Symbols - What does heaven look like
Wind
See also Creation and Destruction.
The continual creation and destruction of the Software in the spiritual world is perceived by spiritual travellers as a ‘wind’ or ‘breath’.
This ‘wind’ – this flow of energy varies depending on how much creation and destruction is going on. It can be ‘felt’ in a spiritual experience as gentle wind, moderate winds or a truly huge blast. These fierce buffetings are often the result of rebirth experiences – see Types of Spiritual Experience.
This is where we get such expressions as ‘the breath of life’.
Normal wind effects

I think it very important to emphasise that many experience only gentle sensations of wind which have nothing to do with a rebirth experience.
This is because there is a continual flow of spiritual energy from the centre down to us as spirit input and then back from us to the centre again as spirit output. This flow can simply be a result of the creation of our perceptions – the more we perceive things the greater the flow ‘upwards’ – see Perceptions.
Thus our thoughts and prayers etc go up and may be experienced as ‘wind’, whilst intuition, inspiration, healing energy and so on come ‘down’ towards us and also may be experienced as a blast of cool air. However, if we are really not that well, the strength moves up and notch and may be felt as quite strong gusts.
Mild wind effects are often perceived by those taking drugs, although if the drugs are doing damage [destruction of software] stronger winds may be felt ………..
Sage Spirit - Salvia Divinorum and the Entheogenic Experience – Dr Martin Ball
The Shaping of the wind is a phrase that I felt described this aspect of the experience, and I often think of the feeling of the sage moving through me as a wind or breeze
Slightly stronger effects
Slightly stronger spiritual effects can be achieved by an impression of a wind which sweeps the person clean or which has the effect of clearing or cleansing. Wind appears to be particularly used as a precursor to later more traumatic rebirth experiences, as a first cleanse, so to speak, or it may be used after one or more rebirths have been experienced as a sort of redoing of the process.
Full and violent rebirth experiences
Really strong winds can allegorically feel as if you have been ‘shipwrecked’.
Observations
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- ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF PSYCHIC SCIENCE – Nandor Fodor – 1932 - Winds
- A Journey to Heaven, a Journey to Hell DOM by J. Andersen
- Ahmad Ahsai, Shaykh - Kitab Sharh al-Ziyara - The Breath of the Great Awakening
- American footballer
- Ancient Egyptian - The boat as a symbol
- Arifi of Herat - The Ball and the Polo Stick - He bade them put the saddle on a steed
- Arthur, James D - 13 A profound feeling of direction
- As they were tagging his toe to identify him as a dead man, he found himself out of his body
- Atharvaveda - IV 10 The Pearl and its Shell bestowing long life and prosperity
- Atharvaveda - IX 1 from Hymn to the Honey lash
- Atharvaveda - VI 109 The pepper corn as a cure for wounds
- Atharvaveda - VIII 2 from The Prayer for exemption from the dangers of death
- Atharvaveda - XII 1 Hymn to goddess Earth - Part 11 May her benevolence lead us to paradise
- Attar, Fariduddin - God Speaks to David
- Auden, W H - Time will say nothing but I told you so
- Barbara Rayel and the exhaustion of flying
- Baudelaire, Charles - Les Fleurs du Mal - Tell me, Agatha, does your heart, at times, fly away
- Benjamin, Walter - On Hashish - On veils
