84. Cetaceans

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Cetaceans, the Wet Mammals

Lecture based Questions:

1. Draw or describe a reminder or symbol of one of your helpers.

You have hundreds of helpers: angels, Masters, teachers, guides, your soul mate, ancestors, loved ones, animals, and nature spirits. Living in the physical world, or free from all earthly constraints, these helpers are always wishing you well. Focus your attention on one, and record your impressions—a fragrance, color, thoughtform, or perhaps a message.

2. Why do we feel such a kinship with cetaceans?

Dolphins, porpoises, and whales are equal to humans in spiritual evolution. They are parallel life forms, meaning that they have roughly the same personal power that we do. We often feel a similar attraction to other types of animals, who are also parallel life forms.

3. Are they just as intelligent as we are?

Some are less bright, some are equally brainy, and some are smarter than we are. Just as in humans, intelligence is karmic rather than a bellwether of spiritual accomplishment. The most developed whales have large brains and can do great feats of abstract thought. As is the case with all non-humans, animal life evolves faster at a spiritual level than human life, because the suffering is greater.

4. What is the ideal relationship that we should have with them?

The time will come when all humans will realize that we should not enslave, capture, or harvest other animals. Of course, that time is not now. We will eventually develop nutritional technologies that do not take life. But for the present, we must honor the cycle for what it is and not push unnaturally before we are ready.

5. How do cetaceans look in the Astral World?

The law of appearance in the Astral World is to shape ourselves according to our self-image and also according to the expectations of those around us. So, they usually maintain the forms that they had in their former incarnations, until they feel like exploring other types of shapes and begin to enjoy controlling the appearance of their bodies. Ditto for us.

6. Can we have incarnations as dolphins?

There are no limitations or impossibilities in the universe. It is certainly an available choice for a person to have an incarnation as a dolphin. A human who incurred no new karma in an animal life would be free to move back and forth between types of incarnations. Otherwise, one would be contained within the karmic laws of that species.

7. Can cetaceans try human incarnations?

It has happened. However, whenever we jump species, we are necessarily separated from our Soul Clans. This can be a lonely road without our families, and cetaceans hardly ever leave their Soul Clans. The pull is strong to remain within the pod for the duration of karmic development.

8. Exercise: The Compensating Senses, an exercise in empathy

Without arms, hands, fingers, tools, legs, and feet, other parts of a person tend to expand in development. Let us explore what it is like to create a kingdom of information and influence without our human appendages.

• Hold your breath as long as you can. Exhale explosively and then oxygenate before holding your breath again.

• With your arms and legs completely relaxed, become aware of the trunk of your body and its strength.

• Imagine that your Third Eye Chakra has a physical appendage that feels like a radar dish. As you turn your head, your new radar picks up information from nearby and also far away. You can easily send energy through this radar center.

• The atmosphere around you has become very solid, although you can move through it. The slightest sound and movement carries through the atmosphere with obvious information.

• Make clicking sounds with your glottis, and send the sound upward through your Third Eye Chakra. Explore different clicking patterns and their effect through your Chakra.

• Subvocalise in your larynx, and imagine this sound echoing outward through the solid atmosphere around you. What are the emotions that you are expressing?

• Expand your awareness to the members of your Soul Clan. Feel their continual emotional embrace and communication. Imagine yourself swimming with them in a never-ending journey.

• Extend that awareness to the angelic Guardian who is responsible for the guidance of the pod. Even higher, you can feel the smooth vibrations of the angels who supervise the ocean in which you are swimming.

• In this mode, imagine yourself exploring, fishing, communicating, and sensing.

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We’re Having a Whale of a Time

Do you like to eat fish? Are you talkative? Would you like to broadside a shark? Do you delight in traveling? Are you a nudist? Is swimming one of your favorite activities? Then you might enjoy an incarnation as a cetacean!

