Of course, if you\u2019re a native speaker, then you learned the names of all 26-letters when you were very small. And you can certainly use them to cast spells \u00be more or less. However, like most everyone else, you are likely to believe that the alphabet is a system of meaningless symbols for meaningless sounds.<\/p>\n
Well, don\u2019t let the letters\u2019 apparent simplicity dissuade you from looking more closely.<\/p>\n
Symbols are generally recognized as the language of the unconscious. So doesn\u2019t it seem strange that we are basically unconscious to the significance in the most prevalent set of symbols on the planet?<\/p>\n
Rarely do we give thought to the fact that this handful of letters is capable of generating a near-infinite number of words \u2014 in a multitude of languages. And only a curious few among us explore the ancient history and esoteric mystery of the letters that have found their way into our Alphabet<\/p>\n
What I have found, however \u2014 and am now eager to share with you \u2014 is that just by peering more deeply into the sounds and shapes of letters and words, we may catch sight of our own reflection.<\/p>\n
So follow me now through the long-neglected portal marked A<\/span><\/strong><\/span>B<\/span><\/strong>C<\/strong><\/span>and N<\/span>-counter<\/strong><\/span> the N<\/span>-chanting<\/strong><\/span> whirled of linguistic synchronicities where symbols and sounds in letters and words come alive and speak for themselves \u2014 revealing some of our own deepest secrets.<\/p>\n Once within this mysterious realm, you will see that every cymbal<\/strong><\/span> of the alphabet has fasten8-ing<\/strong><\/span> rePercussions<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/span>. And every word we speak and write has eL-e<\/span>M-e<\/span>N<\/span>–<\/strong><\/span>tal eN-a<\/span>R-<\/span>Gz<\/span><\/strong><\/span> that set off strong reverb<\/strong><\/span>erations affecting every aspect of our lives \u00be for good or ill. It then becomes quite easy to see that the best way to protect ourselves from the awesome power of the Word is to practice the following adage\u00a0\u2014[\/vc_column_text][divider line_type=”No Line” custom_height=”50″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=”full_width_background” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” bg_image=”437″ bg_position=”center center” background_image_loading=”default” bg_repeat=”no-repeat” scene_position=”center” text_color=”light” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overflow=”visible” color_overlay=”#000000″ overlay_strength=”0.8″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none” parallax_bg=”true” parallax_bg_speed=”fixed” shape_type=””][vc_column column_padding=”padding-4-percent” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][divider line_type=”No Line” custom_height=”100″][split_line_heading animation_type=”default”]\n Reading the Signs<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n First, I look at the capital E and see that its shape\u00a0[1]<\/span> makes sense \u2014 though its meaning changes \u2014 when facing all four cardinal points of the compass: East = E, South = M, West = 3, and North = W.<\/p>\n Then, I notice that the capital E is composed of three parallel horizontal lines connected by 1 vertical line at the left edge.<\/p>\n Next, I see that the lower case e, when followed by Y and then a second e, re-presents our upper face, which as I see it equates our eyes with our eYe<\/strong><\/span>-dentity.<\/p>\n From this, I re-cognize that what makes us each unique is our individual perspectives or outlook. When we give up our sovereign vision to accept someone else\u2019s dogmatic position \u2014 as many children are compelled to do when indoctrinated into their family\u2019s religion \u2014 then the expression of our eYe-dentity starts to look identical with that of other people.<\/p>\n Yet, our eYes are said to be the windows to our Soul. And there is a Pupil at the c-enter of every I\/eYe. So, surely we are designed to be life-long students of our own Soul\/Sole and not adherents to someone else\u2019s pin-point-of-view. Thus, I conclude, that it matters less how well we look than it does how well we see.<\/p>\n Sounding the Cymbals<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Now I listen to the sound of the \u2018long E\u2019 because it is what gives voice to 17 of the 21 consonants:<\/p>\n Surprisingly, E is even more eL<\/strong><\/span>-eM<\/strong><\/span>-eN<\/strong><\/span>-tal to the Biblical story of Genesis. So, let us now walk through that storied door.<\/p>\n The Genesis Emphasis in English<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Consider that the 1st<\/sup> Woman is named E<\/strong><\/span>ve. And the Garden in which E<\/strong><\/span>ve dwelled with Adam in all innocence and e<\/strong><\/span>ase is called E<\/strong><\/span>den.