Wild Mountain Honey
- Jennifer Wescott
- Jun 16, 2022
- 2 min read
Updated: Nov 8, 2022
Who of you my age or maybe a bit older remembers this song, Wild Mountain Honey by The Steve Miller Band?
I loved this song growing up and always told myself that one day, I would come to know about this Wild Mountain Honey and what it means, as it sounded like some mystical honey that somehow put earthly riches to shame.
Funny, I came across it again recently after some years of spiritual growth and realized that perhaps I am beginning to understand.
Here are the lyrics and some of my own interpretations.
Feel free to add your interpretations in the comments.
Ooh, mama
Well, look what's been done
You can only see the stars
After a setting Sun
(It is evident that we do not see everything that is there, which means we do not know everything and there must be a power greater than our physical/mental being)
You run for the money
You don't even know about wild mountain honey
Come on, mama
Heal this lonesome man
Grow the tree of wholeness
In this desert land
(Mother Earth: Heal us of the illusion that we are alone, because we don't see everything that is there, and we believe the illusion. Mama, Open our eyes to see that we are supported and already whole, and lacking nothing)
Come on, children
Now learn how to run
By heaven, the stars
The moon and the sun
(Let us learn how to live by the laws of nature/existence)
Come on, papa
Your end is the means
Don't trade your love and goodness
For the golden machine
(Father, your end (your love) is our means (wealth). We will die in striving for money, because in doing so, we are abandoning unconditional love and goodness for all; love and goodness are Life abundant and create health, wealth and happiness for all.)
You run for the money
You don't even know about wild mountain honey
(Wild Mountain Honey is Life that is beyond the imagination of our brain, and outside the limited confines of thoughts. We open ourselves to receive it when we loosen attachment from our thoughts and physical identity, and make more space. Within this space of nothingness is the place where seemingly, nothing happens; yet it is the place where the unseen, unfelt, and unheard Divinity penetrates your consciousness. You may sense it with your 6th sense and you will just know that it's true).
Love,
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