I would like to see a combined University study undertaken by aboriginals and newcomers, in consultation with elders, into the relevance of the Dreaming and the Holy Sites. I was given the gift of experiencing the Dreaming when up north, and found that they were more than just stories. I heard stories that I could use to relate to incidents in my own life, to help me make decisions and understand who I was. I also heard stories that gave broad historic and geological information that gave a pretty good overview of the world, or at the very least, this section of it. I heard stories of The Son of the Father, the White God in the Sky who walks beside the River of Healing, of how a character called The Good Shepherd came to rescue his people in trouble, and of at least two holy sites connected with these stories. All this is valuable to an Australian spirituality which shies away from organised structural religion and I believe much can be gained from such a study. Sure, ANY group could do such a study, but I feel that there are quite a few aboriginal people with university degrees who could use their specialist knowledge to bridge the gap between all the rest of us. Those of us with more simpler approaches to life and spirituality will have already found it, as I have.

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