- Bhagavad Gita - All creatures exist in me
- Bingen, Hildegard of - Werk Gottes map
- Black Elk - Native American Indians - Horses
- Blithe spirit - Candle in the wind
- Blithe spirit - The exit of the giants August 2015
- Boehme, Jacob - Aurora - Holy Ghost and Wind
- Boehme, Jacob - Aurora - Holy spirit and Holy Ghost
- Boehme, Jacob - Aurora - Water
- Book of Enoch-41
- Book of Five Spheres - The Fire Scroll - Crossing a Ford
- Bouissou, Madame Michael – The method which enabled me to achieve astral projection – an OBE
- Bowie, David - 1982 Wild is the Wind
- Braveheart - Forest of bright birds
- Braveheart - Lifting tree trunks
- Braveheart - Meets demons
- Braveheart - Parallel bars
- Bruno, Giordano – A general account of bonding - On lightning, thunderbolts and pubic hair
- Cardiac arrest
- Celtic - Spoils of Annwn - 07
- Celtic - Spoils of Annwn - 08
- Chemical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz - The Second Day
- Choking on sugar
- Chuang Tzu - The Breath of Nature
- Cohen, Leonard - Ballad of the Absent Mare
- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor - The Eolian Harp
- Confucius - The Doctrine of the Mean - 13
- Constance Newland - Myself and I
- Could see strange things like shadows moving around and the sound of the wind howling
- Crowley - 21 The Universe
- Crowley, Aleister - Book of Lies - Buttons and Rosettes
- Crowley, Aleister - Book of Lies - Dust Devils
- Crowley, Aleister - Book of Lies - The Vigil of St Hubert
- Da Vinci, Leonardo - Allegory with Wolf and Eagle
- Daniel 07
- Dante - Inferno - Canto 02 - 07
- Dante - Inferno [obsession]
- David-Neel, Alexandra - Kundalini and the symbolism of 'breathing'
- Dickinson, Emily - Like rain it sounded till it curved And then I knew ‘twas wind
- Dickinson, Emily - The only ghost I ever saw
- Dickinson, Emily - The Wind took up the Northern Things And piled them in the south
- Dickinson, Emily - When winds go round and round in Bands
- Dowson, Ernest - Non Sum Qualis eram Bonae Sub Regno Cynarae
- Dowson, Ernest - The Garden of Shadow
- Dr Robert Crookall - More Astral projections – Mrs Olive Mytton-Hill of Edinburgh has multiple OBEs
- Dr. M. Isnard and his two sisters witness their dying mother’s double
- Dürer, Albrecht - Symbolism - Constellations of the northern and southern skies
- Ecclesiastes 1
- Egyptian Book of the Dead - Spell 109
- Eleazar Ben Kaller - Now an angel of the Lord appeared to Moses
- Elijah - 1 Kings 19 19 - The still small voice
- Entities twitching at the bedclothes
- Enûma Eliš - Fourth Tablet
- Epileptic seizure causes near death
- Ernesto Bozzano, Professor - The parapsychological manifestations of animals – 17 Mrs. H.-L. B and her dog see the ghost of the boy who had died from TB
- Evelyn Lip - Chinese Geomancy
- Flamel, Nicolas - Uraltes chymisches Werk A Eleazar 1760 5th illustr.
- Fleetwood Mac - Never Break the Chain
- Fox, Oliver - Out of body rule: don't touch 02
- Fox, Oliver - Visits Mrs X in Lumsden Avenue
- Fox, Oliver - Wind, cords and pull in out of body states
- Freddie Mercury and Montserrat Caballe - Guide Me Home
- Genesis 08 - the Flood
- George Darley - Unicorn
- Goryeo sijo - So Kyongdok
- Grandma Moses - The spry arms of the wind
- Guru Granth - Bilaval 01
- Hawker, Robert Stephen - Behold those winged images, Bound for their evening bowers
- Heine, Heinrich - The North Sea - Lurid the thunderstorm lies on the ocean
- Heine, Heinrich - The North Sea - Stay thou below in thy ocean depths
- Heine, Heinrich - The North Sea - The sunbeams were playing
