The dreaming encompasses all aspects of Aboriginal life and Spirituality. The Dreaming is a term referring to Aboriginal spiritual beliefs about creation and existence. According to Aboriginal belief, all life as it is today; human, animal and plant is part of one vast unchanging network of relationships which can be traced to the ancestral spirit beings of the Dreaming. The Dreaming involves all knowledge and understanding in Aboriginal societies, and hence incorporates all beliefs and practices of Aboriginal communities. There are many important aspects such as ceremonies and rituals, land and identity and the place of death. Dreaming can be understood as ceremonies and rituals play an important part in Aboriginal life and Spirituality. …show more content…
Although death may be unwelcome, it too is one of life’s gifts. Aboriginal people view the cycle of life as a miracle and live their lives according to traditional beliefs, practices, rituals and ceremonies. The whole cycle of life is a complete system in which all beings participate according to the laws of their respective dreaming’s. In the ceaseless cycle of creative spiritual activity, one dies that another may live, each in its own time. Life consumes and transforms the living in order to bring forth new lives. After the death of an Aboriginal person their spirit returns to the Dreamtime from where it will return through birth as a human, an animal, a plant or a rock. The shape is not important because each form shares the same soul or spirit from the Dreamtime showing that they are various rituals associated with death. Reverence of life allows respect for death and acceptance of death. As we would expect, given the harmony between traditional life and the dreaming, wellbeing in the afterlife is not influenced by the quality of the person’s previous