“I became the wind, yet with eyes and ears. And I saw and heard far and wide. I blew past the east coast of India near the Bay of Bengal, past a scrubwoman busy with her tasks. In Hong Kong, I whirled around a seller of fine fabric. I raced through the streets of Sam Paulo. …

“I left no country untouched, I thundered through China and Bangladesh, and across the vast, rich land of the Soviet Union.¹ I gusted through the valleys and alpine meadows of Austria, sliced cold through the fjords of Norway, I tossed up litter on the Rue Pigalle in Paris. One moment I was a twister ripping through Texas; the next I was a gentle breeze, caressing the hair of a young girl in Canton, Ohio.

“I experienced every emotion, heard every cry of anguish, and every peal of laughter. Every human circumstance was opened to me, I felt it all, and I understood.

“The world was peopled with minds, swirling faster than any wind, in search of distraction and escape from the predicament of change, the dilemma of life and death—seeking purpose, security, enjoyment, trying to make sense of the mystery. Reality never matched their dreams; happiness was just around the corner—a corner they never turned.

“And the source of it all was the human mind.” ~Dan Millman (in the book Way of the Peaceful Warrior)

The Wind with Eyes

The book this quote came from was written about Millman’s unusual spiritual awakening that began with him meeting an enigmatic old man he called Socrates, who proceeded to teach him there was more to life than attending college and being an athlete. During one of Millman’s visits with Socrates, Socrates touched him in the head leading to the experience in the above quote.

Obviously, Millman is speaking allegorically when he says he became the wind. What really happened is his mind left his body and traveled around the world at a speed that made it seem like he was the wind.

Empathy

Millman says he was a wind with eyes and ears, but there was more. He describes sights and sounds, but more. He also describes the emotions of the people he came close to on that unusual journey of mind. Feeling the emotions of others is a form of empathy. While Millman may not have had much empathy normally, during this strange journey that Socrates sent him on, he did. He not only says that he felt it all, but he also understood, meaning he understood why these people were feeling these emotions.

A World of Minds

Millman concludes that ours is a world of minds. He doesn’t say it yet, but if he does understand as he claims, then he knows that those minds are responsible for a lot more than most of us are aware of, or even believe. Many now understand that our minds are responsible for how we react to circumstances in our lives. We are not responding to the circumstances, but to how the mind feels about the circumstances. For example, the mind of a vegan would interpret being served meat differently than the mind of a meat lover.

But the mind does more than interpret our surroundings, it helps create them. When the world is full of angry people who can’t get along, their minds send a vibration into the environment. Those angry vibrations cause storms, tornadoes, floods, and earthquakes. Experiments have shown that people who talk nicely to their plants have healthier plants. It isn’t the speaking that does it, but the vibrations from their minds. And when a group of spiritual people surrounded a polluted lake in Japan and prayed for the lake, the pollution quickly disappeared. Our individual minds may not have such power, but collectively, they do a lot.

The dilemma of Life and Death

Many of us do spend much of our time hiding from the dilemma of life and death. Too much of what is happening in the world doesn’t make any sense, yet it continues to happen. We say we want peace, yet we continue to have wars. We say we want to be strong and healthy, but we eat junk food and do other things that weaken us and lead to illness. We think a loving God has created this world, yet it is not a world of love. Instead of seeking solutions, many of us hide from it all in distractions and entertainment like movies, fictional books, and sports. And the governments and media support this hiding from reality as it benefits them, as well as the demons whispering into their ears.

There is a solution. For starters, we must stop believing that a loving God created this world. The realm of matter was created by the false god, the Demiurge, and is therefore flawed. Hiding from the truth won’t make it better. We need to turn away from the failed paradigm of capitalism and materialism and develop our spiritual side. We do that with the help of God and the Light of the Spiritual Sun.

“Who will release me from the pits and prisons of assembled lusts that I loathe? Who will take me over the flooding sea, the mouths of conflict that give no rest? Who will save me from the jaws of pitiless beasts who destroy and terrify? Who will lead me beyond the walls and over the moats that boil with fear and trembling from ravaging demons? Who will take me beyond rebirths, and free me from the waves which give no peace? I weep for my soul, saying, May I be saved from this, from grotesque beasts who eat each other! The human body, birds of the air, fish of the ocean, quadrupeds and insects, who will take me beyond them? Who will save me so I won’t turn and plunge” “into those hells, so I won’t live in their muck or suffer rebirth devoid of living plants? Who will save me from the swallowing height and the devouring deeps of hell and distress?

“And while I wept on the ground, I heard the voice of the beneficent king.

“I shall save you from the powers of revolution who terrify. I will release you from deception, a field of turbulence, and the torment of death. I will end the forces that destroy. I will ban sickness, which has dismayed you, and death. I will take you from the hands of hell’s guardians, who treat the spirit and soul without mercy. I will take you eagerly, and we’ll soar on wings high over dark powers and recalcitrant princes. I will take you into the primeval calm of new land, the new paradise, and will show you the design of the father’s being. You will know joy and praise, go beyond pain, and in luminous dress you will gird on light. On your head is your diadem of authority. Spirit spoke and built on that structure the vast fortress of the noble emperor. The primeval firstborn merits a palace as his dominion. The first human clothes himself in gladness and binds on the diadem of sovereignty. On his friends he binds the diadem and clothes their bodies in the garment of gladness. And those faithful elect he clothes” ~Parthian Songs

Pits and Prisons

What is the writer of this song talking about? The pits and prisons of the material world, the realm of the fallen. As a creation of the false god that the Gnostics call the Demiurge, it is full of unpleasant things like death, disease, hunger, violence, etc. The terms pits and prisons are allegorical, as are the others he uses, such as “the mouths of conflict,” and “ the jaws of pitiless beasts.”

I weep for my Soul

The singer weeps for his Soul, not his body or mind because he knows the realm of matter is the rightful place for the body and mind, but not for the divine Soul that belongs in Heaven. He weeps as he fears that Soul might never return to heaven, but I think we can assume that the one writing this song is sufficiently awakened to know that it is possible to save the Soul and turn back to Heaven, as we shall see from what he writes later on.

Beasts Who Eat Each Other

This is not just about animals that eat others of the same species, but about any being that eats other beings. And it doesn’t matter much whether those beings are animals or plants, Eating other beings violates the Law of God, but we have descended so deeply into matter that we have no choice. We cannot survive only on God’s Light as we were intended to do. But as we take in more and more of that Divine Light, we start to change, and can eventually reduce our eating of other beings.

Soar on Wings

Yes, God does invite us to soar on wings above the powers of darkness, in other words, He invites us to climb out of the pits of darkness into the higher dimensions of Light and higher levels of consciousness. And when we reach those high levels of beings, we will cloth ourselves in Light, because we will be spirits only, conscious Souls that are made of Light, just as the highest dimensions are of Light, but Spiritual Light, not ordinary light.