Dolphins, Doctors of Our Soul

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Dedications

To the Dolphins, my Teachers.

To my brother Henri, my Cousteau Diver.

Contents

Preface

The Legend of the Golden Dolphin

Becoming A Dolphin Consultant

The first call

Studies, Travel and Work

Australia Beckons

My Mission into the Corporate World

The MBA Adventure

Mining the Barrier Reef

Cultural Differences

Second Call

Becoming A TQM Consultant

Taking Risks in Consulting

The Magic of the Little Bay

Learning with Fun

The Third Call

Discovering My Purpose in Life

A Special Birthday

Sharing the experience

The First Dolphin Within program

Songs to the Dtolphins

Becoming a Dolphin

A Poseidon Story

Breaking through Limits

The Research Program

The Research Licence

I Was the First Guinea Pig

Christmas Day with the Dolphins

A Quick Escape to the Dolphins

Monkey Mia Calls Me

Healing my Heart

Doubts Dispelled

The Motorbike Accident

The Power of a Dolphin Therapist

Power of the Vision

The Dolphin Society is Born

An Outline of the Society

The Pod

Howie’s Dolphin Within Experience

Wilderness therapy with Bluey

An Oceanic Reserve

Whale and Dolphin Declaration

Dolphin Concert on Sydney Harbour

The Dolphin Evenings

Dolphin Within Presentations

Dolphin within Patterns

It’s about Experiencing, not Believing

Pattern 1. Free from fear of the sea

Pattern 2. Free from grief

Seeing from Within

Emotional Release

Healing the biggest pain, loneliness

The Mother’s Guilt

Personal Transformation

Healing Cry

Pattern 3. Free from Addiction

I am not Your Mum!

Learning to be Responsible

You don’t know about Dolphin Energy

Premonition under the Full Moon

Diving with the Dolphins

Gone with the Dolphins

The Skipper’s Insights

Cooking for the first time

I have a new son

‘I’m okay now’

Mum, I don’t drink any more

Clear about what he wants

Healing from depression

Pattern 4. Free access to Stored Trauma: Traumatic Amnesiat

Pattern 5. Free from Self-Doubt and Weight

The Transformation Ctontinues

Pattern 6. Free from Physical Pain

Healing Arthritis

Sending Mental Messages

Mental Image Transmission

Dolphin Drunkenness

Friends for Life

Facilitating Miracles?

Pattern 7. Free to Change her Life

Dramatic Changes Occur

Awakening to her Full Potential

Pattern 8. Free to access Spiritual Worlds

Pattern 9. Family therapy

Divorcing with Fun

Family Playfulness

Strengthening the Bonds between Parents and Children

Separation with Love

Pattern 10. Pregnant Women

Water Babies

Dolphins Training Humans

The Awakened Brain

The Dolphin Within Log

The ‘Colour your Face’ exercise

The Dolphin Within Assessment

Art Therapy

The Personal Journal

Neurofeedback

Brainwave Patterns

Brain research protocol

Lindsay: production of Theta

Theta Training

Alpha and Theta Brainwave Training

Free from old scripts

Childhood memories and theta

Opening the Pandora’s Box

A New Script

Simon: a Cross-Over Point

Kiran: an ‘Awakened Mind’

The Hierarchy of States

The Sixth State

The Seventh State

The Eighth State

Self-Regulating our Brains

Dolphins: Catalysts for Human Transformation

Echolocation Therapy

Sound Therapy

From Homo-Limbus to Homo-Thalamus

Dolphin Within Therapy

Tuning into stored traumas

Releasing Physical Pain

Ending Addiction and Substance Abuse

Anxiety

Depression

Phobias

Peak health

Personality transformation

New frontiers

The Energy Field

Puzzling Experiences

‘Feeling Zapped’

The Field of Energy

The Life Force

A Model of Subtle Bodies

Developing your Dolphin Within State

The Power of Water

Snorkelling and Scuba Diving

Creating your Dolphin Within State

Select a Dolphin Space

Dolphin Ways to Connect

Practise

The fight or flight reaction

Cigarette Butts

Fire and War

In Hospital

A New Model of Human Potential

Transpersonal Psychology

A Transpersonal Experience

The TSSD Matrix

Experiencing our Full Potential

What can we learn from the animals and their human counterparts?

