Soul’s Talking Brain

We are Honoured to host guest writer Debra Gehrke – Talking to Animals

Posted on 19. Nov, 2008 by brain in Thoughts Drifting

During our first trip to Kauai, Mark, Destin (our then 8 year old son) and I had an EXTRAordinary experience on the beach one day. We had our first encounter with an endangered species called, Hawaiian Monk Seals. The seals love to warm themselves in the afternoon sun on the sun-drenched sand. They haul themselves up out of the ocean to nap for hours on end. They’re huge, resembling black lava rocks from a distance. They appear motionless…sleeping and enjoying the comfort of a warm bed.

Because they are an endangered species, special care is taken to keep them from harm while they rest. Seal Volunteers erect a make shift private nap area for them with yellow ropes and some “keep out–seals are napping” posts with signage explaining the species.

This particular day these two very young, recently weened seals were sunning themselves. They apparently warrented quite a lot of attention and some marine biologists were there to do some tests and tagging. This seemed to stress the seals very much and Destin and I decided we would keep vigil with the seals, sending them comfort, love and protection energy until the testing was complete. While we sat and held space for the seals I received a messaage from them.

The seals asked me to write a children’s book sharing their message. Years later, while living on Kauai we turned my book into a musical play and our homeschool group performed the play around the island sharing the Message of Sonora and Ipshu, Two Amazing Hawaiian Monk Seals!

Here is an excerpt from the book detailing the heart of the message I received:

“…My sister and I were amazed; we continued to listen with all our hearts as the seals continued to talk with us. They said, “Our hope is that one day we will not need our “special guest” ropes any more. We dream of a time when all beings trust as we trust. We believe this can happen if we just pay attention to a few simple things. Here is what we ask of the people kingdom.” “Would you be awake in the choices you make? Would you do things because you’ve thought them through and you’ve thought about how each living thing may be affected by you? Would you treat all others as if they were your brothers? Would you love freely…could you do that, really? Would you give without needing to get? Oh, that would be awesome, just awesome, we bet! Would you give up all fear and stand up tall? Would you know that you’re never alone, no never at all? When you look in my eyes, could you see yourself? Would you know that we’re partners in all that we’re dealt?”

“This is a message to our friends in the people kingdom. We are love. We come from love. We’ve come to show you love. You are love. You come from love. You come to show us love. We are love. We are one.” “You understand us. You know what we need. You feel us in you heart; your heart we will feed. You hear us! Thank you for hearing us. Thank you for listening and paying attention. Thank you for loving us; this deserves honorable mention!”

My sister and I could not believe our ears! What a great message; we’d have to be sure to remember all of it so that we could share it with the world. We sent love from our hearts to the seals and thanked them for sharing with us. As we did we heard them tell us just a little bit more. “This day on the beach getting to know you was fun. We’re glad you’ve gotten to know us; now we know we’re all one! Please laugh with us, snooze with us, feel the warmth of the sun! Please feel with us, learn with us and tell everyone!…”

~excerpt from: “Sonora and Ipshu~An Extraordinary Day at the Beach” The story of a brilliant message of Hope, Love & Peace told by two Hawaiian Monk Seals.

During the writing of the book we were in the process of adopting our daughter, Alea from Kazakhstan. As a way to connect with Alea and the children at the orphanage during the months prior to the adoption we hired an art teacher to go into the orphanage to create pictures for my book. We had the story translated into Russian and offered guidelines for the artful pages. The children LOVED the project and each week we’d receive another envelope filled with bright, energetic paintings to be included in the book. The children has never seen seals before, much less say beaches, tropical mountains, oceans, etc. This project opened a whole new world to the children…and a bond between us and our new daughter. The pictures included in this post are just two of the lovely images that await gracing the pages of my book.

“Sonora and Ipshu“ has yet to be published…the message is timeless, and yet perfectly timely. I welcome any publishing leads or suggestions. :0)

To Opening Hearts, Erasing Boundaries, and sharing messages of Hope, Peace and Love!

In Harmony~Debra Gehrke

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