Genesis, Covid, Time, and Cabin Fever
For the young toddler, the world is a place of enchantment and benevolence. It is the Garden of Eden. As the toddler explores the world, they will eventually bump up against chaos. This might be a hand on the hot fireplace glass or a strong reprimand after breaking something.
When this happens, the toddler splits. This splitting is represented in Genesis when Eve is created from Adam’s rib. Adam represents the mind and Eve represents the body. As the mind temporarily splits from the body, then the self momentarily splits from the environment. Before this, we can consider the child androgynous, non-dual, and completely engrossed in the environment.
As the child continues to explore the world and encounters chaos, this pattern of temporary splitting will repeat and eventually result in an incremental separation of mind from body (Adam from Eve) and self from environment. As the story goes in Genesis, Adam will inevitably eat the forbidden fruit, creating a separation between self and the paradise of childhood. He will naturally try to re-engross himself to the Garden of Eden, but he will gradually realize that he can’t lose his self like he used to. He has been exiled. This is the genesis story of every human being: the splitting of mind from body, of self from environment, and of our consciousness from the benevolent childhood story.
It is at this point that The Parable of the Bags of Gold becomes relevant (Matthew 25:14-30, NIV). As it goes in Genesis 3, after Adam is exiled from paradise, then he is sentenced to work. The servant who buries his bag of gold is the attempt that we all make to escape the responsibilities of the work assigned to us by the overbearing ruler and re-engross ourselves back into the childhood paradise story.
The thinking is if we can escape back into our childhood story, then we can escape from this story of work, responsibility, and punishment by a tyrannical ruler. This is our first approach since we have an evolutionary adapted impulse to expend the least amount of energy/resources in trying to solve problems. After getting thrown into the darkness of pain and judgment, we quickly realize that we probably need a new strategy which is going to require that we extend ourselves more than we have previously.
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For the young toddler, the world is a place of enchantment and benevolence. It is the Garden of Eden. As the toddler explores the world, they will eventually bump up against chaos. This might be a hand on the hot fireplace glass or a strong reprimand after breaking something.When this happens, the toddler splits. This splitting is represented in Genesis when Eve is created
When we accept that there is no escaping from the responsibility of work expected of us from the ruler, then linear time, along with the anxiety associated with it, establishes itself in our life. In the childhood story, time only existed at most on the periphery. Now, we live in a timeline with pain and punishment nipping at our heels when we shirk our responsibilities. As
Any adult who can read these two posts and truly feel nothing, that person is at war against the true self and against reality.
The whole strategem of analyzing and analogizing a religion into reality is dubious. I wonder, if this preaching by craig1120 is true, how many of the world's population know it, understand it?? Why would god hide it from them to such an extent to be beyond their reach. Scores of billions have/had no chance to understand this and will never be exposed to it.
Religion that is undefiled before spirit is this: kindness, respect, honesty, fairness, compassion. For the eons of humanity this works ... and all the high-flying religious sophistry did not. 99% weren't even literate. No, this is a game of a self-deluded god messenger, and the more complicated it is the better for that pharisee that treasures seeing himself as a vessel of superior knowledge and understanding.
When you ask where it comes from, why it's real ... there is a total blank.
We can take any religion and weave a story of meaning, morality, origins, human nature, human life. You can do it with any story. You just make a claim that, say, a stupid rib story is actually describing an avant garde modern truism. Meh.
The new wave apologist movement, attempting to smuggle the supernatural into the natural by incorporating modern understanding into ancient myths and barbaric rantings, is basically an attempt to keep obsolete superstitious ideas relevant. Toward that task, they apologize and apologize and apologize for what the religion actually says.
The Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who finds himself stuck. The man calls himself a sheep in front of the judge and later cannot hear the call of the shepherd. Then, the man calls himself a goat in front of the judge, hears the call of the shepherd, and is guided to the slaughterhouse.
To know what it’s like to exchange your life for the life of a man who is certain he will be annihilated by God himself — you will never be the same after this.
To know what it’s like to exchange your life for the life of a man who is certain he will be annihilated by God himself — you will never be the same after this.
My existence is proof that God is not that type. Regardless, everyone who comes after me must feel the same fear that I felt in my not knowing.
Still, there is no need to be afraid since you know.
