Standing on our beautiful veranda; sipping a glass of pinot noir, and looking through a pair high-powered binoculars we had purchased specifically for our Antarctica adventure; I witnessed a pod of four Orca whales, track and separate a mother Humpback whale from her calf. What followed, left me traumatized and searching for some way to wrap my mind, and my heart, around what had just happened.
Having watched a beautiful BBC and National Geographic produced documentary film, Earth II, in the ship’s gorgeous main-stage theater the night before, I recognized the Orca’s tracking pattern. What was not presented in the documentary, was how the Orca’s hunting practice played out. The gears of my logical left-brain, my emotional right-brain, and my spiritual heart-brain locked. I was lost for words and searching for understanding. I was clear enough to know I needed to take several deep breaths and quiet my mind. In the quiet I was guided to use my tools, “Ask the authentic conscious question.” So, I did. “What is this trying to show me, the seeing of which will change everything?” And then, I listened.
In the silence that is unique to Antarctica, surrounded by towering icebergs, and gliding on the calm surface of the Gerlache Struit, it was made clear to me how my human mind and my egoic projection were obstructing the truth and distorting the facts in my judgment of nature at work. I was out of line with Mother Nature, and out of alignment with my place IN nature.
This was nature Being nature. I put down my binoculars, picked up my glass of wine, and took spiritual communion with the Universe. “I stand corrected.”
