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Elephant Movement, a revolutionary network acting to prevent elephant

and animal extinction. We were being recruited into the movement and

asked to find ways to participate that have never been thought of or tried

before. Radical action is what is required. The men faded away but not

before they opened conduits to other dimensions through the four

directions.

After they left, we noticed a fire in the fireplace in the adjoining library.

Two women were entering the room, one through the walls and the other

through a tube in the midst of the fire. The woman coming through the

wall said she was too sensitive. She had seen elephant culls. She didn’t

know if she could .... If she could ... what? Go on? Go on with the work?

Continue the elephant radical work?

The mouth of the woman in the tube was wide open and her voice or

words were struggling to be heard. Her name, Ashanti, was repeated or

omnipresent. It is clear: there is something we must do.

On awakening, I knew that we must do everything we can – whatever it is – to

prevent elephant extinction. Researching, I learned that the Ashanti were a tribe

in Ghana, devoted to elephants, offering dead elephants funerals equal to what

they would provide for a chief. Also, they were dreamers. Harriet Tubman, of

this lineage, directed the Underground Railroad through her dreams. I had been

recruited, through the dreamtime, into a radical elephant network. Cyndie and I

determined to return to Africa to see what we could learn. We knew this: We will

not be able to think our way to vision. We will have to go to Africa and listen.

Whether it was an individual elephant, his family and herd, or whether the

elephants themselves were exercising agency, is something of what Cyndie and I

wanted to investigate when we returned in in January 2016, first to Chobe then to

Mashatu, a reserve in southeastern Botswana, and finally to Damaraland in

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