Notes : ZOOM 08 July 2026

Searching For Animal Helper / Spirit Guides

LINKS: SEARCH looking for ANIMAL CAMS.
Find a good one and you can see multi-generations come and grow.

Friends of Big Bear Valley (FIBBV)

World famous nest of Eagles Jackie and Shadow. One of the best Eagle cams ever. Beautiful setting in the California desert. I used to live about 1 hour from this lake I have been watching this nest for 3 years. I have watched 2 generations come from the egg, grow up, and fly away..

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Zoom the Indians: Looking For Animal Spirit Guides

Looking for animal helpers and guides is work that takes place within the Shadow World. The Shadow spirit is worthy of another talk at another time. But when modern people look for an animal helper, they must go into their shadows, into looking in places that truly exist inside themselves but have become invisible or blocked…. Much of the nature of the Mystery Life teachings and ceremony work to open hidden gateways within yourself.

So such a teaching as this is not an intellectual package of information to take up space in your big giant brains. It is in fact, at first, recognizing the possibility and then facing the obstacles of modern life that block you from knowing, and knowing that you know, what your relationship with your animal is, what it can become, and what to do once you know these things.

I thought the idea of a narrative on the idea of “animal helpers” would be a good subject. I thought that some information on the tribal thinking of this issue could help modern people in their own advancement of knowledge, on their cultivation of inner knowledge and balance.

The more I thought, made notes, and sat with the idea, I realised most modern people have had very limited contact with animals in any way. Unlike the historical Indians, who were immersed in the drama of animal-to-human relations daily, hourly, minute by minute.

In ancient times, when the humans and animals shared the same space, everyone knew what to do and what not to do to get along with the animals. That knowledge largely no longer exists. The animals really pay that price.  

Adult people often grow terrified at the sight of an animal, an insect, or even sounds from the forest. When human beings are scared, animals are hunted down and murdered. They are stomped on with heavy feet. They are poisoned or shot down. No one thinks to tell the scared human that they should educate themselves, that they should grow up. That they should calm down.

I believe that animals have as much right to life as any human being. From the tiniest ones to the most fierce ones.

We can imagine for a moment that in the ancient ages when these teachings came to human beings, their agents and contacts were nature. No machines. No wheels, no metal tools, no highways or internet or any way other than face-to-face to communicate…except those agents of nature were their instruments. 

Tribes shared these instruments. There were ceremonial devices that could be worn that would tell another tribe far away that this person was of a certain clan, a partner to the animal clans. Members of the same clans could recognize each other and each other’s ceremonies even if they did not share language, food, or cultural habits. This ingenious and astonishing indigenous process has rarely been given the attention or understanding that it deserves. Western cultures traded all those agents of knowledge for writings, and wheels, and machines, and a pragmatic materialism that ignores nature in almost every way.

Some Rules:

You have to, first of all, give back if you are going to reach into the mystery life relationships with any sort of animal helper or guide.

Physics, particle science, has recently shown that particles can remain connected even long after they are separated… that observation applies to humanity’s relationship with animals.

The internet has brought lovers together in many kinds of relationships. There are so many animals on the internet, and there is some redemption there for all of us that there are so many and that they are so popular.

The Heart Line…alignment with that spirit animal. You have to make a fetish or totem of your animals.

(The bundles are collected on top. The offerings.)

1: The making of a fetish. Needs equipment, needs a house, needs food, and needs something to do.

Sitting in the house all day, in the car, inside the buildings

There is no animal forces in those places

It is out in the smell of the grass, the winds moving the treetops.

The water spilling into a roadside ditch…

i sometimes feel I am running

on four legs

sometimes flying down from a great

and spreading old grandfather tree

or rolling on and on, around and around

on my slippery belly on a riverbank

silent and still like a flower in the moonlight

or looking deep into the mother earth

with my long roots

that work in the darkness of the earth

stuffed and filled with sparkling energy

in the meat of their mysteries, their journey

all these feelings

yes, my friend, all these feelings

run around in my heart

when I am running on four legs 

Ceramics: looking at the vast majority of indian ceramics one will see animal after animal after animal. The ones that are not animal are about wind, or water, or thunder and rain…..

Some Links:

Eagle Cam Link 

https://friendsofbigbearvalley.org/livestream/

Magawa

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPeRQieGMoE

You can use YouTube and the internet to look for animal cams; there are many. You can meditate on these animals and learn some things.