Turtles

Human-Turtles

Corporate-Turtles

Turtle Transformation

Sharks

Human-Sharks

Corporate-Sharks

Shark Transformation

Seahorses

Human-Seahorses

Corporate-Seahorses

Seahorse Transformation

Dolphins

Human-Dolphins

Corporate-Dolphins

Community Builders

Dolphins into the Business World

ODB Consulting’s mission

The Delphi Process

Awakening Organisations to their Full Potential

Facilitating Community Change

Discovering the Shark and Turtle

Discovering the Dolphin part of a Team

Experiencing the Ocean

When Bankers meet the Dolphins

A Turtle Organisation finds its Dolphin Side

Dolphins, our Corporate Facilitators

Developing a Pod of seventy Corporate Dolphins

From an Oil Company to a New Energy Company

When Sharks try to imitate Dolphins

Corporate Dolphin Consultants

The Vision Becoming A Reality

Dolphin Within transformations

Bill S.

A Dolphin Within Centre

The Declaration of Cetaceans

Dolphins in the Harbour by the year 2000

TV Documentaries

Press Releases

The Radio

Open to Surprise

The Dolphins, our eachers

The World to Come

HOMO-DELPHINUS Research on the Heart, 2004 - 2021

Synchronisation of Hearts

Dolphin Within Coaching

The Intelligence of the Heart

AQUATIC BIRTH

Dr Michel Odent

DIVINE ENCOUNTER

Flash- Back to September 2013 - A Dream

A Dolphin Ambassador

August 9, 2015. Divine Encounter!

Bibliography

Dolphin Books

Corporate Dolphin Books

Dolphin Spiritual Books

Dolphin Brain Books

Dolphin within Language

Endnotes

Preface

This book is about my journey with dolphins. It is told through human stories, photos, drawings, transcripts of videos and conversations with participants of the Dolphin Within expeditions: a research program into human brain/heart states before and after dolphin encounters. It integrates all the different ways I have used to capture the experience I call the Dolphin Within, the shared but intensely individual experiences people have when they are in close contact with wild dolphins. They are feeling Dauphin themselves or Homo-Delphinus. This is the term used years ago by my friend Jacques Mayol in his famous book. In 1999, Jacques told me, at a conference on Dolphins, in Paris ‘Olivia pardon but I steal the title of your book ‘The Dolphin Within’ to translate in English my book Homo-Delphinus, The Dolphin Within Man.

Years ago, very few people in the Western world talked about near-death experiences; it is only since collective experiences have been gathered that we are now able to conceptualise this phenomenon more widely. Following the same approach, I have collected a large number of Dolphin Within experiences over the last fifteen years, from the regular research trips during which I have witnessed many encounters between people and dolphins. Different patterns have emerged out of the two hundred case studies, which show the power of transformation and healing that such encounters can create.

However, going further than just collecting experiences, I tested the brains of the participants before and after their Dolphin Within experiences, using an electroencephalogram (EEG) machine connected to a notebook computer. I then started to use a heart rate variability monitor which gives me an insight into the heart rhythm of the participants. Using these two methods, I have found scientific evidence of and possible explanations for the changes in mind, body and spirit I have observed in people who encounter dolphins. The brainwave pattern changes and the human brain shifts into a very slow frequency called ‘theta’. The heart rate variability pattern reaches a high coherent rhythm. It is that specific state that I call the Dolphin Within. That state leads humans to a self-transformation process that has great potential.

One can say that my scientific research demystifies the healing power of dolphins. However, the more I observe, the more I realise how much I don’t know, and the more I realise how much we People of the Earth have yet to learn from the People of the Sea.

