Did you know that elephants communicate with sounds that are below the range of human hearing? Similar to whales, they can speak over long distance with each other using infrasound. I can't help but wonder if their infrasonic vocalizations are what contribute to the palpable energetic vibrations I felt, sitting amongst the clusters of elephants in Northern Kenya.
Katy Payne is one of the elephant researchers in Amboseli Park, Kenya, who helped to discover the infrasonic rumbles of elephant communication (along with Joyce Poole and Cynthia Moss) during the late 1980's and early 1990's. She is also an eloquent writer with a passion for the elephants she studied for many years.
In Silent Thunder: In the Presence of Elephants, she shares some facinating stories of what it's like to be in the bush with wild elephants...and one gripping story of an encounter with a lion. Her personal accounts hint of her strong intuitive gifts, where she touches on her precognitive dreams. She stops short of using direct language on some of these topics, which left me longing to hear more of what the real Katy Payne is all about. But I applaud her for bringing up spiritual topics at all. It's unusual for a scientific researcher to make personal revelations. I found it refreshing that she did.
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A musician named Jamie Sieber did a collaboration with an orchestra of elephants. The album is called Hidden Sky, and I think it is beautiful. She plays cello, which I adore. I saw her in Memphis, and as part of the performance, she had a video of the process as well as gorgeous images of elephants in movement, and as she told her story, It made me cry in places. I thought she could have pushed the imagery a lot more, but it was amazing to see how incredible these elephants were (are).
Such loveliness!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: arline | April 17, 2007 at 11:45 AM