How to Speak Mermaid

A Study of the Soul to Soul and Body to Body

Communication Among Mermaid Women

By

William R. Mistele
 ii

Also by the author—Undines: Lessons from the Realm of the Water

Spirits
(North Atlantic Books, 2011)
Available also from amazon.com

Copyright © 2012 by William R. Mistele. All rights reserved. No

portion of this book, except for brief review, may be reproduced, stored
in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means—
electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise—without
the written permission of the publisher. For information contact
[email protected]
978-0-9857110-3-0
Published by William R. Mistele Productions
PO BOX 25414, Honolulu, Hawaii 96825

Poetry by William R. Mistele

Cover photo by William R. Mistele
See also:
Williammistele.com/videopoems.html
Facebook.com/williamrmistele
 iii

Preface
Perhaps the best way to learn a foreign language is to live with native
speakers. If you live with them long enough, you can learn to speak as
they speak and act like you are one of them. Learning to speak mermaid
is something nearly every human being can learn to do.
Mermaids/mermen are not mammals and they are not fish. They are
spirits that exist on the astral plane and that have very close ties to water
in nature. Sometimes they incarnate in the form of human beings. Yet
previously when they have done so in history, they have always
carefully disguised their presence among us.
What is a mermaid woman? For about eighty per cent of them:
1. They like to be around large bodies of water. Some draw energy
from water the way we draw energy from breathing.
2. They are empathic such that they feel what others feel. When their
aura passes through other people they sense the other person’s emotional
life as if it is their own.
3. Their empathy is so extreme that as they grow up they discover they
have never met anyone like themselves. And so they almost all consider
that they are not like other human beings.
Though what they are is often not clear to them, many still do not use
ideas or labels to define what or who they are. Feeling itself is a way of
being. Thinking thoughts is not a primary or even useful state of
awareness for them. I have only met one who is actually willing to assert
and maintain that a specific idea she has in her head is “right.” And I
only saw her do that once.
Put simply, speaking mermaid is not about learning the words and
grammar of a written or spoken language. It is not even about having
ideas, concepts, or some sort of understanding in your head. It has
nothing at all to do with metaphysics, theology, or beliefs. There are no
ideals about love that are present. Speaking mermaid is a way of
perceiving. Mermaids perceive and feel love as energy. Consequently,
they do not have to believe in it, try to comprehend it, or express it by
complying with a morality that is taught to them from outside.
 iv

4. In almost every case, they will say they exist to love. And they
never lose their innocence--they cannot stop giving all of themselves to
others. At the same time, they do learn that with human beings you have
to conceal your natural desires to give, in part because others will
misunderstand or try to abuse them.
 v

Introduction

The Five Elements of Human Nature

Mermaids embody the part of human nature that has been hidden from
us. By learning the language of mermaids, we encounter for the first
time different kinds of love the human race has never imagined.
In some traditions, human nature is composed of five elements--earth,
air, fire, water, and akasha. The air element heightens artistic sensitivity
and mental clarity. The fire element enhances will power, courage, and
enthusiasm. The earth element keeps us practical, down to earth, and it
motivates us to build things of value that endure. The water element
enhances feeling and love. And the fifth element of akasha oversees the
development and balance between the other four.
In human civilization and history, we already know fire, air, and earth.
We have individuals like General Patton who look around in life and ask
themselves, What is the one problem no one else can solve? And then
they place themselves in a position where the power they acquire can
solve those problems. And we have men like Westinghouse, Edison,
Oppenheimer, and Nobel who offer mankind new discoveries and
applications of fire and electricity. These individuals act as if they are
fire spirits in human form.
Fire--will and power--are very well known to human beings. Fire is a
part of everything we do. Electricity is one of the cornerstones of our
civilization.
We also know the air element. We have Shakespeare, Mozart, Sir
Isaac Newton, Steven Hawking, and others in human history. They
possess a detachment, artistic sensitivity, and also clarity of mind that
enables them to study life, not for the sake of power, but for beauty, art,
and understanding.
 viii

And we have the earth element--we have men like Warren Buffett that
build empires because they enjoy work and making things of value that
endure. These individuals involve themselves with the more material
side of life. They often investigate geology, DNA, chemistry, and ways
to take natural processes and perfect them.
But we are missing individuals who embody the primal force of the
water element. These individuals would not be known for their power,
their detachment and clarity of mind, or for the way they like to build
and leave a legacy behind.
Instead, these women would be extremely empathic and pure in love. If
you placed just one of them at a negotiating table where Arabs and
Israelis were trying to fashion a peace treaty, she could dissolve the
hostility and attachment to the past of those present and inspire them to
create peace.
If you took just one of these women and placed her on the UN Security
Council, no one would be able to lie anymore. She could read
everyone’s mind and not only that. She could relive the exact memories
of those present as if those memories were her own.
And if you put her on the board of directors of Monsanto, BP, or Tokyo
Electric, she would hold her own conference meetings at night with the
board members and CEO while they all slept and dreamed. And when
they awoke in the morning, they would sometimes be in a cold sweat.
Because she would have showed them in graphic living detail the future
horrors that result from the choices they are making. And they would
remember the words she spoke to them while they slept.
But you see, such women have never appeared openly in human
history. They have had to always disguise themselves in order to survive
among us. And until now it is almost certain that the divine world has
considered the human race too immature to know about their presence
lest we end up abusing them. But this has changed because the world is
passing through a critical stage.
In learning to speak mermaid, we are going to acquire the missing
piece in the puzzle of what it is to be a human being. We are going to
encounter a love that will vanquish the isolation and loneliness that has
haunted the human soul down through the many ages and eons of time.
Chapter One--How to Speak Mermaid
You will notice of course three things
When she sits beside you
On a beach—
Your two auras flow together
As one stream
The waters are cool, soothing, releasing,
And unbearably sweet
And the masculine is here also—
She draws your energy into herself
As if the Northern Lights have come down
Filling her body
With a quiet, electrical luminescence,
Though your energy inside of her is gentle,
It burns with a wild and furious purity
And there is this mystery—
You, the woman, and the sea
Are within each other equally
There are no boundaries marking
Where one begins and the other ends
And the spell of oneness is so complete
The sea uses the two of you
To celebrate its innermost serenity and peace
In this trancelike beauty
Your mind becomes the sky
And your soul a love
Encircling the earth.
 2

What is it to speak mermaid? You sense a vast field of energy like a sea
of water that surrounds you. It is tangible and flowing like water itself.
And this energy field has the quality of love--it is nurturing, receptive,
renewing, healing, releasing tension, and making things whole. It
shelters, inspires, and gives life.
You sense that you are united to this energy field of love. It flows into
and through you to others or whatever is around you. If you focus on
another person near or far, you can flow this healing and loving energy
through that person also.
Put simply, the mermaid language is a way of perceiving. A mermaid
woman senses she is part of a sea of love and that this love is endlessly
flowing through her to others around her.
This is not something added to her aura. This immersion in love and
offering it to others is her very essence. This sense of giving is so strong
that a mermaid cannot stop giving love. To stop loving would be like a
human being stopping breathing--if you stop breathing, you would in a
short time no longer be alive.
If you can somehow connect to this sea of love so that it is always
flowing through you to others, then you speak the language of the
mermaids. When you are with one of them, there is an automatic,
subliminal and real emotional force joining the two of you together.
What is within one person is also within the other. If you can feel as
mermaids feel, then you are one of them.