Because all animals evolve faster than humans, it would be a fine opportunity for paying off karma at a relatively fast rate. However, keep in mind that karmic cycles belonging to other species can be difficult to break free from. The law of correspondence calls upon us to pay off negative karma in the form that we have made it. Just as Devas must fulfill their human karmic debts in human form, so would animal karma be necessarily be paid in like kind. Also reflect on the fact that dolphins don’t have cable TV. When jumping species, it is wise to keep in mind that shorter life spans have less opportunity for karmic debt. In other words, it would be wiser to spend a few days as a butterfly than to spend 60 years as killer whale. Any lifetime as a predator tends to rack up the karma, creating a circle of indebtedness that ties us to that specific species. One lifetime as a predator can possibly give rise to a cycle of several additional lifetimes in that set of circumstances.

Because their identities are closely linked to a watery environment, all water-dwelling life-forms maintain their familiar surroundings in between incarnations. Thus there are underwater Astral bardos where the Soul Clans of dolphins hang out in. There are underwater schools of higher learning for marine animals. In the same way, humans and surface animals also gravitate to Astral scenes that resemble our air-breathing/earth homes. Of course, in the Astral World, air is not air and water is not water. These are merely extensions of thought and expectation. We can just as easily live “under water” in the Astral World, and a dolphin could similarly live “above water” in the Astral World. Actually, many of us do explore these different Astral scenes as we become more curious and confident in our Astral abilities. Animals and humans cross into each others’ playgrounds and become more familiar with cross-species communication.

At this stage in human development, we are the ultimate predators on the planet. We are given the choice to abuse this power or to puzzle out an alternative lifestyle that will not oppress the lives of others. How we use this position will determine our fate as a species. This is not our only species of incarnation. We have used other types of bodies in the millions of years that we have struggled in to understand the rules of the game of life. We shall continue onward no matter what, but the direction of our going is determined by every choice each of us makes today.

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Cetaceans Can Really Blow Hot Air

(some science facts)

The two orders of existing whales are Mysticeti (baleen whales); Odontoceti (with teeth).

•Baleen whales are classified into three groups of about twelve species. They live on krill and plankton. The best-known baleen species are right whales, gray whales, blue whales, fin whales, and humpback whales.

•Whales who have teeth live on fish and squid. They are classified into five groups of about thirty main species. The best-known toothy whales are pilot whales, beaked whales (dolphins and porpoises), beluga whales, killer whales; and sperm whales.

All cetaceans maintain a body temperature of 93° to 99° F. They breathe air through their blowhole nostrils. Toothy whales have a single nostril and baleen whales have double nostrils. The gestation period for babies varies from ten to sixteen months, depending on the size and complexity of the whale. This is so that the child will have enough motor skills to be autonomous in the hostile watery environment, although it nurses for six months to a year. The smaller whales live around 30 years, and scientists guess that the largest whales live around 100 years, although I am told that 200 years for a large blue whale is normal. Larger whales defy human observation, and the whales that are small enough to be captured do what they can to forge some means of communication with our biologists.

Dolphins have beaked snouts, long sleek bodies, and hooked dorsal fins. They are classified into three groups—Platanistidae, Delphinidae, and Grampidae—of about fifty species. *The dolphin fish (mahi-mahi or dorado) is not a whale, but a real fish.* Dolphins live in all the seas and oceans and in some large rivers, such as the Ganges and the Amazon.

Both dolphins and porpoises are small-toothed whales belonging to the Delphinidae class. Porpoises are different from dolphins in that they have rounded snouts, triangular dorsal fins, and compact round bodies. They are either entirely black or black and white. They belong to the sub-class Phocaena of approximately four species.

Humans can discern two kinds of sounds that dolphins make—clicks and whistles. Clicks are nasal-made and can rise into ultrasound frequency. They sound like buzzes or quacks. The melon (the part of a dolphin’s face that resembles a bulging forehead, it is made of fatty tissue) amplifies this sound and the forehead part of the skull directs the sound. Clicks can be used as sonar or as acoustic shock to stun or kill small food. Whistles are larynx-made and are similar to our language, although much faster in speed.

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