Breathing the Questions
Working the Air Element
We are beseiged by questions.
When you think about it: we are a question.
We want answers before we even know what the question is.
Check that word again: Q U E S T * I * O N.
Even the word is a question:
What QUEST am I ON?
If this sounds philosophical, intellectual, mental — so far it is. We’re in the lofty realm of the Magician. To find him, we must climb the steps of the Tower…
The great Magician of animé, Hayo Miyazaki, founder of the legendary Studio Ghibli (the Italian name for a desert wind) spoke of “opening the lid of his brain.”
As Einstein said, we cannot solve a problem with the same mindset that created it in the first place.
We need a higher mind. A harmonic overtone above the normal mind.
We need to connect with the Magician, up there in his tower.
We need to climb the stairs and hear the whispers of the stars.
And then what? The alchemical symbol for the Air Element holds a clue…