ‘run the simulation’ (for want of a better term) individual units of consciousness (that would be us) were invited to download into the simulation and continue the process of creation. A bit like choosing an avatar in a multiplayer video game. Watch a video by a guy called Tom Campbell on his theory called ‘my big toe’ if your interested

[@jonjenkins]

Don’t agree with the use of the word simulation though I’m in agreement with many of Campbell’s ideas - Personally I feel ‘ manifestation’ captures more of what the material Universe represents- The Australian Aboriginal’s ‘ dreaming’ concept is terrific because in metaphysical terms it is closest of all the creation Myths that exist to what actually occurred billions of years ago - The Universe akin to the human mind dreamed or imagined as we do about various projects & for the Universe this was how could ‘consciousness’ be expressed in material form - As in pre construction stage of machines & building all the different components need to undergo testing by way of experimentation - I posit that we as human ‘ intelligent energy’ systems are at the forefront in the grand Cosmological experiment of Mind in Matter

[@fidelmaheaney257]

It's beautiful and profound. I turned on the subtitles to get every word and noticed that the subtitles are inaccurate, but still a help.

[@JoeyDediashvili]

So interesting! I think it is in order of the ACTUAL creation and evolution of all beings... they tapped into the Source. The ancients must have breathed the Source.

[@JoeyDediashvili]

Brett R if you meditate everyday (which I’ve been for 7 years so far) you’d be surprised what modes of consciousness you can access without hallucinogens. Though a healthy dose once in a while is pretty amazing 😉

[@hellovicki6779]

Yes, that struck me as rather poignant the way dreaming life forms followed evolutionary progression. Makes you wonder how they knew!

[@Ryan-gw3yv]

@@hellovicki6779 reality is a game. When you are still, you are not distracted by the game and can see clearly. It just takes time and practice. Meditation.

[@fronsmcnoteworth4811]

You are the divine reflection of source, there is no end to this light as it is infinite

[@chloeew4627]

The amazing world of technology,visual, sound added to a well narrated non aboriginal person and guess what you have a doe eyed dreamer, gotta love Australia

[@weezerr2d283]

I would love to spend some time with the elders and learn their history…if they would be kind enough to teach me !! Fascinating

[@Barbara-b4r]

❤

[@mnhatz]

I love Aboriginals myths and stories!

[@Hypowarp]

they're not myths

[@notyaboymatty5907]

There not myths there stories that have been past down to us for hundreds of thousands of years by our ancestors also this video is pretty inaccurate and alot of our dreamtime stories are told slightly different in different parts of Australia

[@James-kv6kb]

It's very sad because you can't actually associate with the people really only hear the stories

[@shaneclarence6696]

​@@James-kv6kbyou can associate with us were everywhere

[@James-kv6kb]

@@shaneclarence6696 I'm talking about real Aboriginal people

[@nzmpa1]

If we start thinking and stopped believing, then we can all manifest this reality together.

[@marijanakalajdzic8073]

Thank you for sharing your story.❤❤❤

[@qvorth]

Extraordinary! Thank You!

[@harveysperry858]

Beautiful. Thank you for sharing this.

[@Tullerman]

Beautiful, such a simple and pure mythos, love it!

[@HillAmirah1982]

I love Aborigional Dreamtime stories Beautiful people and culture.

[@9fine]

This proves evolution jingles with spirituality and species across earth were evolving physically and spiritually to the nature of their existence. We are spiritual beings in a cocoon of material.

[@aidankanemunn1960]

That was excellent,thank you for posting. Peace

[@Midnightsunvideo]

Thanks to you, Aidan. Deep peace.

[@howedelamitri]

we evolved from stars. the universe is a loving consciousness

[@DaughterOfZion8888]

Yes!

[@aleksabanjevic8316]

@Disc Golf actually science would agree that we came from stars, scientists believe all planets and moons are formed from the remains of dead stars that exploded and were spread across the universe. I'm not telling you what to believe ofcourse, I'm just pointing out a fun coincidence, sometimes our ancastors know more than us :)

[@christophersnedeker2065]

God is man and infinitely more -George MacDonald

[@Barbara-b4r]

Indigenous peoples have an understanding of the cosmos too!

[@sayeedahmed9697]

Very beautiful said.. Thanks

[@ronpaulrevered]

This is magnificent.

[@janettaschuch3591]

And it is true. We can live & create or die & destroy.

[@Cat-ik1wo]

Row, row, row your boat gently down the stream. Merrily, merrily, life is but a dream. I understood that as a child. The concept is the same.

