Through the curse, the Lone Male
god regains control over Adam and Eve. Like the trauma of
early childhood abuse which lingers for a lifetime, so Adam and Eve
are scarred by the anger and rage from their god.
They are indicted and judged in
swift order.
Their offense is their
intimate knowledge of their sensual preciousness
and
sacred sexuality.
It is at the moment when they gain their first
awareness of the sacredness of their sexuality, of their
sensual preciousness, that they are driven from
the Garden.
At this moment the Lone Male god flies into a rage and terrifies his
children. He is an enraged parent yelling at a child who is still innocent and
totally unable to grasp why his parent is threatening violence.
In stark terror, they are cast outside into a world unknown to
them. The deeply embedded emotion in all this is one of absolute
fear and terrifying dread. The child
is undone—he/she senses that the father wants to kill!
On its own terms, the Abrahamic Tradition interprets Original
Sin and the Fall within a vision that presents the enjoyment of the
human body, sexuality and being a female as things and experiences
that are to be feared, even hated—where the sexual acts and,
consequently, making present intimacy is a sin.
For us Earthfolk, it is clear that the fruit of the Tree
of Life is the insight that—through childbirth and tending
the Earth—humans can realize their sensual
preciousness and make present themselves as immortals.
This
is the basis for the Earthfolk notion of the Forever Family.
Continue—Abrahamic