This book explains why, since 1993, I have dedicated my life, my financial resources and my time to explore the human-dolphin connection through the creation of the Dolphin Society, a non-profit institution, and ODB Consulting, a management consulting company. Both of these are aimed at bringing Dolphin Within experiences to the general public and the business world. As a management consultant, I have developed new human psychology tools on human potential based on a dolphin model. Not only do I synchronize talk about the Corporate Dolphin way of doing business, but I also bring business people to experience the Dolphin Within themselves, in order to facilitate t change in their personal and professional lives.

In the presence of a dolphin, our heart and brain synchronize with the heart and cerebral rhythm of the animal. The dolphin would unveil the future of human consciousness by transforming us into Homo-Delphinus.

This book was first published in English by the publishing house Simon and Schuster in Australia. It was then translated into Japanese and then into Dutch, and later I translated myself in French. This updated version is now available world-wild. This new version includes a whole new part that deals with research on the rhythm of the human heart in presence of dolphins, which is fundamental to the scientific understanding of Delphinotherapy. The book also reports on the results of my project to facilitate the return of dolphins in Sydney Bay ... a crazy project that could be replicated around the world.

Finally, on a more personal note, I have since 22 March 2004 a baby-swimmer. My daughter Lilou was born in the water like a dolphin at 6:21 am. Lilou has become my research project since that day. At two, she was always first in the water with the dolphins with her little fins and her mask. Nowadays it is convenient for me to have a young teenager who can communicate by telepathy (even if she has asked for a phone when she turned twelve)!.

A Dolphin Within experience is indescribable, by definition. Every person coming out of a powerful experience with dolphins says the same thing: ‘There is no word’. I don’t even want to talk for some time after a Dolphin Within experience. So, creating a book about something that cannot be expressed in words is quite a challenge.

Until we humans develop our communication systems towards those of the dolphins (who share information holographically, transferring images from one brain to another brain using sound), the written word, pictures and sounds are the best we can use to offer a taste of the Dolphin Within experience to a wider audience.

I hope you will soon be able to hear, while reading, the Ooh, aah, whoo and Oh my God which are part of any Dolphin Within experience. We were asked by ABC Radio to put together some sounds of our trips for an interview, and we realised how much a Dolphin Within experience was about opening the heart and laughing, hearing the joyful human sounds expressing at each dolphin’s jump at the bow of the boat.

Much of this book was written on the sea, on a yacht, with the dolphins around me. I could just pop my head out of the cabin, away from the computer screen, to spot a fin, even when the yacht was moored in the marina. I found that floating among dolphins was my best source of inspiration. I hope that this book will inspire you too to follow your dream as I did.

Enjoy your Dolphin Within adventure… come and join us one day in Australia, on the French Riviera, the Read Sea to swim with dolphins or on Skype for some coaching sessions!

Could the Dolphins be Doctors of our Soul? Could Dolphins show us a way to speed up our evolution?

Dr Olivia de Bergerac

Sydney, 2021

www.oliviadebergerac.com.au

The Legend of the

Golden Dolphin

By Peter S., the Legendarian.

"Throughout the myths and history of civilisation runs a recurring theme. From time to time, at certain crucial turning points in humankind’s journey from beast to self-awareness, there has occurred a mysterious communion with the ‘people of the sea’, the dolphins.

The record of this inspiring communion between the two great intelligent mammalian races on Earth, this ‘space’ contact, is encoded in the myths and legends handed down to us.

Whenever this has happened, a resulting spark of inspiration has illuminated the next phase of the civilising process, only to fade gradually from conscious memory... until the next time.

As we pass through the current crisis of civilisation, tossed about in the creative chaos of the cusp between two ages, the door of perception is opening once again.

Now the ancient mythical tales make startling sense and take on dramatic new meaning as science begins to reveal the depth of the dolphins’ significance.

