Newsgroups: alt.magick
From: oispeggy@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu (Peggy Brown)
Subject: Re: dolphins and dreamtime
Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1993 15:01:00 GMT

Anna Weekes (weekes@mtb.und.ac.za) writes:
>>> I am looking for information or book titles pertaining to the
>>> following: 
>>> * the dreamtime achieved by aborigines where they become dolphins
>>>   through an outer-body experience 
>>> * the power of dolphin healing therapy as a result of dreamtime or
>>>   any other magick 
>>> * personal experiences as a dolphin

joshua geller (joshua@sleepy.retix.com) writes:
>>oh please.

E.J.Leoni-Smith (leo@elmail.co.uk) writes...
> I know, I know. Take some perfectly respectable and uaseable
> shamanic ritual like dreaming your way into a dolphins mind, and
> then go all post bambi and New Age on it. Makes yer wanna Puke don't
> it.

Yes. Which is why I was ignoring this.....

I've never been a dolphin, but I have been a whale many times.  I've
been swimming laps for the past 15+ years and this just sort of
evolved without any deliberate intention.  My advice is to swim,
preferably freestyle with rhythmic breathing, so you get a slight
oxygen deprivation effect.  Clear your mind and don't think of
anything except the physical experience of the water and your body
swimming in the water.  You must be able to comfortably do at least 25
laps without stopping.  Then dream your way into being a dolphin.  The
sensory deprivation and oxygen deprivation, and rhythmic
motion/breathing effects brought on by the water are very helpful.
Don't see how one could do it without this, but I'm not a Pacific
Islander or aborigine, just an ordinary "Y" member, so what do I know.

> My personal experience of being a fox was completely irrelevant to
> being a human being. So I really don't talk about it ;-)

A fox, eh?  :)
- Peggy -

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