The ceremony served as a closure to many who were involved with the traumatic event and as an announcement to all people of our world, that 'we have to seriously consider the way we live here'. Although beaching is a mysterious occurance and no amonut of scientific testing has been able to ascertain why Whales beach themselves, beyond the lack of scientific proof from the carcusses of these ocean mammals, there is enough evidence and scientific proof that the ocean waters of our world are needing major assisitance.It is not a stretch of the imagination to become concerned citizens of our world when considering some few facts I mention here, which are already occuring in our ocean waters like- the high levels of evident and reported pollution and infection in our oceans, the coral reefs and phytoplankton across the globe which are under threat and radically declining, and the global decline of fish stocks in relation to the supply/demand for human consumption. The botany department of University of Cape Town has stated 'At our rate of marine life consumption, there will be 10% ocean life left by 2050.' Is it a stretch of the imagination to suggest as I am here, that perhaps we as the human race need to consider that the Whales could be messengers to humanity to get our attention, that they can not continue to live in these conditions; that we need to wake up and pay attention to the imbalances in the ocean waters; and that we can and must change our ways of living here to ensure that life becomes sustainable for us all?

Below, is a copy of the speech I was guided to present, at the memorial service and honouring ceremony for the Whales who died.

''Greetings, blessings, healing and peace to everyone. To our beloved Creator, the Great Spirit, the Great Mystery – the same God, Allah, Universal Power – the Source of All That Is, that breathed life into all in this world  - the One Source with many names.

I stand before you Creator of All, humbled, honoured and grateful.  Thank You for the privilege You have blessed me with – the privilege we all have, to walk upon this beautiful Mother Earth who sustains all life.  Thank You for the gift each of us has from You, the gift to be alive in these times.

I thank the Powers who come to work with me from the Spirit world and from the Physical realms.  I thank my teachers and mentors who are joining in this ceremony from all over the world right now, who are hearing my voice as I speak here and I am hearing their voices within me right now.

Thank you all my loved ones, colleagues, those adversaries and my friends all of whom have helped me become who I am today, to know who I am and who I am not as I continue to awaken myself, like us all, growing, evolving and continually finding my place in all of Creation.  Aho.

I am Shelley Ruth Wyndham; I am a Shamanic Healer Teacher.  I stand here together with fellow Earth-walkers Sean Caulfield, a Shamanic Artist and Drummer; Kate Ann Spreckley, a Spiritual Healer Teacher;  Mandy Scanlen business entrepeneur, Change Facilitator and Project Manager and Jennifer Godwin Registered Professional Nurse and Reiki Master.  We five people walk the Good Red Road together.  This message divinely guided to me, is our message to this world.

I have been trained and guided by ancient indigenous teachings steeped in the wisdom this world needs to remember.  Although I speak in ways which are coloured by Native American principles,from the First Nation People's of the Americas, I speak a Universal message of Universal principles that needs to be respected.  Regardless of who you are, I invite you to listen deeply beyond your judgments and criticisms, beyond what you think you know, beyond the differences between us.  I invite you to open your heart and to allow your consciousness to hear the essence of this message today.

Regardless of people’s cultures or creeds, this ancient shamanic wisdom has the power of healing humanity in these times.  If you will allow it, let my words gently tap upon the peripheral edges of your levels of consciousness to awaken.  If you will allow it, let the tone of my voice gently beat within your heart to open.  Despite all our differences we are all people of the Earth and we all live on this ONE planet.  We have to change the way we live here.

Ancient indigenous wisdom roots us to our beginnings here on this planet where there was respect for all life, not just for the human life, but for Nature and the creature beings, great and small, whether they flew, swam, crawled or ran.  Mother Earth from ancient times was honoured because from the Earth, it was known, came everything that sustained life.  In those times humanity was able to live in balance with themselves and all life which lived and breathed all around them.

Today humans are disrupting systems which have taken millions of years to build.  Deforestation of our world forests is increasing the levels of green house gases in the atmosphere and reducing the Earth’s ability to cope.  As temperatures rise, glaciers and ice sheets are shrinking which will result in sea level rise which could threaten coastal cities and is already affecting the existence of many creatures fighting for survival.  In the oceans the rising carbon dioxide levels are beginning to acidify sea water which is expected to damage coral reefs, and thus the complex food chains they support.  Our current rate of marine life consumption and excess levels of pollution means we are depleting our oceans, which used to be abundant in their supplies, healthy, clean and sustainable.

We are the only species that is disrupting and destroying the source of life, our Mother Earth, in the name of money, greed, control, dominance, ownership of land, extraction of mineral resources, the use of chemicals and toxins and methods of warfare that are doing irreversible damage.  Our Mother Earth is tired and cannot sustain herself.


Just as the waters of our oceans have memories of the creatures that live within the oceans and glaciers contain millions of years of the Earth’s history, water circulates around the planet and within our own bodies.  To understand water is to understand the Cosmos, the mysteries of Nature and life itself.  Water mirrors our vibrations, water mirrors all the vibrations created in the world.  Water mirrors humanity’s consciousness reflecting what is in people’s hearts and in our souls.

Each of you holds all the answers you need to survive, to grow and to claim the power of your chosen destiny, to wake up and live in harmony.  The call of the whale is the lullaby of the tides of time.  Flow with the waters of time and collect your answers as to how we can and must transmute discord, heal ourselves and this world, by changing our thinking and our behavior, by changing the ways we live to ensure we have a future here.

Seek the whale song from within you; in this way each of us will enable connections to be made to the ancient ones, to the ancient aspects of ourselves, on a deep cellular level for all humans to remember.  As you relax into the flow of the songs and rhythms we will sing here, you can begin to open your unique records within yourself, you can begin to connect to the vastness of who you are and why we are here, you can begin to tap into the mysteries of life, of which we are all a part.  Look to the stars for the song of whale.

It is not enough to take care of just ourselves; we all need to become caretakers of our Earth and all the life forms we are privileged to share our lives with.  We must remember we have all been granted the power of Creation by our Creator and if we begin to work with this innate power wisely we can change our world.  We are the ones we have been waiting for.  

To each one of us we need to embrace the due role as caretakers of the Earth, caretakers of all the life forms we share our lives with upon this planet.  You alone and only you, can make this vital choice to walk in honour or to dishonour your relatives – your relatives, being all the brothers and sisters in all life forms who live here with us – and on your decisions, rests the fate of the entire world.

Chief Arvol Looking Horse of the Lakota, Nakota, Dakota Nations of the America’s states – ''Each of us is put here in this time and in this place to personally decide the future of human kind.  Did you think the Creator would create unnecessary people in a time of such terrible danger?  Know that you yourself are essential to this world, believe that.  Understand both the blessing and the burden of that.  You yourself are desperately needed to save the soul of this world.