05-02-2012, 07:47 AM
I haven't read all the posts on this thread but if i may approach this issue completely objectively;
The act of eating the fruit is what gave humans the knowledge of 'good and evil' and this would have accelerated their evolutionary/spiritual growth by the implementation of the ability to differentiate between the two thus consciously making a decision (freewill). The first thing they did after eating the fruit was clothe themselves as they were aware they were naked (self concious, self aware, 3rd density). This differentiation can be seen as the emergence of the ego and the beginning of 3rd density experience which is apparently dictated by duality (this constant contrast between one thing and another eg. myself and the world, good and evil) i realise i may be waffling but the point i'm trying to make is;
The fruit did not have to have any sort of magical properties, it was the fact that Adam and Eve were told not to eat it that gave it it's power (everything else seems entirely permissible at that point in the bible) the option of freewill was theirs to choose in this interesting setup and once they made a decision they began to see themselves as separate from god (as they could now differentiate themselves from the world due to the emergence of heightened self awareness) as they had 'sinned' thus the 'fall of man'.
As a side note it would be interesting if the fruit really was a mushroom with psychotropic properties, the mana that god gives The Jews in the desert in exodus sounds extremely like psilocybe cubensis (Terence Mckenna was the man!).
The act of eating the fruit is what gave humans the knowledge of 'good and evil' and this would have accelerated their evolutionary/spiritual growth by the implementation of the ability to differentiate between the two thus consciously making a decision (freewill). The first thing they did after eating the fruit was clothe themselves as they were aware they were naked (self concious, self aware, 3rd density). This differentiation can be seen as the emergence of the ego and the beginning of 3rd density experience which is apparently dictated by duality (this constant contrast between one thing and another eg. myself and the world, good and evil) i realise i may be waffling but the point i'm trying to make is;
The fruit did not have to have any sort of magical properties, it was the fact that Adam and Eve were told not to eat it that gave it it's power (everything else seems entirely permissible at that point in the bible) the option of freewill was theirs to choose in this interesting setup and once they made a decision they began to see themselves as separate from god (as they could now differentiate themselves from the world due to the emergence of heightened self awareness) as they had 'sinned' thus the 'fall of man'.
As a side note it would be interesting if the fruit really was a mushroom with psychotropic properties, the mana that god gives The Jews in the desert in exodus sounds extremely like psilocybe cubensis (Terence Mckenna was the man!).
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