I have been your fervent supporter and admirer since I have heard you speaking on TV for the first time years ago. I prayed for your success and was overwhelmed with joy when you were elected. Even though I am not American and do not live in the States, or maybe just because of this, I saw the possibilities of change for the whole world become possible, a new area of understanding and also of caring for our beloved planet. Because I believed, what you had promised.

That is why my disappointment has been even greater these last months, when I read that you were according permits for offshore drilling in the last pristine wilderness in Alaska to Shell Oil. After the disaster in the Gulf of Mexico you may revise your decision. At least I do hope so.

But the real reason to write this letter is your decision to vote for suspending the whaling ban for 10 years at the International Whaling Commission next month. Up to now only three countries have dared to break this ban for purely financial profits, by declaring it as “Scientific Research”! And the world let them go on with it.

In the years before the whaling ban up to 38,000 whales have been slaughtered per year, now the toll is about “only” 1,240 a year. How many will die when the ban is lifted? Whales die in atrocious pain for being served to children at school and the rests go into dog meat. Is this human?

Dear Mr. President, you have grown up in Hawaii, you surely have seen the whales coming to the islands in winter, you may even have been lucky to encounter one while swimming; how could you stand up in front of your children and the whole world and say: Yes, we can  - even exterminate the whales!

You have taken a heavy load on your shoulders by accepting this position as not only the most powerful man in the States, but up to now, on this Planet. I still admire you and wish you the strength to stand up for your promises and for your deepest conviction. That is why you are in this position.

Dear Mr. President, I am pleading for the whales and our beautiful Blue Planet, I beg you to think again to whom you will give your voice – to Life or Death!

Respectfully and may God bless you,

Mrs. DeeDee Bader

PS: It would be a pleasure for me to send you a free download of my book ‘Malama, a spiritual adventure for the protection of the whales and dolphins’ if you are interested.

www.thereismoreinlife.com

This day the dolphins were tired from their feeding spree at night and they came into the bay without the joyful  jumping and spinning in the air. Lazily they swam deep down in large circles, sleeping as they do with one half of the brain, one eye closed, as they are conscious breathers and have to think to come up to fill their lungs with air.

Most of the people from our boat got bored by the lack of action and so, finally, I found myself all alone following the dolphins, floating silently and with just the slightest movements over them. I never get enough of watching these sleek, harmonious bodies in their perfectly coordinated moves.

But I had to leave the next day and I wanted to say good bye. So in my heart I started to talk: “My dear friends, I know you understand me. I have to say good bye, I will have to leave you and this precious island tomorrow and go far away. I want to thank you for being here and having allowed me to swim with you and see your beauty and grace, thank you from my deepest heart. I’ll come back, I don’t know when, but I’ll come back and you will recognize me again.  I will think of you when I’m back where I live, on the other side of the globe, and remember all the beautiful hours I have spent in your company. Thank you, thank you, thank you!”

At this moment one of the dolphins turned over looking straight up to me and then, with a quick movement, came to the surface, swimming at arm-length one full turn around me, looking full in my eyes.

My heart soared with joy and gratitude, he had heard and understood me, he had come to say good bye. I was so full of sheer bliss my heart overflew and tears filled my eyes.

He swam down again to join his pod and I thought it was the end, but no! He was just half down when the others, the whole pod of about 30 dolphins, like one man, sorry, like one dolphin, came shooting up, exploding all around me in a firework of glittering bodies and splashing water. Some were so close to me that I felt their pressure on my body. As fast as they had come up, they disappeared.

They were gone, I was alone. And I was there, alone in the ocean, whooping and laughing and crying out my joy and gratitude.

I did not realize that the people on the boat had been looking out for me, as I was, again, the last one to return, and they had witnessed this spectacle. So when I came back on board, they greeted me with enthusiasm and wanted to know how this could happen.

Well, I had just opened my heart and let it talk.

And not only in the last couple of years. Since World War 2 one may say we live on another planet. It looks more and more as if two forces were tearing in opposite directions in the different parts of the world; progress versus clinging to dogmas; opening versus shutting down.

