by Lionel
My first encounter with them was off the coast of Florida in 1967. Many years later on my first visit to California in 1978, I began swimming with grey whales near Malibu Beach. Two years later I moved to Hawaii and began regularly swimming with dolphins — many times being surrounded within a ring of them, penetrated with sonar. For those who have not experienced this sonar communication, it can be overwhelming. It encompasses images, vibration, and sound quite different from what human communication is aware of.
In 1980, I met three humpbacks off Poipu, Kauai. This was a radical departure from contact and information garnered via dolphins. The encounter was written up in the Garden Island paper, as there were many witnesses. It took twenty years to understand what that encounter — the whales surrounding me, rolling above water to look, placing their fins above and around my head — an encounter full of “the touch of tone” comprised. Looking above water to gaze at humans is very rare for whales, an intimacy of great honour. Many other encounters augmented the sharing of the breath of life. The cetacean record (akashic, breath of life) of the “grail” (we use this only as some vague reference to “who is served by it?” or “how does one serve it?”) is over 400 million years long.
Bishop David is implying here that the vast cetacean intelligence is more concerned with imprinting and reading the mysterious Akashic, or Akasic, Record (both spellings are acceptable) than human intelligence is — but it seems highly likely that cetacean-human partnership and co-operation would enable the human participants to increase their Akasic literacy significantly. These Akasic Records themselves may best be defined as a concept found in the metaphysics of India. In essence, the Akasic Records theory suggests that they are a gigantic repository of the total memories from every incarnation of every intelligent being. Certain gifted individuals (human, cetacean, or otherwise) are thought to be able to extract information from these records. In theory, this could not only provide them with detailed information about past events, but could also enable them to make abnormally accurate predictions about the future, extrapolated from that vast reservoir of data.
It was also pointed out by Bishop David that the mystical connection between the mysteries of the sea and the strange Arcadian treasure could well have another important link with the enigma of the cetaceans. He reminded us that dolphins have five fins, and that the tradition of Merovée the Twice-Born, founder of the Merovingian Dynasty and a highly significant figure in the Arcadian enigma, involved his having a sea father as well as an earthly one. The possession of five fins would qualify a dolphin as a Quinotaur, the quin part of the name representing five, and the taur part being a bull. Dolphins are referred to as “bulls of the sea,” and David’s researches had led him to the parallel case of Princess Aithra, whose experiences had apparently been similar to those of Merovée’s mother. Aithra, the mother of the famous Greek hero Theseus, was said in the legend to have been pregnant by her husband, Aigeus, and Poseidon (or one of his aquatic minions such as a Quinotaur) simultaneously. Sweeping aside all the other mythical and legendary accretions, is there a suggestion that Theseus’s great strength, intelligence, and courage came from non-human, aquatic genes?
David also commented on the similarity between the words dolphin and dauphin (the title of an historic French royal ruler), a similarity that could owe its origins to the Merovée tradition.
One of the greatest and most beneficial of that category of sea mysteries that is associated with dolphins, as Bishop David explained to us during our interview with him, is their ability to provide communication therapy for autistic children. In his opinion, dolphins are able to exert healing powers in other areas, too. His final comments to us were particularly interesting:
Encounters of a mystical kind with cetaceans have similar effects on people from around the world — even when these people have never been apprised of what may happen. In other words, something is afoot (afin?) that is beyond our understanding. People who have swum with dolphins may have extraordinary dreams of sacred geometry. The principal forms? Hexagonal crystallography, rhomboid dodecahedrons, etcetera. In a sense they [the cetaceans] are teaching people the essence of spherical space. In fact, some have related that the dolphins will actually create these forms with their own bodies while sharing in the open sea. These effects are so consistent that more research is needed to establish the pattern of very real information hidden in these communications.
And so, on this high, optimistic note of what the future of human-cetacean partnership could yield, our selection of unsolved mysteries of the sea reaches its conclusion.
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