The popular imagination is again fired with Delphic inspiration.

This is the Legend of the Golden Dolphin, the once and future story of our evolutionary dance of consciousness with the alien intelligence that inhabits the Oceanic vastness of our Spaceship Earth.

Dolphins’ brains are larger than ours, and two and a half times more complex. They have access to both sides of their being, the logical and the intuitive, unlike people who are predominantly right-handed and controlled by the (logical) half of their being.

Dolphins have struck a balance between their obvious strength and obvious loving nature.

Living in the amazing and supportive environment of the sea, with access to three-quarters of the surface of the planet, and with larger, more intricate brains, the question becomes ‘what are they doing down there?’.

The hypothesis is that cetaceans – dolphins and whales – are a race of intelligent mammals many centuries in advance of humankind.

The fact that they are living in peace, without destroying the planet, suggest they are living in a state of grace. The sea-dwelling mammals have a lot to teach the predominant land-dwelling mammal, man, about that grace.

Myths and legends swim with dolphins guiding humanity toward civilisation. Two intelligent races share, in fact, this planet: one race, the whales and dolphins, have been contacting humanity for thousands of years.

The connection takes place at certain turning points in history, and we are going through a turning point now, the contact is apparent again.

In the legends of India, civilisation was created when Vishnu, in the form of a fish dog - a dolphin, arose from the Ganges River to help mankind.

The early culture in the Cradle of Civilisation, Mesopotamia, had a similar fish god, which they called Oannes.

In Greek mythology, Apollo turned into a dolphin and stopped a ship of merchants, telling them they would begin Greek civilisation.

Early Christians used the sign of a fish to mark their passing. Examination of those Christians’ graves shows that the fish was a dolphin.

One African tribe, the Dogon people of Mali, has a very sophisticated knowledge of the star Sirius, the brightest star in the sky. They say it is a binary star (a fact only discovered by scientists in 1834) and they draw details of the movement of the two stars that tally with modern astronomy. The Dogon tell of having this knowledge from huge water creatures that breathe air and have flukes and that came from a planet in the Sirius system.

According to the Dogon these creatures the Nommos will have one third sacrificed on the altar of human greed and insensibility for the purification and reorganisation of the universe. Then the Nommos will arise in human form and descend upon the Earth.

These ‘resurrected’ human Nommos will be gathered through the revelation of The Golden Dolphin, into the Force of Freedom, inspired by and under the guidance of The Legend says that the Force of Freedom will form itself upon the Island of Australia (the star of the Australian flag is Sirius), which the Nommos have chosen for their return."

Becoming A Dolphin

Consultant

Once upon a time, a little girl was born in the town of Antibes, on the well known French Riviera. Her mother convinced she was carrying a third boy, didn’t have a name ready for her. Her grandmother, who very much admired her boss, an elegant lady from London, finally gave her the English name of Olivia. Olivia grew up with her two big brothers, lots of cousins and friends, by and in the sea. Her childhood was full of laughter and love, and people used to call her the ‘daughter of the sun’ because she was so full of light and life.

I could see my life as a fairy tale. Psychiatrist Dr Eric Berne, the father of Transactional Analysis, says that every life is a kind of fairy tale, a predetermined script that we unconsciously compose and choose to follow during early childhood. The key is to be aware of the life script, to make sure it’s the one we want and to be able to change it if it is not.

I ended up doing a PhD on that topic.

The first call

My favourite fairy tale was the Little Mermaid. I always felt that I had come out of the sea, falling in love with humans. I was three when I jumped off a pontoon with my inflatable ring and disappeared through it down into the Big Blue. My mother jumped in behind me and grabbed my long blond hair to bring me back to the surface. I was fine, she had turned a pale shade of green!

In my case, my whole family came out of the sea. We not only grew up by, on and in it but even before birth, in our mother’s womb, we were in the sea a lot as she spent her spare time at the beach. We were all swimming and snorkelling by the age of five.

