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Listening to Whales

“What we need most to do is to hear within us the sounds of the Earth crying.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

We are living in a time where evidence of the brokenness within the sacred web of life is

becoming more painfully apparent each day. I am concerned that our attempts to understand

and make amends will be unfulfilled and counterproductive unless we can learn to listen to the

Soul of the World. Without this deep communion, we will not understand how to participate in

what is unfolding now. In a dream in 2009, I was given a glimpse into the nature of this time as

an ‘awful birth’.

I’m called down to the shore of an island in northern Ontario by two friends who have just

paddled in. Gesturing out to the water, they tell me about a huge creature they’ve seen. As

they talk, a whale surfaces out in the bay. It comes straight toward us, arching and cresting

through the water, and calmly beaches himself right in front of us on the small sandy shore.

Sensing he wants to communicate I run up to the house to get my camera feeling no one will

believe me if I don’t record the moment. When I return, the creature is gone.

I wake, horribly disappointed at the opportunity I’ve missed. Later that morning, still very

upset at my self-serving behavior in the dream, I decide to commune with the whale through

automatic writing. This is the message I received: