The many segments of the shell formed rooms for their many friends and children. Sometimes he wondered if he were alive or dead. But he sensed that it didn't really matter. Seaflight's eyes lit with a strange fire, the pupils dilated and contracted in an elastic bounce. Such is the power of the symbol that slavers are converted to liberators by its action.
Bigots become xenophiles.
Inquisitors become converts to the beliefs of those they had tortured, then leave belief behind entirely. The symbol, properly used, can move any awareness anywhere, even to an opposite extreme. The Leaping Dolphin allows one to leap across vast cultural and phyletic distance. The experiences are not remembered because of the vast phyletic distance. Dolphins have a very alien cognition and perception, a different memory mechanism.