There are many many stories which depict me as a "hero" saving humans lives, or befriending them, these span several hundreds of years, so I will now recount just a few of them to illustrate how deep my relationship is with my ancestors, man.
We shall start by returning to Pliny "The Elder" a Roman Naturalist who wrote the great work "Natural History" , he recounts in this the true story of a poor boy who was befriended by a wild Dolphin, this Dolphin would carry the boy to school and back across the sea each day. One night, sadly, the boy died, when his friend the Dolphin realized that the boy was dead, so deep was his empathy that he himself died of sorrow. Pliny wrote and I quote "I should have been ashamed to tell this story were it not that it had been written about already by MAECENAS & FABIANUS & FLAVIOUS ALFIUS and many other notable people"
From the beginning of recorded history there have been tails of Dolphins helping shipwrecked humans and one of the earliest known is by ARION in 600BC, unfortunately the details are not fully known, so I shall move on to the present day.
In 1960 off the coast of grand Bahama Island Yvonne Bliss fell overboard. She was out of sight of land and many hours from the shore. The currents were extremely heavy and still without sight of land she was exhausted! Suddenly she saw a large animal, at first thinking it was a shark she endeavored to swim away from it, however it was of course, a Dolphin and this Dolphin "pushed" her out of the strong currents and into a tidal stream, which carried her to the shore. The Dolphin stayed with her until she reached safety and as she stumbled ashore , it swam away. In her own words she says" As I turned towards the shore stumbling, losing my balance and saying a prayer of thanks my rescuer took off".
There are equally numerous records of Dolphins helping ships with navigation, once again I shall recount but a few.
First, in New Zealand in the year 1888 for 24 years a solitary Bottle nose Dolphin guided EVERY ship safely across the dangerous Cook Straight, day or night.
As recently as 1978 four South African fisherman, Kobus Stander and his three companions, were lost in treacherous waters during a dense fog, their visibility was down to two meters. Suddenly four Dolphins appeared and surrounded their boat and began to nudge it. Kobus realized that the Dolphins were helping them and began steering the boat to the left - just in time too - for the men heard the waves crashing on treacherous rocks and through a gap in the fog were able to see just how close they had come to disaster, it would have been only one more minute and their boat would have been smashed to pieces on the rocks. The Dolphins nudged the boat for another ninety minutes, at which time they circled the boat, indicating for it to stop. When the fog lifted the men found that they were safe and sound in their home bay!
In the present day I, along with my fellow dolphins, are reaching out around the world to the human race, to re-connect people who are actively seeking out an intelligent relationship, above all we are teaching them to PLAY, to re-kindle the deepest essences within them selfs and to reconnect with their lost Spirituality. We, in the wild, will actually seek out stay and play with sensitive, loving willinging humans, but we shun the egotistical and controlling types, they have not yet reached a stage in their journey through life where they are willing to learn of love and joy , or to experience the perpetual ecstatic dance of sheer exuberance, the pure joy of just being alive, which is the essence of Spirituality. Dolphins are trying to re-unite people with this and I will just mention a lovely story which illustrates this.
In 1964 at Monkey Mia , North Western Australia, on a sweltering hot tropical night lit by a full moon, Alice waters was unable to sleep.
She wandered on deck and saw a Dolphin splashing around, so she went and got a fish from the cooler which, gently the Dolphin took from her hand. Little did she know then that this one act of reaching out, would now attract an annual number of people in the vicinity of 60,000, who come and stand thigh deep in water to stroke, feed and interact with us.
We have an infectious effect on all human beings, we bring a heightened state of "beingness" and such deep levels of healing, that people with pathological states of mind travel across the world to experience "Dolphin" Healing. Doctors and psychotherapists who are unable to heal chronic fear of water, clinical depression, Autism, have fully documented the healing powers of the Dolphins. They have recorded that patients are either fully healed or that a deep remission occurs simply from intimate encounters with us. Certain cases of Autistics, have achieved unprecedented levels of expression, by simply engaging with the Dolphins, in a way that has not been achievable by humans.
In the field of Psychoneuro Immunology, it has been clearly shown that there is a link between the emotions and illness, especially the link with grief, depression, fear and extended sadness and suppression of the immune system. A healing experience with us opens the heart and is playfully referred to as "open heart surgery" i.e. being powerfully opened up to deep levels of emotions previously suppressed and closed, especially those of compassion.
Our joy, love, compassion and caring for others life forms makes us the only other species, along with our cousins the whales, who are known to actively go out of their way to help another species without seeking any self-gain! And we are actively seeking to remedy the "ills" which at this time of writing are causing so much grief and devastation to our planet.
Now that you have read a little of my story I trust that you will endeavor to stop ALL of the cruel and inhuman practices which have been perpetrated on us! One practice that of asking us to perform demeaning "tricks" at the various "fun" parks around the globe, should be ceased immediately and the victims rehabilitated in natural salt water pools and returned to the wild, those who are beyond rehabilitation must be cared for in a safe environment by humans for the rest of their lives. Another plea I make is to keep the oceans of the world clean, pick up all your litter, even if you are far from the sea, for eventually most, if not all, of it will be washed through storm water drains and end up in the nearest ocean.
I am reaching out to humans, actively seeking to help them reach the deepest spiritual levels, the very essences of life, joy, love, compassion , sheer bliss at being alive and a sense of brotherhood within all peoples, please help me to stay alive and healthy, to be cared for as I care for you!