- Herbert, George - Peace
- Holderlin, Johann - From in lovely blue
- Homer - The Odyssey - The city of the Laestrygonians
- Hush a bye baby
- Hypnerotomachia Poliphili - Egg and the Labyrinth
- Hypnerotomachia Poliphili - The Weather
- Ibn El-Arabi - The Tarjuman al-Ashwaq - Halt at the abodes and weep over the ruins
- Ibn El-Arabi - The Tarjuman al-Ashwaq - He saw the lightning in the east
- Ikkyu - My hovel
- Jeans, Sir James - The Mysterious Universe - The ship on the sea
- Jesus - John 3 - Jesus Teaches Nicodemus
- Jesus - Luke 4 - And Jesus being full of the Holy Ghost
- Jones, Sir William - A Hymn to Narayena
- Jules Lyons and her near death experience
- Kaushitaki Upanishad
- Khusrau, Amir - Ghazal 857 [extract]
- Led Zeppelin - Kashmir
- Led Zeppelin - The Rain Song
- Lehtola, Veli Pekka - The Sámi People
- Levy-Dhurmer - Gust of wind
- Levy-Dhurmer - La Bourrasque
- Lewis, C S - Prince Caspian - The Water wall
- Li Po - Coming down from Chung-nan mountain to the hermit Hu-Szu’s
- Li Qingzhao - Year after year, a little drunk
- Maeterlinck, Maurice - Concerning the spiritual in art - Wassily Kandinsky
- Master Naong - Song of the Pure Land
- Masters and Houston - Standing against a fairly strong breeze
- Michaux, Henri - In the Land of Magic - The most interesting things in this country cannot be seen
- Michaux, Henri - In the Land of Magic - They judge the value of a man
- Michaux, Henri - Report from Poddema
- Michaux, Henri - Towards Serenity
- Mircea Eliade - The stone ones
- Misc. sources - Aztecs and Mexica - Ehecatl
- Monroe, Robert - Possesses a sick man out of body
- Morrells, Luce and air beds
- Munch, Edvard - The Lonely Ones 1935
- Mundaka Upanishad
- Music Bureau - Watering horses at a spring beneath the Great Wall
- Mutwa, Vusamazulu Credo - Birds as creators
- Navajo - Native American Indians - Wind chant
- Neruda, Pablo - Every day you play with the light of the universe
- Neruda, Pablo - The heavens unfastened and open
- Nizami - Laili and Majnun - 03
- Nizami – Makhzanol Asrar (The Treasury of Mysteries) – from Poets and Poetry 04
- Nizami – Makhzanol Asrar (The Treasury of Mysteries) – from The First Seclusion 01
- O'Reilly, John Boyle - The faithful helm commands the keel
- Odetta - Blowin' in the Wind
- Olaus Magnus - History of the Northern peoples 1555 - And weather
- Ovid - Metamorphoses - The Giant's War 6
- Patrick Proctor Alexander - Spiritualism: A Narrative with a Discussion – 02 The first intimations of spirit presence, chilly winds and faint rappings
- Plato - Cratylus - Everything flows
- Plato - Theaetetus - On sensations
- Po Chu-I - The Ancient Wind
- Poetic Edda - Sayings of the High One [Odin's sacrifice]
- Poetic Edda - The Ballad of Alvis [exract]
- Pordage, John - Wind
- Proust, Marcel - Collected Poems - Potter
- Recording of Marvellous Relations of Temperament, Heaven, Wind and Moon
- Reichel-Dolmatoff - On ayahuasca
- Reichel-Dolmatoff – Amazonian Cosmos - Desana Creation Myth
- Reichel-Dolmatoff – Amazonian Cosmos - The Yaje ceremony
- Reverdy, Pierre - Arc en Ciel
- Reverdy, Pierre - Entre deux mondes
- Rig veda - Those who know have wings
- Rig Veda - Death
- Rig veda - Rudra with braided hair
- Rilke, Rainer Maria - 01 First elegy
- Rilke, Rainer Maria - 17 Fourth Elegy
- Rock a bye baby
- Rolle, Richard - Incendium Amoris - On Divine love
- Rudd, Xavier - Follow the Sun
- Rumi - Love Poems - Bough and leaf set free from the earth
- Rumi - Misc - God has made existence magnificent
- Rumi - Rubaiyat - With friends you grow wings
