‘Adam and Eve in Saudi-Arabia’

The Christian story of Adam & Eve and the serpent is a plagiarized story as most stories from the Bible are plagiarized from other sources. The source of the story is the Jewish Kabbalah and in that context the story actually makes sense. It’s not a parable about some guy and girl far away in history but a parable about you & me, everyone! The Original Sin is something that happens in everyones life. On the Tree of Life there is a false sephira, Daath, which is also known as ‘self-knowledge’. It lies between Kether (Divinity) and Tiphareth (Consciousness). The apple in the Christian adaptation is Daath, and after eating from the apple Adam and Eve become ‘aware of their nudity’ in other words self-awareness starts.

As babies and little children we are not restricted by this false Sephira. We simply live without having any self-image. The Self-image is a byproduct of the education (snake) our parents and schools give us. It blocks the communication between supreme being and the consciousness, which before that were one.

After we eat of the Apple of Knowledge, however, all of us start to be aware of ourselves, and our consciousness starts to be divided from our being. We start to have an image of ourselves which blocks our true expression.

How do we go from there? There are two ways of dealing with this situation. The first is to find a self-image one is comfortable with. This is what most people do. It has some advantages since it causes the mind to operate reasonably undisturbed and it brings some peace to most people. People who find and maintain a self-image they are comfortable with are generally known as ‘happy people’.

It doesn’t mean a whole lot, because in fact this image they are comfortable with is completely fake.
There is another road, the road of learning to get rid of all self-imagery. This is a hard road however and requires one to pretty much battle for the rest of ones life (which isn’t a bad thing at all since the sense and meaning of life are essentially to put up a good battle). One develops techniques to stop identifying with ones self-image. The more these mechanisms behind self-imagery are mastered the more easy it becomes to switch and correct ones identities. At some point we can simply get rid of the self-image and be reborn as the child we once were, but a different child who has the triumph of knowledge in his pocket.

If you are a person who always has the same image of yourself you must ask yourself what it is you really want. If you are one of those people who is content to live with one self-image you are comfortable with, cudos to you. If you are a person who always has the same image of himself but it’s a discontent image then you might rather take up the great battle. You have to realize the image is fake. It has nothing to do with you, it’s like an old photograph the mind took which it mistakes fro reality. You need to reset and reprogram your brain. This is a difficult path but its so, so much better than the path of the happy people. Because the happy people, they are fakes. Don’t let them know though, because happy people are dangerous people when you disturb them.

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