The first thing to know about all the Indians This knowledge is

continued and passed on through ancient times in the Clan System. 

Indigenous clan systems are one of humanity’s oldest practices and teaching. It may go back 10,000 years or more.

Modern people have so little contact with animals, as in none.

So in context what value could there be in talking about spirit animals

And related issues?

If you look behind you, you can see your animals.

 My name is TURTLE Heart. If we look for turtle stories all around the world, we discover the historic power of animal stories…stories that have all but disappeared. The turtle among the Ojibwe is very specially related to women, to the wetness of the earth, and to the idea of protection, protection by intervention ahead of time….(the Bear is concerned with protection in the military sense, fo example)

Aki-Miikana and Gichi-manidoo onaabani-giizis

(The Wilding, a film) and 

Also…https://en.sputniknews.africa/20240626/worlds-largest-land-animal-migration-of-six-mln-antelope-uncovered-by-aerial-study-in-south-sudan-1067238796.html

If you find a great animal helper/companion, the first sensations from them that you might perceive are their screams. The captains and lords of the paymaster are murdering the creation. Every animal on this mother earth is in danger, every plant, tree, and bug. If you find an animal helper in this age, at this time, you must prepare yourself for this bad news. You and your animal guide can do something about the sorrows of life on this earth. A connection, a sacred intimate connection with animals and with nature, will deepen your soul and enlighten your spirit. It is not an exercise you do to make a party but to deepen your knowledge and connection. All, every one of the ancient teachings of the old Indians, are designed to deepen your connection to this mother earth.

The great illumination about these animal teachings is that they remove the obsession modern people have had with the idea of a saviour, a leader, a boss, a visionary, a chosen one… the old Indians never had those things. No gods. No devils. No bosses or capos, no redeemers. The old Indians believed the salvation of a good life was in the mother earth, what we called the Creation….so finding animals was a natural part of that life that begin, cognitively, almost at birth. The question before us presently is, is it possible as adults out here in the modern world, with no tribal elders, and, as you know, very, very few, really almost no contact in real time with any kind of animal? So, yes, it is a challenge. The old ceremonial teachings were really a group of teachings that wove together a comprehensive group of tools and abilities to gather to yourself the great gifts of this creation. The animal teachings are one branch of that sacred tree.

The grace of the teachings of indigenous peoples is how their teachings and ceremonies always lead you back to nature and lead you back to yourself. Not so some chosen one, some celebrity, expert, or great leader…to you and the earth you walk upon, dream upon and return to in the great circle of creation…

You do not need an influencer. The best I can offer you are stories and some directions on where to look, in particular to look to yourself. I do not want to be an enlightened teacher, an internet influencer, or anyone’s chosen one. I cannot absolution or salvation.

In many ways, all of us today are just the edges of an unknown future, in every direction. Maybe YouTube or Twitter or your mobile phone is the tool you will need to find and feel and understand this relationship with animals. I say animals because really I would Be hard pressed to choose “one animal helper.” 

I have all my life been in contact with as many animals as I can. Just in the space of a normal life. I do not have the money to go on animal expeditions around the world. But I have seen on all sorts of video formats many animals that move me in powerful ways.  I would say absolutely some of my animals’ helpers are on videos.

The little, little, little. The virus. Bacteria in belly. Mosquitos and yeast for bread…

(Yes your animal will teach you about plants or roots or fruits or grasses and seeds…ha ha ha

And some of these elements, these animals and their associates in nature, like the night,

Some like the day, or water or warm or cold…each animal would teach you about these

Things. If the bear is your animal spirit guide… what does he like to eat? When does he sleep… how far can he walk… what makes him sick? How does he stay safe? These are questions to have about a spirit animal, and they are mostly easy and enjoyable to discover. You may find your animal really likes the things you like, or vice versa, or has appeared in your life in all sorts of interesting ways when you were younger. I had many curious encounters with turtles all my life, for example.

Millions, in fact probably at this point, billions Speakers often assume, I think, that the listeners already know what the guy is talking about. I realise that talking with you all

I figure you know something of the American Indian. I also realize professionally and personally that the Indians are drowning in an ocean of bad information. So this series is what the old Indians might call a correction. I also realise that there may be an interest, yet

No opportunities ever arise to find out more. There

Are not so many books really, or films… not easy to find

Good information in the first place. 

