tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4014005277153555622.post7030420535457560280..comments2023-03-29T04:47:15.998-05:00Comments on Spiritcreek: The Deer NationJackiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15461386564339879940noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4014005277153555622.post-45641631040072883922011-11-19T23:46:48.649-06:002011-11-19T23:46:48.649-06:00I was actually quite happy with the Earthworm spir...I was actually quite happy with the Earthworm spirit, just a bit amused and laughing at myself. I do love worms, and welcome them in my garden. As for the feathered serpent, that journey was guided by a student in the line of South American shamans! So appropriate, I guess, that I got a S. American animal.<br /><br />I seem to have a pattern of getting disconcerting answers to spiritual questing. In my initial attempts at meditating, with a guided meditation at Full Moon onetime, and again with a group, we did a wonderful journey to meet a special guide, look at 'our purpose on Earth' , receive a gift and returned to the room. Going around the circle, each person told what their guide was like, and what gift they received. The first person got a beautiful crystal, the next a jewel-bound book, the next a ring, the next a golden box...... and so on around to me. And what had I gotten? You guessed it: a head of cauliflower. Yes, cauliflower. And it was so real I didn't even doubt it. But everyone in the room kind of laughed like I had gotten a dud gift. It wasn't until years later, when I went back and read my notes about this journey, that I put it together with flower essences, which I hadn't discovered until 7 or 8 years later. Cauliflower: the birth essence! hahahaha<br /><br />For years I lamented the mundane nature of so many of my spiritual insights. Come to think of it, I was better off with vegetables and bugs!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15239798951473493987noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4014005277153555622.post-51361162821707266152011-11-18T23:55:44.577-06:002011-11-18T23:55:44.577-06:00Li'l Ned - now we know why your gardening is s...Li'l Ned - now we know why your gardening is so sublime! The father took the name 'Worm' after he gave the name 'Crazy Horse' to his warrior son. They say life would not be possible on earth without the earthworm. I have also heard the earthworm does not have any illness or cancer and does not carry any diseases. Surely an earthworm is a humble, enlightened being of the highest magnitude. And the feathered serpent is from the Toltecs, the South American traditions. Nemaste, my friend! <br /><br />PS I don't think you have to worry about Bambi! ; )Jackiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15461386564339879940noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4014005277153555622.post-80912562550913607582011-11-18T13:40:53.052-06:002011-11-18T13:40:53.052-06:00I had to laugh and shake my head in amazed sympath...I had to laugh and shake my head in amazed sympathy -- an self-recognition -- in your listing of all the deer-on-the-right denials and doubts. So familiar!<br /><br />I have done a couple of journeys-to-find-your-totem-animal with shamanic guides (both of them full-blooded white Amuricans, but students of Native American teachers) and am still shaking my head an laughing at myself for my own doubt of the extremely vivid, powerful and instantaneous results, which I also instantly began doubting. It didn't help that the first time the animal that showed up was an earthworm. Huh? That's it? Other people were getting deer, bears, eagles ....... and I get an earthworm? The second time I was in a cave full of spirit animals, kind of shadowy, and the only one I could see clearly was ..... what?! a feathered serpent? They're not even real, how could that be my totem animal?<br /><br />Still laughing at myself. I am half afraid to go for the 'which animal is on the right, which on the left?' question, in case one of my 'sidekicks' is a deer. You know my position on bambi. Bad attitude might have to give way to something a bit more enlightened. That would be such hard work.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15239798951473493987noreply@blogger.com