The Aboriginal people consider themselves guardians of the Earth, as I believe all indigenous tribes do. They have been using the didgeridoo for tens of thousands of years. It is an instrument carved naturally by termites in eucalyptus branches. They use it traditionally in many of their ceremonies for healing and communicating with other dimensions and the Earth. They use it in calling the whales, the ancient knowledge keepers of this Earth.

My first painting on this original canvas was an island of dolphins and whales, it was beautiful, I had painted it up on the Northern coast of California, but I did not do my preparation ceremony like I usually do and to me it was not full of the spirit that had begun to emerge into my paintings. So I decided I would use the Spirit that was there to make for a Higher call.

I began "Aboriginal Dream" on the same canvas after my first trip to Joshua Tree National Park. I was completely amazed with the beauty and power there and I was totally inspired. I also brought home my first didgeridoo. I couldn't circular breath at that time, but I could play a good vibration. This was the first time I used the didgeridoo on a canvas before and during painting.

So when I saw strange images such as big alligator skeletons emerge after the first layer of paint dried, I was intrigued, with my intension of re-painting on this canvas, I was not going to ignore them. I looked up a book on the Aboriginal people and discovered photos and art that were almost exactly the same images that were in my painting! An electric energy ran up my spine and lifted the hairs on the top of my head! It was the kind of magic that I was looking for. Now I feel I am blessed with this Spirit emergence in my paintings always, but at this time I had had it happen in only four paintings. I cried with the realization and honour I felt at Spirit Blessing me with this gift.

As I meditated and merged more with my painting and I began to see all kinds of magic taking form, little men playing their didgeridoo into the earth, a long neck turtle, and strong naked Goddess images emerging out of cave paintings. The Goddess who is sending light out from her womb of creation is so very powerful. I am amazed at Her boldness as She shows me Creation is Creation and not even our restrictive culture we live in today can stop it. It blows me away how powerful She is. She shows me, us, how powerful we are.

Aboriginal rock paintings can be found all over Australia. They speak the visual language and express their entire totems and religious beliefs on these caves, their canvas's. The paintings have survived and proven to be a huge part of the living culture. Aboriginal elders through out the continent have affirmed that it be the duty of certain people to refurbish and make the Spirits of the paintings "fresh". The painted images of Spirits are real and powerful and they believe the freshness of paint and strength of facial expression is very important. At many sites the rocks and caves have uncanny physical resemblances to the creation ancestors they represent.

There are spirals and Universes within the rocks and sky. There are hidden messages from ancient knowledge urging us to awaken our own ancient knowledge within us. The Aboriginal culture expresses a universal belief about the land, the laws of dreaming and their relationship to the Ancestral Spirits. Their traditions have been passed down through the generations from the earliest times. This is ancient culture, so old as to be almost beyond our imagination. The stairways on either side of the painting represent these ancient teachings brought from these ancient ones up into our consciousness for those who are ready to receive.

In many ceremonies their bodies are often painted elaborately with geometric designs using clay and elements of the earth. Feathers and bark are used as ornaments in the hair, for armbands and false beards are added. Despite the influence of European involvement and Christianity in the early 1800's, the ancestral traditions have been kept very much alive. Throughout tribal Australia there has been a strong resurgence of traditional life and ceremony. Families have left government settlements and missions where their parents had lived out their lives and they have started small self-reliant communities. Their Dreaming and Tribal Ceremonies continue today learning their ancestral ways and strengthening again a once suppressed condition.

The Aboriginal man ceremonially painted in the centre holds his didgeridoo connecting Earth and sky through vibration. He sends electric energy into the Earth for healing with the ancestors love sent from above and below, all working together with the Goddess of Creation to help bring us back into harmony.