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4 — Wednesday, July 3, 1991 - North Shore News

Dolphins dazzle researchers with abilities

LOS ANGELES — Rather than going away, the literature
on all things extrasensory, including telepathy, has been
piling up over the last couple of decades.

But nobody has made much ef-
fort to report on the furthest-out
aspects of the research on
dolphins which has been pro-
ceeding since Dr. John C. Lilly
made his breakthrough studies of
dolphin brains in the early 60s.

Environmental activists quite
correctly don’t want to breathe a
word about the subject in public,
for fear of losing all credibility in
their struggle to save the dolphins
from near-extinction.

In this context, whether the
dolphins are brilliant or stupid is
entirely beside the point.

Stull, after a week in L.A., in-
terviewing people who have swum
with dolphins, rode them, lived in
special seaside accommodation
with them, dissected their brains,
done drugs with them, and carried
out endless non-invasive experi-
ments on them, it is impossible to
ignore a common thread that
emerges: the dolphins pick up,
somehow, on what humans are
thinking and feeling.

Anybody with a dog or cat will
say: So what? So does Fido.

The difference, if there really is

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one, is that the dolphins seem to
be capable of communicating back
in ways that have nothing to do
with purring or wagging tails.

One woman I talked to describ-
ed the experience, after a week of
swimming with a friendly pod of

do!phins, of arriving at dockside
for a final swim. The dolphins
appeared, and as she walked along
the dock toward them, a crystal-
clear image lept into her mind.

It was a picture of herself walk-
ing along the dock, with bright
sunlight in the background, seen
from the point of view of the
dolphins.

The mental image of herself, as
seen by the dolphins, was so vivid
that even though it happened
years ago, her eyes still shine
when she talks about it.

There is the story, cited fre-
quently, of the woman who got in
the water with a dolphin, only to
have the dolphin charge toward
her and butt her so hard with its
beak that she had to be rushed to
hospital. By the time she got
there, a bruise had formed.

When doctors examined her,
they discovered a cancerous tumor
exactly where the dolphin had
struck. She was operated on im-
mediately and her life was saved.

Dr. Lilly himself tells the story
of deciding, after several years of
experimenting with five captive
dolphins, that it was time to set
them free. But what he actually

thought, as he stood by the
dolphin tank, was: “‘I’ll have to
get rid of them.”’

Three days later, all five
dolphins were dead. They simply

shut down their breathing systems

and committed suicide.

Cases of dolphins committing
suicide after forming a bond with
a human being which is broken
when the human, after an extend-
ed period of time, decides to
leave, are legion.

Dolphins in the water with
pregnant women immediately
become solicitous, protective and
especially friendly.

It is in the area of work with
autistic children that the special
abilities of dolphins show in the
most measurable way. There are
several locations in the U.S. now
where such children are taken and
placed in the water with dolphins.
The literature on the subject is far
from airy-fairy.

The children are profoundly af-
fected by the dolphins, so much
so that many of them emerge
from the shell they have
withdrawn into, and the peopie
who carry out this work insist that
the dolphins somehow have the
power to probe inside, to lift the
veil, and to heal.

I haven't seen the video footage
yet, but I was told repeatedly
about the tapes an underwater
cameraman got in Florida last spr-

ing, when he was diving with
another chap and they decided to
ask a group of dolphins (telepath-
ically, of course) if there was any
message they had for humans on
the eve of Earth Day.

One af the dolphins disap-
peared, then reappeared, with a
sunken plastic bag full of garbage
snagged around its dorsal. After
swimming back and forth in front
of the camera with the bag, the
dolphin reportedly chucked it di-
rectly at the lens. (When I actually
see the footage, I'll get back to
you.)

In the meartime, people like
John Lilly, and others who have
svorked for years trying to teach
dolphins to talk and push buttons
to communicate through com-
puters, say that they have given
up on this approach.

The trick, they insist, is to start
learning how to communicate the
way the dolphins do — mind to
mind, projecting holographic im-
ages of what they are sceing.

I haven’t had this experience,
alas. So all I can report is v-hat
I’m told. There’s no empirical
proof one way or another. But the

. possibilities, you have to admit,

are fabulous. Aid about as 2x-
citing as it gets.
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