Post #84 "Beyond Faith and Reason"

There must have been a time and place where it was possible to 'walk and talk' with God without fear and having no need to rely on other's interpretations or having no need to check out and qualify all data. What were those ancient story tellers trying to convey? What was the impetus for those stories that were handed down generation after generation, culture after culture? Faith through religion, as we know it, was nowhere applicable to this ancient memory and neither was reason. That is, at least not until creation expressed humanity's desire to become God. This desire, which according to the stories of many cultures, seems to have ignited an altered existence. The author or authors of these ancient accounts described in the biblical Genesis account of the Garden of Eden story was attempting to describe a state of knowing that was present way before Faith and Reason could be described as such. This Knowledge was a state of being, a state of being aware, a state of being totally compatible and in harmony with self and surroundings. In this state of awareness, all the sicknesses of body, mind, and spirit do not exist, as do not crime, war, and all the horrors we have created and have plagued humankind throughout history. Until intelligence chose to know, to eat of the Tree of Faith and Reason, until intelligence called forth its own creation, these plagues did not exist.

Faith and reason did not exist in the Garden or gardens of pre-history. This absence of Faith and Reason as an early state of existence is best described by the author/authors as a garden. This garden is the garden we all long for. We all instinctively and perhaps genetically long to return to the Garden. This is where the story begins but more importantly, this is also where the story ends as we have, through the deep desire to become God, destroyed the Garden. We have destroyed the dream. We cannot return for that is where we sense that God is, and if God is there in the Garden, we cannot claim God-ship from what in Reality exists. If we find God, we cannot fulfill our desire of becoming God, so its best to destroy the Garden or destroy heaven or whatever we choose to name it. If the Garden is no more, God is no more. We have built the walls of creation very high, as high as the tel out there in the wilderness of Israel/Palestine. If we create gods, many more gods, or God, we won't notice the pain so much or feel the disappointment. And so the story ends with longing for the beginning. We are the masters of our creation. We are the Image-Makers!