Scientists search for the reasons of the global warming, governments try to impose regulations while big industries continue to exploit and destroy the last wildlife spaces.

For thousands of years, wise people from all parts of the planet have warned that this time would come. In different pictures, different stories, native shamans, healers and priests wrote down what they read in the stars and what they had learned from their forefathers.

The Maya called it ‘The End of Time’ and we know now that it will happen in the year 2012.

Many people want to press the lemon and make their fortune with it. In horror pictures and fantastic projections they paint the end of the world, while scientists with open hearts and open minds begin to see another reality.

We are not facing “the End of the World” but the “End of a World Age”

We change from Pisces to Aquarius in the 25624-year long voyage through the signs, and the old cultures knew about this as one can see on the famous disc of the zodiac signs in the Hathor Temple of Dendera in Egypt. (I’ve just been there, splendid!)

Now we not only enter a new Zodiac sign, we are at the end of a 5125-year cycle and at the same time at the most distant point of our solar system from the center of our Galaxy. In ancient scriptures this was called the Kali Yuga, the dark time, where we lose the connection to the Central Energy.*

But what is the importance of the whales in this?

The whales are the biggest still living mammals on our planet. They have been here before us and are said to have access to the akashic records.

All other animals of this size, the dinosaurs for example, have disappeared by natural catastrophes or simply because they could not adapt to the changes quickly enough.

Whales are highly conscious beings and able to communicate on a conscious level, like the dolphins. Research shows, that they have a language and communicate all over the globe. They have important things to tell us, if only we would listen. Mankind has killed them for survival, with equal chances for both.  Then industrial demands augmented and with it the number of whaling ships and almost no one who used the products, knew where they came from or lost any thoughts about the atrocious death pains of the victims.

Whales are protected now by law, but not all Nations see the absolute necessity to adhere to this convention. Three Nations still continue the cruel trade of whaling, hidden under the name of “Scientific Research” in Japan, in Norway they say that whales and dolphins eat too much fish, Iceland may be just to make money.

There is no scientific research! Except perhaps to determine how long a person can eat whale before showing empoisoning symptoms with mercury and other toxic chemicals our oceans, and thus the beings at the top of the food-chain, are polluted with.  The same is valid for the military research of Ultra Low Sonar waves to detect submarines; how many whales have to die from loss of their orientation systems before the first enemy vessel is detected?

We need the whales and all still naturally living animals, all the last pristine untouched spaces on this planet to give our planet the chance to cross this challenging time-limit of December 21 in the year 2012, to give us the chance to enter into the Golden Age, a higher level of consciousness and give humanity the chance to use the technical and scientific discoveries for what humanity was made to become:

The conscious connection between Matter and Energy,

Brain and Heart,

 To make our world a better place to live on.

*see Fractal Times, Gregg Braden

I do not watch TV-news very often; there are too much negative affirmations and too few search for positive solutions in my opinion. It’s as if good news did not raise the same interest from the public.

But yesterday I switched on TV just in time to hear that Iceland, this northern country known for her volcanoes, her hot springs and her recent financial breakdown, had decided to apply for the admission into the European Union. Another one, I thought, for even though I had been a fervent supporter of the EU in the beginning, feeling the effects of it in our daily life I have cooled off a bit. It will take some more time and lots of talking until Europe will be really One and yet allowing each member to maintain its unique customs and qualities.

And now Iceland wants to join the big family. As we all know, Iceland has started whaling again last year. The big EU-countries Germany, France, Italy, Netherlands, Austria, are strictly against whaling. So it would be impossible to allow a country into the Union that still practices this cruel and completely unnecessary industry, especially as it is for purely financial gain of some shortsighted and unscrupulous individuals and the indigene people do not depend on the flesh to survive. Iceland is a modern country and it’s not to her favor to continue slaughtering already endangered species. The EU could never admit a new country as a full member that does not respect certain essential conditions for the protection of the environment. So there is hope that soon, even before the admission is legal, Iceland will have to stop whaling.

Welcome Iceland and thank you for saving the lives of the whales.

