For the last 15 years I have been a student of the Ridhwan school and it is the wisdom from these teachings that assisted me in recognizing the interconnectedness of life and the spiritual presence of true nature that is the ground of all manifestation. The school’s main teacher is A. Hameed  Almaas. For more information please go to www.ridhwan.org or www.ahalmaas.com   

In his book, The Inner Journey Home- Chapter 17, page 287, Hameed talks about what happens when our souls do not experience Divine Love, which is the ground of everything. He  says, ” Not seeing the indivisible boundless ground of everything, the soul sees manifestation as composed of discrete objects. One can then possess or lose one object or another. And since this dismemberment reflects the absence of the unity of being , with its richness and abundance, it is bound to be colored by a sense of impoverishment. Impoverishment becomes desire and greed, and posessiveness develops into grasping and attachment. Therefore, instead of the soul experiencing abundance and seeing richness everywhere, she inwardly feels, consciously or unconsciously, that she is deprived and empty. She ends up being ruled by desire, greed, posessiveness, and attachment. Instead of the beautiful and rich display of love, the world of dismembered objects becomes the promise of possessions, power, and objects of gratification. The boundless Good is dismembered into material goods, to be attained, possessed, and hoarded. The natural richness and its associated spontaneous generosity becomes an economy of scarcity, where each is for his own, each is looking out for himself, and each fights and competes with others for as big a piece of the pie as one can get through cunning and brute force.” 

Letting the Japanese and other whaling nations know that killing whales and dolphins is not aligned with our current evolution of consciousness is important and it will really take these nations waking up to the fact that they and everything else has a divine existence that is made up of, and is, interconnected by love.

The ego belief in separation is extremely hard wired into our human consciousness and so often it takes some type of traumatic event to make one question their underlying view of reality. This seems to be what occurring on our planet…. lot’s of trauma and suffering that will hopefully lead to our human species waking up to our loving divine nature.

I believe it is important to speak out and am thankful that other people and organizations like Sea Shepherd and Greenpeace are doing the same. I want to particularly thank Dolphin at www.eyeofthedolphin.blogspot.com for timely and informative blogs about species suffering on the planet. Please check out her site. I also want to thank you, the reader, for subscribing to my posts as it is good to know that you care deeply about earth’s species. 

So I do the best I can and then, realizing that this problem is bigger than me, leave the final solution in the hands of True Nature. For I know that True Nature ( God/Goddess ) is good and wants life on this planet to be a magnificent expression of the divine… and as such has some kind of divine plan that will eventually express humanities highest potential of unity, peace, and loving kindness towards each other and all species on this planet.

So, thank God/Goddess for life, for my relationships, for whales and dolphins, and for my having been able to get to know them in such a deep and intimately precious way.