[@britneytezino3187]

powerful gave me chills

[@VITASartproductions]

An excellent and professional resource. Thanks for sharing knowledge.

[@Midnightsunvideo]

Thanks for your comment, VITASart. :)

[@MurderOfSuburbia]

Whose dreaming story is this? I'm very curious. Stories are super important to Aboriginal Peoples, ESPECIALLY Australians. They are hard-fucking-core when it comes to telling stories and learning their songlines. So much so that people today have essentially, a first hand account of things that happened thousands of years ago. The Aboriginal Australian culture is over 40,000 years old. They still tell stories of people living amongst mega fauna and its so accurate that they knew what certain animals were, and what they looked like before archeologists found bones and fossils. Look up the Diprotodon. I understand that this is more of a video essay, but combining stories from different lands would be like trying to combine the myths of Ancient Greece and Egypt.

[@sirsillybilly]

There were over 300 languages spoken in more than 500 regions. This Dreamtime is but one story of a multitude of myths and stories. It’s like recounting Polish myths saying its European history or belief. It is part of Europe but not the history or beliefs of all of Europe. People say it is like Hindi myth with good reason cause the western and north western Aboriginals are the newest tribes to come to Australia having come from southern India/ Sri Lanka. The older original tribes were in the south east and died off quickly from the spread of small pox when the British arrived. Dreamtime is a translation and but one story.

[@ngdukic]

Some Indigenous Australians came from India/Sri Lanka you reckon? bwahahaha!! Yeah, good one! Thanks for the laugh! 😂

[@hmelonify]

630 plus different language groups originally to my knowledge .. Now all that is left is approx. 230. Using the words "the dreaming" applied to these creation myths and lore was an English person's words. This transpired after stories she sent back to England in the 1800's. The ladies name was Frances Gillen. She worked in Alice Springs in the 1890's as a Telegraph Officer. Maybe you could read about it here. With the lies the English have told I often wonder why even the indigenous use this ENGLISH TERM now .. SMH theconversation.com/dreamtime-and-the-dreaming-who-dreamed-up-these-terms-20835?fbclid=IwAR2VOvW4lJxXk_FZphmaxZ0NRM_m96MJlHdwnt6etD-z3SdZb_ThVfEkdEU

[@hmelonify]

I think you need to polish up your knowledge base there.. you speak a lot twisted stuff that just ain't real even in the ball park. "Dreamtime" for starters is an term coined by an English woman named Frances Gillen in 1890. Before that date is was not referred to as this by ANYONE.

[@garyellis191]

Somewhere I heard, I may be wrong that the breed of dog the aboriginals brought with them or the Dingo had its DNA tested and is the same as another breed in India?

[@brettheath7127]

Australia is the home of us the original people and we have told all of this from the very start, the European man knows this to be true just as the Egyptian man knew that we speak the truth 👌

[@tay7366]

I understand , Thank you.

[@everychildasmr3331]

Wow, absolutely breathtaking 🌈

[@JoseSolveira]

Sweet dreams are made of THIS! ❤

[@mosesgarcia9443]

WOW. Powerful...........Beautiful...........

[@C.Fecteau-AU-MJ13]

4:30 Bunjil was a deity who's totemic representation is the eagle... But he was above any man, and always represented as a higher order being in his impacts upon the origins of the (specifically) Kulin culture and mythology.

[@TrickyTrev01]

Beautiful

[@kellyprice1024]

You can relate this story dreaming video to Genesis and the birth of the earth

[@Chopperdog]

Australian Aboriginals are the tribe of Reuben.

[@vintendogirl4146]

@@Chopperdog Please elaborate. I am interested.

[@Chopperdog]

@@vintendogirl4146 I can send you links about it.

[@Chopperdog]

@@vintendogirl4146 kzbin.info/www/bejne/rJ-9daWcaJKli9E

[@Adagio1.62]

This video is beautiful. Thank you.

[@Midnightsunvideo]

Thank you, Colleen.

[@ellalarkin1016]

Beautiful.

[@hadarthestudent]

Yall dont understand how close the first 45 seconds is to the Bible

[@bji8942]

I felt the warm sun and pebbles

[@djspikey05]

beautiful

[@beatereich5466]

Sooo beautifull❤❤❤thank you. Love and blessings from Austria

[@tawkinhedz]

Great video! Awesome story, music, narration, video.

[@MissKirin6]

Hello, I would like to use this for a school play (I am a teacher). I was not able to open the WordPress link. As this is an adaptation, my superiors would like to see the original source/story from which this was adapted. Please help me!

