A unique guidebook for those seeking further information and interpretation of the Dolphin Divination Cards, each reading (102 in all) is designed with a short preface for quick, easy reference, followed by a longer teaching and explanation of the card. Many of the people using the Cards as a daily oracle and "mind mirror" have requested a guidebook to help deepen their understanding of the cards. Woven through the lines of the readings is friendly counsel, a universal spiritual understanding, and an environmental message to all creatures that echoes the teachings of St. Francis of Assisi and the indigenous, native peoples of the Earth. Adding the love, playfulness, and genuine inspiration of the Dolphins themselves, we end up with a collaboration that creates a new way of viewing our lives. "We use the Dolphin cards every day at the barn and the Dolphin Sanctuary. We find they help attune us to a deeper level of sensitivity and intuition, which is paramount when working with animals." Sharman Haverly, horse trainer and spiritual healer of dolphins, horses, and other animals The Dolphin Divination Cards carry messages and gifts that reveal the archetypes underlying the everyday situations of our lives. They hold outer, inner, and secret meanings. For the best interpretation, remember: think like a dolphin! Only you can give yourself your own best "reading."
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Nancy Clemens is co-publisher of Blue Dolphin. Spiritual teachers from many traditions have assisted in developing her intuition. Mother of five young adults, Nancy lives on a small farm outside Nevada City, California with husband, Paul, and an assortment of other sentient beings.
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Unconditional Love
Loving without concern if love is returned. No agenda or judgment. Loving someone purely for exactly who they are, with no conditions attached. Loving completely and consistently. Discernment may be present, but judgment is absent. Forgiveness of self and others and releasing all guilt as a prerequisite for unconditional love. Understanding that human suffering causes people to hurt others. Non-attachment to insult and injury, and compassion for the suffering of others. No bartering, controls of possessiveness. Love is the basis for what we all crave. The one who is loving is the blessed one, as they are feeling the love; they have the open heart. Loving with no inner criticism or judgment. Removing old pain from the heart to open it to loving. Hurtful people are too full of pain to feel unconditional love. A loving heart is like a magnet. Love begets love.
The dolphins are a wonderful example of unconditional love. They manifest the fruits of love, which are joy, playfulness, caring, and healing.
Unconditional love cannot occur with the presence of grudges or anger, whether they be conscious or unconscious. The key to forgiveness for self and others is being non-attached (detached) from the offense that we feel in our heart. The invalidation, abandonment, neglect, or deliberate harm they inflict comes out of their own suffering. Kowning this helps us not to take it personally. We all have certain wounds to our hearts, and as a results we shield and armor our hearts as a way of preventing injury.
The irony is that the heart that is "shut down" hurts us more than the protection we feel it gives us. It can make us lonely, isolated, and ill. We may be afraid to be vulnerable. Yet when we see that injury comes from another's ignorance, or the lack of love and awareness, it is easier not to take our wounds and injuries so personally. The person who hurt us the most may be the most frightened, hurt, and "closed down" person in our life.
At times, one person loves another, and the love is not returned in kind. The one who is loving is the blessed one, as they have the flow of love in their heart. Here, there is never any lack. The love and the sacred spirit of the divine are completely fulfilled in the Unity of the One.
Our guides, angels, and spiritual masters would never hurt us the way many people do. They do love us, unconditionally, with no judgment, but with full-time encouragement, patience, and warmth.
It is not easy to be open and vulnerable, but it is a wonderful adventure, as love begets love. A loving heart, unshielded, is like a magnet. Everyone wants to touch it and be touched by it. It is more precious than gold, to be in the presence of a radiant heart. One time I was in the holy presence of Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, a very enlightened Lama from Tibet with a huge heart. His radiance turned everything in the environment completely golden. He was conducting a Padmasambhava (the Lotus Born Gurn) initiation ceremony when this amazing apparition ocurred. Several people in attendance witnessed this glorious phenomenon. My husband Paul, whom I barely knew at the time, was also present and saw the same thing. We compared notes a year later and found out we'd both been blessed by the same golden vision and an infusion of spiritual love.
When a person comes to realize that people who inflict pain are people who are suffering very deeply, then it is easier for us to have compassion for them without internalizing their "stinging" actions or remarks. We learn not to be fooled by words or appearances. Importance, worldly wealth, status, or a golden tongue that professes to love can be very confusing, if it hides a wounded and wounding human being. So we learn to pay attention to actions more than words, as they do speak louder than words.
What is the feeling we get around a particular person? Sometimes our own awareness of this can alter the situation. We may be able to be vulnerable, enough, to beam love at that person. That love may alter the mean-spiritedness in them and allow a chink in their armor to fall away. A negative potential may be transformed into a positive reality through the healing light of love.
In the presence of love, most people feel safer to open up. Opening ourselves up is the road to love, and we often do it in stages. Unconditinal love discerns, but it does not cast judgments. It loves the other just as they are, wherever they are on their evolutionary path! Unconditional love doesn't want or need anything in return.
If the pain were to be extracted from all of our hearts, then people wouldn't do things to hurt each other or our Earth, anymore. It's the pain, in people's hearts, that makes them always want more. The pain causes the greed. If the pain were extracted, they would naturally be in harmony with all things. The pure, cleansed heart doesn't feel craving. It births wisdom, generosity, right action, patience, and harmony with all things. When each and every heart is "doctored" by a loving spirit, and the ancient pain is extracted, then we can live a life of unconditional love.