- RyoNen - from 101 Zen stones
- S'RÎMAD BHÂGAVATAM – Canto 10, Chapter 20 – Autumn in Vrindâvana
- Saadi - The Gulistan of Sa‘di – 24 from The Morals of Dervishes
- Saint Brendan - 03 The Voyage of Saint Brendan
- Saint Brendan - 10 The Voyage of Saint Brendan
- Saint Brendan - 12 The Voyage of Saint Brendan
- Saint Brendan - 13 The Voyage of Saint Brendan
- Saint Brendan - 14 The Voyage of Saint Brendan
- Sales, Francois de - On free will
- Sefer ha-bahir – Para 21 - Order of Creation and Tree of Life
- Seneca – Agamemnon - Fortuna
- Seven Ages of Man - 06 Dwarfs/The Neanderthals – Keightley and Mithen
- Shenxian zhuan - Qì - 气—“Pneumas”
- Six Dharmas of Nāropa - 10 Gtummo - The Manner of the Arising of the Four Blisses
- Socrates - Plato Phaedo - Abyss and energy recycling
- Song of Solomon 4
- Spilliaert, Leon - Girls on a dune
- Sri Airobindo - Savitri - A Message from the Unknown Immortal Light
- Stolz von Stolzenberg, Daniel - Viridarium chemicum 1624
- Surdas - Fatephur Sikri manuscript - NPS 3886
- Svetasvatara Upanishad
- Svetasvatara Upanishad
- Swedenborg, Emanuel - Spiritual Diary - Wind
- Symbolism - Korean mystic shamanism – Costume: Rolls of cloth
- Tabula Smaragdina - Jabir ibn Hayyan translation
- Tabula Smaragdina - Theatrum Chemicum translation
- Tales of the Trickster
- Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre - Hymn of the Universe - Surrender
- The Book of Taliesin - Kanu y Byt Mawr
- The Book of Taliesin - Kanu Ygwynt - Llyfr Taliesin XVII
- The Book of Taliesin - Torrit anuyndawl - Llyfr Taliesin XXV
- The Ishavasya Upanishad with Shankara’s Commentary 03
- The Liezi - 列子 "Book of Master Lie" - Chapter 2
- The Mithras Liturgy - Lines 535 to 555
- The North Wind doth blow
- The sun’s penis
- The vicar told me that it was the angels coming to get my mother
- Thomas, Dylan - From Love's First fever
- Through the Looking Glass - Ch 02 - 3 Running like the wind
- Through the Looking Glass - Ch 08 - 3 Falling off
- Tirrukural, the - Book 2 from Medicine
- Tom Tom the Piper's son
- Tranströmer, Tomas - from Along the Lines (Far North)
- Two ships
- Valleys and lakes
- Verlaine, Paul - Je ne sais pourquoi
- Viscount Adare - Experiences in Spiritualism with Mr D D Home – 24 We heard Home go into the next room, heard the window thrown up, and presently Home appeared standing upright outside our window
- Wadsworth Longfellow, Henry - Becalmed
- Wadsworth Longfellow, Henry - My Lost Youth
- Waterhouse, John William - Windflowers
- Watson, Lyall - Wind and heaven's breath
- Watson, Sir William - Epigram - To keep in sight Perfection, and adore
- Welsh Revivalists - There was shouting and rejoicing, even dancing in the meetings
- Wilcox, Ella Wheeler - The Winds of fate
- Wilson, William Griffiths – The spiritual experience that helped him become teetotal
- Wordsworth, William - Peter Bell
- Xam bushmen - Creation myth
- Yassawi - 20 from HIKMET 75
- Yeats, W B - Collected poems - As I came over Windy Gap
- Yeats, W B - Collected poems - Cumhal called out bending his head
- Yeats, W B - Collected poems - Of golden king and silver lady
- Yeats, W B - Collected poems - The solitary soul and the swan
- Yerka, Jacek and Maya Angelou - I know why the caged bird sings
- Yerka, Jacek and Shuwen - Heaven
- Yram - Whirlwinds
- Yu Xuanji - Free of all those hopes and fears
- Yu Xuanji - Late spring
- Zhang, Jing-He - The Secret of Embryonic breathing
- Zoroastrian - Means of achieving spiritual experience - 02 Sex [Herodotus]
- Zosimos of Panopolis - The Letter Omega - 11 and 12