Hopefully the time will come when the last two whaling nations Norway and Japan might be brought to revise their politics concerning whaling, dolphin slaughter and fishery practices, maybe by the power of economic pressure: cars, TVs and other products against the life of marine mammals …

In the old times, they were a part of the food the Hawaiian people took from nature for their survival. But they never took more than they needed, only one at the time and always from a different place, so the population would not be endangered. Only when the strangers came with their ships, they started abusing nature by taking turtles as a convenient living food-reserve on their vessels to change from whale and fish.

Today the turtles are protected by Law. But they are not safe yet as people out of neglect   and mindless action put them in danger. How? You say, nobody wants to hurt the turtles so how could this happen?

Well, turtles are not only grazing the algae in the water, they are very fond of jellyfish too. So when people at the beach carelessly throw away their cigarette butts or burry them in the sand, they don’t think about any danger for the turtles. But the wind and the waves can transport the butts into the water and there only the thin paper dissolves, the rest of tobacco spreads its poisons into the water and the filter … well, the filter does not dissolve. It unfolds and opens up in the water and looks exactly like a nice little jellyfish, for a turtle at least. With one snap it’s in the turtle’s stomach and can’t be digested. The stomach fills up with this artificial stuff and the turtle does not feed any more. Finally the turtle dies from starvation. What a pity! And there are other dangers. When swimming in this incredibly beautiful world of the Pacific Ocean around the islands, we often see turtles, sleeping down there on the bottom of the sea. They can stay quite a long time there but then they have to come up to breathe. We human beings have dreams about how we would like our environment to be, we dream to ride on a dolphin, to touch a big green sea turtle or hang on to it and let us guide through the underwater-world. Deadly dreams! When a turtle, coming up to take in air, is disturbed, she goes down right away again for security, but it could be lethal for her. Having no oxygen left she might drown.

So I plead to respect the rights of all the living creatures in the oceans and on the land. Fill your hearts and your eyes with their beauty to overflowing – and keep your hands on the trigger of your cameras! For the best of all!

I had a very nice experience with a green sea turtle on Hawaii one day. Passing through the knee-deep water on a stony section of the beach I saw a small group of people watching the water and a little boy, about 5 years old, splashing around and obviously chasing something. As I came nearer, I saw that it was a medium-sized sea turtle trying to get back into the deeper water. As the adults of the group did not interfere, I talked to the little boy, explaining that the turtles are protected and that it is not allowed to harass them. The kid looked at me and let go of the turtle. But the turtle, instead of swimming away to security, swam over to where I stood and approached slowly my naked feet in the water. She stopped at an inch from my left foot, moving her head from side to side, as if considering her next step, and then almost lovingly, took one of my toes in her mouth, like a kiss. Then she turned and swam away. It was the fourth toe, the one connected to the heart chakra.

We all were flabbergasted. The man, obviously the father of the child, said in a hushed voice: “She really must love you!”

I felt so blessed; a turtle, symbol of Mother Earth, had connected to my heart.

It was the same with this famous dog “Lassie”, so famous that suddenly a race of dogs changed name from Collie to Lassie, which simply means little girl in Scottish. I had a Collie, a big beautiful male named Prince and whenever crossing children on the street, the call of “Lassie, Lassie” followed us.

The children growing up with these images often are so programmed that they carry on this image into their adult life and then behave in the same way; for example when having the opportunity to swim with dolphins in the ocean, if by chance or by organized boat-trips.

There is a deep desire to touch; to cling to the dorsal fin and ride the waves … living a little bit of magic and be the hero!

The dolphin called Flipper was, as all the film-animals, a captive, trained animal and had a role to play, rewarded with fish. He died in the arms of his trainer, having shut his blowhole and thus stopped respiration, willing to die. He was not sick, he was just tired, tired of the captive life.

When swimming with dolphins and whales, we are strangers in their element and should behave exactly as we would like strangers to behave in our homes: friendly and with respect and not trampling around and spreading havoc.

Dolphins as other marine mammals have very sensitive perceptions; with their sonar they scan you and detect your feelings towards them. The simple thought of “I want to touch” makes a dolphin swim away. Or he stays out of sight, almost laughing at you. Quite often I have experiences this when swimming with a group of people that the dolphin swam behind a person for some time without being seen but observing the man or woman very carefully. So how is it that some people meet dolphins easily and others can’t catch an eyeful of them?

