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What with all the recent talk of totem animals and spirit guides, i figured it might be a good idea to find out if i had one. I started meditating, and found my first spiritual arena, a cave. This seemed a little less vivid than it usually does, so i moved out of it, into a forest. This too seemed totally unreal, so i kept on moving. I then found myself in a desert, surrounded by sand-dunes. I got the feeling that this was a good place to stop, so i looked around, but couldn't see anything. All the time that i was looking around, i had it in the back of my mind that there should be a totem animal somewhere for me to find. Anyway, i'm looking around, and i still can't see anything. Then, i feel something behind me, and i turn around. There's an old man standing no more than a few feet from me. He starts talking to me, but without physically talking. I just know what he's saying. He tells me that the reason i've ended up in the desert is that my mind drifts too easily, like the sand in the desert. He tells me that i cannot hope to control all the grains of sand in the desert, that instead I need to alter my mind, until it resembles a single, large rock. This, he tells me, is easy to control.
Now in theory, i understand all of this. The only real problem is, how am i supposed to change my mind from a desert into a boulder?? Has anyone else ever had an experience like this before?? Is it possible that my spirit guide takes the form of a person, rather than an animal??
Any advice/observations/general discussion on this would be greatly appreciated folks. |
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