Loving without concern if love is returned. No agenda or judgment. Loving someone purely for exactly who they are, with no conditions attached. Loving completely and consistently. Discernment may be present, but judgment is absent. Forgiveness of self and others and releasing all guilt as a prerequisite for unconditional love. Understanding that human suffering causes people to hurt others. Non-attachment to insult and injury, and compassion for the suffering of others. No bartering, controls of possessiveness. Love is the basis for what we all crave. The one who is loving is the blessed one, as they are feeling the love; they have the open heart. Loving with no inner criticism or judgment. Removing old pain from the heart to open it to loving. Hurtful people are too full of pain to feel unconditional love. A loving heart is like a magnet. Love begets love.
The dolphins are a wonderful example of unconditional love. They manifest the fruits of love, which are joy, playfulness, caring, and healing.
Unconditional love cannot occur with the presence of grudges or anger, whether they be conscious or unconscious. The key to forgiveness for self and others is being non-attached (detached) from the offense that we feel in our heart. The invalidation, abandonment, neglect, or deliberate harm they inflict comes out of their own suffering. Kowning this helps us not to take it personally. We all have certain wounds to our hearts, and as a results we shield and armor our hearts as a way of preventing injury.
The irony is that the heart that is "shut down" hurts us more than the protection we feel it gives us. It can make us lonely, isolated, and ill. We may be afraid to be vulnerable. Yet when we see that injury comes from another's ignorance, or the lack of love and awareness, it is easier not to take our wounds and injuries so personally. The person who hurt us the most may be the most frightened, hurt, and "closed down" person in our life.
At times, one person loves another, and the love is not returned in kind. The one who is loving is the blessed one, as they have the flow of love in their heart. Here, there is never any lack. The love and the sacred spirit of the divine are completely fulfilled in the Unity of the One.
Our guides, angels, and spiritual masters would never hurt us the way many people do. They do love us, unconditionally, with no judgment, but with full-time encouragement, patience, and warmth.
It is not easy to be open and vulnerable, but it is a wonderful adventure, as love begets love. A loving heart, unshielded, is like a magnet. Everyone wants to touch it and be touched by it. It is more precious than gold, to be in the presence of a radiant heart. One time I was in the holy presence of Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, a very enlightened Lama from Tibet with a huge heart. His radiance turned everything in the environment completely golden. He was conducting a Padmasambhava (the Lotus Born Gurn) initiation ceremony when this amazing apparition ocurred. Several people in attendance witnessed this glorious phenomenon. My husband Paul, whom I barely knew at the time, was also present and saw the same thing. We compared notes a year later and found out we'd both been blessed by the same golden vision and an infusion of spiritual love.
When a person comes to realize that people who inflict pain are people who are suffering very deeply, then it is easier for us to have compassion for them without internalizing their "stinging" actions or remarks. We learn not to be fooled by words or appearances. Importance, worldly wealth, status, or a golden tongue that professes to love can be very confusing, if it hides a wounded and wounding human being. So we learn to pay attention to actions more than words, as they do speak louder than words.
What is the feeling we get around a particular person? Sometimes our own awareness of this can alter the situation. We may be able to be vulnerable, enough, to beam love at that person. That love may alter the mean-spiritedness in them and allow a chink in their armor to fall away. A negative potential may be transformed into a positive reality through the healing light of love.
In the presence of love, most people feel safer to open up. Opening ourselves up is the road to love, and we often do it in stages. Unconditinal love discerns, but it does not cast judgments. It loves the other just as they are, wherever they are on their evolutionary path! Unconditional love doesn't want or need anything in return.
If the pain were to be extracted from all of our hearts, then people wouldn't do things to hurt each other or our Earth, anymore. It's the pain, in people's hearts, that makes them always want more. The pain causes the greed. If the pain were extracted, they would naturally be in harmony with all things. The pure, cleansed heart doesn't feel craving. It births wisdom, generosity, right action, patience, and harmony with all things. When each and every heart is "doctored" by a loving spirit, and the ancient pain is extracted, then we can live a life of unconditional love.
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I found this book to be an excellent companion to using the Dolphin Divination Cards. When I look up the explanation to the card I drew, I find that it always answers my question perfectly. Also, the spiritual beliefs presented in the book dovetail very nicely with my own spiritual beliefs in the workings of the universal order of things. I can usually feel the dolphins nuzzling me and playfully moving about while I am using the divination cards. The cards and book are wonderful!
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The book is nice and it gives in great detail the meaning of each poglike dolphin chip. The book explains everything and I highly recommend it. But why only 4 out of 5 stars? Well you have to purchase the dolphin cards seperately.
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This is a very useful guide book for the tiny, pog-like deck of oracle cards called Dolphin Divination cards. It is sold separately from the cards and was written a couple of years after the cards were designed. The cards CAN be used without the guide book but they are much easier to use with it. The delineations for each card are thorough and thoughtful. The cards and this book both encourage the development of the intuition and I consider them an excellent starting place for people who are interested in learning more about the use of oracles such as the runes or Tarot cards. This book is beautifully written and conveys a philosophy of light and joy which is very "New Age". Depending upon your own feelings about the New Age movement and way of being, you may appreciate these to one degree or another. No matter what your philosphy, if you consult this book and practice with the simple cards you will hone your ability to recognize synchronicities and guidance from either your higher self, your subconsious mind, or your higher power. If you want to practice, contemplate, meditate, "inner-vestigate", this book is a useful tool.
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holding great ceremonies, dolphin cards, clearing ourselves, warring planet, energy cords, smiling heart, dolphin friends, secret equipment, subtle energy centers, low surf, clearing methods, captive dolphins, radical trust, interspecies relationships, other dolphins Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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- Dolphin Connection: Interdimensional Ways of Living by Joan Ocean on page 19, and page 229
- Mass Dreams of the Future by Chet B. Snow in Back Matter
- Compassion for All Creatures by Janice Gray Kolb in Back Matter
- Hawaiian Aumakua by M. Lucy Wade Stern in Back Matter
- Summer With the Leprechauns: A True Story by Tanis Helliwell in Back Matter
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