Well, as I said before, dolphins can read your feelings. They not only know you by the way you come to meet them, for example over-arm swimming is felt as threatening by them, but they sense your heart and through this organ you can communicate with them. The old Egyptians knew it and the heart was the organ to be finally weighed to judge the person. The brain was scraped out of the scull as useless … that should make us think – with the heart!

And it is amazing what communications can take place between man and dolphin. One day I had a woman in my group who could not swim but her greatest wish was to meet the dolphins in the ocean and it took a lot of courage from her to come on the boat and even more to get into the water. Even though she had a life-jacket and an experienced swimming instructor at her side, she felt very insecure and could not enjoy the experiment. I swam some yards behind her when a dolphin came up close to me, looking at me as if asking what the poor woman was doing there. So I told him in my heart that she could not swim and was very afraid in the water but that she wanted so much to see a dolphin swimming in the sea, at least once.

He understood and slowly, as not to frighten her, swam up to her, looking at her and turning around her at just arm-length and then saying good bye and disappearing in the blue depth. For her it was the ultimate realization of her desire, this alone had been worth the whole voyage.

We know so little of this hidden underwater world and yet destroy it without even thinking about. It’s still time to change …. Who knows for how long?

They started using clumsy tools of their own making, inventing new ones and improving them, learning from life.

These times have long passed. We live in abundance, everything is obtainable,   there are all kinds of products on the shelves of the super markets and yet, the hunter still lives in the memory of the cells of man.

Some kill for sport, some say nature needs help to regulate itself, some don’t even think about what they are doing.

And some do it for profit. They disguise it with a scientific name so it becomes acceptable to the public opinion.

These are only mice, rats, rabbits, monkeys or… whales?

This year the Japanese Government has announced that nine hundred whales are going to be killed for their Scientific Research Program. Norway and Iceland are opening their whaling season in the beginning of May, as soon as the waters are free from ice. These two countries do not really consume whale flesh as a base of their nutrition like Japanese people do where whaling has a long tradition there. They slaughter whales for money and because they pretend whales eat too much fish so there is not enough left to feed the people.

Millions of dollars are made every year with the slaughter of whales. What the men responsible for this kind of industry seem to forget is that whales can’t be raised like cattle. They have their migration routes, their mating and birthing places and the moment the whales are extinguished at one place, the chance that others fill the gap is very thin.

There are many whale species just at the limit of survival because the population is so low that the natural laws of procreation are not guaranteed. And they are still hunted and slaughtered in the most horrible way.

It is as if mankind was blinded by the glitter of gold not to see the beauty and majesty of these noble beings and the important role they play in the balance of the life on this planet.

Why? Why does she have this wonderful partner, why can he afford the new car, they are not better, more intelligent or beautiful than I am!

We tend to struggle with life instead of living life. We did not learn in our youth what the really important things are in life; in fact we can’t even say what life is. But we have a whole life to explore life by living it.

So we hear “life is evolution, the strongest wins”. This has brought us over thousands of years of war, fights and struggle, strict separation of classes and enslavement of large parts of the population.

Underlying this opinion we accept that there is no escape of this condition, that it had been decided by whim at the moment of birth which kind of life we are going to live without any chance to change it.

Royalty is Royalty and untouchables will stay untouchable.

The sins of the fathers into the seventh degree! That’s it!

In many religions these thoughts have been taught and accepted for a long time. But the same religions say also, that we are all children of God and all of the same essence.

So we all must have the same possibilities, the same chance of luck, the same deserving to live a life we want to live.

So who decides? The families we were born in? The country, the government?  God?  Or could it simply be that we, ourselves, took this decision long before birth?

The life on this planet, in this dimension, offers all the possibilities we could imagine to become what we want to be.

Born in a shack? Great! The world is open to be explored.

Born in a castle? Great! Castles have doors to go out and discover a shack where we might meet a friend to travel together and discover the possibilities to mold our life.

