Exiled
sexuality: homeless and rejected
Once exiled, "Then Adam had sexual intercourse with Eve, his wife,
and conceived and gave birth to a son, Cain." Again it is clear that
the human family comes into being only in exile. Human sexuality is an
exile punishment and an act sourced in divine cursing. At the start of
the Abrahamic Big Story, then, is the deeply embedded emotion of humans
not being comfortable in family around the hearth. Their most intimate
act of human copulation is an act grounded in sadness.
Through copulation humans can only tap
into deep emotions which make them feel rejected, condemned, judged
and punished. As they embrace all
they evoke is the primal remembrance of their loss of
Eden. Through copulation the Abrahamics feel the depths of
their exiled homelessness.
Also, as when Adam and Eve coupled, through
sexuality Abrahamics experience the pain of
their loss of immortality. For in the Garden
they were immortal. When the Serpent unveiled the revelation
about their immortality,
then the Lone Male
god cast
them out into the realm of mortality. For the Abrahamics, only death
offers a return to immortal life with their
god in a heavenly Garden of Eden.
The lot of these exiles becomes, "All
your life you will struggle to extract a living from it {the Earth}." Emotionally,
this is a family living in hopeless fear, dreading that they might
further
anger
their god. They are not comfortably at-home on Earth. For them the
Earth is only dirt, a source of nourishment only after great toil
and sweat.
It is not a Living Earth. Certainly, it is not a suckling Mother
Earth.
What Big Questions does all this
answer? Among them are: Why is there suffering? Why is there hunger?
Why does the Earth,
at times, dry up
and not provide food to eat? What does the future hold? Is human
effort worthwhile?
But key to all of them is,
What
makes a human "human"?
For the Abrahamics, the answer, "Seeking
forgiveness and redemption."
For Earthfolk, the answer,"Living
as a child in
the Forever Family on the immortal Living Earth."
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