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Do I have an Animal Guide? If so how do I meet it?

We use the terms ‘animal spirit guides’ and ‘animal totems’ interchangeably here, as we refer to either physical or spiritual manifestations from a general or individualized viewpoint. Our personal preference is to use the term ‘animal spirit guide’ as it more closely describes an American Indian practice and the latter is often connected with Eastern European shamanism.

Finding your Spirit Guide:
You do not choose an animal guide as your personal spirit guide. The animal chooses you and they decide to whom they will reveal themselves and make their friend. Do not fall into the trap of saying, “Gosh, I think the wolf is a smart, good looking and powerful animal, so the wolf will become my animal guide.” It does not work this way.

Each Animal has its own Medicine which is unique to that specific creature as gifted by the Great Mystery and its spirit cannot be chosen like the color of your new car. Discovering who your animal guides are is a process of paying attention to the spirits around you and following the signs. It is a process of developing your inner knowledge and spiritual understanding.

An individual can not be assigned a spirit guide by another person, regardless of who that person maybe, no more than another person can say how or when the Great Mystery of Life will be known to you.

What happens if you want an animal spirit so bad you can taste it (not literally) and one has not come to you? We have two suggestions for this case. First, pray about it. Second, be satisfied with whatever happens or does not happen. It if comes, then it comes. If it does not, then it does not. End of question.

THE POWER OF ANIMAL SPIRITS

The natural power of animal spirit guides has not been lost. The knowledge and power of animal guides is alive and can be effectively used to improve our lives and all creation. American Indians call the process of connecting with animal guides and other parts of creation as being ‘One with Nature.’

Connecting with your animal guide will make you a better person. You will be healthier physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. You will see the world and all things in it with more clarity and understanding.

Animals are wondrous happy creatures. There is no doubt that animals have beautiful, balanced emotions. They love and defend one another. They feel sorrow and melancholy. Yet, there has never been a war between animal species. They know nothing about greed, envy, and hate. They live their entire lives without sin.

They have many amazing powers and use those powers only to benefit their kind and not to overcome their opponents. There is a reason why the Creator put all of us together on the same planet. A part of that reason is to learn from one another.

Animals are here to teach humans. They have many powerful lessons to give. They remind us that we are only a small part of creation; that each part of creation has a place; that each creature has its own skill and wisdom.

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Which Side Are You On?
By Rod Arno

Thanks to the ongoing efforts of the Defenders of Wildlife and their friends Alaskan voters next summer will have to again choose whether using aerial shooting to manage predator and prey numbers is an acceptable practice. ?Ballot Box Biology? is on the table again. Recent statewide polls suggest that most Alaskan voters have already chosen which side of the debate they favor. Less than five percent of those polled had no opinion regarding aerial predator management.

So what are people making their decision on when they choose to vote on an initiative to ban the practice of aerial shooting to reduce predation? Either they are Alaskans who actually understand the effectiveness of aerial predator reduction, or they believe what critics of aerial predator control are telling them about the practice.
In an attempt to sway voter opinion anti-game management advocacy groups continually cry "aerial predator reduction is unethical, unsportsman like, and not fair chase hunting" in all their media blitzes. Pro-game management organizations maintain that aerial predator reduction in many cases is by far the most effective tool for increasing the survival rates of depressed populations of moose, caribou, and Dall sheep in Alaska. It doesn't have anything to do with sport hunting, "fair chase" or hunters? ethics. Those are not valid criteria by which to judge management of predator/prey systems.

Most environmental organizations question the practice of managing wildlife for human consumptive use. Instead they say "let nature balance itself". They contend that it is just fine if all wildlife populations remain at low levels indefinitely. Pro-consumptive use advocates say "wildlife is a renewable resource" that should be managed for human use on a sustained yield basis.

So how do Alaskan voters choose which side of the "wildlife management" debate to be on? Advocates on both sides know perfectly well that banning the most effective method for reducing predation renders ?big game management? just so many words.
Alaska has been the proving ground for what noted conservation speaker Shane Mahoney calls the ?North American Model for Wildlife Conservation? ? which has worked for over 100 years. This approach to conserving wildlife and their habitats is dependent on providing continued hunting opportunities. These opportunities have been provided under state laws which provide for game management including effective predator/prey management. History has shown that this conservation model works; neither side in this debate can deny that fact.

To support ?ballot box biology? undermines what Mahoney explained has worked so well for North American conservation. Predator/prey management allows those Alaskans who choose to hunt to continue their practice of being active participants in wildlife conservation -- without diminishing the health of the wildlife resources. It is unfortunate that anti-hunting and anti-management advocacy groups continue to waste everyone?s time and money battling over "which side are we on" in the voter initiative process when we should all share the same goal of wildlife conservation.

Please vote to defeat the latest proposed ban, Ballot Measure 8, on aerial predator management during next year?s Primary election. Instead of promoting further divisive initiatives let?s work together to sustain robust wildlife populations and the habitats upon which they depend.
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