RobertCloud
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No problem.. Spirit Guides/Totems usually contact you or teach you during visions. These can occur during dreams, meditations, sweat lodges, vision quests or other spiritual moments of significance where you are opening yourself up to the potential of their contacting you. Most Native Americans believe you have four parts to your soul, your breath, your brain, your heart... the fourth part was in the placenta... in the old days this would be carried into the wilds and the animal that came along and devoured it would be the Spirit Guide. In our modern world this fourth part of the soul is lost by many people and that is why so many people go around in the world feeling like a part of them is always missing. However, it can be found even though the placenta has been destroyed. By opening up and searching with your mind, that fourth part of your soul still exists and it will come home to you, on its way home it will contact an animal spirit and that becomes your Spirit Guide. In some people that fourth part has been scattered and it contacts more than one spirit and they receive multiple guides, as in the old sometimes more than one animal would feed from the placenta. It is very rare to have more than two, even rarer still to have more than three, and almost no one has more than four, but there are a few. Many claim to have the Thunderbird as their Spirit Totem... what most people do not know is that the Thunderbird did exist. It is an extinct species of bird that was about twice as big as a condor. So saying they have THE Thunderbird as their totem is wrong.. That is like saying they have GOD or JESUS as their personal Guardian Angel. They have A thunderbird as their totem. I also personally feel you are going to have totems from your racial heritage and land of birth more likely than you will Native totems.. Necessarily.. If you were born in Europe, you are more than likely going to have a spirit from there. And though I have not seen it yet, I think it is possible for someone to have a dinosaur as a totem, because I think there is evidence to support that some species of dinosaur (not the giants, but possibly velociraptors) did exist into the age of man. (The earliest painting of Saint George and the Dragon shows a creature remarkable similar to our modern understanding of what a Velociraptor looked like and yet they had no idea that such a creature even existed back then and no skeletons of Dinosaurs had been discovered at that time,) and even the Native Americans and the civilizations of Central and South American had Winged Serpents would not a Pteradactyl give them the idea of such a creature. Also, just because you are from the US does not mean you could not have an African Lion as a spirit guide. How many African Lions have died in Zoos in the United States? Could not the spirit of such a creature caged and kept bound by man need to be free and in so doing find itself the aid of a man in the spirit realm if that man were a man truly worthy of such a creature? Here is something important though... YOU must possess attributes of the creature/guide that is your spirit totem, for it to become one with you, or your soul will be returned to you and the guide will be freed to go on because you will be unworthy of it. If you do not have the stamina, courage, pride, strength represented by a Lion, then it would simply return the portion of your soul it has and it would be freed to either pass over or find another to guide depending upon its own needs as well.
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