Geral Blanchard, LPC, is a psychotherapist who is university trained in psychology and anthropology. Formerly of Wyoming and currently residing in Iowa, Geral travels the world in search of ancient secrets that can augment the art and science of healing. From Western neuroscience to Amazonian shamanism, he has developed an understanding of how to combine old and new healing strategies to optimize recovery, whether from psychological or physical maladies.
MDMA: May Dolphin Magic Arise
Geral T. Blanchard • September 4, 2022
I was walking alone along a tributary of the Amazon River when a beautiful and magical incident occurred.
Standing quietly on the shore I gazed out with a calmness that enveloping forested areas tend to bring out in me. While I had heard stories of pink dolphins residing inland, far from the Pacific Ocean, specifically in the Amazon Basin, I never anticipated I would ever see one.
Suddenly the snout and head of a dolphin emerged from the water immediately in front of me. It stared at me curiously (I think) making a high pitched sound. Visually color challenged as I am, I noticed something very different about this male relative, Dolphin was pink. I squatted down to get closer to water level hoping to seem less imposing. And I decided to talk to him (gender determined later). As soon as I did so, Dolphin slid back underwater. Well, “That was cool!” I thought.
A short time later, maybe a minute or so, he arose from the water balancing a dark clump of something on his snout. He swam right up to me. I understood it to be a gift so I lifted it from his head and set it aside me. Dolphin disappeared again. Moments later, he was back once more with another lump of what later turned out to be a hardened chunk of soil. It was placed next to me and I thanked him.
Now I reached out with my hand to touch him, to connect with Dolphin. He lovingly (again, my sense of it) stared at me, checking me out. When my hand touched him above and behind the eyes, he glided closer and rolled over. I took it as an invitation to stroke his belly, which he physically indicated he loved.
The event seemed to deliver several messages related to connecting with the rest of the animal world, including those who are the finned ones, not just the two-leggeds. It also said something about shared consciousness and communicating with a universal, primal, audible and inaudible, language. Then there was the gifting, an expression of reciprocity which implies a cooperative, collaborative, and supportive relationship between all live forms, all family members.
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This memory was rekindled after reading today’s morning meditation by Frederique Pichard, a dolphin intelligence researcher. Pichard recalled spotting a dolphin swimming in the harbor near her home in Royan, France. There was a call felt, as if Dolphin was a distant relative in search of her. Pichard immediately waded into the water and gently approached what she estimated was a 750- pound lost friend. She extended her arms, hands turned upward, and Dolphin scooted over to be cradled in them, what Pichard called a pivotal magical encounter in her scientific and spiritual studies. The French scientist wrote, “He [Dolphin] had instantly felt that I was no stranger in the world of vibrations.” And the human went on, “I think I was being taken down to the cellular level.”
Since then, Pichard discovered a new way to communicate with “other” species – something that was no longer through artistic expression alone, but via something more subtle, namely vibration. This was a subtle yet deep form of communication from cell to cell, a language of bodily vibrations.
Dolphins, she has observed, live constantly in what is called an alpha brain wave state -- an altered state of consciousness as we know it -- when they can be half awake, half asleep. In such a state of consciousness, we/they/us can become one with the universe, embracing all that is while feeling safely connected.
Some of you who have encountered ceremonial MDMA may appreciate this altered state of consciousness, a positive regression into primal awareness and connection with all that is sentient.
Pichard concluded that when we feel very lonely, this is a call to Nature, not always to another romantic partner or a stranger sitting next to us at a bar. She writes: “We are the universe, all of us together, even when we think that we are alone. Our human suffering is often due to the illusion of separation, which generates cravings and feelings of abandonment.”
Then there is one other mammalian relative that Pichard is captivated with, Whale. She has said, “According to the indigenous myth of the Fifth Dream, humans were dreamt into being by whale.” Whale has a very high frequency voice she has noted, much like Dolphin, and also somewhat like the music of Mozart. Creatures of the sea world are singing us into a unifying transformation, ascension. Finally, Pichard concluded with this communication received from her harbor friend, Dolphin: “I am coming with you, but I am not carrying you.
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Additional Reading: Reconnecting to the Source by Ervin Laszlo
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