We came here into this world to explore our own inner world through the mirror of the outer world and what we see in this mirror is the creation of our making, our thoughts, feelings and actions.

So could it be that the purpose of our life is to re-discover our Higher Self, our infinite, eternal Soul? Life after life, in a never ending spiral …

After the decision to change continents I had done my homework and searched on Internet for the most exciting places and things to do and to see.

And there was one point that rapidly got to be the number one in my program: to swim with the Hawaiian Spinner Dolphins. I wanted to swim with dolphins out in the deep blue ocean and experience the possibility of communication between man and animal.

We all have heard or seen films about bottlenose dolphins working with autistic children and this subtle communication happening there had intrigued me for some time already.

I rapidly found out how to realize my dream and finally the day came. Early in the morning a small group of people had gathered at the harbor and soon we were on our way. The captain gave us all the recommendations how to behave with dolphins and then suddenly we saw the fins of a big pod of dolphins sliding through the water.

My heart felt like bursting with joy and I hardly could hold back the tears of emotion welling up. Finally my dream had come true!

When I slipped overboard and started swimming in the direction of the dolphins, I was the last and the slowest of the whole lot and the dolphins had already passed. I turned around on the spot to see where the other people had gone, when a small group of dolphins came my way.

Oh boy, what a sight! Three mothers with their babies were swimming right up to me. My heart was bumping so loud in my chest I thought the dolphins could hear it. With effortless, slow, yet powerful movements they passed close by, looking at me with curiosity.

“Oh you beauties, you swim too fast, I can’t follow you, please stay a bit with me, I love you, you are so beautiful …” Words formed in my heart while I tried to keep up with them, my arms still close to my body as we had been instructed. Over-arm strokes are felt as a threat by these sensitive beings.

And amazingly they slowed down! Did they really hear me, did they feel my love, did they know I never would do them any harm?

They slowed down, let their babies swim my side so I could see them clearly, accepting my presence.

I was overjoyed! We swam in harmony for some time, enjoying our   communication on a higher level of consciousness. I had lost all sense of time. And suddenly they were gone and I woke up like out of a dream.

I took up my head out of the water and looked around. I was alone! No boat, no people, nothing but the shore some distance away and the deep blue sea around. Wow! Where are the others? Had I gone so far?

Turning around in the crystal clear water I finally saw a white spot far away speeding up toward me. It was the boat with a very, very angry captain who had to leave the group to look for me. He promised I would never set foot on his boat again if ever I did this again. Still completely absorbed by my experience I answered that it was not my fault; the dolphins had led me astray! Well, later on we became good friends and every time I was back on the island I went out with him to see my friends, the dolphins, again.

Almost as a final lesson of this adventure I learned later on that the others of the group having hurried so much to see the dolphins, had lost sight of them very quickly. Hurry-up slowly ….

Was it a welcome-gift from the dolphin family? I really felt blessed.

If you are afraid of something, do it! There is a great lesson to be learned.

I started thinking about my biggest fear and found out that it was about travelling all alone. I love and always have loved discovering other countries and people, but living in a couple I never had to bother about the how.

At this moment I realized that, living on my own by then, I avoided places I did not know and always returned to the same spots. Sure, I had my excuses, too expensive, too far away, no time … and yet it was my fear holding me back.

So I decided to go on a really big voyage, the place farthest away from me … Australia!

Great decision, so I started looking on Internet for airfares, the most interesting towns and so on.

And then, something very disturbing happened. Every time I entered some place or town in Australia, a completely different part of the world popped up, always the same.

Again and again, as I entered Sydney, Queensland or the Great Barrier Reef – the website appearing on my screen was – Hawaii!

I had never dreamed of Hawaii, did not know a lot about it, just that it’s a chain of islands in the Pacific and there I was, looking in amazement at these pictures. It was as if a big finger was pointing out again and again where I had to go.

And I obeyed! I gathered the necessary informations and booked my flight, not knowing that long years and many wonderful experiences later I was going to write a book about this island, the whales, dolphins and the Aloha Spirit of the indigenous people of Hawaii.

Life took its time and gave me all the experiences I needed to follow the path shown to me.

…..to be followed