Pico de Orizaba

Pico de Orizaba
Taken from Huatusco, Veracruz, the closest town to Margarita's family's ranch.

Tuesday, July 5, 2016

The Garden of Eden, Fall From Grace and Original Sin Revisited...

Today's piece was inspired by what a friend of mine posted on Facebook:


Without Communication, there is no Relationship. Without Respect, there is no Love. Without Trust, there is no reason for continuing...


And I responded:


without trust you have all the reason to exert your violent needs towards others... which for many (it seems) is reason to live... without the boost of adrenaline caused by hate the person feels dead... Lack of trust gives them the illusion of feeling alive... The "other" is a tool for explaining to "us" who we are and who we aren't... It's an illusion for creating socio-political parameters... Like in my in-laws ranch you will occasionally hear "¡No seas indio!" (Don't be like an indian!), although the only thing that separates their community from that of a true indigenous community is having adopted "european/Mexican" cultural traits such as Catholicism, Spanish, European/American dress, Mexican-European eating habits... while the genetic heritage/blood lines remain almost exclusively intact... Margarita's genes can be traced back to the Bering Strait/North America... the region from the North American Arctic to Mexico... no signs of European heritage... But, you will hear family members say, "Don't be an indian!" And if there were an anti-indigenous movement in the mountains of Veracruz, their children would know exactly what side of the line they stood... And if there were anti-campesino (classist) movement, those from the upper-middle classes would ALWAYS know what line Margarita's community fell in...(the side of the indigenous)... Illusions... Communication can be very dangerous in the perpetual era of anti-intellectualism, anti-health-healthfulness... Those who need for people to maintain their positions are concerned about the communication of ideas... progressive ideas... progressive humanitarian ideas... Without communication... we still relate... but we create very dysfunctional relationships... Without respect... you can't love someone (not even yourself)... People believe they are loving while they are disrespecting the other person... Illusions... Without the above, you can't have trust... But for some strange reason we've lived this way for thousands of years and we continue and we keep continuing... and you may wonder how that is possible... I guess we are incredibly resilient... or maybe we have constructed very potent delusions that enable us to deny the truth... so that we can continue within a very harmful and destructive situation...

And he responded:


Yes, unfortunately we have been indoctrinated to be european and conform to the culture of the colonialist. Which perpetuates internalized racisim when saying such as "don't be so indian" is stated. Respect for self is lost when such words are spoken and even acted upon, at a conscious and subconscious level. Open communication allows us to break down those barriers. It starts with words then actions, vice versa. When the channels are open, higher levels of trust is created. But this stretches beyond culture and race, too; gender, identities, classes, etc. are also examples. At every segment/division, there is a history of violence where these divisions were created and oppression persists. To communciate about these systems bestowed upon us is a step towards decolonizing our world and making it a place for all of us to live harmoniously.

And I responded:

What I've found, especially here in Mexico, open communication is frowned upon... As Margarita and many others say, "we were told: 've, escucha y caya'"... "Watch, Listen and Keep Your Mouth Shut"... the equivalent of "See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil"... I agree with you; interpersonal/social health begins with open communication... The problem is that most people aren't supportive of open communication if that communication conflicts with the accepted ideas of their "community"... I just saw a publishing that in the Mexican State of Hidalgo a Jehova's Witness group destroyed 6 or 8 alters around a pyramid in an Otomi indigenous archeological site... Their reasoning behind their destructive behavior is that the religion was practing devil worship... The history of human civilization is divide and subdivide... "Divide and conquer"? Back in 1992, when I was about to transfer from my community college to Hampshire College where I got my BA degree, I believed that the story of the "Garden of Eden" and the "fall from grace" of Adam and Eve was the history of the development of modern written language... when you could make one person's negative experience the experience of thousands or millions... That summer I had stumbled across 3 rattlers on the Appalachian Trail in North Jersey... I don't know who was more frightened... You don't see them first... You hear them first... and when the noise stops creating white blindness in the center of your head, and you can locate the rattlesnake, you realize that he or she is moving away from your path as quickly as possible... That summer I also saw a group of people stoning a snake they had stumbled across... What you've gotta understand is that I must have almost stepped on the 3 rattlers that were probably sunning themselves or crossing the trail I was passing through at a very rapid pace... Not once did they try and bite me... But, the third time when I was with a friend of mine, we tried following the rattler... I don't know if someone had a camera... The rattler was slinking away the best they could. But when it noticed that we were becoming dangerously close, he/she stopped and coiled, with their head protected in the center of the coil, but prepared to lunge IF WE ATTACKED...

