Adam and Eve: the human condition

GENESIS REVISITED - a new beginning

The story of Adam and Eve may depict man's fall from the comfort of living in blameless ignorance, but it also describes his first - thanks to woman - courageous step on the long and difficult journey towards greater awareness (of himself, of others, and of the world at large) and responsibility, away from ignorance and the instinctive, blameless behaviour of his animal nature.

It is high-time that we exchanged Yahweh for a more enlightened (concept of) God. Instead of cursing them, this is what my God (with more than 2000 years of hindsight (When God Was a Woman (Harvest/HBJ Book)), after sending her unworthy husband away, might have said to Eve:

Red Moon

Curiosity and the desire for knowledge and awareness have led you to disobey me, but I like your courageous and independent spirit, which is in contrast to your obedient and wimp of a  husband.

You have started to become conscious of yourself, of others and of the world about you. This means that you must learn to take responsibility for you own behaviour. You will become aware of primitive thoughts, feeling and inclinations which stem from your animal nature. You are not responsible for them, but for what you do. It is your behaviour that you must learn to control, in accordance with the more enlightened human nature, which will develop in you to progressively replace your primitive animal nature.

Your descendants will learn to understand the workings of the world, making great discoveries and inventions along the way. Used wisely and responsibly these will make life much easier for them, greatly reducing hardship and suffering; used vainly and irresponsibly, they will cause great harm. One of the most useful - but if misused, also most harmful - inventions will be called money.

 There will be times when you will despair. Trust me. Over time I will help you to transcend your primitive animal nature, your evil inclinations, your ignorance, fears and vanity. I will increase your understanding and love, and give you the strength and courage needed to do justice to the name that your descendents will one day prematurely give to human kind:  Homo sapiens, wise man.

The Realisation of Self

There are messages hidden in the open; yet seemingly secret
places; for those who yearn, those who seek truth and love

Yearning for the fulness of being, of life. That feeling of
being alive, of just being, not being brave, smart or cool.

A state without thought, worry or fear. Learning to feel
the body and the aliveness. Hearing with the body and
stilling the mind.

Such a wonderful feeling of relaxation, strength,
knowing and aliveness

Eckhart Tolle explains a simple way of anchoring
yourself in the present moment. The Power of Now

Knowing you are already who you are at this moment,
how to "listen with your entire body", while working
with the body, mind, and attention in order to merge
with this moment There is no tomorow, but an illussion.
Because when tomorrow comes you are already living in
it so it now

He points to those unconscious patterns that keep us
from accessing the deeper intelligence within.

It explores our highest purpose in life and how meditations
can help us attain it with The Realization of Being

Words are useful signposts, Eckhart begins, but our main
spiritual teacher is stillness.

This powerful energy field is always available to us
through meditation.  As we go beyond the need for thought,
we achieve the meditative state of no mind or presence that is
effortless, joyful, and natural.