この章では、人々が「自分を知らないまま」日々を過ごしている現実が語られます。
努力し、仕事に励み、自己成長を追い求めていても、ほとんどの人は目に見える世界だけを現実ととらえ、本当の自分、心の実体を知らないままです。怒りや悲しみ、恨みなどの感情を流しながら、そのエネルギーが何を生み出しているかに無自覚であり、その結果が必ず自分に返るという理解もありません。
しかし、その「無自覚」がもう通用しない時期が迫っており、現実だと思い込んでいる世界が次々と崩壊していく体験が訪れると示されます。肉を自分だと固く信じてきた思いは深く根を張っており、それを揺さぶるために今後250～300年の厳しい転生と天変地異が予定されていると語られます。生きてきた時間を振り返るとは、肉としての人生を振り返ることではなく、生まれる前から存在し、死後も続く意識の自分を知ることだと示され、すべては「意識の流れ」に沿って進むと説かれます。
."The Wind of Universe "
– Do We Humans Truly End with Death? –
This chapter warns that most people live without truly knowing themselves. Even those who work hard, pursue careers, or strive for personal growth generally focus only on the visible world, assuming that what they see is all that exists. Their thoughts and emotions—anger, sadness, resentment, jealousy, and the countless energies they release—are expressed carelessly, with little awareness of their consequences. People pay attention only to the circumstances or individuals who provoke these emotions, rarely noticing the energy they themselves send out or how it ultimately returns to them. This unawareness, the author emphasizes, can no longer continue.
Human beings cling so firmly to the belief that “the physical body is the self” that they cannot easily recognize the deeper, invisible reality of their own consciousness. Because of this, dramatic upheavals will soon appear before humanity—events powerful enough to overturn the very sense of reality people trust. These disruptions will come repeatedly, forcing individuals to confront what they have ignored. The text describes this as a necessary stage in the coming 250 to 300 years, during which strict reincarnational experiences and encounters with large-scale natural disasters are scheduled. These experiences are not punishment but catalysts designed to shake loose the deeply rooted belief that identity is limited to physical form.
The chapter questions common ideas such as “reflecting on one’s life” or “building toward tomorrow.” If reflection is limited to the years after one's physical birth, it remains superficial. The author insists that true reflection begins with recognizing the self that existed before birth and continues after death—a self that is consciousness, not flesh. Only by realizing this can one understand what the heart truly is and why life itself must be cherished.
All beings exist within the flow of consciousness, the “意識の流れ,” and will inevitably come to recognize this truth. The collapse approaching is therefore not destruction for its own sake but part of a cosmic process guiding humanity back to awareness of its true nature. Through upheaval, reincarnation, and the breaking of illusions, individuals will eventually rediscover the eternal self that has always existed within the vast current of consciousness.