ALCHERINGA…”dream time” of the Arunta…”The Eternal Dream Time”…(or) “The Dreaming”…of a sacred heroic time long long ago when man & nature came to be…a kind of narrative of things that once happened; a kind of charter of things that still happen; & a kind of logos or principle of order transcending everything significant…the act of dreaming, as reality & symbol, (by which)…the artist is inspired to produce a new song…(by which) the mind makes contact with whatever mystery it is that connects The Dreaming & the Here-&-Now.
–W.E.H. Stanner, “The Dreaming”