Author: Jude Abrams

Whale-Journals – April 2015 – Our Inner Whale

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?

Whale Journals-March 2015

Celebration and relief! I just finished a Research & Creation Grant application for the Canada Council for the Arts and sent it to Ottawa via Canada Post. I’m calling this project “Welcoming Whales”, a double meaning [one for each blowhole]?

We won’t find out whether the jurors on the committee like my proposal enough to give me money for it until July. But whales don’t wait until a grant comes through to show up. So my plan is to get out in April/May and sail the waves in the trusty Blue Parrot ship. It would be a dream come true to meet the humpback whales as they return to play and feed in the Salish Sea.

Until then it’s time to work on this website which has a working title of “the nature of women & girls” I’m sorting through photos, video clips interviews etc. that might be of interest to folks who want to deepen their own connection to the rest of the natural world.

In November of 2013 Terry http://amphibiographer.tv/ and I drove US Interstate Highway I 5, negotiating monsoon rains and torpedoing transport trucks, to deepen our nature connection by participating in a course given by Anna Breytenbach and Jon Young. “Animal Communication & Intuitive Tracking” opened the possibility of mind to mind sharing with other sentient beings and reading the life energy of a being while tracking. Both of these ancient indigenous arts invoked profound experiences in us that inspired this project. If you do not know their work you can find Anna at http://animalspirit.org/ and Jon at http://8shields.org/ They are incredible human beings and awesome mentors of humans of all ages and cultures.

Well, it’s expensive to get out in a boat, even an old sailboat for a few months so I’d better sign off and invent some means to do it.

until next time.

Whale tails – the way it used to be

It wasn’t too long ago that 10 times as many great whales courted, mated, sang and frolicked in the oceans of Earth. Their songs danced over thermoclines in the water – interfaces between layers of water of different temperatures. Using the temperature differences of adjoining layers of water as their musical instruments and their huge resonant heads vibrated chamber music, filling the oceans with song the way birdsong fills the air above. There were 10 times the whales and dolphins and also 10 times the fish, krill coral but we all know that. Someimes it’s the little things that make a huge difference, a cellular change. And someitmes it’s the big things, like banning sonar blasts in frequencies that kill whales and dolphins like giving up war and sourcing energy and food and resources locally so less tanker traffic croeds the useful ocean currents. And designing whale friendly ships and fishing gear.

Then there will be whales again – lots of whales and krill and algae and the oceans will come alive.

Whales and dolpnins can helo us if we help them. They can help us reconnect with our love of mother ocean, our love of plannet earth, our love of our own natures.

Communing and communicating – learning from each other it’s what we’ve always done. We can do it again – not to destroy each other or exploit each other but to enjoy each other’s company. Let’s do it!