Grandmother Whale Invites You
Grandmother Whale invites you to come with her. Come into the sea—the sea of your soul. Dive into your story. Re-member the stories before your own. The story written in your bones. Only then will you be ready to pass through the crack between worlds.
Grandmother Whale is keeper of the long memory. She remembers her ancestors who swam the seas before they ever walked the land. Before their limbs grew strong enough to carry them, before their lungs learned to breathe air. First, they had to see with new eyes.
Over millions of years, their eyes shifted upward until, like Crocodile, they could peer over the waterline. Pulled by curiosity, their limbs strengthened. To remain on land, they developed lungs, drawing oxygen from the air instead of water.
Remember, my dear: vision comes first.
Now Grandmother Whale dwells as a bridge between the world of mystery and emotion, and the world of mind and spirit.
Five thousand years ago, whales and humans first met as predator and prey. Fear lived on both sides. We hunted them, nearly silenced their songs. Since we outlawed the whale hunt, something astonishing is unfolding: whales approach us for help when tangled in our nets. They linger to say thank you. Some have even shielded humans from sharks.
Scientists have long recorded whale clicks and songs. Now, with artificial intelligence, they are decoding patterns of meaning. A threshold opens: inter-species understanding—enabled by our advanced technology and growing empathy.
When Whale crawled through the crack between sea and sky, she mirrored the journey every human takes: from the watery world of the womb into the breath of consciousness. So too are we, now, in a birth canal of history.
"The crack is where the light comes in." Leonard Cohen
Grandmother Whale, keeper of all memory, has this to say:
Take a deep breath. Dive into the depths of your story, into the stories remembered and lost. Know that your life is one page in a much larger book of survival. You are here because you descend from an unbroken line of survivors.
Remember what makes you human—your strengths and weaknesses, folly and wisdom. Swim with your pod. Sing your song. Dance your dance. Paint your pictures. Write your story. Carry all of who you are into this new world.
Re-member, then re-vision your world.
