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Entries in East of Eden (2)

Sunday
Sep162012

A Divine Tattoo Warns Us against Cain's Multi Earth Worldview

This blog has reinterpreted the millennia-old Cain-Abel myth because, like John Steinbeck in East of Eden, I see it as a compelling myth opposing Multi Earth powers and as a guide for One Earthers to strongly encounter and resist our contemporary situation.

That guidance emphasizes that our resistance to Multi Earthism can best happen without vengeance. Look at the myth again. Cain went from feeling superior to Abel to feeling a victim, fearing that he could be murdered himself. But Yahweh intervened to prevent the notion that One Earthers should rise up against Multi Earthers in revenge. Cain was given a mark, a divine tattoo, if you will. The divine mark on Cain, and therefore the Multi Earths story, is not like the mark on a tree designated to be cut down. The divine mark is not intended to make the Multi Earth story an easier mark for One Earthers to destroy.

The divine tatoo is intended to show us what not to follow. The better we learn the Multi Earth worldview and its mutant traits, the better we know what to look for. When we see the marks of the Multi Earth economy, then, no matter how they may be trying to lure us, we see the tatoo. It warns us, “Stay away if you deeply care for people, planet, and species.” With that kind of consciousness, we are more likely to invoke our greater capacities and choose Abel’s One Earth ways.

Cain’s ways are, after all, not the only way to live. Nor is east of Eden the only place. Choosing Abel’s worldview will empower us to bring a contemporary One Earth version of his offering which Yahweh, the Creator, found pleasing. We CAN offer such to the world, and without vengeance toward Multi Earthers. The divine tattoo tells us to spare the energy that goes into vengeance and use it to strengthen One Earth living.

Thursday
Aug022012

Earth, the Whistleblower on Cain and Multi-Earthers

(This blog entry continues the Cain and Abel story from the previous entry.)

Like many a murderer, when Cain was confronted about the one he’d killed, he denied knowing where the dead person was. Ironically, the very ground which Cain tilled became the whistleblower on his actions. YHWH appealed to Cain, “Listen; your brother’s blood is crying out to me from the ground! And now you are cursed from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand. When you till the ground, it will no longer yield to you its strength; you will be a fugitive and a wanderer on Earth.” 

These were heavy words for Cain to hear, a greater punishment, he said, than he could bear. The soil, foundational to the life choices he’d made, would not yield at full strength for him.

But the consequences of his murder went much further.

  • His relationship with YHWH would be less immediate and personal.
  • He would be less settled on the land than he desired to be.
  • He felt threatened by others — especially herders, hunters, and gatherers — fearful that they would want revenge. 

YHWH, not wanting to see reprisal for Abel’s murder, put a mark on Cain to send a clear signal that violence by herders and hunters against agriculturalists could not make things right – not for Abel, not for anyone. In this way, YHWH rejected the notion that one act of violence could be made right by committing another.

Despite this clear rejection of redemptive violence by YHWH, Multi Earthers continue to espouse it to this day. Military reprisals and war continue to be chosen as a primary way to end conflicts and bring peace. Cain, having received his divine mark, went away from the presence of YHWH and settled in the land of Nod, east of Eden.

I’d like to see your comments on two questions:

  1. What is your experience of how Multi Earth ways repeatedly kill One Earthers and their practices?
  2. In your experience how is Earth now whistleblowing Multi Earth’s denial of responsibility for murder of One practices?