What is the title of this new age book from the 1990s?
September 27, 2011 3:58 PM Subscribe
Does anyone remember the title of a new age "non-fiction" book from the 1990s that purported to be the ecologically-bent transcriptions of a telepath in conversation with the souls of our alien ancestors, who had been reincarnated into the bodies of dolphins?
I worked at a Wal-Mart as a teenager in the electronics department. I remember the Bell South representative who worked a kiosk with me quasi-forced me to read this book, as it had "changed her life." It was...out there, in a way that made conversation difficult after that. I've been telling my girlfriend about the book, but for the life of me I cannot remember the title, & my Google-Fu is failing me. All I can recall aside from the description is that I had to special order the book from some fringe publisher & that it was about 3-400 pages long. Thanks!
I worked at a Wal-Mart as a teenager in the electronics department. I remember the Bell South representative who worked a kiosk with me quasi-forced me to read this book, as it had "changed her life." It was...out there, in a way that made conversation difficult after that. I've been telling my girlfriend about the book, but for the life of me I cannot remember the title, & my Google-Fu is failing me. All I can recall aside from the description is that I had to special order the book from some fringe publisher & that it was about 3-400 pages long. Thanks!
Response by poster: Hrm. I feel like that's not the title. Doesn't trigger my memory. But now that you mention it, I do seem to remember that the telepath/medium was a woman.
posted by Hesychia at 4:08 PM on September 27, 2011
posted by Hesychia at 4:08 PM on September 27, 2011
Dolphins, ETs & Angels: Adventures Among Spiritual Intelligences or something else by Timothy Wyllie? Both his books and the Barbara Marcinak are published by Bear & Co which might be worth a peek as they seem to publish all kinds of whacked-out shit including the awesome Pyramid Power.
posted by jabes at 4:24 PM on September 27, 2011
posted by jabes at 4:24 PM on September 27, 2011
Response by poster: No, that's not it, either, though it's prompting the very excellent question in my mind, "Just how many books about reincarnated aliens inhabiting dolphins can there be?" And apparenty that answer is, "more than I would have ever suspected." Will check out that publisher. Also taking these titles & checking out the "also viewed/bought" associations on Amazon.
Though my memory is probably faulty, I also want to say that maybe it was a blackish cover with the Earth at the center of it.
posted by Hesychia at 4:31 PM on September 27, 2011 [1 favorite]
Though my memory is probably faulty, I also want to say that maybe it was a blackish cover with the Earth at the center of it.
posted by Hesychia at 4:31 PM on September 27, 2011 [1 favorite]
Something by Joan Ocean? She has a few books out (there are more on Amazon and "related" books may help you out there too).
(This falls firmly into the "Why do I know this?" category.)
posted by darksong at 4:35 PM on September 27, 2011
(This falls firmly into the "Why do I know this?" category.)
posted by darksong at 4:35 PM on September 27, 2011
The cover sort of reminds me of this other Barabara Marcinak. Only suggesting since she is definitely the author I associate most with mid 90s new age weirdness about dolphins. And doesn't hurt to expand the search to all things Pleiadian, because they are after all the interdimensional intelligence that manifests in this plane as dolphins. cough.
posted by Lorin at 4:36 PM on September 27, 2011 [1 favorite]
posted by Lorin at 4:36 PM on September 27, 2011 [1 favorite]
Best answer: Ok. I think I found it: Phyllis Schlemmer's The Only Planet Of Choice: Essential Briefings From Deep Space. That looks like the cover I remember. About the right page length & year of publication. But I'm having problems finding concrete information about the actual content of the book. Hrmmm...
posted by Hesychia at 4:51 PM on September 27, 2011 [1 favorite]
posted by Hesychia at 4:51 PM on September 27, 2011 [1 favorite]
Perhaps there was an order from the top:
"Attention all reincarnated alien brethren, new order from command central on the mothership: Evacuate current dolphin hosts. Destroy all evidence of current deployment and leave no trace of visit. That is all."
posted by BigHeartedGuy at 4:55 PM on September 27, 2011 [1 favorite]
"Attention all reincarnated alien brethren, new order from command central on the mothership: Evacuate current dolphin hosts. Destroy all evidence of current deployment and leave no trace of visit. That is all."
posted by BigHeartedGuy at 4:55 PM on September 27, 2011 [1 favorite]
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy? Did Douglas Adams invent this idea or was he picking up on existing new age ideas?
posted by titanium_geek at 5:11 PM on September 27, 2011
posted by titanium_geek at 5:11 PM on September 27, 2011
Response by poster: Hitchhiker's came out in 1979. Would be curious to know if he was riffing/having fun at the expense of new age/counterculture ideas already out there.
posted by Hesychia at 5:17 PM on September 27, 2011
posted by Hesychia at 5:17 PM on September 27, 2011
You'll probably find John C. Lilly at the center of any such constellation of wacky new age/counterculture dolphin/alien business, Hesychia.
posted by cgc373 at 5:26 PM on September 27, 2011
posted by cgc373 at 5:26 PM on September 27, 2011
Response by poster: Thanks for the assistance, all. Without those initial names, I wouldn't have seen the Schlemmer book popping up among the Amazon related titles.
posted by Hesychia at 5:28 PM on September 27, 2011
posted by Hesychia at 5:28 PM on September 27, 2011
Ah, John Lilly...THAT'S who was hiding behind my initial Celestine or Seth'ian instincts. A buddy of mine was his #1 fan for some time back then. Tip o' tongue, and all that.
posted by rhizome at 5:48 PM on September 27, 2011
posted by rhizome at 5:48 PM on September 27, 2011
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posted by Lorin at 4:03 PM on September 27, 2011