I’ve been listening to Penelope Smith’s “How to Communicate With Animals” training course. It’s a CD set available through her website http://animaltalk.net/AnimalTalkStore.htm. I understand more of what she’s saying every time I listen to her instructions and her commentary and encouragement. Both Penelope and Anna Breytenbach [see March 2015 Whale Journals]are gifted telepaths. They assure those of us who feel we have fuzz for brains that intuitive communication is every human’s birthright. “It’s just educated and shamed out of us at a young age” they say. Obviously there are those for whom this comes more easily. I don’t seem to be one of them. However, I persevere.

Penelope Smith says that telepathy exercises work better with a partner who can give you feedback about how they received your transmission or whether you received their’s clearly. Human partners who speak the same language as you are good partners for beginners. After that you can graduate to pets who can give feedback through their behaviour and the way they respond to you. This sounds all well and good but I think the best partners for me are trees. We seem to have an understanding. I am under, they are standing. Truly, I seem to receive a lot of positive energy from trees. Which is more than I can say of some domesticated dogs or peckish roosters or rowdy parrots.

I had an interesting experience with the humpback whales though. Today I went to the ocean. It was calm and sprinkling rain. I was walking on the beach, over cobbles slippery with seaweed, becoming one with the cobbles, feet fluid in the landscape. I thought of Penelope Smith’s telepathy exercise to “open the doors of your heart” and let the messages from other beings in. I stood on the beach and looked SE down Georgia Strait in the direction that the humpbacks would be coming and opened the doors of my heart to the whales.

It’s like they almost FLEW OPEN! And here are the whales inside of me! What a strange feeling – it took me by surprise – how fast it’s happened – WAIT! – did I slam the door in shock? COME BACK!! – No, here they are. They seem to be with me in a companionable sort of way now – very low key. I show them the beach through my sense perceptions. Maybe this is just my imagination. I can live with that. Everyone has to start somewhere, nest paw?