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Message sticks are uniquely Australian. Message sticks have been quite widely used by traditional Australians for thousands of years and perform a range of functions, from acting as a guarantee of good faith to summoning individuals or groups to a ceremony. Message sticks are of wood and come in various shapes and sizes. A message stick, can not be read by the receiver in the way in which a written language letter is read, instead the symbols serve to remind us of the information being delivered. Therefore the primary role of the message stick is to act as a memory jogger. The messenger entrusted with the wisdom contained in the symbols conveys the details of the message. The messengers are traditionally men who display the message to the elders of the groups they pass through; safe passage is then granted.
The dreamtime alphabet is made up of 77 separate message sticks blended together in a unique pattern to form the 26 symbols of the dreamtime alphabet. Each symbol is formed using the minimum number of sticks required to represent the symbol. In the example of the E three sticks are used and the I uses only one etc. [see figure above].
The thirteenth symbol uses a returning boomerang on the top to complete the M symbol. This is the most brilliant example of how the memory can be triggered through a message stick. The message of the returning boomerang has commonly come to be known as karma, but is also acknowledged as ‘goes around comes around’. What you throw away always comes back to you. The returning boomerang is a precision engineered instrument that required highly intelligent creative focus as part of its development.
The returning boomerang is not simply a derived extension of a throwing stick or club but more precisely the returning boomerang is the oldest surviving spiritual artefact on earth. Even though we were not around when it was first invented we are guaranteed that it is the oldest surviving spiritual artefact on earth because human nature follows traditional thought patterns. Honest observation by Social Scientists has revealed that in ancient times, long before books or modern language, the internet or facebook, the ability of an individual or group to have imagined, created and learned to control a flying instrument, that returned to them, would have been nothing short of miraculous. The fun of learning how to make, throw and safely catch a balanced traditional returning boomerang has been part of Australian traditions over many centuries. The dreamtime alphabet celebrates the Wooden Boomerang as a very special part of growing up in Australia’s national cultural history [the oldest surviving culture on earth].
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Exercise 1) Write out the dreamtime alphabet and add the number of message sticks used to create each symbol eg: A=3. Draw each stick separate from the other and write the total number of each symbol as you go along. Double check the correct pattern and value for each symbol. Please study each symbol slowly and carefully. (NB: the symbols of the alphabet are known as KaaMa Symbols. Kaa represents masculine and Ma represent feminine energy) [watch video] Combine the totals of each symbol and calculate how many sticks there are in total? As much as numbers are understood to be used as a form of measurement they are also a traditional form of human communication. The numbers 1-5 are obvious in our fingers and toes. The experience of using fingers to learn to count to ten has occurred as a shared human experience. Everyone has ten fingers and ten toes. Discovering, observing and learning all the aspects of the decimal counting system has been a natural unfolding because of the connection between specific components of the human body and the conscious communication of the human mind The total number of message sticks is 77. The number of message stick symbols is 26. Exercise 2) in the beginning was this word. Calculate the total numbers of message sticks used to form the word six is, eg: S = 3, I = 1, X = 2 SIX =
Exercise 1) Write out the dreamtime alphabet and add the number of message sticks used to create each symbol eg: A=3. Draw each stick separate from the other and write the total number of each symbol as you go along. Double check the correct pattern and value for each symbol. Please study each symbol slowly and carefully. (NB: the symbols of the alphabet are known as KaaMa Symbols. Kaa represents masculine and Ma represent feminine energy) [watch video]
Combine the totals of each symbol and calculate how many sticks there are in total?
As much as numbers are understood to be used as a form of measurement they are also a traditional form of human communication. The numbers 1-5 are obvious in our fingers and toes. The experience of using fingers to learn to count to ten has occurred as a shared human experience. Everyone has ten fingers and ten toes. Discovering, observing and learning all the aspects of the decimal counting system has been a natural unfolding because of the connection between specific components of the human body and the conscious communication of the human mind
The total number of message sticks is 77. The number of message stick symbols is 26.
Exercise 2) in the beginning was this word. Calculate the total numbers of message sticks used to form the word six is, eg: S = 3, I = 1, X = 2
SIX =
Is this just a coincidence or is there a deeper meaning here?
