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I’ve noticed that the boats that have children on them receive special attention from the

whales. I once witnessed a baby whale circling and jumping again and again near a boat with

a delighted, laughing, screaming human child. I could hear the baby whale communicating

with his mother:

“It’s a baby human! Can I play with him?”

And as his mother gave her blessing, he came near the boat with the child again and again

with pure delight and joy.

I’m moved beyond words by these magnificent whales and their loving, joyful, playful,

compassionate outreach to humans. The whales have communicated to me that they have

full consciousness and awareness of their history with humans in both their individual and

collective memory. And they have chosen to forgive us.

The whales choose to be with us, to come close to us, to play with us. They gently move their

bodies away if they are so close that they might harm us. They offer us their young, their

bodies to be touched, with nothing but open-heartedness and joy as their motivation. They

don’t have to do this. They’re not being fed, coerced, or manipulated. They simply come with

openness and love to be our teachers, our evolutionary leaders on the path of love,

forgiveness, and healing. They come close to us with the recognition that we share the same

planet, that the relationship between our species is important, and that there is more that

unites us than that separates us.

Through the example of the whales, I’ve had the courage to look deep into my own heart at

the places where I hold resentment and haven’t completely forgiven others. I feel the places

where I have not loved and forgiven myself. And these places within me have softened and

opened as I feel the great example of the whales, offering forgiveness and love to a species

that has often been so unconscious and cruel to them. They recognize us as individuals, and

they also choose to stay with us, to come close to us, to help our species evolve.

We often talk about “saving the whales”--but the truth is, the whales are saving us.