Ocean of Love Exercise

You will know
When water overflows
From inside of you—
There is no end to your giving

Imagine that you are in the center of an ocean of water. This ocean
extends in all directions around you. You sense the fluidity, flowing,
wet, and cold sensations of a blue green sea.
 3

Next, change the physical sensations of a sea of water into feelings—

into a sea of nurturing love. The watery sensations become the feelings
of supporting, animating, sheltering, healing, renewing, and inspiring all
living beings.
In other words, physical sensations are changing into qualities of
feelings. To understand this better, try this exercise. Take one hand and
grasp the wrist of your other hand. Notice the physical sensations—the
warmth, pressure, and tactile details of touch.
Briefly explore these sensations in various ways. For example, imagine
you are holding the wrist of someone who is off balance. You are
steading the other. In this case, there is a stronger grasp ready to exert
more strength if that is needed. Or, imagine you are detaining someone
like a child who wants to run into the street where there is traffic. Here
the hold is more forceful and commanding.
Now then, in contrast to the above, imagine you are placing only a
feeling into this touch. This feeling is neither forceful nor assertive. It is
not trying to accomplish anything physical at all. The feelings is—“I
love you with all of my heart.” Take a few moments and imagine you
have clasped the wrist of someone you love—a child, a lover, or a
caregiver. It may help to recall an experience when you actually did this.
Do not think. Just feel.
You may now notice, for example, a different sensation of warmth.
The energy in your touch goes completely through the other wrist. There
is a sense of holding, uniting, and bonding. It is almost like the hand
feels it has become one with the part of the other arm it is holding.
In a similar way, the physical sensations of water change into feelings
of love. This love flows into, unites, and becomes part of whatever it
touches.
Now, visualize another person in front of you, someone with whom
you are familiar. Visualize the person’s body as being empty inside.
Next, imagine that as the sea of love you begin to flow through this
person. You move through the other from head to feet as if he is open
inside and you are a stream of watery love.
As you do so, sense everything within this person. Your cool, flowing
water heals, purifies, harmonizes, and nourishes. Pain and tension
 4

dissolve. Frustration and unhappiness disappear. The individual feels

whole, complete, happy, and serene. In effect, you are uniting the
individual with this sea of all-embracing love.
This exercise neither exhausts you nor does it overwhelm you with the
other person’s emotions of distress. You continue to identify yourself
with a vast sea of watery love as you flow through the person. You are
both one with the other and also detached at the same time.
I taught this exercise to one woman in several minutes. When she
practiced it on her boyfriend she discovered she could produce physical
sensations in his body even though neither of them were psychic or
worked with energy meditations. Young woman in particular have an
innate ability to succeed with this exercise.
When I taught this simple meditation to a mermaid woman, she said to
me, “I already do this every day with my boyfriend. I just never put it
into words the way you do.”
The difference between doing the exercise and a mermaid woman’s
aura is that the mermaid woman does this exercise automatically. There
is no effort to it and no intellectual decision about when and where to
extend herself. She has an inner union with nature and her connection to
nature continuously provides her with love and energy to give to others.
Chapter Two: Astral Immortality

When one of the four elements—earth, air, fire, water--become so much

a part of you that the energy in your aura has the same vibration as one
of these elements in nature you have attained astral immortality--at any
age in this life or in any future incarnation, your astral body remains
forever new, fresh, life giving, and pure. For this woman, it is like the
stillness of the sun blazing in clear ice--the present moment shines
brighter and more full of beauty than anything else the mind can think of
or contemplate in life.

Letters to Mermaids
Question: Is not the astral plane lower?

Response

The astral body is in the shape of the physical body but is made of a
subtler substance. The astral body expresses our feelings and emotions.
It is receptive and impressionable. It gives a sense of being connected to
others. It enables us to respond with appreciation and sensitivity to the
specific situations that we enter. Our astral body in combination with
sensory impressions enables us to feel fully alive.
The astral plane surrounds and penetrates our physical world.
Sometimes referred to as the “other side,” the “world beyond,” or “the
next world,” the astral plane pertains to the realm of the soul. Mermaids
and many other conscious entities exist on the astral plane. Sometimes
we enter this realm in our dreams. The astral plane often presents itself
to us as being a dream like recreation of the situations, sensations, and
feelings we encounter in the real world
For many spiritual traditions, contact with the astral plane—the realm
of feeling and emotions--appears to be an obstacle or “the enemy.”
Religion and society consider it dubious at best when individuals
 8

become distracted or fascinated by astral dream like visions and

experiences.
At the same time, the astral body mediates between the mind and the
physical body. If you are upset or angry, do not drive a car. Your
perception of the road and your ability to make snap decisions are
greatly impaired. Strong emotions actually interfere with an individual’s
ability to think. And the perceptions of the five senses are no longer as
clear.
But the astral plane and emotional life of the individual are not just a
realm of illusion, distraction, and selfish desires. It is also the realm of
inspiration and motivation that moves people to action and inspires them
to put forth their best efforts.
A coach talking to his team during half time or a commander speaking
to his troops before a battle—these men do not rely on ideas of the
mental plane and they no longer have time to engage in physical
training. What they do is transmit to those under their authority their
own sense of fearlessness, courage, conviction, and the ability to give all
of oneself without holding back to what one loves. What they are
communicating is pure astral energy. It is force of emotion. Use it well
and in a positive manner and you not only connect easily to others. You
can transform the world.
The original nature of the astral plane is revealed through refining and
combining one or more of the five elements so as to attain astral
immortality. Accomplish this and your very presence offers to others
direct experience with electrifying courage, endless wonder and
curiosity, down to earth and practical perseverance, and pure love.
Mermaids are united to nature at the core of their being. In effect,
mermaids are motivated to love because they never exist without a sense
of wonder, beauty, ecstasy, bliss, love, peace, and happiness. They can
love because love is endlessly overflowing through themselves like
streams of living water.
Water in nature for mermaids is not just a lake, a stream, a waterfall, or
an ocean. Water in nature has an inner vibration that embodies the
 9

essence of love. The human race as of yet does not sense the energy
underlying the element of water in nature.
A mermaid is not encumbered by a human ego--she is not dependent,
needy, worrying, defensive, cautious, or wounded. She may of course
acquire these emotions growing up as a young woman, but they are not a
part of the nature of who she is. What is she?
She is an immortal being--her emotional life is not subject to
deterioration but rather is forever new. She is continually young and she
never loses her innocence--she never stops giving of herself regardless
of how much she may have been abused or hurt in the past.
How do you acquire astral immortality like a mermaid? Again, the
mermaid perceives herself to be joined to the energies underlying nature.
Her personal identity, then, is not fragile and vulnerable. She is united to
an infinite sea of love that encompasses the planet.
This awareness has nothing to do with human religions or theologies.
Nature is embedded in her very core and so she does not rely on a need
to think with concepts or use beliefs. She has direct perception of these
things. When you are in the presence of a mermaid woman you are in
the presence of an immortal spirit from the astral plane who embodies
the vibrations of love. The essence of her realm within nature is the
ecstasy of bliss, happiness, and love.
It is small wonder that these women have had to disguise themselves
when they live among us. Their very existence shatters all human
systems of cognition and philosophy and offers a peace and hope the
great mystics of the earth have rarely tasted.
Chapter Three: Finding Nature at the Core
of Your Being

Letters to Would Be Mermen

Question: Can you say something about those of us who love, but are
not mermaids. I'm jealous sometimes. Why do I go through so many
things mermaids do, yet I am obviously not a merman?

Response

Me too. I mean that. If I do not sit down and write poems to the sea she
looks at me like I prefer deserts, sand, dry stream beds, and arid
wastelands. For the Hopi Indians and for the Unitarians, in order to
become one of them, you simply do what they do—hang out with them
long enough and act like you are one of them. And then you are.
If you perceive like a mermaid, think like a mermaid, feel like a
mermaid, and have the love of a mermaid, then you are a mermaid or
merman. All realms are in fact like that.
In the first chapter, speaking mermaid comes down to sensing that you
are surrounded by a sea of love and that this love continuously flows
through you to those around you. To perceive like a mermaid, sense the
energy that underlies water in nature.
For example, take a small waterfall falling into a mountain pool.
Observe or imagine the purely physical sensory impressions: there is the
sound of the water falling and splashing. There are the drops of water
falling through the air, the bubbly spray, and waves and ripples on the
pools surface. There is the pool itself with its diameter and depths where
 13

the water moves and turns and then there is the stream as the water flows
on.
Before us we can sense the changes in water temperature. There is
oxygen entering the water. And the water is continuously adapting itself
to whatever environment it enters. It flows and moves without any
attachment to what it was in the previous moment.
If you imagine you are this water--that its flexibility, receptivity, and
responsiveness to is part of yourself, then you also acquire a mermaid’s
awareness of what it is to be joined to nature from within yourself--it is
to be constantly letting go and receptive, each moment flowing and
unfolding in a new way.
There is then self-renewal, self- purification, and a feeling of being
alive because there is nothing more receptive and aware of what is
happening in each moment than are you. This emotional life is vivacious
and totally engaging, sparkling in response to whatever affects it. And
yet it also strives for oneness--it instantly moves to surrounded and to
unite, to enter, and to bring to life anything near to it.
What is the trick then to switching off the human ego long enough to
learn to perceive the energy underlying nature that causes mermaids to
attain astral immortality? When you are in nature, observe nature
without referring back to your human identity. Put aside your awareness
of yourself and simply perceive what is in front of you.
Let go and just be within the energy of nature you sense so that it
becomes as familiar and a part of you as your ordinary, daily routines
you often follow.
After a while you will be able to do what every mermaid woman can
do spontaneously. When she is out in nature and relaxes, her human
identity vanishes and she--the human being--is no longer present. What
is before you then when you look at her or feel her aura in that moment
is the vibration of nature itself unencumbered and unattached to a human
identity.
It may seem like a long journey, but it is not. The mermaids are simply
aware of beauty and receptive and reflective enough in their awareness
that the beauty they perceive is united to them at the core of their being.
 14

