IN GREEK MYTHOLOGY Pan was a mischievous forest sprite, inhabiting the lonely stretches of wilderness that separated the Greek city-states. Pan’s favorite diversion? Tormenting Greek travelers as they traversed the byways of that once-forested land. At first, Pan would gently “rustle the bushes” engendering a sense of apprehension. Over time, as He delivered more and more dramatic rustling, travelers would pick up their pace until they began running in full-blown “pan-ic,” never again to enter his forest kingdom.
Pan’s job, in effect, was to quarantine and protect the purity of the wild (and the wild-eyed, beginner’s mind in us all) from the restless march of minds “getting somewhere.” Could the waves of coronavirus be Pan’s way of rustling our collective bushes until we’re forced to run Pan-icked through the thicket of mind or finally and fully accept Pan’s invitation to enter deeper into the nowhere-to-go wilderness of “what is” and learn how to play the mind, meditatively, like a Pan flute?
Pan’s endgame? A society that remembers: There is a golden age of pre-civilization in the minds of very young children. This seed of ageless innocence– untouched by education and enculturation– is watered and sprouts anew in humans of all ages whenever they commune with the natural world which lives outside the influence of the human mind..
*This article draws heavily from Pan’s Wikipedia page.
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