Dan Millman's Way Of The Peaceful Warrior

“ To shine upon those who sit in darkness and the shadow of death , To guide our feet into the way of peace.” Luke 1:79 In Dan Millman’s Way of the Peaceful Warrior the main character has taken this amazing journey with Socrates. Where the protagonist has learned much about himself and how he has faced life , dealing with his emotion , action and his perception of life itself. In this novel Millman has taken Dan on this journey to find himself and grow to become that peaceful warrior. In the Bible verse above it talks about to become a person who shines in a world of darkness ,and let wisdom of God guid us in a way of peace and understanding, and though out Dan’s whole journey that is exactly what he is doing become a seeker of light.
“ Eden, Garden. The beautiful garden containing the tree of life, where God intended Adam and Eve to live in peaceful and contented innocence, effortlessly reaping the fruits of the Earth” This garden is made in an image of heaven in being full of peace and harmony a place where happiness and joy are. When Dan takes this mind trip to the Garden of Eden Dan describes it to be a place full of colorful flowers and surrounded by new smells. Dan talks about this garden as a place that is vibrate and alive. “ colorful flowers tower around me , I'm surrounded by new smells” ( Millman158). While Dan was in this garden he experienced the same thing as Adam and Eve did when God created this garden for them a place filled with so much peace and understanding. A place where they are free and judgment free, but then Dan comes back from this mind trip and lads face down on Soc’s yellow rug. The color yellow represents joy, happiness, imagination, hope,and friendship. When Dan came back from the Garden of Eden he experienced something so unexplainable that when he woke up he was full of joy , happiness and hope . When he realized that it was gone he quickly told Soc how he wants to return. This is a mind trip that Dan experienced the awaking of the mind. Becoming a namer and a knower someone who looks for facts in life to learn what is in and can pin point certain aspects of it . Instead of Dan is placed in
A Green House a building, room, or area, usually chiefly of glass, where the temperature is maintained within a desired range. Soc and Dan both enter the green house and on this green house full of all kinds of plants. “ you've become bored with things because they only exist as names to yo. The dry concepts of the mind occurs your direct perception” ( milkman 159). Soc explains to Dan that when as a kid entering a green house as a child would full our eyes and mind with so much excitement and enjoyment as if witnessing it for the very first time. Why because a child doesn't sit there and pin points everything children live in the moment and enjoy everything they meet. Later on Dan explained the inside of the green house as a geodesic dome “ Plexiglas canopy of the geodesic dome” ( Millman 159). A geodesic dome is . “a dome constructed of short struts following geodesic lines and forming an open framework of triangles or polygons.” In the same way this green house is an image of Dans mind. The geodesic shape and be like the human brain, also the brain does the same as a green house. A green house absorbs the sun to help plants grow. Our brains absorb the facts of the world to expand the knowledge of concepts in the brain. This is what dan is doing he is becoming a knower and a namer, take the facts of the world and absorbing them turning them to knowledge. “ life requires more than knowledge; it requires intense