[@Midnightsunvideo]

Hi MissKirin6, I can provide you the original pdf from Rowan Walking Wolf. When I say "adaptation" is because any expression of a myth, legend or tale is an adaptation from an original lost in the darkness of time. In this sense, as Lévi-Strauss suggested, any adaptation is one of the forms adopted by the story, creating all of them the real and deep story. That is, any adaptation, provided that it respects the main lines of the story, is as valid as any other adaptation. You can find me in Facebook as Grian A. Cutanda - Scotland, and I can send you the pdf from there. If this not work, we can exchange our emails in private. Thank you for valuing my work.

[@jennymedley6475]

We essentially are awake in are dreams and asleep while awake. Thats the secret

[@georgea1706]

It is truely beautiful. Yes we should lead an ever more concious, responsible life harmony with nature.

[@Midnightsunvideo]

Yes, Rita. Thank you for your comment. Have a nice day.

[@FlxAlxFlx]

True

[@kevcurtis8392]

Thousands of years of being one stuck with the land , it's in the DNA memory

[@1o1s1s1i1e]

Wonderful!

[@cyb-m]

this is same as hinduism. which goes to show that all ancient cultures believed in the same thing. I know that ancient Chinese philosophies also have the same approach.

[@Midnightsunvideo]

Thanks for your comment, Sri Ni

[@marshallbishop2506]

sri ni I find all cultures root themselves in ancient Hebrew. The further you move from Noah's landing the more the culture become more nature oriented. They also become more specialized in ethnic traits.

[@mysty0]

Take note that this version says 'adapted' and I'll add liberally adapted. James is right, we do speak a version of Tamil and we come from the Harrapea Civilization, but Marshall is also right about the Tower of Babel being all of our origins but he is wrong about Hebrew being spoken in those times. Ebra had not even yet been born

[@bethegame0076]

absolutely Sri Ni well spotted :)

[@hyperhybrid7230]

sri ni, you are talking bullcrap, they are different and maybe do more research or you lack intelligence. I hope you are not a Nindi who has over educated himself and is now talking bollocks.

[@kevincage1641]

One thing to remember. These folks dream as much in their waking life as in sleep. It is dual consciousness in the Monad.

[@universal8389]

Amazing! 🧙‍♂️💓

[@FlxAlxFlx]

Thankyou

[@nhinged]

been coming back to this a few times and in more life experience i think i understand it now. imagine you are there at the start all you saw was the elements battling the soul judges its influencers based on its energy levels and then life learnt it could create its over energy to influence the system "dreamtime" (maybe) so the animals dreamed of new stuff but when humans came we understood how to do the rituals alike to aboriginals to generate energy to influence the dreamtime (which they say energize life in a new way) thats around when the dreamtime ended alot because we escaped the dream or nature and tried to create new dreams but now we don't understand the dream and got lost in the dream in modern time so by that logic we shoud re enter the dream and understand the beauty in it again before we choose to "wake up" and go our own way

[@patriciawilliams3735]

Beautiful ❤️

[@numafirefly8594]

Thank You !!

[@Midnightsunvideo]

Thanks Numa. :)

[@ThePooter420]

Is it really that far fetched to think that when you’re sleeping you’re really tapping into an in edited version of consciousness

[@deedoyle4069]

Edited, maybe. How about New Possibilities? Wider thinking and feeling. A better life Because of Dreaming!!!

[@josephpetterable]

It's not the myth of creation is the truth of creation

[@Midnightsunvideo]

Myth as synonim of lie is a rationalist construction that we should discard forever. Myths have a deeper truth and meaning than objective statements and ideas. Thanks for your comment.

[@roeltrevi6857]

Leyendas Legendarias brought me here.......

[@FlxAlxFlx]

I Liked it but I really Love it

[@greg3089]

Not a myth it's real as I these are the oldest man kind on earth please stop calling it a myth! Catholic is a myth OK.

[@christophersnedeker2065]

This is similar to Christian ideas of man's relationship with the animals and the spiritual.

[@joyful-dc9gn]

There is difference between dreaming and memories and even when one wakes from either one finds oneself still dreaming! It is important to know this next point. We preceive, this a hard fact but what we preceive is not a hard fact of same kind! Native cultures around the world have held in high regard the dreamer and the dream, my own experience in dreaming and memories would have me agree with practices, but with that said. I have come to understand that this is no more absulute than reason both are malable at best. With all that can be said about dreaming or reason they are two different aspects of human cognition contraditions between the two is just an illusion / but there is even more to this story much more . We are all in our infancy when it comes understanding what it all means even the best of science of neuralogy and physics are at a lose to explain the puzzle of what it means to be. All I can say at this point is be happy be joyful for our great fortune for having Life!

