Wings Of Liberation
One morning, an amazing thing happened when I went out to see the sunrise. I saw the connection between the animal kingdom, nature, our outer world, and us, and the connection between the codes of the matrix of life and our inner world, our inner nature.
I was out walking in the meadows, where there are often many birds, and some seagulls came and started mewing and whirling around in the morning light. They often make a mewing sound in the mornings, and also a deep kind of laughing sound. I bowed in supplication to the sun, and started to walk home, when I noticed that one seagull was following me along the road. It flew with me all the way into the village, and I wondered why.
I seemed to be the only person up and about so early in the morning, so I walked into the car park by the local pub, which was quite a large, wide-open space, and I just stood there. The gull started swirling around me, making its mewing sound, and suddenly it dived towards me and came right at me. I felt the exhilaration of the moment as the bird swooped past me and carried on whirling, rising and falling and turning in the sky while I stood there, turning and following it. It flew up and came back, then it came around and dived again.
'There is a great dance here to enjoy the playfulness of the Tao...'
Every time it dived at me, I could hear the whoosh of the wind through its feathers, the quiet of the early morning amplifying the sound. It was just me and the gull in a dance for about fifteen minutes. I was in a state of rapture.
I saw the connection between the outer and the inner, and the power of a symbol when we allow it to move deep within us. The cry of the gull is the rapture of liberation, cutting free from the Maya, the illusion, and ascending into the inner skies of consciousness. The seagull represents Liberation, the Siddhi of the 39th Gene Key. It is a vision of liberation, the great seabird soaring into the heavens, riding the thermals over the great oceans of life.
We can often allow the sounds that interrupt our lives to irritate us, and I could easily have felt that morning that I just wanted a nice quiet dawn. But if you let that sound in and allow it to percolate and be absorbed, then instead of being a sound that might irritate you, it can liberate you, giving you a rush, a feeling of awe, or a moment of transport. And it could be the same with any sound, though particularly the sound of a bird or an animal, because they are communicating with us from inside us. Every creature is a programming chip within the matrix of the illusion in which we live. We are all pieces of a code, and they are a piece of code within a piece of code.
There is a great dance here to enjoy the playfulness of the Tao, the unfurling of our evolution, our story and our mythology, as we live and move and have our being in this world.
