What is the purpose of people learning about animal spirits?
To reconnect, once again, with the energies of Mother Earth Ancient wisdom clearly illustrates our relationship to all things. What may be initially seen as inert, the ancient teachings depict as living. It is said that all things of Nature, ultimately being created from the One Source, deserve equal honour and respect. As a result, the traditions of many Indigenous People encompass Nature as a whole, with the understanding that Spirit lives within all things of Nature forming the core of their belief system. The teachings imply that the Earth is our Mother – that from her we came and to her we shall return. She supplies us with everything we need. She cradles us when we are despaired, feeds us when we are hungry and shelters us when we are vulnerable. She loves unconditionally as Mothers will. She scolds, too, when we disrespect her by lashing us mercilessly with storms and drought. She instructs us well in all of life’s lessons – of giving and of taking, of love and war; of birth, de
