Carcajou Garou said:
You don't need my words bro. You did just fine. If you all don't mind, I'll share some of my thoughts and experience with you.
A dream can tell you much. You can be awake, or asleep, or sometimes both when having a dream. In our dreams animals will come to us and speak, or they will come to your aid, or they will ask for your help. Anything out of the ordinary and you may be seeing, hearing or interacting with a spirit. Whether they will remain as your guide, I don't know. Also, sometimes it can be something as simple as how you feel inside when you see a certain animal and when the animal allows itself to be seen by you, what does it do? I have had many interactions with animals and some of them would be considered unbelievable if I were to share them with someone else.
Like Carcajou shared, I too, was and in many ways still am, numb to my guides. I learned just last year that the deer spirit is with me. How the deer is with me, I am still waiting to find out and how it happened completely surprised me and since it had occured, I have been reeling in great confusion about hunting deer. Not a good thing for a hunter to experience, but I know that for right now, my arrows will not cause harm to a deer, until it comes to me why things have happened the way that they have. I've dreamed of wolves and have a special feeling in me for them. The same with Bears. They have a special place in my heart. Whether they are my guides, only time and my willingness to see them will tell for sure.
I'd like to share an experience, yep, an almost unbelievable experience, but a true one to be sure. I believe that when an animal is helped, it will in turn help the helper. Pay back in this instance, is a blessing. Now whether that is a physical or spiritual manifestation is not for me to know. Since this experience, many of it's relatives have been visiting us here. Everyone see's them as pests, but I see them as something else. I do worry about my manx, mo. Last night he was sitting out front with three of them. I think he thinks they are buddies or something, but knowing that one full grown coon can tear a german shepard dog to pieces, I worry about him.
One night many years ago, I was visiting my beautiful mate at her work, which at the time, was as a night security/emt possition at the Monterey bay aquarium or more lovingly called, FISH PRISON. An alert went out as we sat talking with her boss that a raccoon had gotten into the building and was taking a dip with the bat rays. Everyone grabbed nets, poles, clubs, cages, etc. and went running for the bat ray pond. I mosied along behind becuse I didn't want to get in their way. When I arrived, the poor coon had climbed to the top of one of the large water pipes that lay against one of the walls and was growling and hissing while several persons were waving large weapon like objects towards it and yelling out orders or just jabbering in all the excitement. When I looked at the coon, it was looking right at me and stopped it's aggressive behavior. I felt it was asking for my help. It was obvious to everyone there that the coon had fixed on me and settled down some. At the same time someone spoke and said that they needed to call a professional to get the coon, as it was much too big and angry for them to handle and most of them left. I quietly asked my wife to open the door that was right next to us and hold it open from the outside. I looked at her boss and one other man and held up a hand, asking them to back off for a moment. I lowered my head, closed my eyes, held my palms towards the animal and my arms straight down to my sides. In my minds eye, I started seeing the animal climb down from the pipe and casually walk out the open door and disappear into the nights fog. I repeated the though several times and then felt my wife touch my hand with a warmth that was very pleasant. I opened my eyes and the raccoon was gone from the pipe and as I looked to my right, I barely was able to make him out as he disappeared into the nights fog. When I asked my wife what had happened, she said that almost right after I lowered my head, the raccoon responded by staring intently at me and she said it never took it's eyes off of me as it slid down the pipe and walked over to me. Then it sat up on it's hind legs and reached out with one of it's hand like paws and touched me on the boot, then walked out the door. Was it a dream? My wife remembers it and still talks about it while we are alone. She and her boss tried explaining it to the animal control officer and the other employees and they laughed, saying that isn't possible. Nobody can think an animal to do something. Was it a dream?
Please, don't think that I am blowing my own horn, trying to make myself look like I am special, because I am not. That is why I don't like to share some things, but truth is, a connection was made and in that connection, our CREATOR was and is present and brought me and that animal together. I believe that everyone can do it, so it's not special, but it is a spiritual connection and is, in my very limited understanding, the same connection or very similar, that would be experienced if the animal were your guide or a special friend on both the physical and spiritual plain.
Anyways, that is as close as I can come to explaining our special connection to the animals and their spirits and them to us and ours. Yep, it has to be a two way connection, so my belief says that when they are visiting and helping us, we are doing the same for them. We are learning from and helping each other. That is how it has always been and will be as long as our CREATOR and our brothers and sisters of the plant and animal peoples say it will be that way and as long as we, the humans, are willing to listen and see and learn and love.
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Never mind aye. 
