Our Dolphin Ancestors: Keepers of Lost Knowledge and Healing Wisdom - Frank Joseph
Reveals the shared ancestry behind our affinity with dolphins and our shared destiny
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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.