[@booplemyshnoople341]

Hi, I am an Aboriginal woman, a Pitjantjatjara Woman of the first nations people of Australia. I'd like to firstly say, the woman pictured in the first frame is not aboriginal and this could create a lot of confusion. Secondly on a scientific level, while a lot of people would consider this myth, it has recently been shown that my people, the oldest living race, co-existed alongside mega-fauna. Our stories or "myths" correlate with archaelogical evidence of these mega fauna. So our "myths" are infact not so mythological and closer to an ancient truth. Still a beautifully presented reading of the dreaming however it would have been better ready by an indigenous Australian, as any other culture cannot properly appreciate the story they are telling to tell it right. Also this isnt the total Aboriginal concept of creation, only one story, and not the creation story... And this story varies from tribe to tribe... which if you look up our language map.... its a lot of tribes. I am not really sure this is so accurately represented and would love to know where your research came from..

[@junewise3359]

This puts context to the snake in the Dreaming narrative. I come from a narrative where the snake became representative of an evil appetite for a dichotomous knowledge of good and bad. And a loss of the life God intended as a result. I think a snake is a good representation of that, with eyes that do not close, and an appetite to consume what will fit its belly, sizing up prey, and striking when unexpected and taking advantage. To see it as part of another creation narrative, sometimes with, sometimes without, the emphasis on betrayal is interesting. Also I am pondering how much that informs evolution as an idea too. Thank you for this. Beautiful people with a beautiful narrative.

[@Midnightsunvideo]

A good remark, June. Thank you for your comment.

[@KaiTakApproach]

June Wise you should investigate the dual and opposing natures of serpents in Egyptian mythologies if you find this interesting.

[@maryweprin]

Is the story of Adam and Eve, a narrative about an ancient shift in consciousness? A tale about humans Who chose not to live in the world of nature and spirit but decided to create societies where humans Became central and dominantly important. Billy

[@liamf4287]

Great vid, very deeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep

[@jimmytwohorses5029]

This is not myth, this is analogy

[@wildone1392]

The fact that this so called 'secret of the Dreaming' is narrated by Rowan Walking WOLF (a non-Australian animal) tells you all you need to about the authenticity of this video. It may be well-intentioned, but it's right off the mark. Let Aboriginal people tell their own stories. They have had enough stolen from them already!

[@theavalonproject2410]

This story is doing a lot of good to a lot of people. I am convinced that the ancestors who first told this story are fully pleased with this video and with all the good it is doing in so many people. Thanks for your comment.

[@booplemyshnoople341]

@@theavalonproject2410 DO NOT DARE TELL AN ABORIGINAL THEIR ANCESTORS WOULD BE HAPPY WITH BEING SPIT ON. This video is a disgrace. How dare you, you should apologise to my ancestors, we are the oldest living bloody race.

[@smallbeginning2]

@@booplemyshnoople341 no, you are a disgrace. A psychotic, delusional disgrace.

[@joannecassidy533]

Awesome

[@RealityTrailers]

Why not.

[@guynouri]

Excellent 😮

[@trutheretic]

The aborigines 100% knew how to live life properly, look at us idiots slaving away for a house we just sleep in. When we could all be free living the way whatever god you believe in intended!

[@yacine8581]

Quelqu'un peut résumer la video en français svp si ya 1 élève dla 2nd1 qui passe par la

[@Gambino88]

Chaos magic...

[@christophersnedeker2065]

This seems more orderly

[@NarendrakumarPaandy]

Best Work

[@incentiversb]

deeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep

[@arebeats5371]

I like this

[@themadtripper]

Amazing, the Adam species is thought where eve is emotion; thought came before emotion. I have a theory that the first major civilization, the children of Adam, were from the aborigines. After all, the same symbols found in Australian art were also found at Gobekli Tepe.

[@PeterWalkerHP16c]

The dreaming and the people were here 50,000+ years before your Middle Eastern 'Adam' stories.

[@themadtripper]

Peter Walker so mental illness has been around for at least 50,000 years.

[@PeterWalkerHP16c]

@@themadtripper Maybe. Your the one with the 'theory'. I'm just stating single uncomplicated scientific - 50K years of ESD

[@themadtripper]

Peter Walker scientifically, mental illness has been around as long as we have.

