Didgeridoos - Trance Mission of the "Dreamtime"

The Didgeridoo is traditionally from Arnehemland in northern Australia and made from the trunks of termite hollowed eucalyptus trees. Each instrument is unique with its own characteristic hamronics and timbre.
The Didgeridoo is played by men to accompany singing and dancing during communal ceremonies and clan songs. The player must inhale through the nose while blowing into the instrument (a method known as circular breathing) in order to keep a constant drone (sustained tone) over which rhythmic, voiced sounds are interjected by the same player.

For more than 50,000 years indigenous people have lived and dreamed in Australia. They've watched the winds, the rains, the grasses, trees and flowers and known where to go for food, shelter and comfort. All the while developing a unique oneness with the land, a knowledge of their environment, plants and animals rarely seen in the world's history.
This oneness is seen throughout their culture, in the 'Dreaming', the storytelling and art, the oldest art form in the world. The rock art, spread across the nation, is a mass of colour, shape and texture, recording stories, totemic and religious beliefs 50,000 years old.
Today, this creativity continues to flourish, in both remote traditional communities and in Australia's contemporary cities.
Travel to the Northern Territory's Tiwi Island or the ancient Arnhemland and spend time with Aboriginal women, learn of their 'bush tucker', how they gather food, fish and use traditional medicines. Go backpacking through tribal lands in Western Australia, experiencing the bush as seen by our indigenous ancestors.
Journey back in time to experience Aboriginal prehistory, visit ancient camp sites in South Australia, shelters, art sites, middens, canoe and shield scar trees, learn of Aboriginal art, technology and food gathering methods and how the natural environment relates to Aboriginal Dreamings.
Visit sacred sites in Victoria and learn how Aborigines combine traditional and modern lifestyles.

Songlines.....or just THE DREAMING ..........is what the Aborigines call their mystical, invisible, labyrinthine paths which travel across the Australian continent. Along those "paths" the ancestors travelled. Songlines ...... mean the deep spiritual connection to the land.

The Dreaming or Dreamtime in Australian Aboriginal mythology is the period of creation in which the known landscape took shape and all life had its source.
The Dreaming represents a distant mythic period in which Wondjina (ancestral spirits) traveled across Australia, establishing the essential fabric of life and depositing the spirits of unborn children. The Wondjina were born from the earth, and their journeys during The Dreaming are recorded in the oral traditions of the Aboriginal people of different regions of Australia with great attention to local geographical detail and specific events. After passing on to humans the knowledge necessary for survival and social living, the Wondjina disappeared back into the earth or, according to other traditions, married into humankind.

The waterholes they created on their wanderings later became sacred sites.
The Dreaming is also considered to be a part of the present. It can be reentered through rituals using totems, in which the participants themselves become the Wondjina and retrace their journeys, reliving the so-called strong time of creation.

Aboriginal Dance and Music

The oldest music in Australia is the music of the Australian Aborigines. In Aboriginal societies, music plays a central role in both social and sacred life. During social gatherings called corroborees, singing and dancing provide the major form of entertainment. In sacred ceremonies, songs serve as the vital link to the realm of Aboriginal spirits called Dreamtime.
The Aborigines believe that, long ago, the Dreamtime spirits sang songs that created all living things on earth. Today, these songs are sung in sacred ceremonies to ensure the survival and propagation of all plant and animal life.