I watch the wave rolling

Forming a crest, breaking,
Foam and spray falling
The water rising upon the sand
Then the undertow
Drawing back again
I slow my breath
To match the rising crest,
The surging white chaos,
And the sinking down in the depths
My heartbeat and the sea
Now in synchronicity
It is hard to tell
Where my body ends
And the sea begins
 15

Chapter Four: The Kundalini Effect

Beware of mermaid electricity

It is love of most unusual intensity
Beware of mermaid electricity
It is hunger and power
Love and freedom
Of the open sea
Beware of mermaid electricity
It is ecstasy flooding your body like a tsunami
Beware of mermaid electricity
No human being can produce this feeling

The bliss when you kiss her lips

Who can long endure?
She is lightning, thunder,
The depths and winds of the seas--
A woman dancing in ecstasy

Beware of mermaid electricity

Her eyes gratifies your deepest needs
Beware of mermaid electricity
The spray of a billion waves
Celebrates its beauty
Beware of mermaid electricity
It is divine fire
Crossing all boundaries
Beware of mermaid electricity
It binds the sky and the sea
All opposites unite in its beauty

The bliss when you kiss her lips

Who can long endure?
 16

She is lightning, thunder,

The depths and winds of the seas--
A woman dancing in ecstasy
A woman dancing in ecstasy

Kundalini is a primal life force lying dormant at the base of the spine. It
is considered a sacred energy that takes the form of a serpent and also
the form of the goddess Kundalini. When awakened and skillfully
directed, it rises through the spine and unites with its opposite—Shiva or
transcendent awareness at the top of the head.
As it ascends through the body and passes through various energy
centers called chakras, the entire spectrum of human life involving
physical sensations, instinctual desires, and emotions and feelings are
activated, experienced, and then left behind as it continues moving
upward to its final destination. But if misdirected or prematurely
awakened, it can turn into a blind, insatiably hungry and devouring
energy craving sensory and emotional gratification. In other words, it is
ravenously hungry to experience life in any form available to it.
Westerners who are not practicing kundalini yoga or some other form
of intense body work that releases these primal energies usually do not
encounter kundalini side effects. But interactions with mermaid women
can activate this primal energy.
Mermaid women embody a primordial watery energy that is not part
of human civilization but something from another realm of experience
altogether. As this watery energy passes through an individual’s aura, it
saturates the individual’s nervous system.
When a man is with a mermaid woman, he may feel twice if not five
times more alive than he feels otherwise. By contrast, when he leaves
her presence, he may feel half dead though he has usually returned to his
normal state. These withdrawal symptoms are not hard to understand.
Withdrawal symptoms from drugs are well known. But consider other
possibilities.
An individual may play intense sports in high school or college. When
he stops playing because he is no longer in school, his nervous system
still longs for the adrenaline rush and social interactions and status the
 17

sport provided. It may take years for him to adjust to the absence of that
external stimulation. A mermaid woman can simulate the intensity of
sport activities because in her presence she is responding to you as if
each moment is completely new. Watch some of these women and you
will notice their range of emotional responses to different people and
situations is nearly infinite.
There is also a cultural shock that sometimes occurs by living in a
foreign country. If you live out in the jungle or where there are no large
cities with modern conveniences and you return to a large city, you may
have difficulty at first adjusting. You now have warm water, electrical,
gas, water utilities, and your cell phone and internet connections work
again.
But the quiet, the slower pace of the country, and the presence of nature
everywhere are missing. You have changed from a society that is close
to nature to a society in which nature is only found in parks or nature
preserves. Being with a mermaid woman is like being out in nature far
from human civilization. You feel refreshed and free from the worries of
society just by being with her. Leave her and you are again within a
social world that may seem overly predictable and artificial.
And there are the withdrawal symptoms that occur when romantic
relationships end. Those who fall in love often will say things like, “My
life was not in focus until I met you. You are the reason I exist. I never
felt fully alive until I met you. I feel like we have always known each
other. I can’t imagine living my life without you. You are the part of
myself that has always been missing,” etc.
When such a relationship ends, it is like part of you has vanished.
Your emotions are in withdrawal. You feel strangely vulnerable and
wounded. The excitement and feeling of life being new and full of
wonder and beauty are gone. Typically, with such loss, it is not
uncommon to go through the five stages of grief: denial, anger,
negotiation, depression, and finally acceptance.
A mermaid woman can easily create the feelings of a heightened state
of romantic love even though this may not be her intent. It is not
uncommon for her to meet someone and even in this brief, first
 18

encounter the man feels she is now closer to him than anyone he has met
before. She treated him as if they were lovers.
But if he had watched her more carefully he would have noticed she
treats everyone she meets as if they are life-long friends. She holds
nothing back when she gives of herself and this is easily misinterpreted.
The point is that the symptoms of withdrawal when a relationship to a
mermaid woman ends can be far stronger than in a romantic
relationship. In this case, there is a chance that the primal energy of
kundalini has been activated. This means that the individual may have to
deal with more serious side effects.
Many women will run into these problems from time to time. A man
or another woman stalks her or becomes abusive, overly possessive,
excessively jealous, controlling, etc. For mermaid women, these
problems are often far worse.
The man is not just feeling loss, hurt, abandoned, etc. There is a blind,
primal power activated within him that seeks to take control of his brain,
his memory, and his skills as it tries to draw into itself the life it feels it
has been denied.
If this obsessed individual was a skilled yogi, he could sit down and
meditate. He could then calm the primal energy within himself so it falls
asleep and becomes calm. Or he could redirect it so it returns to its
upward journey toward the top of the head where it unites with its divine
consort—Shiva—who is one with all things without in any way being
attached to anything. But such meditation skills are not acquired during
conflict and emotional upheaval.
Examples: The man cried every day for a month after breaking up with
one woman; a different man says he will never have another woman in
his life after her and ten years later he still hasn’t had another woman;
the mermaid woman says every male or female friend she has ever had
at some point suffers some sort of anxiety attack--the friends become
extremely possessive, jealous, and place all sorts of irrational demands
on her; one woman says she has a stalker from every country in Europe;
she also says she can’t recall how many times men have told her that she
is the reason he exists--and these are not even people she feels connected
to; one woman says that four different men have told her that they would
 19

kill themselves if they could not have her; for another, when guys start
to break up with her they begin treating her as if she is not one but every
conceivable kind of woman wrapped into one--one moment he speaks to
her as if she is his secretary, his mentor, his therapist, his priest, his
sister, then a goddess, then his mother, then his one and only soul mate,
his twin flame, his true love and all of these alternate unpredictably with
his treating her like a tramp, a doormat, a worthless slut, a treacherous
harpy, etc.
You get the idea: the guy is running, seemingly at random, through
every possible response he could ever have with any woman as a way to
try to either hurt her or to win her back (controlling men will engage in
these behaviors but rarely with this degree of variation); men--complete
strangers that she meets in some casual social situation--email her the
next day telling her they cannot live without her and that they want to
get married right away and start a family; driving down the freeway in
Los Angeles, strangers will throw a piece of paper with their phone
number on it through her car window. Even professionals who are
models of stability and reason in their personal and public lives will
demonstrate these kundalini effects. Something different is going on
with mermaid women in terms of their effects on men and women.
Another unusual kind of withdrawal symptom is the vampire effect.
This occurs when a psychic center in the body is not flowing energy
outward but has reversed its flow. It is drawing energy inward because it
is damaged and leaking life force. The emotions and vitality in that area
of the body are running on empty.
What has happened is that the individual has charged his aura with the
magnetism of the mermaid woman. For him, being around her has been
like having an aquifer within himself that endlessly overflows with love.
But now this external source of energy flow has ended.
Again, she may act like a cute, young, vivacious girl regardless of her
actual age. But actually the man has been in the presence of an immortal
spirit united to the waters of the earth. If a person’s mind cannot
conceive of this, his body will still demand he somehow restore the
surplus amount of energy she was providing him.
 20

What happens then in some cases is that the individual’s nervous

system seeks to reproduce the mermaid woman’s level of giving. But
without the actual mermaid woman being present, he may unconsciously
try to steal the energy of anyone he is near.
In effect, he has become an energy vampire who is doing the exact
opposite of what a mermaid woman does—without being united to the
boundless sea of love that she has to draw on, he takes rather than gives.
He has experienced a constant flow of vitality and love from her to him.
Now he seeks to create that flow from anyone he meets—taking their
energy when they are not offering it. And he is completely unaware he is
doing so.
We notice this sort of thing occurring in innocuous ways when an
individual is emotionally upset and ends up demanding a lot of time and
attention from his friends. You want to help out by listening and being
supportive.
The energy vampire may appear to be similar. He is upset, confused,
disoriented, moment by moment changing back and forth from elation in
recalling his experiences to acute depression in realizing his situation.
The difference is that the emotional vampire is unconsciously
attaching his aura to you in an attempt to recharge himself. He has
become accustomed to having an external source of stimulation that
allows him to feel both larger than life and possess a deep feeling of
well-being. But now he blindly craves your support and your peace to
fill in for what is missing. Put simply, you sometimes have to back off or
shield yourself from these individuals because they have temporarily
become skilled at absorbing others’ energy.