<\/p>\n The fact that all needs were met, may even be the reason NEED<\/strong><\/span> and EDEN<\/span>\u00a0<\/strong>share the same 3 letters of the Alphabet.<\/p>\n According to Genesis, it was the na\u00efve evil of Eve<\/strong><\/span> (a phrase that\u2019s such fun to say) that led her to take a bite from the forbidden fruit and persuade Adam to do the same. Now, here\u2019s what I believe about that pivotal event:<\/p>\n The Apple in the Story of Adam and Eve \u2014 It was Delicious!<\/p>\n It took just one bite of that potent fruit to catapult the first couple out of EDEN and into NEED and into centuries of murderous misogyny. I was captivated by this peculiar metaphor because \u2014<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][divider line_type=”No Line” custom_height=”50″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=”full_width_background” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” bg_image=”402″ bg_position=”center center” background_image_loading=”default” bg_repeat=”no-repeat” scene_position=”center” top_padding=”100″ bottom_padding=”100″ text_color=”light” text_align=”center” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overflow=”visible” id=”introduction” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none” parallax_bg=”true” parallax_bg_speed=”fixed” shape_type=””][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text]\n Because of the 1st<\/sup> Serpent\u2019s diabolical treachery, a fear and loathing of snakes actually transferred over to an ancient aversion to the Letter S, itself. In the World of Words: The Personalities of Language<\/em>, author Gary Jennings writes,[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overflow=”visible” id=”introduction” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none” shape_type=””][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text]\u201cIt is a minor wonder that the letter S is still with us; it and its sibilant siblings in other alphabets have been abhorred by people who perceived in them the shape or sound of the dread serpent or the monogram of the even more dreaded Satan. The Yezedi Arabs won\u2019t pronounce the letter. \u00a0The Hebrew scribes took care not to use it in the opening pages of the Scriptures. The Greek poet Pindar omitted it from his odes. The medieval Romans\u2019 use of the S as their numeral for 7 may have been intended to take the curse off it by linking it with that traditionally \u201clucky\u201d number.\u201d[1]<\/a><\/p>\n In eSoterica by Laurel Airica<\/span>[2]<\/a><\/em><\/strong> \u2014 which I feel safe in claiming to be the \u2018definitive exegesis on the Letter S in verse\u2019 \u2014 I point to an overlooked yet powerful possibility lurking in that fateful byte of Apple:<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=”full_width_background” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” bg_image=”476″ bg_position=”center center” background_image_loading=”default” bg_repeat=”no-repeat” scene_position=”center” top_padding=”100″ bottom_padding=”100″ text_color=”light” text_align=”center” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overflow=”visible” id=”introduction” color_overlay=”#000000″ overlay_strength=”0.8″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none” parallax_bg=”true” parallax_bg_speed=”fixed” shape_type=””][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text]\n From E to Eve to Evil, we\u2019re carried along a serpentine stream of consciousness till we come face-to-face with Original Sin[3]<\/a> \u2014 the ultimate \u2018S\u2019 word. Perhaps so many of us have accepted this concept as an undeniable fact \u2014 even when beholding the innocent beauty of a baby \u2014 because it \u2018rings true\u2019 to our ears.<\/p>\n I actually believe that the concept is sonically correct. It\u2019s just that it has been misspelled for e<\/strong><\/span>ons, literally condemning us to hellish rePercussions.<\/p>\n Original Syn<\/strong><\/span> is our natural state of being\u00a0\u2014 syn<\/strong><\/span>c-ed up with Spirit, syn<\/strong><\/span>thesized from stardust, syn<\/strong><\/span>onymous with Source, syn<\/strong><\/span>ergistic with each other, and syn<\/strong><\/span>chronistic in miraculous encounters when living and loving with that ever-delicious syn<\/strong>c<\/span>-ing feeling.<\/p>\n So a primary purpose of life in a dimension of illusion must surely be to awaken from the dream that we are separate from our Source and from each other. Personally, I find it helpful to remember that \u2014<\/a>[\/vc_column_text][divider line_type=”No Line” custom_height=”50″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=”full_width_background” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” bg_image=”478″ bg_position=”center center” background_image_loading=”default” bg_repeat=”no-repeat” scene_position=”center” top_padding=”100″ bottom_padding=”100″ text_color=”light” text_align=”center” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overflow=”visible” id=”introduction” color_overlay=”#000000″ overlay_strength=”0.8″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none” parallax_bg=”true” parallax_bg_speed=”fixed” shape_type=””][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text]\n And yet, how soon we forget.