Animal Voices
dawn baumann brunke
Chapter 12
Teaching Timid Souls to Fly
I leave the dreamworld with a collection of fragments:
I’m on the bridge between this world and the afterlife. I walk past flowers and a jungle scene, only to find the bridge ends. I’m at the top of a high, rocky mountain. How to get down? Some stairs are partly carved into the mountain, fashioned with helping branches and rope. I step down, down, down — so many stairs! I become tired and have the idea to fly — to push myself off these steep stairs and fly out, over the stairs. As I do so, there is Bob, floating in the air next to me. With a laugh, he tells me this is how they teach timid spirit souls to fly!
Later, I'm back at the bridge observing many people walking over to the afterlife. Some look like soldiers. There are so many and I realize they were killed together, maybe in a raid or explosion. Bob tells me that even though they cross as a group, each will have their own meeting with the ones they loved. There is that much space, he tells me — enough for everyone to have their own personal experience.
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Later, in the living room I ask Bob if these were dream visions about the after-life.
Yeah. Small insights as to how some of the things work here. Different possibilities. Kind of a behind-the-scenes tour for you. There were more dreams, but you don't remember?
I don’t right now. But you're right, I do feel that I saw more.
You remembered what you needed. Small examples of how things are here. There are many possible scenarios here. Most spirit people experience at least a few. Some want to experience many, and some create their own. It’s as open as each spirit wants to be.
You're tired and floating outside your body right now.
I know! I started feeling that yesterday — things seemed more fluid and sometimes I I’m not fully in body but floating around. Is that due to Earth changes we are going through, or just me?
A bit of both. You could say that energy patterns are shifting on the Earth and in people — some more than others and in some places more than others.
These changes come in waves — a big surge, then a settling, then another, and another. There are many spirit beings helping to make this gentle. So, you'll get a change and then an opportunity to integrate, then another wave of change, again and again.
In some places or for some people it may come all at once. As you might put it: frequencies are changing; people are adjusting, realigning, and integrating for a new foundation. Then it happens again. You understand?
So, I’m in a settling place right now? I had the big tsunami of your death, and it took time to settle that. Then there were more waves. It feels like each wave brings new insights, but also a new set of fears or uncertainties.
That’s a good observation. Each wave opens you a little more, and that can feel disorienting. But then you get to settle in, to get used to it. Before the next wave.
How long will the waves go on?
Different for everyone. For the Earth, many, many years. For individuals, some all at once, others maybe a decade or so. It’s about how open you are to receiving these vibrations or frequencies. You have a good background in expanding energies, so some of this is already in place. And others open from their practices — yoga or art, music or contemplation — however one has of attuning to spirit.
Also, I want to tell you about spirit guides. It fits in with this, because everyone has guides or helpers. Some are inside you — parts of yourself, like your wise self, survivor self, or intuitive self. All those inner selves and parts can be guides.
There is also guidance from spirit. Sometimes the guides are spirits you know — like your mom or me. Sometimes they are helpers or teachers who have been with you all your life. That’s a job here: to be a mentor spirit to a particular person or group of people. It's a training position because it helps that spirit-soul to better understand how to be an oversoul. Which is like a guide for several spirit incarnations of yourself.
That's why spirits always remind you: you’re not alone. Never alone. There is always help. You might not see or hear it, but it is always there in some way, guiding you to what you need to see or feel or experience. You’re never alone. No one is.
Spirit world must be busy right now with all of these changes happening on Earth.
Many are involved. Some ET groups are helping in their own way, as well as animals and plants and the Earth herself, and star people — it's a big thing.
Are you sure you want to go over the mountain? Won’t you miss all the action?
I’ll be seeing it from another perspective. And I'll also be here. Part of me will be in this spirit world, and part with you. Though more of me will be exploring, watching from another view — and helping, too. I understand that now. It's not just me who wants to go explore that, but I'm also being called. My higher self or oversoul is directing this for me. I'm being helped too. We all are.
Sometimes I just want you here so badly. I miss you.
I know you feel unsettled now, but I promise — you have a lot of help, and some of these changes will even be exciting. You will not feel unsettled forever. Not even for a long time. You can shift things quickly. You know that. And that's part of what these talks are about — how to move in the fast lane, how to clear things from your mind and emotions so that you can open to what is coming, to what is here.
You’re doing good trusting the flow. Just do what feels right — that’s part of the plan. I’m helping you and so are your guides, and your mom. We're all here watching you, cheering you on, giving you courage and strength. We love you. Your mom and I are hugging you right now. Do you feel that?
I do. Sometimes I just get sad that I feel alone in this. I know I’m not really, but it feels that way at times.
Because you have some things to experience around that. You know how to do this — feel those feelings fully and walk through. Don’t let your thoughts get in the way, sweetie. Just feel it — and you’ll move through. You wrote a book about that, remember?
Sometimes it’s hard to take your own good advice.
Ha, don’t I know it? That’s a common refrain here. Lots of spirit people are laughing at that right now.
You're going to have help. You're going to do fine. What we’re doing is important and will have widespread meaning. There are beings both physical and in spirit who are helping. Whether you’re aware of it or not. Trust is a good mantra for you right now.
Trust.
Yeah. Trust me that I’m with you and that things will be very interesting. For everyone on Earth. Well, here too. The heartbeat of time is quickening. Now that I said it, I feel the global heartbeat is changing. I don’t know how or what it's changing into, but that’s a clue I just sensed.
I’m feeling into your thought and you know — that does seem a good metaphor of what is happening. Not just to each of us, but to the Earth and all creatures. The global heartbeat is changing, quickening. Maybe it won’t even sound like a heartbeat anymore.
I’m thinking of whales — especially very big whales. Maybe the new heartbeat will reverberate in water, connecting and attuning our heartbeats.
I think you're on the right path. And not only between people, but each person connecting with their spirit self in a more conscious way. That's what you're doing. That’s what our books are about. That's a big part of the shift in the global heartbeat. And it will be heard resonating and felt connecting. Yeah, that’s what this is all moving toward.
It’s so fun hearing you talk like this — it makes me want to be there with you.
You can be here to some degree. Like in your dreams — you got to see behind the scenes because part of yourself is awakened here. You are living in both worlds at times.
But the physical needs care, so you need to take care. Get grounded, sleep, eat well, drink water, and exercise. All those things they tell you on Earth that people say yeah, yeah, to — but all of it is true and helpful. More important than many think.
And have fun — that’s an important part of it too. To enjoy life and laugh. Even with all this happening, it's important to smile with life.
You can do this. I'm proud of you and I love you. Always know that. I'm here — in your heart, in your ear, in your dreams, in your thoughts. But not like a stalker.
Hah. Okay, you're making me laugh.
Laughter and tears. Sometimes they go together. Are you good?
I am. Thank you for all of this. I know it’s very special.
As are you. I love you, Dawn. And I’m in your heart-soul too.