How Psychedelic Yoga led me to Dolphins
This is a tale of synchronicities.
In the late 60s I became a free agent in a time of profound social change. I chose to leave comfort, to take chances, to trust my intuition. When psychedelics came my way I was eager to explore. Not long on the ‘poison path’ I imposed a limit, committing to its use in natural surroundings, alone or with a supportive ally. My interest in psychedelics focused on ‘mind expansion’ and revelation, primarily using LSD and Peyote. I improvised a Psychedelic Yoga practice of Asanas, study of esoteric texts, lightshows, and meditation.
Entering the Ageless School of Initiation, I sought the Light of the Soul. Synchronicities gifted me with psychedelics and in a series of ecstatic Unions, I experienced transcendent reality.
Presence wrapped itself like a cloak around my magnetic heart. Emptied then filled, an Alternity was revealed — to Participate — I consecrated myself to fulfilling the vision.
C.Scott Taylor, PhD
Some years later synchronicity brought a legend about dolphins. I found myself inside this hyper-dimensional tale as a carrier of the legend…a Legendarian. This re-centred my life, opening into the mystery of Dolphins.
Dolphins are alien, far from our ken. Theirs was an earlier evolution, far older than ours. Millions of years floating in Oceanic space, with senses we don’t have, fully self-aware, with culture, traditions…their Buddha-nature is evident. They live in parallel worlds: a sonic one; an ultrasonic/synaesthetic one; one with more available physical dimensions — all the while being functionally weightless.
The experience of entheogens in their presence is humbling, gliding alongside their powerfully sensuous bodies. I have found that sharing space and time with a dolphin is akin to being with a highly regarded teacher and friend. Resonance with them alters one’s concepts of grace and flow and meaning.
In the following years I dove, swam, played, taught, learned and laughed among dolphins. Spending hundreds of hours in and under water with them, both wild and in human care, dolphins carried me around the world, taught me, and urged me to share their tale. They led me to their friend, Dr John Lilly and the Earth Coincidence Control Office (ECCO). We realised that dolphins brought him to psychedelics, whereas psychedelics brought me to dolphins. We both had practised Psychedelic Yoga of our own design. We worked together for the last six years of his life.
I moved to Australia, wrote a book, travelled the world as a Legendarian, made a TV special, ran a wellness program with dolphins, then chose to play the academic game…earning two degrees for studies of how human and dolphin societies affect each other.
My dolphin journey is not over, although I can no longer swim. Land-bound I have discovered much, diving even deeper into the Delphic mysteries and how Psychedelic Yoga can be understood and practised as an agent of ECCO. I look forward to sharing the tale with you.
