Service to the Wild Ones, whether captive in zoos or free, is my special focus as an interspecies communicator. That’s the beauty of telepathic communication. To connect, you don’t have to be in the same room or speak the same language. All you have to do is focus your intention and say, hi!

Since April I have regularly spoken with Springer, the orphaned orca who won our hearts while swimming off Vashon Island. Some of these conversations were organized as public forums so that participants could meet Springer and ask her questions. In this article, I will relate some common themes in Springer’s recent journey.

Last April, during a conversation conducted for Spirited Work at the Whidbey Institute, Springer invited us to address her as The Calling One, an appellation reflecting her purpose in life. According to Springer, she is a beacon: “I’m calling back the whales. I’m calling the fishes. I’m calling back the Soul of the Sound.“ This calling is reweaving the mesh of life, what humans call the “grid.“

Like many lone dolphins, Springer is participating in an energetic quickening through which land and sea will no longer be so separate. In Springer’s words: “You dip into the sea for food but not for wisdom or friendship. That will change.“ She seeks interspecies friendships and, given her druthers, would repeal laws prohibiting contact between human and whale.

When asked how humans can be of service, Springer requested our mindfulness and taught us to tone “Ah“ (pronounced awe). As she says: “Mindfulness in your day-to-day. Ah is an every day piece. It is in your heart. It is in your mind. It is in your sleep. Live the Ah, and then you will be with me always. Me and the others.“

It was May, during a conversation held at Llynya’s in Freeland, when Springer raised the notion of healing through intention. Pollutants collecting in the Puget Sound are profoundly affecting local fisheries, not to mention the local orca population. Springer was no exception. She invited us to heal her – the ketosis and skin rash – using intention. How? As Springer describes it: “Intention is inner silence while holding something in its perfection. It’s that simple.“

She is prodding humans to believe we can manifest what we focus on. Springer received minimal medical treatment while in captivity, yet the ketosis disappeared over night and the skin rash abated. That’s encouragement enough for me to continue focusing my intention constructively.

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In conversation at the Star Bar in Anacortes, Springer emphasized that now is the time for all individuals to step up to the plate. We must focus on manifesting rather than asking experts and gurus and healers to do it for us. According to Springer: “(w)e are all limitless beings. It is only our perceptions, our belief systems, that hold us back.“ That night, each of us focused our intention on healing the waters of the Puget Sound.

Springer has proven that individuals make a difference. However, she does not work alone. She has called humans her pod, H-pod, and regarded us as her collaborators. As such, she offers a lesson from orca culture to illustrate how to work together: “Synchronicity – We are each individual. We live for ourselves and others. It’s usually easy because our good is shared and not attained alone.“

The orcas define shared good broadly, for it includes Gaia’s health. For example, when asked why orcas ventured deep into south Puget Sound a few years ago, Springer answered: “orcas also know the power of their vibration. Our sonar may seem subtle to you, but it moves through water and earth. The very earth you are standing on quivers with our vibrations. Orcas and others go where the earth needs activation.“ That mesh of life includes the land, sea and all creatures.

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By mid-July, young Springer was back in Canadian waters, far from where she’d been calling back the Soul of the Sound. Originally, she had wanted to summer with her pod before returning to pursue her calling. For that to work, orca culture needed to become flexible enough to welcome back the beacons, such as she and L-98, another lone orca.

Springer is currently wishes to remain with her newfound friends, A-51, A-60 and A-61. Springer says: “They are more flexible. We are the new pod. We can absorb the returners.“ The returners are the captive whales, “(y)our Corky, your Lolita, even your Willy/Keiko; we can teach him - we won’t scare him.“

Her once rigid notion of her Calling has evolved. As Springer characterizes it: “With every decision made, with every breath taken, the needs of the Whole shift. Each being must shift with it. You see, the overarching plan remains, even as the details shift. You and I are but details.“

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