<\/p>\n The \u2018Sin\u2019 of Forget-Fullness<\/u><\/strong><\/span>[1]<\/a><\/p>\n A few years ago I awoke with the wisp of remembrance of a dream I\u2019d just been having. In it, I was either reading or listening to an advanced English linguist who explained that once we evolve this language to a higher frequency, the children being born won\u2019t have to forget who they are, where they come from, and why they are here.<\/p>\n In its current state, our language \u2018puts a little English\u2019 on our subconscious minds thereby spinning the lens through which we view the whirled. In the mid-15th<\/sup> Century, William Caxton, a writer, printer, merchant, and diplomat, noted that native speakers of English are as if \u2018living under the domination of the Moon.\u2019<\/p>\n Caxton may have been referring to the protean nature of the English tongue with its molten streams of influence flowing from many sources into this single sea\/see of consciousness. But he may as well have been referring to the lunacy that English fosters in our thinking.<\/p>\n I have long thought of this dimension of existence as BackWord Land since so many of our personal and institutional behaviors mirror our higher values in opposition. Then, I read a statement that helped me understand how this came to be:<\/p>\n \u201cWhen the Christians came to power in Britain, anything heathen was automatically bad.\u00a0 Consequently, everything that had a strong meaning to the Anglo-Saxons was reversed 180 degrees. This reversal not only affected the people and their traditions, but also the English language we use today.\u201d[1]<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Perhaps to some degree because of this linguistic twist we are strangers to ourselves. For most of us suffer from the crippling dis-ease of I AM<\/strong>-nesia, the temporary loss of infinitely long-term memory. The Fall from Grace may simply be a spell of forget-fullness \u00be an overlooking of our super-natural capacities in a UniVerse of unlimited possibilities.[\/vc_column_text][divider line_type=”No Line” custom_height=”50″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=”full_width_background” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” bg_image=”484″ bg_position=”center center” background_image_loading=”default” bg_repeat=”no-repeat” scene_position=”center” top_padding=”100″ bottom_padding=”100″ text_color=”light” text_align=”center” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overflow=”visible” id=”introduction” color_overlay=”#000000″ overlay_strength=”0.8″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none” parallax_bg=”true” parallax_bg_speed=”fixed” shape_type=””][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text]\n David Merrick, the 20th<\/sup> Century\u2019s leading Broadway producer of Tony Award-winning plays and musicals, had this to say about what it takes to be #1:<\/p>\n \u201cI compare it to climbing Mt. Everest. It is very difficult. Lives are lost along the way. You struggle and struggle and finally, you get up there. And guess what there is when you get up there? Snow and ice.\u201d[1]<\/a><\/p>\n How ironic it is that the highest peak above see-level that one can aspire to climb \u2014 at risk of life and limb \u2014 is famously known as Mt. Ever Rest. <\/em>It stands in sharp contrast with that icon of rugged individualism \u2014 of get-it-for-yourself-at-whatever-cost-to-everyone-else American Capitalism \u2014 Mt. Rush More<\/em>.<\/p>\n But what is it that we are seeking in all our rushing to get more? Without a doubt, it is the simple Peace of Heart and Mind that comes with a sense of feel-full-ment \u2014 the\u00a0imperturbable equanimity we experience when we know in our bones that we are E<\/strong><\/span>nough.<\/p>\n Not everyone has the stamina or the will to make the endless upward climb to the Eden of Ever Rest. Some who can\u2019t manage it may still seek to sneak a \u2018peek\u2019 experience of that lofty realm through the use of an addictive substance like cocaine, a word with little-known yet highly appropriate echoes from a bygone age:<\/p>\n \u201cCockaigne or Cockayne is a land of plenty in medieval myth, an imaginary place of extreme luxury and ease where physical comforts and pleasures are always immediately at hand and where the harshness of medieval peasant life does not exist.