Letters to Mermaid Women

Question: Since you cite so many examples of men falling quickly in
love with mermaid women are the men falling in love or are they
thinking they have fallen in love because of the feeling of oneness that
comes from her aura flowing through them?
 21

Response

The problem is that if you enter the realm of mermaids on the astral
plane, the normal greeting is “let's touch auras and become one with
each other.” If it were two fish in an aquarium and the water in the
aquarium was itself loving, nurturing, and giving without end, then when
two fish came up to each other--being saturated with that loving
vibration—they would perceive each other as also being a part of love,
the same love. And they would automatically sense that they were one
with each other even though they might be different species.
So take the mermaid out of her realm and put her in a woman’s body in
our world and she still carries in her aura the vibration of the astral realm
of mermaids with its love, nurturing, and giving. So automatically her
aura acts as if she is one with anyone she is near. It is just the nature of
her vibration--not personal as much as the vibration of the entire
mermaid realm and that realm exists within the energy underlying water
in nature.
Human beings, by contrast, are always short on love. They never have
or get enough. Christ prophesies that “out of their bellies shall flow
streams of living water,” but this does not occur on earth among human
beings. And certainly belief or faith of any kind will not reproduce that
energy of love vibration within a human being. Faith lacks the creative
power of love.
So human beings “fall in love” as a mode of bonding with another.
Romance even at its very best, although absolutely delightful, is also
inherently jealous, possessive, and has passed the critical mass of being
extremely vulnerable and wounded if the love is not reciprocated. This is
because human beings are trying to make love happen by using the
 22

chemistry and soul energy solely of what exists within the two
individuals.
The mermaids, by contrast, are united to an entire realm of boundless
love so for them they do not run dry or run on empty. Intimacy will
always reach its height when two give equally to each other. But the
mermaid just does not stop giving. Like breath itself which humans
constantly need in order to be alive she has to love to be a mermaid. For
her, the water element is inherently nurturing, loving, and giving. She is,
after all, of “nature.”
So problem number one if you join two separate realms--human and
mermaid--is that exposure to mermaid love or auras is inherently
destructive to the human ego; to feel her energy inside yourself is to feel
a love human beings know nothing about. It is a part of nature that
human beings never perceive. The church would say in ancient times
that the realm of fairy exists to enchant and then to destroy mankind. But
the church is wrong. The darkness is within the human soul that cannot
behold beauty so free and giving without trying to turn it into a support
for the male ego and the productive work of society.
And so in a conversation on a flight out of LA with a professional
photographer who did one of Madonna’s music videos--He says to me,
“What you are describing are sirens who call out to sailors with songs
that cause their destruction.”
“No,” I reply. “The mermaids who were singing for Odysseus and
others at that location were merely singing with such innocence and
unbearable sweet love--that is perfectly natural to them--that the sailors
lost their bearing and failed to attend to helm and depth as they sailed
toward them.
“The fault was not in the mermaids who you label sirens but in the
human beings who know not how to give back even a small part of what
they are being given.”
 23

On a flight from Honolulu to Los Angeles, the man next to me told me

his tale of woe. He met a mermaid woman, traveled with her, fallen in
love with her, and then discovered she is completely free of human
needs.
This was the first time I had listened in depth to a man’s point of view
in regard to these women. I could easily sense the aura of the woman he
was speaking about. I wrote the song below to describe her.

Some call me a sea goddess

Others call me a sea demon
Neither is right or wrong
 24

I am the sea in the form of a woman

I warn men from the beginning

That I am a heartbreaker
But they do not pay heed
They do not believe
Yet they quickly lose all control

I’ll meet your thirst and your craving

I am forever loving
But who can endure my embrace late at night
When at dawn I am no man’s possession.

My mystery is that there are two of me

A young girl who was once quite needy
But deeper inside
I must confide
I am the sea wild and free

There is one final secret you must know

To understand my beauty
The passion I need
The fire I crave
Is lightning the sea striking

Some call me a sea goddess

Others call me a sea demon
Neither is right or wrong
I am the sea in the form of a woman
 25

Conclusion
What is the remedy for the overstimulated or misdirected kundalini?
Kundalini often involves a huge amount of nervous energy. You need
some sort of activity to redirect this energy until your conscious mind is
again functioning normally. One Swami told a yoga student to go climb
a mountain so the energy in his body could have the time it needed to
settle down. Other possibilities involve relaxing, reducing the stress in
your life, for example, by spending time in nature. Attend parties with
friends, etc. The idea is to return to your normal life as fast as you can.
Another side to this involves recapturing projection. Projection occurs
when the individual sees in another person what is actually hidden
within oneself. A person meets a kind and loving woman. But instead of
returning the kindness and love, he in effect wants her to play the role of
his mother. He uses the relationship with the woman to avoid having to
explore the nurturing side of his own personality.
In a sense, this entire book is about recapturing projection. You find
nature in yourself. You find a sea of love within yourself. You find a
mermaid/merman inside yourself. You learn to flow like water, to be
totally in the moment alive and responsive to all its possibilities, and to
feel that wonder and happiness are always present.
Except the human race is not yet aware of the bliss, ecstasy and love of
the mermaid realm so it has not yet had a chance to abuse this realm.
The mermaids do become lovers but there is another purpose behind
why they have entered our world. They are here as our teachers teaching
us about the love that underlies nature. With this love within ourselves,
we can finally discover what it is to be fully human.
 26

Tied to the mast

His sailors’ ears filled with wax
To get the most out of his quest
Odysseus puts himself
In the abyss
Separating two realms.
Were the sirens out to kill?
Can a human being actually imagine
A mermaid is like themselves?
“But what of negative and evil mermaids?”
She is of nature.
“But what of the riptide, the undertow, the storm surge,
The whirlpool, the tsunami, the rogue wave,
 27

The choppy seas, the thunderstorm, lion squalls,

Hurricanes, and the time I fell into the water
And nearly drowned.”
Homer says the gods loved Odysseus
Because he was clever.
He put on a great show—
Entertainment worthy of Olympus.
That is, he was not only intelligent,
He was brave and bold.
Rather than wait or procrastinate
He invented solutions.
He did not whine and complain saying,
Gee, the Cyclops wants to eat me
Or, why won’t Neptune leave me alone?
A true adventurer,
Odysseus sought answers
From first hand experience.
I too speak from experience.
Their love has no boundaries or limitations.
It gives all of itself in every moment.
It unifies your diversity.
It unites with your depths.
I sympathize with Odysseus,
The need to be
Tied to the mast--
Remaining a human being
When the love is so right
Is a most difficult choice,
Such bliss is hard to resist.
Chapter Five: Three Requirements for a
Relationship with a Mermaid Woman
Three Requirements for Having a Relationship with a
Mermaid Woman
1. The man needs to acquire the skill of putting aside his ego in any
moment and enter a meditation so he feels one with the ocean--it’s a
meditation thing: just become aware of the sea as if nothing else exists in
your consciousness, without referring back to your human identity.
This enables you to connect to the mermaid woman on her own terms.
After all, if you just feel what it is like to be in her presence you will
often sense that you are out in nature and surrounded by the open
ocean. Take nothing for granted. Learn from her all you can.
I realize that most men lack the flexibility and imagination to practice
a water meditation. Their ego says to them with all the force of history--
“She is something to take, to possess, and to make a part of my life so I
am then stronger and feel more complete by owning her.”
But if you are dealing with a spirit of nature in a woman’s body, it
helps to show respect for the power that is in front of you. Mermaid
women are like weapons grade uranium, except they are not a power of
destruction but a power of peace that is able to dissolve negativity.
You may feel you can abuse them and push them all over the place
with your demands. They seem passive at times because of their
remarkable receptivity. But at some point you will notice it is not just a
young woman who is with you. There is a sense of the open ocean about
her where a billion years of time has no meaning. Magellan, Captain
Cook, Columbus, Sir Francis Drake--they sailed the seas but the seas did
not appear within their dreams.
All the same, these explorers respected the power of nature they were
confronting. These women, by contrast, will appear within your dreams-
-they will get inside of you and act to become one with you--and so it is
wise to respect the power that is within them.
 29

2. When you are with the mermaid woman at least once a day just feel
her energy and sense the way she feels your energy. In this way, the two
of you can flow in and through each other as energy to energy and as
two streams flow together to become one river. This is her natural way
of connecting--everything that she is flows into those around her. Learn
to respond in kind if you wish to know her.

