Lot there, there and enjoyed how you wrapped all this up. I agree with the tat tvam asi of hinduism and reject the escatological fall and return and redemption non-sense. But that makes a good plot and story and so holds dear to our hearts, this story of a kind of revenge and making everything well and good again. Funny while reading this, I kept thinking of Blake - will have to return to his writing (and painting and etching). Essentially Blake sought to slay morality the death child of reason and create liberation through unity with the spirit of all. But essentially, we arrive at a point that we know zip all. We are leaves in a cold stream propelled along, dreaming of the tree.
Thanks, David, for coming here and sharing your thoughts. Yes, I see Bible stories and myths and parables as good stories as you say, we hold dear to our hearts because of the deeper, spiritual truths they reveal. I see "thou art that" as well as the Christian redemption stories as returning to a Godhead of sorts, to the place we all came from, whether we envision that as the breaking down of our bodies as we re-enter Mother Earth, nourishing a new indwelling creation, or see it as a journey toward enlightenment, toward that vast emptiness, vastly full, and feeling at home within that bodiless, egoless space. We might well be leaves in a cold stream dreaming of the tree (an wonderful image BTW), but even leaves will arrive somewhere at last, and in all likelihood become the compost from which another incarnation of that tree from which we fell will arise.
Lot there, there and enjoyed how you wrapped all this up. I agree with the tat tvam asi of hinduism and reject the escatological fall and return and redemption non-sense. But that makes a good plot and story and so holds dear to our hearts, this story of a kind of revenge and making everything well and good again. Funny while reading this, I kept thinking of Blake - will have to return to his writing (and painting and etching). Essentially Blake sought to slay morality the death child of reason and create liberation through unity with the spirit of all. But essentially, we arrive at a point that we know zip all. We are leaves in a cold stream propelled along, dreaming of the tree.
Thanks, David, for coming here and sharing your thoughts. Yes, I see Bible stories and myths and parables as good stories as you say, we hold dear to our hearts because of the deeper, spiritual truths they reveal. I see "thou art that" as well as the Christian redemption stories as returning to a Godhead of sorts, to the place we all came from, whether we envision that as the breaking down of our bodies as we re-enter Mother Earth, nourishing a new indwelling creation, or see it as a journey toward enlightenment, toward that vast emptiness, vastly full, and feeling at home within that bodiless, egoless space. We might well be leaves in a cold stream dreaming of the tree (an wonderful image BTW), but even leaves will arrive somewhere at last, and in all likelihood become the compost from which another incarnation of that tree from which we fell will arise.