What I am about to tell you is a true story which I had the privilege to experience in December of 1997. It's a story about self discovery, love, joy and profound peace...its a return to Home.

A synchronistic event brought me to a lecture and book signing by a luminous author named Ilona Selke, who is known for swimming with Dolphins in the wild. As I sat and listened to her presentation I felt moved, warm inside my heart and compelled to speak with this author after the book signing.

She spoke of a retreat seminar she leads twice a year in Hawaii where participants learn how to manifest their deepest desires and swim with dolphins in the wild. I wanted to go!

When most of the people had left, I approached this author for her to sign my book and we began talking. She shared with me her passion for being with Dolphins and how they have changed her life. With every word she spoke I could feel myself becoming more and more touched by the stories she shared with me.

I was in the middle of starting my own business and growing my private counseling practice when I attended this lecture. Having just returned from a vacation, I really couldn't afford the time or resources to go to a training in Hawaii. But something kept telling me a different message. It was as if the deeper knowing, wiser part of me was guiding me in the direction of Hawaii.

Driving home that night I knew I was going to go. I just didn't know all the details yet of how I would get there, who would attend to my business while I was gone...all the trivial matters.



During the next week I had my first dream of a dolphin. I dreamt of a dolphin swimming in the ocean. That all the details I recall of my dream except for the feeling of profound joy when I woke up the next morning. It felt as if I had actually been with a dolphin in real life. I felt blessed.

I was getting excited for my trip. Days passed and I had no other dreams of dolphins since my first dream. But I sure was day dreaming about them. Before I knew it I was on the airplane heading for the big island "Hawaii".

My first breath of air off the airplane was memorable. I was overcome with the wonderful fragrances of tropical flowers and cool breezes. I felt so wonderful, I knew I was in Paradise.

The seminar was held at a remote retreat center on the quiet side of the Island. It was located right on the oceans edge which made the view breathtakingly beautiful and ever so peaceful.

The Hawaiian Morning Dove...

I was awakened the first morning by the most unusual sound which seemed to be coming from a bird outside my window. It was indeed. The Hawaiian Morning Bird. No need for alarm clocks or telephones on this part of the Island.


The retreat was held for 8 days, with each morning dedicated to swimming with the dolphins inside the Black Sand Beach Bay. The Bay was one of their favorite places to come and play with humans.

The first 3 days of the retreat the dolphins were not around. We would all go down to the bay and sit patiently and wait for them, however, they were not there. On the night of the third day I had another dream of dolphins. This time I dreamed I was swimming with a pod of about 40 dolphins.

The next morning, when we got to the Bay, one of the first things we saw were dolphin fins breaking the water’s surface. We were so excited! This would be the day!

As I made my way into the surf, I felt myself getting nervous...what if they didn't like me? What if they went over to everyone else and not me? What if I did something senseless and they were frightened off?

And what if *they communicated* with me? Oh what a wonderful thought!

There I was, behind layers of wet suit and mask, floating on top of the ocean looking down into a cavern of infinite Life. Suddenly, an entire pod of dolphins were beneath me...all 40 of them. I was in complete AWE! Immediately I felt a rush of energy throughout my body...and the most intense feeling of joy in my Heart I had ever experienced. I began to cry.

Floating, watching in wonderment, the dolphins were at play all around me. So graceful, so blissful. I just found myself floating on the surface of the ocean, in a state of surrender, nonattatchment. A state of allowance. As I lie there, serene, patient and unattached, I began to notice one dolphin in particular swim over my way.

When this dolphin came within two feet of me our eyes met. My eyes became lost in this dolphin's gaze. Suddenly it was as if our eyes were locked in a gaze of complete surrender. I felt like I was about to be taken on a blissful journey traveling through the eye of this dolphin.

Minutes passed which seemed like a lifetime. My world seemed to open up and expand the moment I became lost in the eye of this loving creature.

I felt like I was traveling through time and space...to a place of complete trust and love. A place of expansive light. I completely surrendered to this loving creature, not knowing what would happen next.

For several minutes, which seemed like hours, I was locked in the eye of this dolphin. He was dancing me to places I had never been. I was comfortable, serene and content as we shared energy. Suspended in timelessness.

When our eyes broke apart, he began swimming all around me for the next several minutes. I felt as if I was being scanned with rays of loving energy. Ever so gently he just kept scanning my body as he swam about me.

Soon he left to rejoin the pod of dolphins just up ahead. I felt different, a feeling of completeness, wholeness. I felt so connected to this dolphin and to the ocean and to the entire Universe. A connection I had never felt so strongly as now...a Oneness. My entire body felt energized yet completely balanced. I felt expansive.

Experience a Depth of Joy...

