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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...

Woolgathering

The Woolgatherers This is a salute to all who wander aimlessly – walking alone or in small groups, recording streams of consciousness, incoherent ramblings, out-of-head ravings, and incessant thoughts demanding expression. You and I have never met, but we are part of a merry band driven not to manufacture but to experience; seeking not fortune but immersion in the present moment; not pursuing the monetization of truth; unconcerned by our culture’s distaste for the unproductive. Woolgathering is an expression that arose in the 16 th  Century, meaning, “Indulging in wandering fancies and purposeless thinking,” from the literal meaning, “Gathering fragments of wool torn from sheep by bushes, etc.,” which is an activity that requires much wandering to little purpose. If this is your daily occupation, then you just might be a woolgatherer too.   Never define yourself in opposition to what you hate.   If you lay completely still, the landscape moves not at all, but the skyscape...