Regressive Hypnosis and the Whale Song


“Just as Jona stayed three days and three nights in the belly of the whale, the Son of man will stay three days and three nights under the earth”.

Ever since I was a child, whales have populated the oceans of my dreams and have given me a true image of peace.

These cetaceans, the largest mammals in existence, consoled me and took away my fear of the ocean’s infinity.

The sea is not a silent and sleepy universe, in it the calls of the dolphins, humpback whales and porpoises resonate as musical waves for dozens of kilometres as the water carries sound more rapidly than air; the propagation of sound waves is proportional to their carrier’s density.

Other physical phenomenon, which I will not discuss here, convey the sound carried by sea water by privileged means.

Utilizing sophisticated equipment known as hydrophones, it is possible to record whale conversations. Late at night, with my headphones on, I listen to the grunts of the blue whales and the repetitive sounds of the humpbacks that sing their vast repertoire of sounds ranging from low to high-pitched.

Marine biologist Philip Clapham describes the whale song as “probably the most complex expression in the animal kingdom”. Males produce courtship and mating calls to attract females for reproduction. Not all sounds produced by the humpbacks are audible by human ears which are incapable of perceiving frequencies lower than 20 Hertz.

I have studied whale songs not to compete with marine researchers like Roger Payne or Scott Mc Vay but because I have discovered a truly important fact: the ancestral sounds produced by the largest cetaceans are extremely useful to help patients enter a state of deep hypnotic trance. I consider this a very important discovery and believe that our primitive brain recognizes, at some level, that, in a primordial state, we were not far from whales; before we were given the luxury of calling ourselves humans. We used to be large mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians and, why not, even large humpback whales.

The repetition of whale phrases to a patient reveals how his/her genetic sensors still receive the messages and respond immediately while cancelling the brain functions added by evolution at a later stage.

Whales memorize the sounds received which remain active in their memory and respond to them even after periods spanning various days. Scientists speak of “hierarchy of sounds” which is still being studied. It would appear that the phrase received is elaborated and creatively re-elaborated and evolves over time.

The frequency and rhythm with which a whale sings also changes over the years. This leads me to believe that the sounds played for a patient may remain active over time and may determine the creation of a “dynamic composition” and of a “song” that remains recorded in our biological inner Self.

There are no royalties for whale songs and ASCAP does not record their performance.

Large cetaceans sing in a similar manner in specific areas; there are then languages, dialects and accents in whale language. This also seems to take place within the various dialects: a distinct difference has been noticed in the whale songs recorded near Alabama and those recorded in Southern Florida.

I have noticed that as my larynx learns to reproduce the sounds that make up whale songs, hisses and vibratos emerge unexpectedly through my vocal chords and awake within me an ancient past of communication.

Every element of cetacean behaviour is group based and each corresponds to specific phrases: courtship, preparation for meals, danger are codified and able to be reproduced by specific frequencies.

For example, feeding calls last five to ten seconds and occupy a specific set of frequencies.

We are whales, we could jokingly say, so we could use their songs to help us descend in the depths of our inner ocean. This immersion, this “ancestral regression” I think is essential in the induction of trance. It must of course be followed by a phase of orientation of the patient towards past lives which must be carried out by the therapist by utilizing verbal indications.

Two phases follow each other: the immersion in a trance accompanied by the whale songs living within us and the successive search of lives within our spiritual unconscious. This reabsorption, this backward birth (pratiprasavah) is an essential path of re-allignment  to the One.

Last night I was captured by the song of a Beluga, its hisses, its whistles, clicks and pulsations. Belugas are known as the songbirds of the sea. I do not think dolphins and killer whales to be quite useful for hypnosis due to the extremely wide range of the frequencies of their songs. My old friends humpbacks are instead capable of making my larynx vibrate with the music of the soul, the secret chant that reminds us that we are One with the immense ocean.