So I always feel the best practice is to inform about the structure of the sacred, of the societies and the old clans, the roots of practices, and a way of thinking that empowers self-knowledge. And elevated self-knowledge can rebuild what was lost and discover what seems hidden. 

I started out knowing nothing. I was raised by a military father; we moved around all over the world. I met but very few times any of my Ojibwe father’s people, just a few hours really. I went to high school in a private school, a military school. My father left his culture behind, as did most of his generation. The army was his life. I had to go find the Indians myself in my later teenageyears. I had to show myself to the old Indians knowing nothing. Probably less than you. It was these practices that I am talking about here that informed me and gave me the power to inform myself. And that is what is at stake. That is the crown jewel of the value of indigenous peoples ideas and way of life.

Go back to childhood and start looking

Find a bird, a 4-legged, an insect….

The old Indians had the clan system. You were born into your

Mothers clan in most tribes. So this kind of

Resource is a serious head start. Knowing that you might find out more.

The next resource is elders. Aunties, grandmothers, and great-grandparents.

An animal you have a sudden encounter with is very important.

Dreams.

Astrology. In western astrology you could look for the

Positions and associations with Saturn. Like the clan system,

It is a way for a person to know the natural starting

Point.

animals zoned:

The snake lives all its life with full body

Pressed against the mother earth.

The birds have knowledge of the winds.

Four-leggeds know how to find things, trackers

And investigators.

All the different animals are like all the

Different “medicine men” and so-called “Shamans”… a bear does what a bear knows

An eagle does what an eagle knows….

Just as  a wabeeno like myself does what I do

These explanations are part of what I do

But most other non-wabeeno or equivalents have this responsibility, this right, even this desire.

(Why so many indians say nothing?)

This is but one direct and clear

The way we ,\learn from the animals, how they

Teach us and guide us; partner with us.

That part of human life which followed us

For millennia, tens of thousands of generations,

Is almost absent from the modern

World

How can we put it back

How can you as a student of the mystery life

How can you do it? Is it even possible for a modern

Person to do it?

Eagle Feather

When I was younger and had been given eagle feather I asked

One of the old Indians about Eagle feather meaning. He told me this,

That when you are given an object like an eagle feather

You will have that story. Steop by step you will hear other

Stories and add your own stories and in this way you will learn

And the meaning will become more and more evident….

That when you receive something sacred from the old indians,

Its purpose, in part, is to set you in motion, to get you up

Off your ass and search for knowledge and experience….

If he gives it to you, it is something you can use.

Avoid shortcuts

It is like a little bird that sings in your neighbourhood every morning. He has always been there, you hardly notice. What is the bird saying? Birds rarely say complicated things. They express agitation, they warn of danger, highlight nearby activity.

The Calling the Owl Song

Yes, many years ago, almost 50 years ago, I spent time with some old Indians. During the nights with then we would make songs with drums and rattles, sometimes flutes, before we all went to bed. This created some great energy. At first it was hard to sleep with so much excitement and activity. But soon enough I started having amazing, very lucid dreams. In the mornings there was a moment when everyone said something about what they had dreamed. After listening a few days to my dreams, this one old timer struck up some conversation with me, in my head I call him Thunderbird. He4 taught me the form of a sweet song. He called it an owl calling Song. Said if I sat in the forest and made this song, owls would hear it and come over to see me. He never told me what to do once they got there. But I learned that the hard way. I was in georgia at the time, living alone. There was a great old forest all around the area where I lived and few houses, at that time. That forest is long gone now….but back then it was a sweet, very diverse forest. There were modest gulleys and little cliffs…I loved walking through those forests. I had done so for a good part of my life from when I was very young.

I sat down of a high little ridge, you could see slightly down and into the forest pretty well. It was such a beautiful place. No sounds from the outside world. All sorts of birds and turtles, frogs and little 4 legged everywhere. I started singing that song. A little rough at first but step by step relaxed into it and just kept it going. Just my voice. Soon enough I started heart the hooting of owls. First from one part of the forest and then another. Yes, at one point they seemed all around me. I can’t say I was afraid, though perhaps I was. For whatever reason I stopped the singing. I did not run but I did walk directly back to where my ride was parked and drove home. I have spent years thinking about that incident. The moment I stood up I forgot the song. I have never been able to sing it again. The consequence of not staying calm. That old Indian knew about the animals at a much deeper level than any scientist I have ever talked to. He knew about their sense of humour, their passion for gossip, their indifference but utter caution towards the human beings.

