HABITATS - Australian outback and desert

For most of the year, Australia's unforgiving Outback bakes under an unrelenting Sun with the ancient rocks, buried beneath the red sands, capturing and holding the energy of the Sun's rays. Central Australia, at first glance, is one of the most inhospitable and uncultivable bodies of land to be found anywhere on Mother Earth.

The unearthly stillness of the Outback and sterility of the land induces a state of psychological emptiness, a meditative paradise capable of swallowing whole those who turn their back on her.

Often the only sound to be heard in the Outback is the unsympathetic, discouraging caw of the Crow circling overhead, looking for victims of the heat. If one were to sit in the silence and contemplate the medicine cry of this mysterious bird, one would begin to see the depressive call as a laconic, fundamental interpretation of the land itself.

"A Meditative Journey" A CD recorded by Scott Alexander King that guides the listener deep into their subconscious self where they are invited to explore their inner landscape and come face to face with their totem animal.

Animals of the Outback