The Tree of Life in Genesis Was a Magic Mushroom
Here's the recap: In the first chapters of Genesis, God creates darkness and light, water and land, vegetation, the sun and moon, living creatures, and finally humans. The humans live in a paradise called the Garden of Eden in bliss and harmony with their surroundings. There are two trees in the garden endowed with great, Godly spirit – the Tree of Life and The Tree of Knowledge . God instructs the humans they can eat from anything in the garden except for the Tree of Knowledge saying, “For on the day that you eat it you shall surely die.” Of course, the humans eat from the Tree of Knowledge right away, get kicked out of the garden, and are now doomed to eat bread made from the “sweat of your brow.” This episode has been used to illustrate the consequences of disobedience, the dangers involved in intellectual inquiry, and even the inherent evil of women (since it was the woman who first ate from the Tree of Knowledge ). These are absurd interpretations based on willful m...