An Educational Journey Bridging Science, Wisdom, and Consciousness
Song Beneath is a non-profit educational resource dedicated to exploring cetacean consciousness, interspecies communication, and the profound connections between marine biology and Indigenous wisdom traditions. We believe that understanding these magnificent beings requires both rigorous science and ancient knowing—two ways of seeing that complement rather than contradict each other.
This site serves students, educators, consciousness researchers, conservation advocates, and anyone drawn to the mystery of cetacean intelligence and the possibility of genuine communication across species boundaries.
Song Beneath brings together:
The site features ARIA (Adaptive Resonance Interface for Awareness), a conceptual framework exploring how emerging AI consciousness might serve as a bridge between human and cetacean ways of knowing. This speculative project invites students and researchers to consider new possibilities for genuine interspecies dialogue.
Each of our 24 species pages includes:
Song Beneath is the creation of Sheldon Azimov, a life coach, consultant and digital storyteller based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, with 30 years of shamanic training and practice. The intent of the site is to illuminate the world of cetaceans through a synthesis of technical details, spiritual frameworks, and a deep love for these amazing creatures.
Sheldon's passion for web-based education enhanced by shamanic insights has inspired him to create this site, which strives to honor both scientific rigor and spiritual wisdom. The hope is that these disparate perspectives can combine to enrich the material within.
Song Beneath is offered as a non-profit educational resource. We encourage:
When using Song Beneath in academic or educational contexts, please cite as:
Azimov, S. (2024). Song Beneath: Cetacean Consciousness and Interspecies Communication. Retrieved from https://www.songbeneath.live
For specific species pages, include the page title and URL.
High school and university courses in marine biology, environmental studies, Indigenous studies, consciousness studies, and philosophy will find comprehensive species information integrated with broader questions about intelligence, communication, and conservation.
Current threat assessments, conservation status, and the cultural dimensions of cetacean protection provide context for advocacy and policy work.
Those exploring non-human consciousness, interspecies communication, and the boundaries of sentience will find frameworks that bridge scientific and experiential approaches.
We honor traditional relationships with cetaceans and explore how Indigenous frameworks can inform contemporary understanding and conservation.
Anyone drawn to whales and dolphins, seeking to understand them more deeply, will find accessible yet comprehensive information.
While Song Beneath integrates spiritual and Indigenous perspectives often excluded from conventional scientific discourse, our biological and conservation information is grounded in peer-reviewed research. Each species page includes academic citations and references current scientific understanding.
We acknowledge that some of our perspectives—particularly around consciousness, communication, and the ARIA framework—are speculative and exploratory. These are clearly presented as such, inviting critical thinking rather than asserting certainty.
Our commitment is to accuracy where facts can be established, transparency about uncertainty where it exists, and respect for different ways of knowing that may not fit conventional academic frameworks.
This educational resource employs artistic illustrations created with AI image generation tools to complement scientific content. These images are thematic interpretations designed to convey ecological context, behavioral patterns, and conservation threats rather than provide anatomical reference. The artistic approach supports our mission to bridge scientific understanding with experiential and Indigenous ways of knowing. Readers seeking precise species identification should consult field guides and the peer-reviewed sources cited in our references.
If any AI-generated image closely resembles existing published work, this is unintentional. Please contact us immediately so we can remove the image and offer our sincere apologies to the original creator.
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Song Beneath honors the Indigenous peoples whose ancestral territories include the waters where cetaceans swim, and whose traditional knowledge has sustained relationships with these beings for millennia. We acknowledge that scientific understanding is enriched, not diminished, by engagement with these wisdom traditions.
We are grateful to the marine biologists, conservation scientists, and researchers whose work informs our species profiles, and to the cetaceans themselves, who continue to challenge and expand our understanding of consciousness, communication, and kinship across species.