If the atomic
bomb had not been creatively imagined, produced
and dropped just a bit over half a century ago, then an argument might
be tenable that we Earthfolk are over-reacting to the simple fact that
humans have been at war as far as they can remember.
But the atom bomb was
dropped. We did creatively imagine it. Produce it.
Vaporized members of our own human family. Turned what it means to be
human into our being "shadow people."
Created a weapon we cannot control, and so imbued the
human psyche with a dreadful fear of the Other.
When the primal and seminal origin story
of Genesis is explored, it is clear that the exiled,
motherless children Adam and Eve were condemned
to live on Earth in dreadful fear. In the Christian
tradition the psychic depth of this fear was described as an "original
sin." It meant, among many things, that
human experience is
a realization of being
violated, betrayed, condemned,
exiled, cursed, cast out and living in dreadful
fear. That
we humans have always been living
in an
apocalyptic moment!
Life as the motherless children knew it—living
peacefully and comfortably at-home in the Garden of Eden: "paradise"—was
totally and violently taken away from them. It was
a cataclysmic event that induced in the motherless
children all the characteristics of post-traumatic
stress typically suffered by war refugees.
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