Why am I passionate about this?

Years of teaching Verbal First Aid™, hypnotic language for healing, only whet my curiosity for Non-Verbal First Aid. I love mysticism and magic, and I love science and evidence. When the two work together to illuminate profound understandings, I am such a fan. Just imagine this if you can: Dolphins’ visual and aural nerves connect so that when they send out sound beams of echolocation, it comes back as an ultra-sound-looking picture, which they can send to other dolphins! Magic and science are used by them for healing, as well. How could one NOT investigate further and be passionate about this subject?


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What the Dolphin Said: On the Future of Humankind

By Judith Simon Prager,

Book cover of What the Dolphin Said: On the Future of Humankind

What is my book about?

Marine biologists wonder why dolphins are “altruistic,” saving us from sharks and drowning while expecting nothing in return. My time…

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The books I picked & why

Book cover of Souls in the Sea: Dolphins, Whales, and Human Destiny

Judith Simon Prager Why did I love this book?

The subhead of this wonderful book is Dolphins, Whales, and Human Destiny. It covers the extensive history of respect for dolphin wisdom from 30,000 years ago in Australia, through ancient Greece, to their seeming withdrawal from our awareness 1,000 years ago. Dolphins have reappeared now, when we need their wisdom most. Taylor writes of their being the other self-aware, intelligent life we have been searching the Universe for, and about “dolphin embassies,” where we can meet as equals, already begun at their behest.

By Scott Taylor,

Why should I read it?

1 author picked Souls in the Sea as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

Dolphins have long been attributed with intelligence, but do they have souls? Self-awareness? Compassion? Scott Taylor, Director of the Cetacean Studies Institute, investigates the history, mythology, and science surrounding these creatures and emerges with a resounding yes. And not only do whales and dolphins merit our attention and respect in their own right: they are an index to what our future as a species can be.

In this multi-faceted cetology compendium, Taylor surveys the portrayal of dolphins and whales in works of literature as disparate as Moby Dick and Sumerian legend, examines biologist John Lilly's research on interspecies communication, and…


Book cover of Our Dolphin Ancestors: Keepers of Lost Knowledge and Healing Wisdom

Judith Simon Prager Why did I love this book?

The title doesn’t do justice to how stunning the information within it is, the very careful and thoughtful research, the documentation of our historical connection with cetaceans. Most impressive are the thorough descriptions of their brains, minds, communication skills well beyond our ability to even register and understand. Their echolocation, their ability to sense electrical signals from heartbeats, their multidimensional vocalization, and connected visual and aural brain areas allows them to send “sonic pictures” to each other, receiving “at least ten times more through the sense organs than we can,” is just for starters. Read this book and be amazed…and humbled!

By Frank Joseph,

Why should I read it?

1 author picked Our Dolphin Ancestors as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

Wild animals avoid contact with humans, but wild dolphins seek us out to play and socialize, even going so far as to voluntarily rescue people from drowning. What explains this remarkable natural affinity?

Revealing the evolutionary basis for our special relationship with dolphins, Frank Joseph explains how we are both descendants of the same ancient branch of humanity.

Integrating scientific research on dolphin intelligence, communication, and physiology with enduring myths from some of the world's oldest cultures, such as the Aborigines, Norse, Greeks, and Celts, the author examines our physical commonalities with dolphins, including their vestigial thumbs and legs, birth…


Book cover of Last Song of the Whales

Judith Simon Prager Why did I love this book?

It is a fiction based on facts about whales and about what Four Arrows believes they are trying to tell us regarding the pollution of the Oceans that threatens us all. A whale captures a marine biologist and his encounter, feeling almost biblical but very current, reveals their important message to humanity. In this very dramatic story, you’ll also find an ecological treatise, and a call to action so needed at this time.

By Four Arrows,

Why should I read it?

1 author picked Last Song of the Whales as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

A humpback whale mysteriously takes a mixed-blood American Indian professor to sea. While struggling to survive, the man begins to reclaim his indigenous roots, and in the process discovers thousands of whales on a suicide mission in the North Pacific. When he theorizes the dire effects the whale's action could have for all of life on earth, he and a sympathetic woman marine biologist, influenced by a Hawaiian shaman's dream, against all odds, try to warn the world in time.


Book cover of One Mind: How Our Individual Mind Is Part of a Greater Consciousness and Why It Matters

Judith Simon Prager Why did I love this book?

The title tells it all. Dr. Dossey has been a leader in the field of universal consciousness, beyond our individual conscious and unconscious minds. His latest book combines concepts from history’s profound scientists and thinkers, compelling contemporary cases studies, and ways to participate in collective awareness. It is all documented with great clarity and credibility. When we recognize that we are not alone, but all connected in the One Mind, we may develop greater empathy for all living beings and see how our knowing that connection can change the world for the better.

By Larry Dossey,

Why should I read it?

4 authors picked One Mind as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

In the 20th century, we were introduced to several subdivisions of the mind: the conscious, unconscious, subconscious, preconscious, and so on. But what we didn't know was that there was another level of consciousness, an all-encompassing, infinite dimension of shared intelligence: the One Mind. This universal consciousness connects all of us through space and time. Emerging studies have shown that the One Mind isn't just an idea; it's a reality. In this book, Larry Dossey shares compelling experiences and research that support the One Mind concept, such as: Shared thoughts, emotions, and physical sensations with a distant individual Communication between…


Book cover of The Holographic Universe: The Revolutionary Theory of Reality

Judith Simon Prager Why did I love this book?

To me, this is the best book ever written on the subject of the Universe as a hologram. Berkeley Physicist David Bohm, who contributed to the study of Quantum Theory, and neuroscientist Karl Primbram, emeritus professor of psychology and psychiatry at Stanford University originally offered this explanation of our brains and our world, beyond our limited view through our three-dimensional senses. It explains magic, miracles, the inexplicable. You will be astounded and fascinated by the evidence of this brilliant theory, written lucidly, clearly, scientifically, and involvingly.

By Michael Talbot,

Why should I read it?

1 author picked The Holographic Universe as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

'There is evidence to suggest that our world and everything in it - from snowflakes to maple trees to falling stars and spinning electrons - are only ghostly images, projections from a level of reality literally beyond both space and time.'

This is the astonishing idea behind the holographic theory of the universe, pioneered by two eminent thinkers: physicist David Bohm, a former protege of Albert Einstein, and quantum physicist Karl Pribram. The holographic theory of the universe encompasses consciousness and reality as we know them, but can also explain such hitherto unexplained phenomena as telepathy, out-of-body experiences and even…


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What the Dolphin Said: On the Future of Humankind

By Judith Simon Prager,

Book cover of What the Dolphin Said: On the Future of Humankind

What is my book about?

Marine biologists wonder why dolphins are “altruistic,” saving us from sharks and drowning while expecting nothing in return. My time with dolphins convinced me it was because they know we’re all in this together. They understand what we must: that we all meet in consciousness. I’ve taught words for medical emergencies to set a course for recovery (our Verbal First Aid™ protocol) across the US and around the world, and wondered what NON-Verbal First Aid, or healing presence beyond words would be like. The dolphins’ mystical ways provided my answer.

Watching them helping children with disabilities, I told the true story of one dolphin and a woman therapist (me) on separate tracks, needing to find each other. Told alternately by the dolphin and the therapist, it is a novel with dramatic urgency for their two worlds to meet, so the dolphins’ life-affirming message may be received.

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