3. Understand that she is a part of nature and as such she does not need
you in the sense that men so commonly ask, “How can I have a
relationship to a woman if she does not need me?” You can have a
relationship to her by embodying in yourself her own empathy--by
feeling what she feels. “Every lover desires another to feel what she
feels.”
And what does she feel? She feels the life in everyone around her and in
everyone she meets. And she feels protective and nurturing toward that
life. As we have seen in chapter one, she feels that a sea of love
surrounds her and that this sea of love is continuously flowing through
her to others.
She has a direct body to body and heart to heart connection to others
that exists totally independent of thoughts, ideas, thinking, intellectual
actions, or beliefs of any kind. She perceives love and so does not make
silly demands on others to “demonstrate” their love.
Embody part of the mermaid realm in yourself and then you can
connect as easily to her as she connects to one of her own kind. This is,
after all, why they are here among us—that we might make their love
our own.
 30

The Knight and the Mermaid

 31

It was a dark time

He was a knight who fought for the light
Without knowing
If his acts were wrong or right
He met a mermaid one day
Along the shore by a lake
But to grasp his response
These things you should understand:

Being both battle-hardened and widely traveled, he had the skill of a

merchant—He could tell how much someone wanted something by the
way they touched an item.
He could read in another’s face mistakes they had made, if wonder had
touched them, and if these things were small or great.
He could tell by another’s breath and the movement of their chest
whether they had lived in peace or suffered distress.
He could tell by gazing into another’s eyes how well they had lived
their lives—if there was waste or if they had been guided by someone
who was wise.
He could tell by listening to another’s voice—even hearing only one or
two words spoken aloud—if their lives were lived with honor or if their
lives were shaped by a wrong choice.
So when he met the mermaid in the form of a woman he noticed right
away what most others would have missed—she is like water, changing
her form and shaping her responses in a new and unique way as each
moment unfolds and with each person she is with.
Knowing that some opportunities occur only once in a life time, the
knight seizes the moment and asks her, “How do I become what you
are?”
The mermaid says, “You do not ask, ‘How do I love you?’ but instead
you ask, ‘How do I become what you are?’
“All other men seek to possess nature—to master it, to control it, and
to turn it to a productive end. Only a few of your race have come this
far—to open your heart to embrace rather than to take.”
“You must already know the wisdom of nature—gaze on the sea
 32

contemplating the images, sounds, smells, taste, and touch of water.

Then open your heart to feel what is underneath the outer form.
“Here there is a love that encircles the planet and surrounds every
creature that moves upon it. Become this love and then you shall be as I
am—one who gives all of oneself in every moment and for whom love is
never lost.”
The knight replies, “It is not enough to have the words. The things you
speak of are outside of and beyond the reach of the human mind.”
The mermaid says, “This is why you must remain completely alert and
perceive without any thoughts intervening even as you have been doing
from the first moment you began speaking to me.”
The knight asks, “Can you show me the way?”
She says, “Take my hand” and this he does.
She goes on, “Now you feel what is inside me—I am water in human
form. To touch me is to feel the winds caressing the waves on and on
without end. There is no identity—the beauty of the sea is what I am—
the waves running free, the silent depths, every manner of creature, and
the purity of receptivity that can find the beauty and wonder of the stars
shining within its heart.
“The waterfall—to let go and to fall into the embrace of air; the lake
with its mirror-like stillness and the light that shines from its face; the
river and the stream that bring to life whatever is near; the mist, the fog,
the cloud, the rain—I am forever free—every form I can take and yet I
am always the same—the definition of my very being is seen in the act
of giving.
“If you can look upon nature as you look upon me, if you can in your
heart unite with that beauty even as your body can become one with
mine, then this I promise you—the two of us will be forever joined.”
The knight says, “Now I understand—you are myself in another form.
How could I not have seen this before—love designs each moment of
time. As a knight, I now see my task—to serve her purposes and to fight
on her behalf.”
 33

Chapter Six: Water on Four Planes

There is an absolute contentment

in which the inner self
is at peace with the universe.

Water in the Physical World

I sometimes float in a tide pool. As I relax, my body seems to vanish as
my senses extend outward in the water and the surrounding ocean. If you
 34

imagine cool water inside and around you, you may also begin to relax
and feel release. There is the feeling of floating and of flowing. The
water is physically purifying, refreshing, and renewing.
In the physical world, we focus on water in its fluidity—as being
totally responsive, adapting completely to whatever environment it
enters; its absorbing and releasing heat, oxygen, and carbon dioxide, its
circulating energy, its cleansing and nurturing properties, its solubility,
its receptivity to electrical and magnetic charges, its biosphere friendly
nature as ice, liquid, and gas—cloud, fog, and mist.

Water on the Astral Plane

Now we imagine water in our astral body filling it so there are only the
sensations and feelings of water within us. If you do this, watery
sensations of fluidity, flowing, and receptivity to energy produce
feelings of peace, contentment, serenity, tranquility, and happiness.
Time is gone. You are in an on-going trance that embodies bliss.
In the physical body we might define bliss as the entire body and
nervous system being saturated with a refined pleasure. It is very
soothing to say the least. Bliss in the astral body carries with it the
feeling of being loved.
A masseuse can give a great physical massage that is very relaxing and
refreshing. But to get the feeling of love she would need somehow to
extend her soul—her feeling of caring for you individually as a person
and not just a client—into the touch. Water in the astral body produces
this sense of love saturating every cell in your body.

Water on the Mental Plane

The mental body is the realm of ideas, concepts, analytic thinking,
investigations, questions and answers. It is also the clarity of mind that
 35

can hold in its gaze many things at once without having to form an
opinion.
The mental body is more subtle and detached than the astral body.
Again, imagine it in the shape of your physical body and that it too has
cool water inside and around it. This may produce a sense of stillness.
The mind becomes mirror like, at peace, and very receptive.

Water on the Spiritual Plane

The spiritual body is an intuitive level of awareness that operates
independent of thought, feeling, or physical forms though it may express
itself through any of these. It is consciousness free of form
identification.
On this level, we oversee, balance, harmonize, inspire, and seek to
fulfill all purposes of love on earth. It is all-embracing love. One of the
divine principles that operate here is the ability to join with and become
one with anything for the sake of love.
Mermaids are not directly authorized to intervene in human affairs or
to reveal themselves to us. Consequently, it is through the power of our
spirit, of our sense of what the deepest purposes are in life, that we can
initiate contact with them.
The divine has always intended that human beings embody the
mysteries of love and the magic of water that mermaids possess. In fact,
we must learn to do this if we are to ever become fully human—
discovering how to live in harmony with nature and to bring into balance
the different elements within ourselves.
 36

Chapter Seven: The Realm of Mermaids

Can human beings ever get it right?
They listen not to each other
Much less to their own hearts
But I will make it right this night—
The mermaid realm
I am in it now
In an instant the outer world dissolves
Innocence beyond understanding—
They give without ending
Love that is one
Without ego contending
Here breath, the very air
Are intoxicating
Sensuality united with divinity
Touch joins with infinity
Like the seas of the earth
Feeling reaches round the world
There is dancing and singing
Pain and sorrow dispelling
The mermaid queens?
No mortal can match such beauty
They are the sea taking on the form
Of human beings
Here when a mermaid approaches you
She relives your memories
She sees what is to be
She takes you within a dream
And shows you
 37

Whatever it is you most crave

The thirst and the thirst quenched
In the same taste
It could well be
That the gods and goddesses in human mythology
Never discovered this place
Because if they had
They would have spoken
Of love that saturates the planet
Finds fulfillment in every moment
And possesses an absolute contentment
That feels one with the universe.

