A Whale Tale
And then it happened.
After about 4 months of nightly visitations from the whales in the Dream World, we were finally sharing the same ocean.
Sunrays penetrated the deep blue water as I dove through a sea of eerily beautiful whale song. I couldn’t see any, and that wasn’t the point. The point was that I was receiving the most incredible sound bath I could ever imagine, and as I could feel the vibration of their songs enter my joyful little heart, I began to sing back. Or croak back. Sing-croak-grunt- back.
Then, a miracle took place.
Have you ever had a dog bark at you, then barked back and noticed how energized it gets? Have you noticed how it feels your bark and then barks back with a new excitement? Have you noticed how when you match that excitement, the dog barks back with an even greater excitement? And how that process can build and build and build?
This same thing happened with my new singing whale friend.
I did my sing-croak-grunt back to it, and somehow it was perfectly clear and obvious that the whale could hear the response, and feel it - and even enjoy it. The whale sang back with an apparent enthusiasm to be in song-communication.
We went back and forth singing back to each other, with a song that was enlivening itself with each response. It felt like an orchestra reaching its peak.
I was giddy. I was diving through the ocean, down and up, sing-croak-grunting through my snorkel with this whale.
Finally, at the bottom of one descent, I spun around.
There was Mama Whale; the most incredible, powerful, gentle and gigantic being I’d ever seen in my life, 20 feet from my tiny-feeling body.
I couldn’t believe it.
We kept singing back and forth with each other. She swam slowly around me, her giant eye locking with mine.
2 years prior I made a statement to the Universe that I would be underwater sharing an intimate moment with a whale, and here we were.
We spent about thirty minutes underwater together. She stayed close, swimming with a calmness and elegance that relaxed my whole being. I didn’t need to follow her, we just swam together in a very dream-like state .
I saw some kayaks in the distance coming our way and I knew that our 1:1 time was coming to a close – and so did she. Before swimming away, Mama Whale took a dip and swam right under my body and took one gigantic croak-grunt song-gargle.
The vibrations reverberated through every bone in my body, and every cell of my being. To put into words the energy that this croak-grunt-song-gargle carried and delivered into my body would be like describing the feeling of the Big Bang being blown into your body.
What I will say is that the energy this song carried was the most incredible sensation of love I had every experienced. It was the love of a mother; a mother of about 80,000 pounds with the heart that loves so deeply it could create galaxies, realities and worlds within worlds. That love flooded my entire body. It wasn’t even a love that said “I love you.” It was simply, pure love. There was no “I” to love anyone “else.” Love itself enveloped me and I felt held in the most incredible state of being I had ever experienced. I was transported into a world through this whale transmission and all I could do when I reached the surface of the water was to curl up on my paddle board in fetal position and say “oh my god.” “oh my god.” “oh my god.”
That lasted about another 30 minutes until I came back into a capacity to get myself up to my knees and see how far the current had taken me.
This was the beginning of a new chapter in life. A chapter that has felt a love so indescrible it still brings me to tears to my eyes and gives me goosebumps to feel. A love so electric that my body buzzes even when remembering this encounter. This was the beginning of a life where whale encounters are like seeing a favorite family member after many months away.
I am counting down the months until I return to those blue waters where the whales are giving birth to their young, and singing the most eerily beautiful and lifechanging song – croak – gargle I could ever imagine.