2Rt Mate Tuesday

The Cetaceans’ Sentient Quorum | Richard Freeman

Before We Start | My Conceptual Prelude:​
​Sentient = able to perceive, feel, and respond with awareness.
​Cetaceans = whales and dolphins — ancient intelligences of the sea.
​Quorum = a threshold of presence where alignment gives rise to action.
​Subliminal = beneath the surface of awareness — messages felt more than heard.

• The Cetaceans’ Sentient Quorum | Subliminal Messages from the Deep reminds me that communication doesn’t always require words.
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  Both humans and cetaceans speak through vibration — waves moving through air or water, carrying emotion, thought, and meaning. Yet while our languages have grown loud and complex, theirs may have grown subtle, layered, and profoundly evolved. We rarely pause to listen. If we did, perhaps we’d rediscover that our voices, too, are born of the same oceanic frequency — still echoing the memory of where all language first began.

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​Hi Friend,

In 2017, marine biologist Nan Hauser was swimming off the Cook Islands when a forty-ton humpback whale began circling her. At first she panicked—until the whale lifted her gently to the surface, shielding her from a tiger shark below. Later she realized: it had protected her. Two species, separated by eons, communicating through vibration and instinct—something older than language itself.

Scientists have found that whales, dolphins, and humans share a rare type of neuron—spindle neurons (von Economo neurons)—linked to emotion, social understanding, and compassion. They allow for recognition, bonding, even grief. In the ocean’s cathedral, empathy is not an abstract idea but an embodied intelligence carried on frequency, song, and movement. And this intelligence may not belong to mammals alone.. Octopuses, with nervous systems spread through their arms and skin that shifts color like thought made visible, seem to think with their whole bodies. Their awareness is shape and hue, gesture and pulse—a silent conversation written in light.

The ancients remembered this kinship. The poet Arion was rescued by a dolphin named Delphinus, later placed among the stars for its compassion. As Marcus Aurelius wrote, “All things are woven together, and the web is holy.”

Yet the seas that once carried the songs of our amphibious ancestors now carry microplastics, oil, and noise. Perhaps the sentient quorum of the deep is calling again—not in play but in warning—asking if we still remember how to listen to the wisdom we once shared.

Enjoy,
oxox Dennis
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​P.S. Think "Arrival", the movie with Amy Adams 2016.
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Between The Covers

Just found this book on my porch this morning. There's only one person that would've done that. Thank you my friend oxox

📖 Philomath (2021) by Devon Walker-Figueroa​
– It’s a poetry collection that won the 2020 National Poetry Series
(selected by Sally Keith).
– The title comes from the Greek for “lover of learning,” and the poems explore memory, small-town life, intelligence, and the act of perceiving — how curiosity threads through both hardship and beauty.
– Stylistically, it’s lyrical, earthy, and deeply reflective — much in the spirit of how you weave philosophy and lived experience. Enjoy...

P.S.- A philomath (from Greek philo- “loving” + mathēsis “learning”) means:

It’s a bit broader and more poetic than “scholar.” A philomath isn’t necessarily an academic — it’s someone moved by curiosity, wonder, and the joy of discovery itself.

The Podcast is coming this Oct 31!

I will be sending out a podcast via The Pranasphere™ at Pranayama.com.
There will be an accompanying translation for all of you readers out there.
It will also be available on all the major podcast platforms, our website and YouTube Channel. Still a lot of work to do and 10 days to do it in.
Lovin the challenge oxox
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Stay in the light of love my friends it's always worth it. oxoxo -D