On Pathway B, you are invited
to sit in silence and peer at the three Big Stories which dominate
the imaginations of humans. You might ask, “Why should
I spend time with “x” Big Story?”—
especially if it is a Big Story you, at this moment, basically reject?
For example, we Earthfolk have peered long and hard
at the Abrahamic story of origin, Genesis.
Notably, at the Rib story of the creation of
Eve. Over time,
through sensual immersion, we have become present to a divine
presence in the Story that the Abrahamic tradition
has claimed does not exist, namely,
a Mother Goddess.
Curious?
A Mother Goddess in the Abrahamic Big Story of origin,
Genesis?
Here’s a summary overview
of our discernment. First, we sensed what the
Big Story of which Genesis is a part has traditionally
enabled people to sense, namely, a world created by a Lone Male
God. He creates—from dirt—the first human,
who is also a Lone Male. Then, we were given to see
that the male body is the birthing body, for,
in Genesis, woman is, literally,
created from male flesh. This is the Rib story. Soon,
the man and woman—Adam and Eve—anger the
Father who then curses them and kicks
them out of paradise. They are to live on the Earth
under two curses: he to labor by the sweat
of his brow and she to suffer in child birth. The story
of origin ends with these first humans being Earth exiles.
The Abrahamic tradition, then, develops
an historical narrative where these exiles are
offered a return home—to an off-Earth,
heavenly paradise. They are offered “salvation,”
if they live as their god’s Chosen People. Later,
these exiles are considered “fallen,” and
inheritors of an Original Sin that created an abysmal
rift with their God that no human
could heal. This Original Sin is inherited by all babes
at conception. The Abrahamic people looked for a messiah,
someone who could save them. For Abrahamic Jews,
this messiah is yet to come. For Abrahamic Christians and
Muslims, Jesus of Nazareth was the messiah. He was
God’s son, and his personal bloody crucified
suffering and death effected salvation for those who believed in him.
Continue—Immersion
