Turtle Dolphin Dreams E-Book

Marian K. Volkman

• Herausgeber: Loving Healing Press
• Kategorie: Religion und Spiritualität
• Serie: Spiritual Dimensions
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2005

Seitenzahl: 64

Beschreibung

What if we shared planet Earth with other intelligent species?
What if inter-species communication were really possible?
Seek out some answers in Turtle Dolphin Dreams
Raves for Turtle Dolphin Dreams
"A pearl is a small thing, and yet it is as precious as any jewel. So is this little book."
--Robert Rich, Ph.D.
"Turtle Dolphin Dreams is a wonderful little book. Not since Gibran's The Prophet or Bach's Jonathan Livingston Seagull has a book come along so inviting, refreshing, and relevant."
--James Clifton, Ph.D.
"Turtle Dolphin Dreams is lovely! ...somehow this strange book hangs together and holds the reader's attention. Very inspirational indeed."
--Susan M. Phillips, Spiralthreads Reviews
From the SPIRITUAL DIMENSIONS SERIES

Leseprobe

Turtle DolphinDreams

A Work of Metaphysical Fiction

By Marian K. Volkman

Turtle Dolphin Dreams

Copyright © 2005 Marian K. Volkman and Loving Healing Press.All Rights Reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or distributed in any form or by any means, or stored in a database or retrieval system, without the prior written permission of the publisher.

Library of Congress Control Number: 2005902290

Publisher's Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Volkman, Marian.Turtle dolphin dreams : a work of metaphysical fiction / by Marian K. Volkman ; illustrated by Marcus Dillon.p. cm.

ISBN-13   978-1-932690-10-1    ISBN-10   1-932690-10-7

1. Turtles--Fiction. 2. Dolphins--Fiction. 3. Extrasensory perception in animals--Fiction. 4. Telepathy--Fiction. 5. Human-animal communication--Fiction. I. Dillon, Marcus. II. Title

 PS3572.03948. T8 2005     813.54--dd22     2005902290

Distributed by:Baker & Taylor, Ingram Book Group, New Leaf Distributing Co.

Published by:Loving Healing Press5145 Pontiac TrailAnn Arbor, MI 48105USA

http://www.LovingHealing.com [email protected] [phone]

You Are Invited

To read the story of how this book came to be written

To read about the author

To read the short essays:“Animal Intelligence and Inter-Species Communication”and “Nature in Balance”

Or to participate in a potential book project, visit

www.TurtleDolphinDreams.com

Also by Marian Volkman:

Life Skills:Improve the Quality of Your Life with Metapsychology

www.LifeSkillsBook.com

$1.00 from the sale of every

Turtle Dolphin Dreams book

has been donated to Greenpeace

(www.greenpeace.org)

Acknowledgements

First, thanks to all of the people who wrote books and made videos from which I learned a lot about both turtles and dolphins. (For a list of some of the books I found useful including books on animal intelligence and inter-species communication, see my book list by visiting www.TurtleDolphinDreams.com and clicking on the “book list” button.

I have had enormous amounts of valuable help on the manuscript of this little book from my husband, Victor Volkman, my sister Jennifer

MacLean and my friend, Michele Rae Vierra. Thanks also to Peter Szabo and Robert Rich, Ph.D. for valuable critiques.

For encouragement when it was needed most I thank my daughter, Stephanie Dreher, my cousin Katherine Gasciogne, and friends Christine Hucker, Irene Szabo, Tammy Greco and Annie Hannan.

Tremendous thanks to the brave people of Green Peace for all they have done to protect the oceans and life on our planet. Thanks to individuals and groups working to raise the consciousness of humankind on the subject of all life on our planet. Thanks to everyone who is mindful of our relationship to this planet and the other species with whom we share it in all its beauty, abundance, and fragility.

Special love and thanks to my husband, Victor, for all of his support, expertise, and encouragement.

About the Art

Front cover art by Sudee Taormina

Interior illustrations by Marcus Dillon (pages: 2, 4, 7, 16, 17, 18, 22, 28, 37, 39, 44 & 51)

Additional sketches by the author

Space photographs by NASA

Creative director for the book cover design, Victor R. Volkman

Contents

Part One – Beginnings

Part Two – The Dreamers

Part Three – Relationships

Part Four – Food and Other Pleasures

Part Five – The Seam

Part Six – New Beginnings

Epilogue

Part One – Beginnings

I, a Turtle, address you for reasons and through means which I will endeavor to make plain. I have messages for you, but if I throw them out in front of you like pebbles on the sand, you may not see them. This is why I ask that you be patient as I explain both how I come to be speaking to you (it must be obvious to you that a Human has a hand in this), and why.

You may wonder who I am. You may feel the need of a name for me, the Human informs me. My impulse, and Turtles are not impulsive creatures for the most part, is to ask you to pay attention to the messages I bear you instead of to me. Upon sober reflection, and Turtles are sober reflectors, it may be best for me to introduce myself. I will not tell you whether I am male or female, but you may know that I am the sort of Turtle who spends part of its life in the water (in ponds and streams), and part of its life upon the land (in forests and fields), and who hibernates when the cold season comes. Many a summer has awakened me. Many a winter has drawn me down to sleep.

If you need a name for me, think of me as Turtledove. Of course, this makes no sense. A turtledove is a type of bird. I am not a bird, but my companions, of whom you shall hear, chose this name for me because it is pretty and graceful (which, believe it or not, is how they think of me) and non-gender-specific. So be it. To the task awaiting us.

I come to you, through these symbols, to bring you communications from another highly intelligent, highly complex life form. That is plain enough. How this can come about is another matter. Since you know that Turtles can neither speak your language nor write it, you might find this communication difficult to believe if I did not spell out each step of its coming to be. A group of Dolphins wishes to speak with you in order to share their view of the world contrasted with what they understand of your own, and to propose some joint activities. My part here is to help in the effort to formulate this work, so that you may see and receive it. Even now we have no certainty of success, but we must try. You are probably far more interested in what the Dolphins have to say to you than you are in my humble part in this attempt to reach you, but please indulge me by taking the time to understand how this work comes to be attempted.

Were it not for a special state we call dreaming we would have no chance of communicating with you (and by “we” here, I mean both Turtles and Dolphins). Dreaming to Turtles meant at first something very similar to what it means to you: the entering of consciousness into a state of mental activity while the body rests. Over time it began to mean for us something more fully conscious, and eventually came to mean dreaming together, entering into a state of non-physical awareness with others of our kind. We must go back several steps for you to understand how you come to be reading this work. We will start with the time when Turtles dreamed only on a primitive level.

We Turtles (and I speak here only of the number of species of my kind that I know well from dreaming/communing with them) have two modes of existence: summer and winter. In summer we live and work and grow as all creatures do, finding food, mating, and traveling as Nature calls upon us to do. There is no time for dreaming during the summer days, when we are fully engaged in physical pursuits. Even as we lie basking in the sun for hours, storing up the warmth it seems, to see us through another winter, that time is full, full of the scent of water, the sensation of heat, the feeling of comfort from having eaten our fill. It is a physical focus, a physical time.