\u201d Wikipedia<\/p>\n \u201cThe term “Cockaigne” comes from the Middle French phrase\u00a0pais de cocaigne,<\/em>\u00a0which literally means “the land of plenty.” The word was first popularized in a 13th-century French poem that is known in English as The Land of Cockaigne<\/em>. According to an early English translation of the work, in Cockaigne \u2018the houses were made of barley sugar cakes, the streets were paved with pastry, and the shops supplied goods for nothing.\u2019 [1]<\/a>\u00a0Merriam-Webster.com<\/p><\/blockquote>\n This description of Cockaigne sounds like some descriptions I\u2019ve heard of the astral plane, which many equate with Heaven \u2014 a word that evokes a sense of peace and tranquility though it is composed primarily of HEAVE, which means \u2018to raise or lift with effort or force.\u2019[2]<\/a> Here again, we find the sound of EVE lurking in the midst of struggle.<\/p>\n Actually, I believe that we are harmonically designed to anchor Heaven on Earth. However, in order to do so, we must first look more closely at how it is we define \u2018success\u2019 so that we are no longer willing to sacrifice everything of value (often including our integrity and family) in order to achieve little more than \u2018snow and ice.\u2019<\/p>\n Here is a different way of understanding what I believe actually constitutes success. It occurred to me in the form of an acronym when I was editing a book on a relevant topic for a client years ago[3]<\/a>:<\/p>\n S.U.C.C.E.S.S.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Serving Universally by Contributing Creatively Give \u2018Er \u2018EL<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n One way to support the evolution of the sacred in society is to redeem poor Eve, the first and foremost Fall Gal, whose name resonates with the sound of EVE-L.<\/a><\/p>\n As a teenager, I surmised that L is the Lord of the AlphaBet[1]<\/a> \u2014 wielding its power to instantly turn the WORD into the WORLD, and to reveal what so many worship as GOD on Earth: GOL<\/sup>D.<\/p>\n It was apparently when EVE put the Word of the Lord behind her that she gave birth to EVE-L in the world.[2]<\/a> Here\u2019s how I see it:<\/a>[\/vc_column_text][divider line_type=”No Line” custom_height=”50″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=”full_width_background” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” bg_image=”408″ bg_position=”center center” background_image_loading=”default” bg_repeat=”no-repeat” scene_position=”center” top_padding=”100″ bottom_padding=”100″ text_color=”light” text_align=”center” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overflow=”visible” id=”introduction” color_overlay=”#000000″ overlay_strength=”0.8″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none” parallax_bg=”true” parallax_bg_speed=”fixed” shape_type=””][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text]\nOpen mOUT<\/span>h and\u00a0insert heart.<\/span><\/h2>\n[\/split_line_heading][divider line_type=”No Line” custom_height=”100″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overflow=”visible” id=”introduction” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none” shape_type=””][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][divider line_type=”No Line” custom_height=”80″][vc_column_text]Here\u2019s how I play the game I call Alphabet Alchemy, which is how I\u2019ve been schooled by my ABC\u2019s:<\/p>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\n\n
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I found it so hard to believe that both Adam and Eve
\nwere so wholly na\u00efve to the Serpent\u2019s Seduction
\nthat without hesitation they fell to temptation
\nwhich was the causation for
\nEden\u2019s Destruction.<\/h3>\nThen, I learned that in Latin a word pronounced \u2018malum\u2019
\nmeans Apple and Evil \u2014 which explained the upheaval:
\nParadise was undone by Original Pun
\nso that Life became PUN<\/strong>ishment
\nrather than Fun!\u00a0[3]<\/span><\/h3>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overflow=”visible” id=”introduction” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none” shape_type=””][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][divider line_type=”No Line” custom_height=”50″][vc_column_text]\nWe fear the S
\nthat slippery Snake
\nwhose cunning caused us to forSake
\nthe Word of God and thus to take
\nthe chance that we might Fall
\n\u2026 aWake!<\/h3>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overflow=”visible” id=”introduction” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none” shape_type=””][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][divider line_type=”No Line” custom_height=”50″][vc_column_text]Guilty or Innocent?<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nThe Apple doesn\u2019t fall far from the Tree
\nas it seeds itself in perpetuity.<\/h3>\nAnd neither do we.<\/h3>\n
There is wisdom at the Core of Us All
\nWe are not the worms we have dreamed ourselves to be.
