Reveals the shared ancestry behind our affinity with dolphins and our shared destiny
• Explains how we are both descendants of the aquatic ape and still share many physiological features with dolphins that set us apart from other primates
• Explores dolphins’ communication with other species and how dolphin therapy has miraculous effects on people with autism, cancer, stroke, and depression
• Explores the connections between dolphins and Atlantis and Lemuria
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 human-ity. Building upon the aquatic ape theory, he details how we both began on land but devastating floods forced our distant ancestors into the seas, where humanity developed many of the traits that set us apart from other primates, such as our instinctive diving reflex and our newborns’ ability to swim. But while some of the aquatic apes returned to land, later evolving into modern humans, some remained in the cradle of Mother Ocean and became our dolphin cousins.
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 processes, and body temperature. He explores dolphins’ uncanny ability to diagnose disease such as cancer in humans and how dolphin therapy has had miraculous effects on children with autism, victims of stroke, and those suffering from depression. He provides evidence for dolphins’ different attitudes toward men, women, and children, their natural affinity with cats and dogs, and their telepathic communication with other species, including ours. He explores dolphins’ mysterious role in the birth of early civilization and their connections with the Dog Star, Sirius, and Atlantis and Lemuria--a bond still commemorated by annual gatherings of millions of dolphins.
As Frank Joseph shows, if we can learn to fully communicate with dolphins, accessing their millennia-old oral tradition, we may learn the truth about humanity’s origins and our shared future, when humankind may yet again quit the land for a final return to the sea.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction
The Eye of the Dolphin
1 We Are Aquatic Apes
2 Our Sea-Mammal Heritage
3 Homo delphinus
4 The Mind in the Sea
5 The Other Humans
6 From Extinction to Rebirth
7 Are Dolphins the Most Intelligent Creatures in the World?
8 The Holographic Dolphin
9 Telepathic Dolphins
10 The Order of the Dolphin
11 Healing Dolphins
12 Psychiatrists at Sea
13 They Owe Their Lives to Dolphins
14 Musical Dolphins
15 Dolphins and Men
16 Dolphins and Women
17 Dolphins and Children
18 Dolphin Connections with Cats, Dogs, and Whales
19 Are Mermaids Real?
20 A Webfoot in Both Worlds
21 Sirius Dolphins
22 The Dolphins of Atlantis
23 Planet Earth or SeaWorld?
Epilogue
A Dolphin Fulfills the Mayan Prophecy
Notes
Bibliography
Index