I place my awareness into the realm of mermaids. It’s a vibration you

can feel. Mermaids can be seen. And you can listen to their songs and
words.
The sensations are watery but lighter than water. The energy is vast and
continuously flowing. Love is everywhere. It is unbelievable innocent—
that is, it is completely open and receptive, new, self-renewing, and self-
purifying: it never loses its willingness to give all of itself in every
moment. That is what I call innocence.
And it is healing and tender. It is sweet, kind, and then the sensuality
kicks in—the bliss begins running through your nerves, saturating them.
Here there are no inhibitions—what is deepest inside of you naturally
and without effort flows through what is deepest within another. The
exchange of energy is total and continuous.
To summarize, the watery energy in the realm of mermaids is
intoxicating. Love is ecstasy—totally uninhibited, innocent, and yet wise
in erotic arts. The developed mermaids sense every nuance of attraction
and understand ways to amplify magnetism; there is singing and
dancing. And there is no holding back in the giving—no reservation or
hesitation; to become one with you is the acceptable mermaid form of
greeting.
38
 39

A Knight and a Mermaid

The year is 1307. The Church, in great treachery and malice, seeks to
destroy all of the Knights Templar throughout Europe. A few manage to
escape:
The knight gazes upon his own body lying next to a small stream in a
green field at the edge of a mountain cliff. He turns and looks at a young
woman sitting next to him.
He says to her, “I am dead and you are an angel.”
She replies, “You are not dead and I am not an angel.”
He looks about himself at the hills, the trees, the stream, the forest, the
sky and clouds. He says, “Each thing here shines with its own inner
light. The colors here are a thousand times brighter and clearer than they
are in my world.”
“I have heard others say those same words,” she replies.
The knight: “And you, even now, your inner light flows through me
even as this stream. This is a very unusual dream.”
“It is not a dream,” she calmly says.
Knight: “It is like you and the stream are the same energy, the same
being. And you and I are also the same energy, the same being.
“Tell me, child of the mysteries, in what world, in what reality does
beauty such as this exist? Tell me so that when I awaken in my body I
may make it my life quest to find this place again, to find you again that
we might be even as we are now.”
“You are a human being,” she replies. “I am from a race that by God’s
grace does not require spoken words in order to express feeling, does not
need medicine in order to heal, and we do not require passion or
compassion in order to love.
“But you, you must speak words in order to feel. Speak aloud now
what you sense this place to be. Speak, so that when you return to
 40

yourself you will know this is not a dream and you will remember
everything you have heard and seen.”

The stream begins

Where the clouds drift
Enfolding the hills in mist
Moisture so thick
The waters runs wild
Dancing in the rain like a child
The current, the pulse, the flow,
Here are secrets only love knows—
How to be one with another’s soul.

Knight: “Will you speak to me again? Will you come to me and guide
me? Will you be to me even as you are now, part of my own being?”
She replies, “As the sky is a part of the stream, and the earth, and the
valley; as the stream nurtures all things, even so I shall be a part of your
soul. Forever free, in love and in beauty, as one stream our lives shall
unfold.”
 41

Sometimes when I come home

I take off my shoes, socks, and shirt
Put on shorts
And sit down in a chair with my feet up
And a pillow behind my back
And then effortlessly I slip into a trance--
I enter the realm of mermaids
Like now
I am surrounded by a vast sea
Of cold, blue green watery energy
Here love is everywhere
The peace sinks down into me
The happiness is so complete
The innocence so pure
It is as if I have forgotten humanity
A mermaid swims up to me and asks,
(Not with words or thoughts—
Their communication is directly
Through feeling heart to heart),
“What was it like to have
Once been a human being?”
In response I touch her hand
And transfer to her
A few living, eidetic memories
So she experiences exactly
What it was like to once be me
She says,
“How horrible!
They have mastered earth, fire, and wind
But the mystery of love
 42

Never entered them.

No wonder they tried so desperately
To destroy themselves
And the earth as well.”
She puts her arm around me
Resting her head on my shoulder
And says,
“Welcome home.
May you never have to suffer
Like that again.”
Chapter Eight: Mermaid Empathy
I love your eyes
So quiet and peaceful--
A place to let go and forget who I am
Until I awaken to the sound
Of waves breaking on the shore
And the scent of the sea
I see the man I was meant to be
Walking toward me
Your eyes dream him into being.

Letters to Mermaids
Question: Is empathy merely the ability to feel what others feel?

Response: Think of it like this. Your aura extends outward to anything

around you like the magnetic field of a magnet. Anyone your aura passes
through you sense as if the other’s emotional life is your own. These
people can feel what you feel.
But mermaid empathy has other observable qualities—They sense
your future also, the person you are meant to become or who you would
be once your conflicts are resolved and you are more whole and
complete. Yet they do not just sense it. As they speak to you, it is as if
they are in the future looking at you the way you will one day be. This
conveys a marvelous sense of reality as they describe you because they
are experiencing your future as being already real. There is no
visualization, speculation, theorizing, belief, or faith required—it is as
real to them as the present moment.
A number of times I did not understand who the mermaid woman was
talking to when I was having a conversation with her. And then I
realized she is talking to my future self. And once while meditating for a
few seconds with a mermaid woman she changed me briefly into that
 44

person I will one day be when I have mastered the water element on
earth.
If a human being had a mermaid’s empathy? He gains her ability to
connect directly to anyone on earth; to modulate that individual’s aura as
if it is his own aura; to dissolve the negativity within the other; to heal;
and to sense the other person so well that it is like the other is himself in
another form.
Empathy is not passive the way human beings imagine it to be. It is the
most magical power on earth. And as I often point out, if thirty house
wives possessed and used their mermaid empathy, they would be more
powerful than all the generals, politicians, and corporate heads. They
could virtually end all wars on earth forever.
But human women do not know of this feminine power within nature,
though it is easy enough to teach those who are interested. Mermaid
empathy has been kept hidden from us during the entire history of our
civilization.
A woman said to me, “How do you know I am a mermaid?” I reached
out and touched her aura with my hand and from what I felt with my
clairsentient ability I said, “Because you are composed of the one
element of water.”
She sent me a voice mail later that day saying that when I touched her
aura it had profoundly changed her self-understanding. She felt exactly
what I felt when I touched her. She had met another who fully confirmed
her true nature. I was practicing mermaid empathy.
Mermaid empathy does things like that—“Here is who you are, who
you were, and who you will one day be.” It is not an idea or a vision, but
the actual experience. Time for mermaids is not linear.

Summary
Mermaid empathy is part of the first chapter, How to Speak Mermaid.
You imagine being surrounded by a vast sea and that this sea is love and
then you naturally flow it through anyone near to you. The water is you.
 45

And in identifying with the water, you feel anyone who is within this
water near to you. Your energy is nurturing, healing, releasing, soothing,
fulfilling and it flows through them.
The difference between mermaid empathy and ordinary empathy is
illustrated in the following way. Imagine you are another person you
know. For about a minute or so, imagine you are in this person’s body
and speak with his voice. Imagine you use the same body language and
gestures. Think the way the other thinks and views the world.
At a certain point as you do this you may get a physical sensation in
your own body of what it is like to be this person. Focus on that
sensation and try to see if it makes sense to you. Does it tell you
something new about the person you may not have previously known?
Often when you get a body sense of the other person, this may create
on a non-verbal level a sense that you are deeply connected to each
other. There is a change in both individuals’ body language in terms of
feeling close and comfortable.
Now compare the above with the mermaid empathy. Imagine you are
in a sea of water that is love and that you as this sea are flowing your
watery love through the other person. The energy flows into the other’s
head down through the body and out the feet as a continuous stream.
You may notice a difference between these two procedures. In the first
example when you imagine you are the other person at every point you
still know and feel you are not the other. It is imagination that is making
the connection.
In the second example, if you identify with the watery love, then you
are that love whether or not it is in you or inside of the other person. It is
the same energy in two different places or forms. This second empathy
often establishes a feeling of oneness between two individuals.
In the first example, the other person may actually feel for a little
while that you are closer to him than anyone else in the world. In the
second example, you can take it even further—you feel the other person
is yourself in another form.
It is this second kind of empathy that mermaid women possess. They
identify with love; this love is of and within nature; and they feel they
exist to love. It is not a romantic love that exists between two people. It
 46

is love itself—the sea of love encircling the planet--flowing through you

without end to everyone around you.
In a sense, then, mermaid women are not being psychic when they use
their empathy. They are simply feeling anything that their aura touches.
Some of them can extend their auras anywhere there is water. The water
acts as a medium that enhances sensory perception. If they focus on
someone, they can then sense that person anywhere on earth as if the
person is right next to them.
It is a feeling thing—in order to speak mermaid feel more with your
body and with the vibration of watery love. The world appears in a
totally different way to you when you do.
Typically, mermaids do not join causes. Abstract ideas have little
appeal. They prefer to interact directly with whatever is around them.
But when it comes to protecting someone they love, you may witness
powers coming into play that are beyond human understanding.
Chapter Nine: Let’s Play
I had a physical therapist who was a mermaid woman, but she concealed
her watery nature behind a professional veneer. Around the fifth time we
met, I heard explosions of joy in her intonation, pitch, and resonance of
her voice. There is the human and the mermaid part of her. If you want
to know the mermaid inside of her, become a waterfall and a mountain
pool--