\nWe are butterflies traveling incognito from our own awareness
\nand the struggles we encounter can empower us to break free.<\/h3>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overflow=”visible” id=”introduction” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none” shape_type=””][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][divider line_type=”No Line” custom_height=”50″][vc_column_text]This brings us next to a new understanding of Original Innocence in its four basic stages and as an evolutionary process:<\/p>\n\n
The
\nultimate BackWord
\nmust surely be DOGMA
\n<\/strong>witch[1]<\/a> mirrors our true nature in reverse:
\nAM GOD<\/strong>.<\/h3>\nSome people
\nmake light of the fact that
\nGOD <\/strong>and DOG <\/strong>are mirrors of each other
\nas if the lowly DOG<\/strong> denigrates
\nthe Word of GOD<\/strong><\/h3>\nBut what better teacher
\nof Unconditional Love is there
\nthan the DOG<\/strong>!<\/h3>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overflow=”visible” id=”introduction” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none” shape_type=””][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][divider line_type=”No Line” custom_height=”50″][vc_column_text]This forgetfulness of who and what we really are fuels the competitive drive that compels many members of the human Race<\/em> to do whatever it takes to gain the greatest influence and affluence in pursuit of a life of E<\/strong><\/span>\u2019s. Thus, the question we must ask ourselves is whether the Prize is worth the Price?<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>to the Evolution of the Sacred in Society<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nIt was E<\/strong>ve\u2019s E<\/strong>go that drove her
\nto e<\/strong>merge-n-see what life was like beyond their static Paradise.
\nThough E<\/strong>den was extremely nice, it clearly wasn\u2019t e<\/strong>nough for her
\nFor Eve<\/strong> wanted to be frEE<\/strong><\/h3>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overflow=”visible” id=”introduction” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none” shape_type=””][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][divider line_type=”No Line” custom_height=”70″][vc_column_text]So, now I see the Genesis myth quite differently: I recognize that E<\/strong><\/span>ve\u2019s e<\/strong><\/span>ager e<\/strong><\/span>ating of the apple\u00a0\u2014 e<\/strong><\/span>ven knowing the divine admonition NO KNOW \u2014 is what transformed the e<\/strong><\/span>cology of the Earth, and incited us e<\/strong><\/span>ach to e<\/strong><\/span>volve.[\/vc_column_text][divider line_type=”No Line” custom_height=”50″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=”full_width_background” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” bg_image=”408″ bg_position=”center center” background_image_loading=”default” bg_repeat=”no-repeat” scene_position=”center” top_padding=”100″ bottom_padding=”100″ text_color=”light” text_align=”center” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overflow=”visible” id=”introduction” color_overlay=”#000000″ overlay_strength=”0.8″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none” parallax_bg=”true” parallax_bg_speed=”fixed” shape_type=””][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text]\nAnd when She\/We