Adam and Eve~Revisited

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After a particular experience I wrote this. Interesting how interpretation changes with time:

Adam and Eve represent a spectrum of energy that is reflected as Life experience which was yet to know itself. This One energy has two sides who were yet to know themselves as separate, as having different qualities. Each exists in the other, yet they are at two different polarities, two different frequencies as expressed in manifestation.

Knowledge is the experience of knowing Oneself as a piece of the energy. The energy expresses and manifest or reflects itself as Variation. Each piece of variation being a little out of balance, as each piece needs the other. Hence we have male and female. Both in themselves out of balance, each needing the other to become one again. Knowledge is the identification with the physical representations of this energy. It is how the energy understands its condition of separation. It is the fall of energy into an identification not with the whole, but with a part of piece of itself. Mentally, this energy is understand as good and evil, or literally, light and dark. As the lighter the energy/ that which is experienced in front of oneself, is a reflection of that which is the darker energy, that which is experienced behind oneself, the shadow. This is why when civilazation began, people who were identified with the lighter side of the spectrum, ie. lighter colors skin, saw themselves as better than the darker side. Our understanding of ourselves, is a representation or reflection of the energy polarities. Any interpretation of the identification is a projection of that selfs identification onto the illusory reality of swirling energies outside of that self. We see that what we want to see as good and light, we see that which we are afraid/ which is essentially our selves in the dark, as we dont wish to bring these parts to the light just as yet/ as a threat. Something we deny in ourselves, this is fear. That shawdow of ourself is a threat to our self that we accept. We are afraid of that which we have yet to understand as ourself, we percieve it as separate in degrees, and therefore the degree to which we identify highly is acceptance, the degree to which we identify the least is denial. This is the tree of good and evil. Essentially ourselves, but those pieces we identify with as good, or a part of ourselves, and evil, that which we deny as ourselves. And of course the levels of acceptance and denial within that spectrum. Energy personified.

Essentially how we see our body, or interpret our bodies as knowledge, is projected into how we see the world.

The serpent in the story is the flow of energy. The element of time, the ego self. That which only exist in time, it is the voice of the self, which guides the self through time. We control our existence in time through this voice, but since we experience the light before the dark/ the light before the sound in energy vibration, we are experiencing in a loop of time which is behind itself. We as egos literally exist in the past, while equally projecting into the future. The ego is the identification of knowledge. We perceive it as evil because it is that part of ourselves that is accepting only a small bit of ourselves. The good thing is, this ego has both light and dark qualities, and light knows that truth of itself, the dark knows the truth of itself, that each side each has both qualities within it. But the middle, the ego identification factor, only sees itself in the middle. It rejects both light and dark at some levels, and as a result is constantly bombarded with pieces of itself that it both accepts and rejects, attempting to show or represent to itself an understand of itself.

The tree of life is the movement from an identification with knowledge, to an identification with all of life as Oneself. And knowing this life to be self reflecting and self renewing, both dying and living at the same time. Self-reflection is death, as it brings in the element of ego/ it brings a lapse of energy experienced as time. Self-renewing is the “Now” state. The state where death and life exists as One.

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A yes, you speek of the complexities
Of the filter
Of consciousness.

Selection, focus, values and bodyparts – are all the partial, the filter.

All desires, thoughts, actions and organs – help filter reality out, and preserve individuality.

I enjoyed your post here, and agree with almost 100% of the concept, there’s just one point where I’d like to add a: “Well, maybe.”

There’s just one point I was going to say something about slightly critical:

It may be this, and other factors, or not.

Ex: If you had horns and big sharp teeth, many humans may think that you are ugly, evil or frightening. That’s because certain things automatically trigger an instinctive aversion, a defense mechanism, which was meant to deal with certain natural situations and animals.

It may be that humans naturally find darker things to be less appealing than lighter things. But if there is a seporation in the sense of skin-color and beauty, it could even be for a strange reason like this:

Prehistoric humans may have lived in an area or place where nocturnal predators were a threat to their survival. They developed an aversion to certain dark-colored predators for this reason, as a naturally-selected survival mechanism, an aversion or maybe even a hate of a certain group of dark colored night-predators which was quite a problem during that era of the human species.

Things like sharp-teeth, horns, dark fur or dark skin, may help or hinder survival, depending on the life-style a body has, and depending upon the environment. Judgments about the beauty or the ugliness of things might just be purely subjective, due to ancient evolutional instincts.
[ :blush: So easy to start Darwinning :blush: ]

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Dan wrote:

Indeed; all is filtered through the body, the source of identification.

You also wrote:

Ah, but isnt everything evolutionary? I think your thoughts have merrit. Its possible darker colored animals were percieved as more of threat, but Im not entirely sure. I think all predators were percieved as threats, as with human beings, anything different is possibly an enemy. The reason lies within life’s reason. We must live and survive off of each other. Whether we eat plants or animals, pure minerals or whatever, life lives off of life. We are naturally suspicious and hesistant of the ‘other’, because this other has the potential to take out life, to cut our survival. The voice identifies with the lighter color spectrum of light. It “knows” and accepts itself through an identification of “goodness” per se. We feel like we are good, even when we know we are bad. That which is different from us, which does not fit within our view of identification, is percieved as a threat to survival. That which is not like us, is even more likely to kill us; this thought process is all the more reflected in each perceptive entity because we even fear ourselves as potential predators, these conflicts all exists within our psyche. But since we identify with our bodies, we have to look at ourselves in a “higher light” Its amazing how words reflect our experiences. They are literally metaphors of life.