[@tilder6972]

Hey the link doesnt work, do you have a working one?

[@Midnightsunvideo]

What link are you talking about, Tilder? (Thanks for telling us.)

[@Midnightsunvideo]

Anyway, if you are interested in our work, please watch this: kzbin.info/www/bejne/eZirpKt5bpd_oMU. Thanks, Tilder.

[@nadegerobertson9002]

❤❤❤

[@The_Deaf_Aussie]

*grabs the bark off a tree.. chews it.. until gets high... and starts dreaming weird shit* SO thats how everything was created...

[@matthewmann8969]

They are skilled

[@juliemccarthy8983]

Thankyou Rupee

[@EarlSundance]

aWesoMe!

[@ngdukic]

The person in the thumbnail is definitely not an Indigenous Australian. Also, I've never heard an Indigenous Aussie refer to "The Great Spirit". That is Native American terminology.

[@Midnightsunvideo]

Thank you very much for your remarks. Are you a member of an Australian Aboriginal nation? Maybe you can help us in a nice global project on stories that we are building.

[@ngdukic]

@@Midnightsunvideo What are the stories being compiled for?

[@Midnightsunvideo]

@@ngdukic We are trying to create a global bank of traditional stories from all around the world able to transmit a systems worldview, a worldview based on principles of non-violence, social justice and sustainability. All the stories are connected with the different principles and fragments of the Earth Charter. As in the case of the Global Seed Vault, in the Norwegian island of Svalbard, this collection of myths, legends and folktales has a preserving purpose in the case of a civilisational crisis. Meanwhile, its purpose is basically educational. We are working together with the Earth Charter Secretariat, at the United Nations' University for Peace in Costa Rica, and the Scottish Storytelling Centre. Our idea is to make this global bank as a source of stories for a global network of storytelling activists who spread these stories all around the world.

[@wildone1392]

@@Midnightsunvideo its an admirable idea coming from a place of good intentions but you really should let Aboriginal people tell their own stories. There are many different ways of knowing, and only certain knowledge is allowed to be shared. This video doesn't really capture the essence of Dreaming, as it is way of living now too. Not just how the world was created.

[@theavalonproject2410]

Please @@wildone1392 can you put us in touch with someone from the Australian Aboriginal peoples who is willing to tell these stories for the good of all humanity? If you can do it, we will be very grateful, we will delete this video and put another one with that person, and we will continue to inspire many people from all cultures on Earth.

[@jtv3421]

Don't forget it is a myth nothing reality about, you can keep dreaming or wake up.

[@christophersnedeker2065]

This is not far off from the CS Lewis's christian ideas of the relationship between humans and animals. Animals can experience the natural things, but humans are amphibians, capable of comprehending the natural as well as things beyond.

[@ChillaBlaze]

Who says its a myth?

[@theavalonproject2410]

The meaning of the word "myth" as "fake" or "falsehood" is an invention of rationalism and materialism. People who love myths never understand them as "falsehood", but as cultural products of great complexity, elaboration, beauty and wisdom. Even we know that they are true narratives in the collective unconscious, which is as real as the physical world. Please, read Joseph Campbell in any of his works. Thank you.

[@YouTube_user3333]

Ninganaar goonan. Aame ❤️💛🖤

[@wilsonsena4969]

Meu esse tempo do sonho é um cenário de abdução com certeza.

[@TheAngeltinks]

Why isn’t an Australian Aboriginal telling of our Dreaming? There isn’t one story anyway………. This is ridiculous

[@garyhost1830]

None showed up to work. Couldn't get one to do it 😂

[@ochre138]

Aboriginal Australian Dreaming stories sound nothing like this. Creation stories centre around The Creator and the Rainbow Serpent. Nor are the stories so flowery and embellished. This is trolling I suspect.

[@yahunx1912]

Do Aboriginals fight or unite with the reptilians in the dream/astral world?

[@ochre138]

@@yahunx1912 oh, yet another troll parasite.

[@yahunx1912]

@@ochre138 It's a serious question.

[@ochre138]

@@yahunx1912 Read my original post. The Rainbow Serpent is a 'Creation Story' (the river systems that snake, and give life), there is no extra

[@serijas737]

@@ochre138 There is no unified creation story and the story you mentioned is just one story of a culture of aborigines.

[@seabunnysquish]

...deep

[@macawism]

Who wrote this? Same old confabulations that’s why it sounds like something from an old copy of Reader’s Digest rather than Aboriginal culture

[@maegodragon]

Wow!