My two brothers, Henry and Michel, lived in and for the sea and learnt to scuba dive at the age of twelve. The ‘Little Frenchman’ in the film The Big Blue is a good portrayal of my brothers.

At fifteen, my eldest brother Henry went to Monaco to see Jacques Cousteau’s boat, La Calypso. He touched it and vowed, One day, I’ll be on board her. At nineteen, he was organising expeditions to swim with and film whales and dolphins in the Mediterranean and I went along with him. At 22, Cousteau recruited him for his reputation and experience with whales and dolphins in the Mediterranean. He went on to work in the Bahamas, Greece and finally Rapa Nui (Easter Island), where he ended up living with my other brother Michel.

I was quite a tomboy, living with such brothers. However, I knew very early that I was different from the other children. As a baby, I had been very sick, and I nearly died twice before our family doctor discovered what was wrong with me: I had a hole in my heart.

I felt different from my peers and very mature, one could perhaps say like an old soul. At fifteen I had major heart surgery, which, along with the physical heart pain, left me with an experience of a spiritual presence. I was back at school seven days after my surgery, with a strong sense of optimism and a joy to be alive even more than before.

Studies, Travel and Work

The second guiding principle in my life, after the sea, was studying. I loved school and enjoyed studying and teaching. I got a BAC D (maths, physics and biology). I wanted to study psychology at University, but I was accepted into the elite school of Grand Ecole Hypokhane et Khagne, which prepares French teachers and university professors, so I went through the intense entrance exam. I enjoyed the studies and the rather monastic life for the first year and got some good marks, but I dropped my performance in the second year as it started to become clearer to me that I didn’t want to be a civil servant all my life. I finished my studies at the University of Nice, combining French literature and psychology. I obtained a Bachelor of Arts, a Masters degree with a thesis on Literature and Psychoanalysis and a PhD on Transactional Analysis, looking at fairy tales as a life script.

During this period I found a way to combine travel, study and work by designing language and cultural training for business executives. In France, large organisations like IBM, Dow Chemical and Schlumberger employed me to teach their overseas expatriates about the French way of doing business, and how to adapt to the Parisian environment. In London, I taught the executives of a French reinsurance company to speak French and to understand the French culture so that they could conduct negotiations with their parent company in Paris. I was an ‘Executive Coach’ a long time before it became trendy.

It was quite unusual for a young woman in her early twenties to be training senior executives in international organisations. I quickly realised that the key in my work was to find ways to help my clients to overcome their fear of learning, of failure. Behind this was a fear of being incompetent, a fear of not being a man (at that time there were not many top women executives). My work was about creating a safe and enjoyable environment of learning where I could nurture their self-esteem.

I was helping my CEOs and top engineers to overcome their fears and to develop confidence in themselves. I was developing a strong relationship with them based on trust and mutual respect, playing the role of confidante. I knew about their work, their politics and their corporate culture, about their spouses, children and hobbies. I was their corporate life coach and I could see how many business people needed one! Through my training, the executives had better relationships at work and home and better business results.

Australia Beckons

I experienced a powerful awakening during a trip to Rapa Nui in the South Pacific, where my two brothers were living.

Having lived a yuppie life in Paris, USA and London, it took me days and weeks to re-adapt to a more adventurous lifestyle. I got kicked and thrown to the ground by a horse, attacked by wild birds, lost in the volcano, ran out of air on a 30m scuba dive. Meanwhile, I could see Michel my brother, fit and tanned, disappearing into the big blue on a single breath of air for three minutes at a time, pursued by multicoloured fish. I watched Henry on the summit of an island, approaching a big, black wild bird, getting closer and closer to the point of touching it without frightening it. My brothers, I realised, were alive, and living totally in harmony with nature.

While I was meditating by the famous Moais, the statues of Rapa Nui, I had a clear vision that my future would be in Australia. I knew that I needed to leave Europe, where I had