Exit From Eden. What The Hell Does That Mean?
Explaining in modern language the wisdom of spiritual teachers across the ages.
What makes a human being different from the other living creatures on this planet? If an alien spaceship hovered above the earth and studied all mammals, there would be nothing obvious about the human anatomy to differentiate it from other animals. We (mammals) have a head, limbs, two eyes, internal organs, respiratory system, a digestive system, we sleep, etc
What the aliens would quickly notice though is that the human species is operating with a different set of rules. The operating system of the human mind is very different from the rest of the animal kingdom. If the aliens were able to probe our minds, which if they can come to earth in a spaceship they surely have the technology to read our minds, then they would discover the ...
What makes a human being different from the other living creatures on this planet? If an alien spaceship hovered above the earth and studied all mammals, there would be nothing obvious about the human anatomy to differentiate it from other animals. We (mammals) have a head, limbs, two eyes, internal organs, respiratory system, a digestive system, we sleep, etc
What the aliens would quickly notice though is that the human species is operating with a different set of rules. The operating system of the human mind is very different from the rest of the animal kingdom. If the aliens were able to probe our minds, which if they can come to earth in a spaceship they surely have the technology to read our minds, then they would discover the ...
... presence of an ego. But not just any ego, but an advanced ego.
An evolved, mature and advanced ego is what makes the human species... the human species. How did this differentiation between animals and humans happen?
Using Biblical terminology, all the other animals on the planet are still living in the Garden of Eden and operating according to nature's intrinsic programming. Humans however, left the Garden some time ago. This departure was captured in the Bible as
An evolved, mature and advanced ego is what makes the human species... the human species. How did this differentiation between animals and humans happen?
Using Biblical terminology, all the other animals on the planet are still living in the Garden of Eden and operating according to nature's intrinsic programming. Humans however, left the Garden some time ago. This departure was captured in the Bible as
"You may surely eat of every tree if the garden, but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die."
This death is the symbolic exit from nature's programming and the birth of the knowledge of right and wrong, i.e., the birth of an advanced ego.
Humanity's exit from the Garden of Eden was also echoed by Stephen Hawking in his quote
Humanity's exit from the Garden of Eden was also echoed by Stephen Hawking in his quote
"For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imagination."
Therefore, "exit from Eden" is the symbolic representation of man's change of operating system from nature's intrinsic programming to an evolved operating system called the ego.
Before ending, I want to leave you with a thought... there was another tree in the garden of Eden called the "tree of life"...
Before ending, I want to leave you with a thought... there was another tree in the garden of Eden called the "tree of life"...