The animals around you know you are there. They hear you. They track you. They tell the other animals about you. Where you travel there may be an animal from a family close to you and they will recognise you.  They remember us when we come and go. They like to get food from us. The birds like it. Lizards like it. Bears really like it but they are dangerous. An Eagle took one of my cats. We had a bear that came on the property and took the spirit bowl we keep outside and walked off with it. 6 months later I found it on a sharp incline along the big mountain that went up just next to our house on the north side, a rising of one of the Olympic mountains. At the same house I have tickled the heads of old salmon as they begin tier run up the river I lived right next to, the hammer-gamma river.

I once had a pig, a big sheep, a goat and a donkey come to my front door. Seemed they wanted help. I was speechless. They turned and went walking down the road that was there but I did not follow. I probably should have. It was a true and certifiable what the fuck moment.

In summer camp one season, as a child, I slept one night on a bumpy rock all night in my sleeping bag. I tossed and turned most of the night (instead of looking under the sleeping bag… I was a kid.) The morning came, and I moved up my sleeping bag, and there was a lovely box turtle with his yellow spots, happy to see the light again.

In that same old forest in Georgia, I was walking down an old dirt road deep in a forest. and saw a round dark hole in front of me on the road. I stopped and looked at it and saw it was a perfectly round hole and seemed to have some depth to it. It was so round but clearly not machine made. I was so curious I put my hand into the hole and followed it down and there almost at my shoulder I felt a shell and pulled up a dirty, brown-stained box turtle. Clearly head had fallen into a hole that was there and tried to dig himself out. I was really surprised. Other than being dirty, he seemed in pretty good shape. Turtles are not so expressive, unless you know them very well. hI gently took him off the road into a nice spot and put him down. Watched him wander off deeper into the forest. I have thought about this event over the years many times. How long had that turtle been in that hole? He had a lot of old, dried and caked Georgia yellow mud on his shell.

All those animal stories add up.

Culling, Killing and Caging

Human beings looking to develop and expand and to live in what they call peace have killed every animal around them, above them, and below them.

When we endanger other species we endanger ourselves.

………….ferria

December2025 Animals ZOOM

Frog species disappearing. Followed shortly after by an increase of disease. 75% of species have vanished. So if we talk about animal helpers, we have to take this in. Why should any animal help us? Well, elephants, for example, have shown us they have long memories for people who have helped them, and so do crows also. Probably all the animals remember helpers. I saw videos of a wild elf stopping cars on a highway to lead the people in them to her trapped baby…..engineers make special road crossings and all the animals that need it find it somehow… Who tells the birds miles away that someone has put out birdseed? AS much as the face of the earth keeps changing, how do migrating species find their way?

I have always believed since childhood that animals have a cognizance of their own. It is not inferior or superior, better or worse; it is particular to each species. Yes, it is possible to apprehend, to understand at least in part, and to be understood. More and more people have begun to learn this, here at the edge of it being to late. An octopus, as an example, it turns out, has a specific use for each tentacle.

The animals are different than Facebook, Twitter, and the local news. They always tell the truth. The simple truth. In a few words. Sometimes they do it by singing. Sometimes by barking. Sometimes by screeching. They are our original teachers, and they are still here. But not in the usual ways you might think. They are all on the run from humanity. Every one of them. Being on the run is a serious state of mind. It is not so easy to get the attention of someone who is running away.

Our great Ancestor, Original Man, we say in Ojibwe, Yan-Nay-Boozhoo. Natrural man is running downwind these days. Running downwind means you want to be invisible.

