Eddy the Whirlpool

Careless and free, little Whirlpool Eddy spins and swirls in the waves with his friends. But then a friend warns him: Eddy is in danger. To survive, he must become a big whirlpool — or vanish forever. So begins Eddy’s life journey, a story of forgetting and remembering who he truly is. Eddy the Whirlpool is an invitation to rediscover the joy of simply being - for children and adults alike.

How the story begins...

One day in the stream, a little whirlpool appeared. His friends called him Eddy. He looked around and saw other whirlpools like him, but mostly bigger. Sometimes little Eddy wondered where he had come from, but he couldn’t remember.

Eddy also didn’t know where exactly he started or ended, but it didn’t matter. He wasn’t thinking about himself much. He had so much fun being a whirlpool, just going round and round, playing with the water.

Then one day, while playing and spinning, Eddy saw one of the bigger whirlpools swallow a smaller one.

“Well, you’re a small whirlpool, Eddy. If you don’t grow big and strong, you’ll get swallowed by one of those big guys, too.”

“And then?”

“Then you’re gone, buddy! It’s game over.”

Eddy was shocked, and started doing a lot of thinking. After a while, he asked his older friend, “So how do I become a big whirlpool?”

“Well,” his friend said, “you swallow smaller whirlpools.” This made Eddy very upset.

“Really? Swallow other whirlpools! Can that be right?”

But he didn’t want to get swallowed and disappear. So he thought hard and long. And then it came to him: he was going to be the biggest whirlpool of them all. Too big to be swallowed by anyone else. So Eddy started looking around for smaller whirlpools that were just playing and not paying attention…

How the story continues..

In the rest of the story, we learn how little Eddy becomes Big Ed, the biggest whirlpool in the stream. And the surprising discovery that big Ed makes about himself, with the help of a unusual friend.

A gentle introduction to non-duality

Eddy's story is a gentle introduction to the non-dual spiritual traditions. It uses simple language to remind readers of what they deep down already know. This book can be a meaningful gift to a child, a friend or family-member. The book includes an introduction written by non-duality teacher Rupert Spira.