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    From David Dalton@21:1/5 to All on Thu Jul 13 00:30:03 2023
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    July 14 will be World Orca Day.

    So it is a good time now for me to revisit my Orca Hot Foot experience.

    From https://www.nfld.com//~dalton/orca.html :

    "The orca hot foot occurred in November of 1995, at the Vancouver aquarium
    orca pool. I did a yoga mula-bandha (deep, rooted, raspy, my niece said many years ago that mine sounds like the wind) breath near the orcas. I think the female, Bjossa, was closest but am not sure; there were also one or two other orcas (Finna, Hyack?) and I think one dolphin in the pool, and belugas in a nearby pool. I got an extremely strong, almost electric shock on my right
    foot, which I had to raise slightly. This is like the stories of druids with one foot raised, I guess, though that is probably related instead to to the yoga "tree pose" where you stand on one foot and place the other foot high on the thigh. Also, for druids, the harp shape may be related to the shape of cetacean bones."

    I considered this experience to be a shamanic call for help from Bjossa (who has since died), but I haven't yet managed to answer that call, though I am still trying. And July 14 is also Bastille Day, which is a good day for a global revolution.

    Based on this experience, Orca, the species someone of the orca species, is a minor deity to me.

    --
    https://www.nfld.com/~dalton/dtales.html Salmon on the Thorns (mystic page) "This could be the final breath; This is life and death;
    This is hard rock and water; Out here between wind and flame;
    Between tears and elation; Lies a secret nation" (Ron Hynes)

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  • From David Dalton@21:1/5 to El Kabong on Thu Jul 13 02:34:01 2023
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    XPost: alt.atheism, alt.global-warming

    On Jul 13, 2023, El Kabong wrote
    (in article<6j0vai5qau6gbmjvsc3sb9ba76lcane066@4ax.com>):

    You should leave instructions that when you die, your
    body be fed to Bjossa. Then you could actually become an
    orca. Better than reincarnating as a slimy salmon, right?

    You missed that I said that Bjossa had died. Also Southern
    Resident orcas are fishetarian, they don’t eat mammals.
    And ootws like me do not reincarnate but go to the beyond
    afterlife, from which there is no reincarnation.

    --
    https://www.nfld.com/~dalton/dtales.html Salmon on the Thorns (mystic page) "This could be the final breath; This is life and death;
    This is hard rock and water; Out here between wind and flame;
    Between tears and elation; Lies a secret nation" (Ron Hynes)

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  • From El Kabong@21:1/5 to David Dalton on Wed Jul 12 21:52:19 2023
    XPost: alt.religion.druid, alt.religion.shamanism, alt.native
    XPost: alt.atheism, alt.global-warming

    David Dalton wrote:

    July 14 will be World Orca Day.

    So it is a good time now for me to revisit my Orca Hot Foot experience.

    From https://www.nfld.com//~dalton/orca.html :

    "The orca hot foot occurred in November of 1995, at the Vancouver aquarium orca pool. I did a yoga mula-bandha (deep, rooted, raspy, my niece said many years ago that mine sounds like the wind) breath near the orcas. I think the female, Bjossa, was closest but am not sure; there were also one or two other orcas (Finna, Hyack?) and I think one dolphin in the pool, and belugas in a nearby pool. I got an extremely strong, almost electric shock on my right foot, which I had to raise slightly. This is like the stories of druids with one foot raised, I guess, though that is probably related instead to to the yoga "tree pose" where you stand on one foot and place the other foot high on the thigh. Also, for druids, the harp shape may be related to the shape of cetacean bones."

    I considered this experience to be a shamanic call for help from Bjossa (who has since died), but I haven't yet managed to answer that call, though I am still trying. And July 14 is also Bastille Day, which is a good day for a global revolution.

    Based on this experience, Orca, the species someone of the orca species, is a minor deity to me.

    You should leave instructions that when you die, your
    body be fed to Bjossa. Then you could actually become an
    orca. Better than reincarnating as a slimy salmon, right?

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  • From El Kabong@21:1/5 to David Dalton on Thu Jul 13 17:06:39 2023
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    XPost: alt.atheism, alt.global-warming

    David Dalton wrote:

    On Jul 13, 2023, El Kabong wrote
    (in article<6j0vai5qau6gbmjvsc3sb9ba76lcane066@4ax.com>):

    You should leave instructions that when you die, your
    body be fed to Bjossa. Then you could actually become an
    orca. Better than reincarnating as a slimy salmon, right?

    You missed that I said that Bjossa had died. Also Southern
    Resident orcas are fishetarian, they don’t eat mammals.
    And ootws like me do not reincarnate but go to the beyond
    afterlife, from which there is no reincarnation.

    Yes, you did say Bjossa had died. Ok, next orca up.

    Being eaten by an orca is not an actual reincarnation, of
    course, except in the most metaphoric way. The atoms of
    your human molecules get recycled as atoms in orca
    molecules. It would be a nice thought, to me, YMMV.

    There have been tv docs showing orca-like whales eating
    seals. I do not know if they were true orcas, killer
    whales, or what. I doubt that they are interested in
    carrion anyway. Again, the notion was metaphoric.

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  • From David Dalton@21:1/5 to El Kabong on Thu Jul 13 22:15:23 2023
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    XPost: alt.atheism, alt.global-warming

    In article <5o31bihkd27rogb07homunl84ku73gp858@4ax.com>,
    El Kabong <twang@the.noodle> wrote:

    There have been tv docs showing orca-like whales eating
    seals. I do not know if they were true orcas, killer
    whales, or what. I doubt that they are interested in
    carrion anyway. Again, the notion was metaphoric.

    Yes, many orcas eat other marine mammals but Southern
    Resident ones do not, they just eat fish.

    --
    https://www.nfld.com/~dalton/dtales.html Salmon on the Thorns (mystic page) "This could be the final breath; This is life and death;
    This is hard rock and water; Out here between wind and flame;
    Between tears and elation; Lies a secret nation" (Ron Hynes)

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