Dolphins and Whales: Gateways to Healing
© Keith Varnum
On a cold, dark, overcast day thirty years ago,
a ray of warmth and light shown into my world from a most unexpected
source-the eye of a giant Humpback whale. In my young twenties and already
old with disillusionment at the state of the world, I was trying to escape
my despair by spending an afternoon at sea on a small boat. Without much
hope of success, I had been asking whoever might be listening for a sign of
something worth living for, some indication that there was light at the end
of the tunnel of this struggle of a life I had been enduring. That
afternoon, my prayers were answered by none less than the largest living
creature on the face of the earth.
Eye to Eye with a Whale
Lying despondent on the deck of the boat, disappearing into my mental
malaise, I suddenly found myself staring into the eye of a being the size of
a large office building. My gaze was locked into the penetrating gaze of
this mammoth animal who had surfaced from the depths just enough to peer
over the bow of my boat right into my face. Our eyes were only three feet
apart. There was no distance between our hearts. Our souls were already one.
I immediately dissolved into the depths of this being's
essence… a vast inner sea of spacious emptiness, allowing anything and
everything, embracing all that I was and so much more than I was even aware
of then. My mind went silent. My inner turmoil disappeared. I entered into a
sanctuary of profound, gentle union with my own self in the form of a huge
ocean creature.
Heart to Heart
In a very real sense, I have never left that sanctuary. I have carried with
me to this day that feeling of deep, complete acceptance that I received
from the whale. That taste of my true natural state has inspired me ever
since to search for ways to incorporate that knowing into every aspect of my
life and being.
Our Kindred Spirits of the Sea
The welcoming embrace of the whale for me that afternoon was not an isolated
incident. More and more often in the last twenty years around the world,
whales and dolphins have been initiating contact with humans. As dolphin
research expert, Timothy Wyllie, points out, "There's an awful lot of water
out there… the dolphins and whales don't have to interact with us if they
don't want to."
My dramatic experience of wholeness and expanded awareness being with the
whale was also not uncommon. Most people report regaining a natural, healthy
state by being in the presence of dolphins and whales and being enveloped by
the transformative emanations from these benevolent creatures. Cetaceans,
dolphins and whales, are constantly connected with the universal vibrations
coming from Source. Because they emit these vibrations abundantly and
freely, dolphins and whales have a
profound impact on humans in their vicinity. In their presence, people
experience vast increases in energy, vitality and awareness on all levels,
physical, emotional and spiritual.
Awake and Aware
Dolphins and whales are intelligent friends who live by expressing the
qualities we value--harmony, joyfulness, good health, beauty, wisdom, supple
movement, grace and respect for mutuality and freedom. Dolphins and whales
are at One with nature and the universe. They live in a state of love that
suspends judgment, anger and retaliation. Their exuberant celebration of
life is a call to humanity to explore its collective potential and
individual capacity for deeper compassion, more authentic self-expression
and more profound spiritual unfoldment.
Expanding Our World
In addition to the spirit of cooperation, peace, simplicity and love that
they demonstrate, dolphins and whales teach their human friends to expand
their mind, release limiting thoughts and feelings, and open to the wondrous
world of the unknown that they are gladly revealing. Timothy Wyllie shares
that "I love
being with the dolphins, but they are challenging companions. They teach me
how to let go… how to surrender to my own fear… how to reach the light by
going through to the other side."
Dolphin and whale interaction helps people go beyond our old limiting social
and cultural beliefs and assists us to realize that we're capable of a lot
more than we think we are. Their ability to use more of their physical,
sensory and intelligence potentials reminds us that we can do use more of
ours. For
instance, humans use only a very small portion of their brain capacity.
Dolphins and whales encourage people to use more of their brain by using
tonal language to stimulate their brain cells, as well as the cells of the
rest of their body.
Multi-dimensional Playmates
Playing with these wondrous creatures, people find they leave behind the
linear belief system of three dimensional time and space, entering an
altered state in which there are no time constraints and everything occurs
simultaneously. Cetaceans naturally play in multiple dimensions. They are
simultaneously experiencing life in the ocean and life in a holographic,
vibrational world of multi-level subtle realities in the fourth and fifth
dimensions. Swimming with dolphins and whales in their
multi-dimensional universe, people easily access empowering childhood
memories, enlightening past lives and exciting visions of their future.