When I think about what I can say to others about finding and understanding an animal helper, I started with my own experience. As I have noted here, I grew up with every kind of animal around me. Sometimes they lived with me. I had all sorts of terrariums and aquariums. I had frogs, lizards, snakes, turtles, toads, birds, possums, beavers, raccoons, bears, eagles, owls, woodpeckers, cats, dogs, goats, chickens, geese, guinea hens, ducks, salamanders, alligators, sea bass, lake bass, octopus, rabbits, guinea pigs, spiders, praying mantises, bees, wasps, fireflies, ladybugs, beetles, snails, crabs, tadpoles, daddy long-legs, eels, otters, and ferrets; an elephant; African Gray, cockatoos, and other kinds of parrots; monkeys; a big lion living in Durham, NC, salmon; and migrating birds of every species imaginable. I spent time with worms, amoebas, crickets, mice, every kind of insect, microscopic organisms, sheep, cows, pigs, donkeys, horses, hawks and falcons, catfish, American buffalo, clams, parasites, sea urchins, seals, llamas, ostriches, and many others. All my life. Many of them were in my house, or nearby, or sought out for study, or living with friends.

In November I was in Ferrah. We took an apt in a residential development; it was on the ground floor, and there was a nice strip of grass just in front of the glass door. I got some wild bird seed and put it out. Pretty quickly a great assortment of birds showed up for the snacks. The next day we crossed paths with a middle-aged Italian resident, who, as it turns out, is the owner of the building. He objected and did not want to see any birdseed. It would attract pigeons and rats, he says. This was fear, not reason, coming from this guy. His argument was wrong. But fear does not usually react to reason and science. I am certain this man has never been close to nature. A guy who works indoors, a guy who lives in a structured development that has almost no landscaping at all, almost sterile as to nature. I realized that this man was an example of the fear and loathing so many modern people have regarding all the animals.

Right now, in Japan, in a province of that country, there have been more and more of what they call “bear attacks,” almost all of which involve people in the village going into a panic at the sight of a bear. Did not see any video of bears laying hands on any person. What is different is that the hunger of the bears has driven them into the village. Rather than addressing the ecological imbalance problem that has taken away their natural habitats and food, they are hunting them down and killing them. This is where we are now. We are blaming the bears for coming to steal our food because we have destroyed theirs.

Animal Highways

One could consider the growing number of engineered and protective pathways being made so animals can move across barriers like superhighways and development that cuts them off from their natural territories.

Light Problems

Many urban areas are just overstuffed with lights. It is as if modern people loathe and fear darkness; they seem paranoid about the night. These lights confuse large bird populations and trick many species who have lived for centuries with a natural flow of darkness and light.

Life and Death

When my father died, and years later, when my mother passed away, I felt almost nothing. Nothing at all. When my parrots died, when my cat Ninja died, and also others, my beloved animal companions died, and I wept until I became sick. To this day I cannot think of Squakiutyly, Ninja, Little White Man, or Beeker without falling into tears and deep grief. When my brother passed away at last, I also felt nothing. 

I learned that we have lost 75% of species since the industrial age kicked in, I was filled with grief, sometimes with rage.

Bird People and Migration Paths

If you love the birds in your village, you have to also love and know the migration path, the destination where they live half the year. Each place is as important as the other to their survival and balance.

This is true for several other species that have migration routes they follow.

Sex

One can lament; indeed, one can assume the highest levels of absolute outrage at the way women are treated all around the world. It is obscene and tragic. In the animal world, it is often the female of the species that holds all the relevant powers.

Bird Populations across North America

They have declined by 33% since 1975. Insect eaters in particular. The numbers must be similar worldwide. Much of it is related to urbanization, agricultural chemicals, loss of habitat, and climate change. The birds, almost certainly, know this about each other.

Birds that live in stable forest habitats are actually increasing in their populations.

We saw an Italian farmer plowing a big field. On both sides of the tractor’s path there were standing dozens and dozens of various bird species. It was all very orderly and calm, both the birds and the farmer. They have obviously been doing this for a long time.

Correspondances

A snake moves like the lightning in the sky, so it is about rain and thunder. Also spends life with their entire body on the earth, not just their feet.

There are also Plant Helpers. Trees. Certain flowers and many others. This is how the world’s pharmacology was developed, using these teachings. Plants are our next subject after animals. Unlike being with animals, which is not so common with modern people, everyone has life with plants and trees.

In common science these observations are often called “correspondences.”

As you meditate and study the resources you personally have to seek out animal helpers/animal knowledge, you learn about those correspondences.

Spirit Plate

Have a nice plate or bowl. Find a good vibration place out on the land and bring little snacks from your meals, arrange them upon it, and leave them there. Do this as often as you can. If someone has passed away, leave a snack for them as well.

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