A Mountain Pool
Imagine a mountain pool. There is a small waterfall, a gentle spray of
drops falling, moisture in the air, sparkling light dancing in the falling
drops, the sound of splashing in the pool, small ripples running across
the surface, and the water flowing over some rocks as it continues down
the hill.
Imagine you are the water falling, dropping through the air, splashing,
circling in the pool, and then flowing on. Take a few moments to explore
those sensations—the falling drops and the cool, splashing water, the
sounds and moisture in the air. And note the feeling of purity, release,
relaxation, and peace that they awaken. Make this mountain pool a part
of you and love will never be far from you.

How to Become a Mermaid/Merman—

I gazed at the sea
Until I became the sea
Gazing back at me
At first I thought
There are now two of me
Until I realized
I have become the sea
Wearing the body of a human being.
 48

Sea Meditation
I am sitting with my feet in the water at Kawela Bay on the north shore
of Oahu. Before me is the ocean. Follow along with me.
Imagine the sea--blue-green waves stretching out before us. Study the
waves as they come in and break on the sand. Look farther out and see
the waves reaching across the horizon to other continents. Imagine how
the vast expanse in which the waves circle the earth. Consider the winds
driving them, the currents, and the tides.
Consider also the north and south poles. Feel the icy winds and the
snowy wilderness. Here half the year is spent in darkness. Gaze with
your mind upon white cliffs of ice and the icebergs that break free. In
slow motion, they drift out to sea.
Moving toward the equator, feel the warmth of the moist trade winds.
Visualize archipelagoes, islands, and island chains. Listen to the
thunderstorms at sea. And on clear days sense the moisture rising in the
air forming clouds riding on the winds.
Send your mind also down into the depths and the ocean trenches.
Notice the darkness and silence.
All manner of life dwells in the oceans of the earth—in the depths,
among the reefs, and islands. Swimming, floating, and drifting, the fish
are everywhere in the sea. You can spend a life time studying some of
them. Imagine a few—the whales migrating, the spinner dolphins
leaping, jellyfish floating; the crab, the manta ray, the shark, the eel, the
tuna, sword fish, etc.
You can also spend a life time scuba diving and discovering new
species of fish. But this would never by itself lead to an encounter with
the mystery of the sea. To go deeper, feel the energy that underlies the
oceans of the earth—it is a magnetic field and its essence is in its
receptivity. It sustains and nurtures life. And it responds to its
environment by giving all of itself in every moment.
Take this final step and imagine and then feel a love that encircles the
world.
 49

A man asks me,

Can I marry the sea?

Not by magic or ceremony

But by love--

Let the sea be your consort

The breaking waves
Her smile and laughter
The roar of the surf
Her conversation
The spray and white caps
Her body language
Let the translucent, delicate water
As it reaches up and spreads itself out
On the white sand
Her hands as she reaches toward you
As she caresses you
Skin upon skin
Then you shall float among her waves
And be as one
As you enter her dreams
And taste her ecstasy
To love another
It is to be receptive and attentive
So there is nothing that keeps you apart
If the sea is to be your consort
Let her fill you within
With a love that has no end
And in return
You shall walk among her dreams
And persevere
Until they become reality.
 50

Letters regarding Mermaids

Question: I began to read your book Undines and found it to be very
sensual and a book to be savored rather than devoured. Then my
practical side told me that I should be learning something rather than just
enjoying the feelings the words evoked. I began reading with this
mindset and alas, the beauty, the poetry, the emotions were lost.
How did the writer mean for this book to be read?
My instincts tell me to let the words carry me along and experience the
sensations and emotions your words describe. Otherwise I think the
beauty will be lost.
I shall be reading slowly and welcoming each new emotion with an
open heart.

Response

You touch on a key point. The mermaid women/empaths do not use

thoughts to think. They do not rely on concepts, philosophies, beliefs,
etc. When you are with one, that person can simply extend her aura
through you and get a clear sense of who you are--the way you live your
life, your values, your past experiences, etc. It is a direct perception
thing they are doing.
To communicate their experiences, I use a lot of art and poetry that
evokes their level of perception and sensuality. Art is a useful tool for
mankind because it allows an individual to communicate to others what
is otherwise intensely private experiences. Without art, some individuals
are doomed to be isolated from others. With art, they can share their
most intimate experiences.
In a similar vein, I have turned to art and story-telling to convey the
empathy, love, and sensuality--the inner union with nature--that these
women embody.
 51

And others have brought up your point. It is easy to set forth concepts
regarding this mermaid material. But the material is not about concepts
and understanding. It is a love that can identify 100% with other people,
feel what they feel, care for them the way you care for yourself without
any romantic or personal interest motivating the connection.
The story telling I do uses the genre of fairy tales and mythology. I do
that intentionally so it is perfectly clear that beliefs have nothing to do
with this discussion. But the skill of empathy is real as is the ability to
experience nature to such an extent that you can in the end, like some of
these women, say, “Nature is embodied in my core” or “I am nature. The
sea and I are one.”
I want to thank you for the conversation we had on the airplane when
we first met. It reminded me of my graduate work in linguistics and gave
me the idea of doing this book that focuses on how mermaids
communicate between themselves both in their own realm and when
they are in our world.
Afterward
Most likely your life right now is fine without having a mermaid woman
in it. But if one appears, avoid saying these words to yourself, “She is
something to take, to possess, and to make a part of my life so I am then
stronger and feel more complete by owning her.”
Treat her instead as what she really is. She has the experiences of
growing up that any woman has—childhood, parents, caregivers,
playing, having fun, going to school, friends, and all the usual traumas
and needs of anyone.
At the same time, when she looks out of her eyes she senses love
flowing through her out to everyone she meets. She simply cannot stop
giving or loving others.
You can have a relationship to her. But she has entered the world to
teach. Yet she does not use concepts, philosophies, metaphysics, or
theologies to teach. She is a stream of living water.
The procedure is to experience her love and the way she perceives and
gives and to find that within ourselves. Whether anyone believes in
mermaids or not is irrelevant. She herself does not use “beliefs” to
define what she is.
She does not think. She feels. She does not love. She is love. This skill
of hers to love is observable and like any skill it can be learned.
A race like ours can only continue for so long to take increasing risks
with its technologies and industries that threaten our own survival before
our luck runs out. With their love, we learn to conserve and nurture.
Without them, we exploit and destroy.
The bottom line? If the human race learns their ability to love, we will
survive. If we fail, we will cease to exist. Abuse or ignore their love and
you put the human race at risk.
 53

As I signed my name in one book, I wrote the following lines for the
individual--

Wind, water, rain

May life to you
Every blessing bring
The earth beneath your feet
May you always walk in peace
When you look on high
May the fire in the sky
Always bring you joy
May every friend
Last a life time
And every lover
Be one of them
When you look
Into each other’s eyes
May you both find
Every desire satisfied.
 54

Appendix A: One Way Mermaids Enter Our

World
There are many ways mermaids can enter and then live within a human
body. Some are born as infants out of the womb just like anyone else.
How do they do that?
There are seven major chakra centers in the human body that receive,
store, transform, and transmit energy. They are often considered to be
located in the spine. The first five, beginning with the lowest center, are
each associated with a different element of nature.
The second center, called Swadhisthana, is located in the sacrum area
of the spine. As a flower has petals, the second chakra has six energy
configurations associated with it. Each of these “petals” embodies
different qualities that combine feeling and life force or vitality.
If you concentrate on the sacrum at the right point (see Wikipedia.org
under “chakras,” “swadhisthana,” etc.) you may be able to sense the
specific petal that produces the element of water. When I concentrate on
this area of my spine, I feel my body filling with water. All of the
following effects occur simultaneously.
First, not only do I feel that my body has filled up with water inside. I
also feel, think, and perceive within the vibration of water. One of the
mermaid women who surfs gives an example of this. She says she can
sense the specific qualities and different kinds of energy in any specific
location and set of waves in the ocean.
Second, I feel only the present moment exists. Past and future are not
somewhere “out there.” They are here right now equally present in this
moment.
 55