Through the spirit of the dreamtime alphabet, this word symbolizes a combination of truth and wholeness. It is in every way, written, spoken, added or multiplied exactly what it says it is. In dreamtime language the word, SIX symbolically represents what those who understand the spirit of the dreamtime strive to achieve in their everyday life, implied representation. Be impeccable with your word! Be the person you are showing yourself to be and believe in who you are. Acting like someone you are not or trying to be a person that you do not fully understand will not help you be happy or successful. Remember people see you as someone who delivers a message, just like the six in the alphabet! What sort of a person are you and what message will you deliver to the people around you? Are you the same person at home as you are away from home. Are you helpful, kind and considerate to your friends?
Exercise 3) your next step through the dreamtime alphabet is the discovery of four KaaMa symbols that each equal four parts and spell a word that uses all four of the four message stick symbols.
When all 4, of the four stick symbols are used together, they can only create one word in the English language and that word is GROW. Check to make sure, see if you can find one other word in the English language that uses all of these four symbols. (if you do, you will be the first person on earth to do so) Through the word GROW, the spirit of the dreamtime alphabet tells you that you are about to grow in understanding of how true spirituality works in the life of all things and all people. You are going to witness coincidence and you will start seeing synchronized patterns, shapes and numbers in all things that surround you. The dreamtime alphabet explains the way all things coexist and work together to create a whole universe of ‘Spectacularly Divine Delights’. The word grow means a compilation of events, these events are how we learn and are represented this way, Generate Receive Organize Wisdom. As intelligent humans with a mind that thinks we need to make sense of the world around us, and every day, we grow in understanding. First we seek, we search or we question (generate), in return we (receive) what we are seeking or an answer to our question. It may not always be what we want or expect to receive but we always receive something. Some times it happens even when we dont want to. We place that answer in a place in our mind (organize) and it then it becomes part of what we know (wisdom).
When all 4, of the four stick symbols are used together, they can only create one word in the English language and that word is GROW. Check to make sure, see if you can find one other word in the English language that uses all of these four symbols. (if you do, you will be the first person on earth to do so) Through the word GROW, the spirit of the dreamtime alphabet tells you that you are about to grow in understanding of how true spirituality works in the life of all things and all people. You are going to witness coincidence and you will start seeing synchronized patterns, shapes and numbers in all things that surround you. The dreamtime alphabet explains the way all things coexist and work together to create a whole universe of ‘Spectacularly Divine Delights’.
The word grow means a compilation of events, these events are how we learn and are represented this way, Generate Receive Organize Wisdom. As intelligent humans with a mind that thinks we need to make sense of the world around us, and every day, we grow in understanding. First we seek, we search or we question (generate), in return we (receive) what we are seeking or an answer to our question. It may not always be what we want or expect to receive but we always receive something. Some times it happens even when we dont want to. We place that answer in a place in our mind (organize) and it then it becomes part of what we know (wisdom).
Exercise 6) To check that the patterns we are seeing and explain something about how cycles and patterns work in everything we do, we can do a little more investigation.
“Energy plus Matter is united in all elements of life to form The Life Cycle of everything”.
Diamond + Square +Triangle + Positive +Neutral + Negative = …………
_20___+_21___+_22___=_63___ _19___+_20___+_21___=_60__
63 + 60 = Total = 123 ) = 1+2+3 = SIX = 6
That was a full circle; back to where we started! so let’s have a look at what that means?
Exercise 7) We will do this one together!
This next word is an example of how the spirit of the Dreamtime can influence your life, even when you do not know it. Everything in life must complete a circle. Whatever begins must always end.
CIRCLE = 14 message sticks
We will add all of the shapes we have measured together, and see what happens. …………….???
Diamond + Square +Triangle + Circle
20 + 21 + 22 + 14 = (77)
All four basic shapes when combined are equal to the total number of message sticks used in the dreamtime alphabet. That is how the spirit of the Dreamtime and KaaMa works.
Exercise 8) Now, lets just take a little time to wrap our head around this exercise....
stop and THINK about this for a minute! Coincidence does not occur by accident, all things are meant to be! This is a synchronized symbolic alphabet that is showing you how all things are connected and all things are part of a "natural life cycle". Now I am going to ask you to use all of your ‘Head Senses’, to experience exactly what is happening here? Learning how the Dreamtime spirit is part of everything you do is part of learning who you really are and where you come from.