The cetaceans serve as practical and inspirational examples to humans of the
possibilities existing beyond limited human belief systems. What these
advanced sea inhabitants are doing is exactly what humans will be doing in
the near future in this next century. Humans have the same physiological and
mental capabilities to do likewise. In their presence, people connect with a
direct knowing of their multi-dimensional nature and their greater identity
as galactic, cosmic voyagers. Merging with dolphin/whale awareness, people
open to an appreciation of our human role as conscious co-creators with
other species in the evolution of the Cosmos.
Communication by Direct Transmission
Cetaceans communicate in a way that requires an entirely different mind set
than the human cognitive-thinking model. Cetacean brains are larger and more
complex than humans. The largest brains on the planet are those of the
whales. Rather than words and sentences, dolphins and whales communicate
through vibration, through sonar and synchronized movement, through acoustic
images, sounds, feelings and group-energy fields. A lot of their sounds are
beyond our ability to hear, yet nevertheless, they still affect our bodies
and vibration.
They use a system of echo-location, acoustic imagery. The returning of sound
vibrational signals give a three-dimensional picture, which in some ways is
more sophisticated than human vision. For example, if a dolphin encounters a
sunken ship under the water and wants to share that discovery with another
dolphin, the dolphin will re-create, and send to the other dolphin, the
exact same vibrational patterns it receives back from the sunken ship. The
friend will experience the exact same three- dimensional picture that the
first dolphin experienced directly returning from the ship. Thus, dolphins
communicate through sharing direct experience, rather than through a symbol
(word) to attempt to represent their direct experience, as humans do.
Vibration as Art and Heart
Dolphins and whales feel vibrations, create holographic works of art all
around them, and then play in them. Because their sound waves actually
penetrate objects, dolphins and whales are believed to be able to "see
through" physical objects with their sonar in the manner of an x-ray.
Dolphins check out people with their sonar and strategically apply their
energies to the areas in need of healing. Dolphin behavior and
communications can assist humans to develop new and more effective healing
and living modalities for themselves and the planet. The success of dolphin
and whale society is based on certain vibrational frequencies, which we
label as love. As people are able to create that frequency in their bodies
by contact with cetaceans, they naturally draw to themselves more of the
same vibration,
great happiness, as well as people and things already existing in that
frequency. After swimming with dolphiins and whales, many people go home
with the decision to change their lifestyle into a way of living that will
support and promote that same vibrational feeling.
These cetaceans operate out of a different paradigm than the human race.
They have not been raised in a culture that requires primarily linear,
rational, one-dimensional thinking. They employ other ways of accessing
valuable information about their world. Cetaceans work with the
electromagnetic grids of the
planet, using these underwater pathways for worldwide navigation and to send
messages for thousands of miles beneath the sea. Humans can learn from the
ways of the dolphins and whales and enrich human life. As people and
cetaceans swim into the future together, they can co-create a world filled
with peace and fulfillment, communities around the world living in harmony
and once again able to be in constant contact with each other through
telepathic and vibrational means.
Bringers of Our Future
As people learn to merge their individual energy fields and atomic structure
with the harmonic frequencies of the dolphin and whale sounds and sonar,
they meet and master new aspects of human consciousness and life force. As
the cetaceans teach, it is by activating and aligning their golden,
spiraling, inner spheres of energy with the Universal Rhythms of Life that
allows humans to traverse new realms of consciousness, well being and
cooperation with each other and all forms of life.
When people go into the water and swim with the dolphins and whales, they
are never the same again. They can not go back to their old way of life.
People remember that they are meant to have more. They realize life is
intended to be lived more deeply, fully, passionately and joyously.
Living simply doesn't mean living without. It means living with a certain
vibrational frequency that attracts everything that's vibrating in that same
frequency. It's the message of the dolphins and whales… and of all great
masters. And it really works!
© Keith Varnum