Third, I can understand through feeling the extreme receptivity of the

sea—that in its essence it gives birth to and nurtures life. With this
vibration of water within me, I feel it is also my essence to do the same.
Fourth, I feel within and a part of anyone I am near. The water that I
sense I am extends around me in space. The vibrations within me and
the vibrations within other people are very similar. So naturally it is easy
for me to feel we are the same.
When someone who practices yoga approaches this chakra in an
immature way, he may experience feelings such as disdain, suspicion,
delusion, a desire to destroy, etc. But this is my point. Exposure to a
mermaid woman can overstimulate an individual’s second chakra
because that individual has now had a huge amount of watery energy
suddenly entering his nervous system. What may happen, then, is that
the individual’s second chakra is not receiving, storing, transforming,
and transmitting energy in a positive manner.
Instead, the second chakra has become like an electrical wire without
its protective coating—energy leaps wildly about often in a destructive
manner. Or like a whirlpool, power is now present but it is drawing
anything nearby into itself rather than transforming and giving through
nurturing those nearby.
On the other hand, if you gently activate this second chakra within
yourself, you can experience the water element as it fills your body from
inside. Often those who work with the chakras as part of a spiritual
system will try to get through this second chakra the way a race car
driver at the Indianapolis 500 Motor Speedway tries to complete the
second lap of the race course so he can get onto the third lap. In this
case, the yoga practitioner totally misses the opportunity to unite from
within to the element of water that has blessed this planet with such
beauty.
 56

A mermaid can be born within a human body as an infant. She can do

so because as her spirit approaches the body in the womb the fetus fills
with the vibration of water. For her, entering this body is then like
entering her own realm within lake, river, or sea.
In the same way, if a human being thinks, perceives, feels, and loves
like a merman or mermaid, then he or she is one. You have reversed the
process. You now belong equally to two separate kingdoms.
 57

Appendix B: The Exact Way To Tell When

You Are With A Mermaid Woman
How can you tell when you are with a mermaid woman? When you are
with her, you feel like she is a stream and that you are gravity--every
single movement she makes is shaped by your presence.

Once you know what to look for, it is impossible to miss--

She is like the snow at the North Pole—it can sit there for ten thousand
or ten million years and still remember the tropical forest that was once
there—she is water: that nubile fertility of pure receptivity never
disappears.
It is in the way she receives your energy. There is no riptide pulling
you to where you do not want to go; there is no undertow pulling you
down so you have to struggle to keep your footing on solid ground; there
is no tsunami pushing you back with that muddy, choppy tumbling of
emotional jealousy or angry demanding. She has no ego, no fear; the
desire to take from you never appears. It is impossible for her to feel
neglected—she has no human needs; she already feels complete.
When you are with her you feel like you are the sun and she is ice. She
willingly melts in the presence of your energy because that is the nature
of her beauty. She gives freely without attachment to form or identity.
You feel like you are the sun and she is the sea—without difficulty,
she absorbs your heat (your desires, everything you can imagine or
dream). The warmth she radiates at night, her very being testifies to your
presence in her life.
There is more.
When you are with her, you feel like she is a stream and that you are
gravity--every single movement she makes is shaped by your presence.
Do not take my word on this. Observe a stream. Memorize its sound,
touch, scent, taste, and the way it feels as it flows around your body.
And then look at her face as you speak: there is not a trace of distraction.
A streambed is not more a part of a stream. Gentleness, tenderness,
 58

affection—there is a feeling of letting go into the flow and that the two
of you have become one soul.
She may look, talk, and act human, but I will tell you this: once you
discover that this way of being exists, when you experience it again it is
impossible to miss.
In summary, her face has that grace, a gift to us like the North Atlantic
Current. There is the silent peace of the ocean trench; the warm
sensuality of a wave breaking on a tropical beach; and the pristine purity
of an iceberg breaking free from a glacial plain at the edge of the Arctic
Sea. You may not be able to see or feel these things, but when you leave
her presence you may well sense for the first time that you are only half
alive.
Put simply, she does not have a human ego--the desire for attention,
self-validation, caution, insecurity--these things may be and often are
totally absent.
But if you are skilled in reading auras, it is all very simple: there is
only one element in her aura--water, and no earth, air, fire, or the fifth
element called akasha. And she has no akashic body as in physical,
astral, mental, and akashic or spiritual body. She has no spiritual/akashic
body that oversees and balances the other four elements because she
does not have more than the one element of water.
Not having all five elements as human beings have does not make her
inferior. She is united to nature at the core of herself and that in effect
makes her an immortal being. She is not subject to astrology and
constellations in her natal chart as are human beings. She is water and
has always been water and always will always be water unless though
some unusual circumstances she acquires a human soul. All the same,
mermaid women learn faster than do human beings even in areas of
technology if for some reason they should take an interest in it.
Another simple way of determining when you are with a mermaid
woman as compared say to a highly gifted human empath or psychic is
that if you “feel” her aura flowing through you, then you will sense that
you are surrounded by water. Being in her presence is exactly the same
feeling/vibration as being out in nature on the open sea, sitting in front
of an ocean bay, a lake, a mountain pool, a stream, a waterfall, etc. And
 59

this can be absolutely devastating to experience—the aura of a mermaid

woman automatically brings to life whatever she influences. Again, you
feel more alive near her and less alive when you leave her presence.
In effect, a mermaid woman is part of the realm of mermaids
materialized here in our world and embodied in front of you. And the
essence of this realm is the ecstasy of bliss, happiness, and love. Yet it is
next to impossible to identify one of these women by her appearance.
They share no physical (body shape), age, ethnic, racial, religious, socio-
economic traits, or systems of beliefs in common.
 60

Appendix C: How to See

You look at the picture without thoughts intervening. You contemplate

by observing every detail without evaluating. You perceive without
referring back to your identity. You gaze until nothing else exists in your
awareness but the girl who is before you.
Sometimes when I do this the picture of the woman vanishes and I feel
I am out on the open ocean or before a lake. And sometimes I feel like
my room is filling up with water and that I am in the ocean.
If I look at a picture of a woman that has nothing man made in it, I can
feel with my eyes if the girl is a mermaid. It is learning to see from a
state of inner silence.
If you can do so, you will notice that the mermaid realm is all around
you. They are here as our teachers. They are as close as the air we
breathe and the water we drink.
But there is a slight trick to it. You have to put aside all selfishness if
you wish to proceed. It is the human ego that has prevented us from
being aware of their existence.
 61

About the Author

William Mistele graduated from Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois,

with a bachelor’s degree in philosophy and a minor in economics. At
that time, he began studying esoteric, oral traditions. He was interested
in finding the best methods on earth for inner work and self-
transformation.
As part of his field research, he lived in a Tibetan Buddhist monastery
in Berkeley, California. He next studied Hopi Indian culture and
language at the University of Arizona, where he received a master’s
degree in linguistics. At that time he became the only accepted student
of a Hopi Indian shaman.
 62

While living in Tucson, Arizona, he began studying the Western

hermetic traditions and the nature religions of Wicca and Druidry. He
worked with a number of extremely gifted psychics and
parapsychologists whose primary focus was on experimentation and
research. He also practiced evocation with a Sufi master.
He moved to Hawaii in 1982. There he studied with the relocated
abbot of a Taoist monastery that existed for over two thousand years in
China, with a Vietnamese Zen master, and with one of the foremost Tai
Chi Chuan masters of China.
Since 1975, he has been a steadfast student of the system of initiation
taught by the Czech magician Franz Bardon, who died in the fifties. This
system has provided the methods for contacting nature spirits and
interacting with them in a personal and original manner. Bardon’s
mission was to offer a system of self-initiation that maximizes the
spiritual powers and creativity of the individual.
Bardon’s training system requires that all students gain first-hand
experience with the elemental beings underlying nature. In studying with
four mermaid queens on the astral plane, the author discovered through
experience just how little human beings have learned about the
mysteries of the water element.
However, two of the mermaid queens—Istiphul and Isaphil—promised
him that he would meet mermaids who live among us in human form.
And they did this so that he could better understand the mermaid race.
After putting out a global casting call used by photographers as well as
discussing mermaid women on youtube and his website, he began being
contacted by mermaid women from around the world.

Send comments to [email protected]. For projects,

photography, videos, archives, and additional essays related to
mermaids, see
williammistele/videopoems.html
facebook.com/williamrmistele
youtube.com/emedetz
63