God’s Thoughts on Adam and Eve
The awakening essay
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| Written by Karyn Aldin | |
| Thursday, 08 July 2010 | |
God’s Thoughts on Adam and Eve If “life is an idea”, or as Jesus in A Course in Miracles says “life is thought”, within that idea or thought, we’re quite a peculiar species. We’re born into this world, grow up, become ‘something’, as though we weren’t already, have children, watch them grow up and also become something, watch each other get old, and then we do the most ridiculous thing of all – we die. Of course it appears that all species die. That’s from human perspective, anyway. Perhaps, though, from their point of view they’re just flowing along, go through a ‘transition’(which we call death), and find themselves continuing to flow along then in a bigger, more expanded way?And of course, that’s just a concept I threw out here for the sake of - well, I don’t know. I guess it’s because that’s what our ‘species’ does here. We make concepts. We make stories about who and what we are, and then we live in our stories. We ‘create’ identities for ourselves, again become ‘something’, and build a world within which these identities seem to adequately work. We essentially become just one big self-constructed concept… one big ‘self-concept’. What makes the whole thing so laughable (or traumatic) is that after our identities are constructed, and we’ve learned to anticipate that the things and people around us will be, act, or speak (where relevant) in ways that support these identities, at some point in everyone’s life, the question seems to emerge “Who am I?”. Now that’s peculiar. And from that point on, either quietly, or more demonstrably, the distress of the question finds its expression. Early on we’re taught “we’re created in the image and likeness of God”. For some in our ‘world idea’, it seems that thought stimulates the imagination to expect that God also must have two arms, two legs, a head, etc., though certainly much more radiant, powerful, and beautiful looking than people here on ‘earth’ (being God and all). ‘Others’ seem to consider themselves more ‘open’ minded, and willing to consider that God could take a number of forms. But then for the ‘being created in His image and likeness’ part, well, I imagine there are as many explanations going on in peoples’ heads for what that might mean to them as there are ‘self-concepts’ floating around – which virtually makes it limitless. Yet that idea or concept is intriguing in itself, because it essentially implies that we could be limitless, and if so, then who/what really are we? Excuse me for not yet addressing this essay’s title. In a bit, I’ll come to that. When you mix the ‘created in His image and likeness’ in with other well known statements about God, like “God is everywhere (omnipresent)”, “God is all-powerful (omnipotent)”, “God is all knowing (omniscent)”, “God is eternal”, and finally something so basic and key as “Only God is”, the human mind, stuck in its carefully constructed story/identity/self-concept about himself is left with just a few reasonable, conclusive thought options to consider: 1. His mind can call forth his keenly developed skills at rationalization to explain away how this mixture of statements is still reasonable while he remains contained in his self-contained, self constructed and limited self-concept (i.e. identity) of himself. 2. His mind becomes twisted, contorted, and then because he can’t seem to reach any reasonable resolution, dismisses all attention to the matter. 3. He experiences a recognition that the constructed self-concepts and ideas of ‘identity’ he holds about himself must have been a falsity from the beginning of time and he consequently has an experience of illumination. “Only God is” by itself is enough to trigger any of the 3 above responses. That alone would leave you reasonably with: “then either I don’t exist or I must be an extension of God, and with all His attributes.” The next step is, “What other than my self-concepts could be covering my real Self up, boxing me into a limited ‘earthly identity’ that will simply keep me on track for eventually getting sick, old, and dying? What if this ‘veil’ of mistaken, and so illusory, thought were removed? Now, at last, I’m going to hop on over to God and Adam and Eve. In considering God’s thoughts about Adam and his beloved partner, Eve - our most popular ancestors that surely, in our storybook world, hold for people throughout ages a mixed bag of emotion and evaluation – I’d like to consider a very simple progression of thought: First, God is love. Next, God creates in His image and likeness (and assumedly He’s pleased with Himself, being perfect Love). And then, God is omnipresent, implying there is no place where God is not, implying in turn again the well known statement “Only God is”. Since “Only God is”, then what He creates must be a part of Himself, and must be loving. What could God possibly do other than to love Himself? His Creation? And so God’s thoughts about Adam and Eve? He loved/loves them. Simple as that. Simple as God… Love. What other thought could He possibly have? Of course there’s the apparent problem of these ancestors of ours eating from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, which is essentially saying they decided to check out the idea of duality, good vs. evil, comparison and judgment. But judgment is the weapon we use to throw ourselves out of paradise. God doesn’t have to contribute to our misery in this, and doesn’t. Again, God is simply Love. Yet this ‘getting thrown out of paradise stuff, the Garden of Eden’ part… well, this is where we might say our stories about ourselves, our self-concepts, all of which require the foundational component of ‘judgment’ begin. This idea marks the origin of the need to voice the question “Who am I?” Yet behind the screens, behind all the stories that have been and continue to be constructed, all the emerging self-concepts, “God is only Love” and continues only to love us perfectly. So what if this ‘veil’ of mistaken, and so illusory, thought were removed (the questioned voiced earlier)? Apparently, we’d be bathed in the only real Truth there is: God’s eternal Love. Based on this thought, on His only thought of love for Adam, for Eve, and knowing none of His Creation is apart from this same love, I’d like to declare my desire to be assimilated. I’m willing and ready for the loving removal of my storybook world, my self-concepts. I’m willing to be undone. And you? Well in truth, as my storybook gets assimilated with me, I’m sure you’ll be right there with me. Who are you, anyway? Together, without judgment, we’ll say ‘hello’ to Adam, maybe have a cup of tea with Eve. Even a nice, juicy, ripe apple. And it will be good… just as He declared in Creation. |
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