If I were to find just one word to describe my feelings as this moment I would say profound joy. A depth of joy I had never quite felt before.

Moments later, I was re-united with the pod. Lots of dolphins were now swimming about and beneath me. Again one dolphin in particular swam within about one foot of me. This time is was a female dolphin and she had her baby tucked safely under her peck (fin).

Again I was overcome with emotion and began to cry. I then began imagining that my heart chakra was gently opening and I was sending out loving, inviting Heart energy to this mom and her baby.

At the very moment I began imaging this, the female dolphin and her baby came immediately over to me. As they swam by, the mother dolphin lifted her peck up and the baby began to swim about me. What a sight. I felt my Heart burst with energy, warm, loving energy just filling me up. My Heart felt so full and so joyful. I felt like my entire energy field was permeating the ocean floor. I felt radiant, alive and blessed.

The little baby swam playfully around me for several minutes. I remained still,
observant and grateful as my Heart was beaming with radiance and joy. Soon the mother dolphin returned and placed the baby back under her peck and gave me a big smile as she left to join the others on their way out of the Bay.

I surfaced, took my mask off in an attempt to re-orient myself to my whereabouts. Lost in space and time, I gradually reconnected with my surroundings and found my way back to shore. As I climbed out of the surf I stumbled to the sand and just fell onto the beach.

As I lay there, smiling, I felt like a jelly fish engulfed in a sack of pure bliss, pure radiance. Like no other feeling I can ever remember... I wanted to stay here forever.

The next day I learned that Female Dolphins are very careful with their young. In fact I was told that the female dolphin only lets her young out to play under very specific circumstances. And when a female dolphin lets her baby play with a human it is the highest form of a compliment...for she only does so under complete trust of the human species.

Could it get much better than this? I wondered as the days progressed.

Our last morning to swim with the dolphins had arrived. In my wildest dreams I couldn't imagine what would happen next. As I was floating, still and observant, I began to imagine my favorite guided imagery. I began to envision a rose bud gently opening into a full rose, peddle by peddle. Just as I was imagining this in my mind’s eye I saw 5 dolphins beneath me, all holding tightly together with their noses all touching.

Suddenly they began to swim up from underneath me, aiming right at the very center of my body. Just before they reached my body they all broke apart and formed the most vivid pattern that looked like a rose fully blooming. I realized they had acted out my very thoughts in the milliseconds I was envisioning them.


The Space Between Your Thoughts...

Our connection was so deep, our thoughts had become one. These loving creatures had connected with my thoughts before they became thought. They connected with the energy that exists before the thought.

It became apparent to me through this experience, that dolphins occupy the space between thoughts. They travel in the gap...in that magical space of pure potentiality, pure creativity that exists between our thoughts. The place I only experience during some of my deepest meditations. Deepak Chopra speaks of this space between your thoughts in his book “Ageless Body Timeless Mind”. He reminds us that in this stillness, in this quiet space between our thoughts, we can hear the wisdom of our soul. He further states that it is here in this space that creativity is born...the state of pure potentiality.

Our experience with the dolphins was profound and they seemed to touch everyone in our group in a special way. One of our group members named "Nancy" had been trying to become pregnant for 12 months prior to our retreat. The dolphins seemed to just intuitively know this and one dolphin in particular singled her out and scanned her
belly for several minutes.

Later that evening, "Nancy" just glowed as she shared her experience with us. She reported feeling an incredible feeling of love and safety come into her heart as this dolphin scanned her belly. She also reported feeling an incredible sense of confidence that her concerns to conceive a child were over.

Several months later I received a letter from "Nancy" and she was overjoyed to tell me she was three months pregnant.


My Open Heart...

My experience with dolphins gave me the gift of feeling my Heart completely open...open to give and receive unconditional love. The Heart to Heart connection a dolphin has with a human is profound. These loving creatures have much to teach human beings.

When a Heart to Heart connection is made between two Hearts, the feeling is
unmistakable. It is expansive, warm, blissful and reveals moments of joy and Love that are hard to express in words. The feeling is so deep, one that reaches the very essence of our humanness-our spirit. True Unconditional Love!

I know without a doubt that the dolphins have taken me to the very depths of my soul and I have experienced my own radiance like never before. I’ve realized I have spent a lifetime longing to connect with myself at this deep level... to Re-Experience my Soul, my Essence, my Divine Self. I have been gifted.

It is my fondest desire to gift others with the sacred connection of dolphin to human. A connection that will change your life. I invite you to explore this connection with me and the dolphins in Hawaii. You will also have the opportunity to learn The Living From Vision Course; a course that teaches you the skills to Manifest your deepest desires and to Create Abundance in your life.

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