How to Follow The Dreaming Path

An unlikely guide for keeping and staying on track with your life's purpose

This was a book of subtle magic. If you only looked at the surface, it would be easy to miss. As I mentioned in one of my audio reflections, a “Western” perspective might quickly find some ways to dismiss this book, perceiving it as unfocused, not analytical enough, not “deep” enough, not organized in a hyper logical fashion; and so on.

But if you look closely at the book’s cover, and read beyond the words and letters, you’ll notice that the title itself is transparent and opens onto a new layer: a labyrinthine set of concentric circles: what a spiral-shaped path of evolution would look like downward-projected into two dimensions.

Written by two Aboriginal Australian men (from the southeast), their purpose with this text was to help pass on the Aboriginal Lore or spirituality and worldview that united over 500 languages during the time just before the occupation of Australia by the British in the late 1700s.

At the same time, however, it is also imbued with the personal reflections from the life experience of Callaghan. the younger of the authors, who periodically weaves in references from his own “path back” from breakdown through recovery and reclamation of a sense of his own life’s purpose.