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The Eden myth has been told and taught for centuries in ways that play completely into the hands of Multi Earth thinking. That’s what happens when we make it a story of how we humans individually “fell” from innocence into sin. But that’s NOT what the original storytellers were talking about.

When the Eden story was first being told it was by tellers who anguished as they observed a phenomenon in which fellow humans continued to chose out of the One Earth paradigm. As they watched so many around them put their faith in Multi Earth ways, and believed that doing so meant progress, they shook their heads in dissent.

Many of them had even tried Multi Earth ways for themselves, but had come to see those ways for what they are: highly seductive illusions. They turned from them. They wanted once again to arrange their lives economically and politically in step with One Earth living. They preferred One Earth ways, not because they did not know better or because they didn’t care about being “modern” and up to date, but because they had seen and tasted where Multi Earth thinking goes. They no longer believed it could finally deliver on its promises. It was a forbidden fruit for good reason. Despite its delicious appearance and the first juicy bite, successive bites turn gradually into an unpleasant taste, a bitterness. Today, more than ever, we know the bitterness of having bitten into Multi Earth ways.

Much more about Eden will follow on this blog, but all of us who are inclined to, can start immediately correcting how this story gets told. It’s proven across centuries that it has great mythic power to shape life. It still does. But instead of playing into the worldview of Multi Earthism, we need to tell Eden as its first storytellers did, as the story about the paradigm of One Earth ways and the negative logical consequences of believing Multi Earthism will improve on them.

Are you on board?

Comments

[Dan]

Are there any theologians who have interpreted the Eden story in this way? I understand that our Western Individualistic ideologies have skewed our interpretations as Stendahl as written but placing Eden in the One/Multi Earth stories seems to be another jump. Just asking for some bibliography to support the thesis...look forward to further insights you bring us here...Gracias!

[Lee Van Ham]

Dan, thanks for the request. It's exactly where this blog goes next. I'll be interested to hear your further thoughts as I bring Wes Howard-Brook into the blog next.