04 - 05 - 2008
Please note - I will be sending out a second news letter to remind everyone of my radio appearance on the 15th of May.
Hello everyone,
What a busy month April has been for me... I started the month off by running one of my Psychic/Mediumship Workshops. The day of the workshop turned out to be a lovely day and I just wanted to say hello to everyone who attended on the day.
Over the last few weeks I have been inundated with emails requesting information in regards to the dates of my next seminar and workshop. I have not been able to post these due to the fact that I was approached by Fox TV a few weeks back and was asked if I would like to take a psychic and mediumship test for a new psychic TV show they will be running later in the year. (This test was taken by mediums and psychics Australia wide)
Two weeks after I had completed and sent back their test - I received a phone call and conformation email informing me that Fox TV would like to fly me to Sydney for an interview.
The interview process was very eye opening experience for me as this is something I have never done before. I did found it hard to focus on the interview as I was fighting a bad flu. However, maybe having the flu was not a bad thing because I never had the chance to get stressed out about the whole interview process.
I found out on the day of the interview that I was the only Western Australian Medium/psychic who had made it to the interview process which I must say is a great feat in itself.
I will not know until early next week if I have made it to the next stage... but right now I am happy with the fact that I got to represent WA at these interviews and show them we have gifted mediums here too.
Radio Appearance
Rebecca will be appearing on RTR radio on the 15 of May (time is to be conformed) Where I will be taking about my spirit photography.
For those of you who would like to listen in – RTR can be found at 92, 1 on the FM band of your radio.
Rebecca will be sending out a reminder email about this appearance in two weeks for those of you who wish to tune in.
For more information about the Rebecca’s RTR radio appearance click on the link below
Seminars and workshops
Dates for Rebecca’s seminars and workshops have been postponed until Rebecca knows what is happening with Fox TV.
Rebecca is sorry for any inconveniences this many course to you. However, dates should be posted within two weeks.
This week’s article is a follow on from an article I posted a few months ago about the fairy realm which was written by Cara.
I hope you enjoyed it!
Voices from Down Under
Australia is a country known for its diverse land scapes, unforgivable seasons and ancient people. Travellers worldwide spend endless days discovering the hidden sea bays, never-ending desert plains and pockets of wild vegetation. The isolation of Australia has cultivated a unique blend of animals and plants which have become masters of survival on the harsh landscape. The stories which are not often talked about are the voices of the land, the faeries of Australia who sing out in a deep ancient hum. Their song is intertwined with the faeries that have travelled the distant shores with the new settlers who brought their own folklore and heritage with them. The diverse culture of Australia creates a rich braid of faeries that echo their story for those that still remember to listen.
The Australian Aboriginal culture is estimated as 65,000 years old, making it the oldest continuous culture of any group of people on earth. They were strict on their youth to apply the traditions of their tribe that had survived thousands of years before them. Boys and girls were initiated into a tribe at a young age through a vigorous process that tested their survival skills along with their will power and courage. In preparation for a high moral principle, children were told stories by the elders which passed down the history of their people, the story of the landscape and how they came into creation. The unchanged traditions of the Aboriginal tribes preserved the culture and the history of the land through folklore.
Aboriginal storytelling speaks of the ‘Dreamtime,’ where they talk of great beings and astounding events, even extra terrestrial contact. Like most folklore, it contains an essence of truth where the legend creates the seed of a culture and lands history. They recall their own migration to Australia from the north east, geological changes such as the rising sea and the change of lush vegetation to desert. The Aboriginal philosophy talks of a seed power deposited here on earth. Every meaningful activity, event, or life process that occurs at a particular place leaves behind a vibrational residue in the earth. This is evident in the cycle of life with plants leaving their seeds for new growth, the current land formations are an effect of the events that happened earlier with mountains, rocks, volcanoes, riverbeds and waterholes. Everything in the natural world is a footprint of the spirit beings whose actions created our world.
The voices of this ancient land are deep, speaking in a tongue that has almost been forgotten. To hear them you must give in to the frustration that comes when faced with such adverse wilderness and listen deeper into the surroundings. The rock people will talk of a time where their mountains towered high, now they are slummed low with age. The water spirits will talk of a time where they flowed strong, now they dwindle and run deep into the earth during most of the year to escape the scorning heat. The fire spirits dance in the desert by day and sleep in the warm rocks by night. Fire is essential for the Australian bush land so that new seeds will sprout, old leaves will burn and trees will shoot green sprigs once again. The air elementals carry pollen across bush lands, a cooling breeze for the west coast, chaos in the north or swarms of flies from the central plains. It is a playground for the elementals as the harsh wilderness has played its part in protecting itself from the hands of human development. The heat and dry land makes most of the nation unliveable for non-nomadic human folk, leaving nature to continue as it always has unnoticed by the rest of the bustling world.
However Australia was discovered, first by the Dutch and then the French, both considered Australia as not suitable for a new settlement. It was the English Captain James Cook who began the tiresome stages of building a New England in 1770. In less than 240 years there are now many proud Australian’s who call Australia home, though their family heritage seeps from all over the world. With so much land mass and natural resources it was an ideal dumping ground for convicts and lower class citizens in search of a new start. First it was fleets of English and Irish settlers making the deathly crossing to Australia. The native Australian elementals battled the settlers at first, making it almost impossible for them to farm and sustain a colony. It was only through the supplies of England and trading with local Aboriginal tribes that they survived.
Slowly the settlers made farms as they began to understand the seasons and unforgiveable landscape. The kaleidoscope of European settlers carried the faerie folklore from their home countries. In the bitter race for survival the colonies would find comfort in sharing stories from home, their family folklore and faerie tales. The faeries heard the call of their human ties and made a connection to the new land. The Banshee who is known for her connection to royal Irish families was heard wailing in the night, giving news that someone has passed away back home. It was much longer before the news of who would arrive by ship. There is a story that one Irish convict sent to Australia was punished for burning his wife as he thought she had been taken by the faeries and a changeling left behind.
The faerie connection is present in the current Australian communities. Faeries are timeless and exist without borders, their magic flows from one generation to the next through the stories that dwindle from all over the world, and from the land Australian’s call home. Children are encouraged year after year to look out for faeries in the garden. The gum nut faeries were introduced to the rest of the world through cute pictures and ornaments. Australians young and old are nation proud, striving to sustain the unique wilderness and maintain a country that echo’s many voices from within its depths.
Faerie Cara
Reference:
Faces of the First Day: Awakening in the Aboriginal Dreamtime by Robert Lawlor
Myths and Legends of the Aborigine by William Ramsay Smith
I will let you know how I go with Fox TV. Until next week
Love and healing energies,
Rebecca Millman
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