The fall from Eden is the history of being able to circulate exagerations and lies at extremely rapid rates... It is the history of causing people to lose their ability of distinguishing the difference between what is artificial/synthetic/false with what is real...

Exactly 24 years have passed since I stumbled across those 3 rattlesnakes... My understanding of human civilization, human history, human nature has evolved immensely... so much studying, reading and living within various societies... And I see the "garden of Eden" and the "Fall from Grace" as a history of human overpopulation... after the Ice Age... when communities were forced to inhabit the lands of others... in order for survival... And in order for surviving, the communities "invaded" had to protect their families, their children... from starvation... And the communities forced to move and find new sources of sustanence in order to protect their families and their children from starvation probably began with peaceful communication and then found that they must fight to feed their children or fight to defend themselves from being destroyed by the healthier/stronger communities entrenched in the more fertile land... Since all imposters, interlopers are considered risks, enemies... And it doesn't matter what is the truth behind their migration and asking for assistance... No one wants to give what they may need tomorrow... No one wants to be in the shoes of the other... So, they first ignore the other... And then they exaggerate and maybe lie to their children about the other's "ways"... "Don't be an Indian!"...

In the end, the "Garden of Eden" is a horrendous tool for turning religion on its head and removing all inherent powers that women have... It was the master move in removing the Earth Goddess from religion... You've gotta understand the evolution from hunting-gathering society to agricultural society... They could have existed together, if the human population didn't increase so rapidly... So, there isn't an "if/then"... The reason for the Earth Goddess was because humans appeared from the body of women... The process is long enough and the changes sufficiently apparent that no one would deny the special "powers" of the woman... that the men don't have... And then the women invented farming or agriculture... The last step for a man who so greatly desired to be as important and powerful as his hunting/waring/killing body and could never find himself more important than the woman who gave birth to ALL men and mankind... and now creates food from the Earth...

So, you have the history of Adam and Eve; Eve being created from the rib of Adam... meaning that Eve was actually born from Adam... And you have the snake with the forbidden fruit... the original sin... of Eve eating what she was told not to eat... In reality the Snake is Adam's Penis and the forbidden fruit is sexual desire... But, how can you procreate without sexual desire? Incredibly obsurd... You would think that humans being such intelligent beings, many people would have realized that the story and "original sin" is incredibly anti-natural, obsurd... 

But, back to the "fall from Grace": All blame is upon the weaker/lesser Eve (Woman)... Ever since Adam and Eve were expelled from the Garden of Eden, woman are perpetually blamed for all of Man's problems... they must be controlled, since they tend towards whims and uncontrolled cravings and uncontrolled desires... Witchhunts were predominantly hunting women... Men aren't witches... They are warlocks... They are alchemists... So, Eve's lack of control and her cravings, her sexual desires must be controlled until the end of time... And God created his son by placing his semen in Mary, when she was unconscious (unconscious of what was occuring)... And now you have the womanless trinity of The Father, The Son and the Holy Ghost... And they rule the modern spiritual world... And Mary? Later on they elevate her to a slightly higher level, but still confuse her with the other Mary, who is a prostitute... Why did the Mother and the Lover have the same name? In fact, supposedly there is a third Mary... But, Mary never becomes part of the Trinity, removing the Holy Ghost... In Latin America the Relics of Mary, like the Virgin of Guadalupe have gained saint-like status... But, Mary is never the Wife of God, although she is the mother of Jesus... However, she is just a vessel for God's needs... She was just used as an incubator... The creation of Jesus was not based upon love... And here we can jump back to the original posting of yours... But, maybe we shouldn't...

The problem is that of "the fall of mankind" and such negativity and destructivity... "Without respect, there isn't love... Without trust there is no reason to continue"... Without love and respect there isn't trust.... hence there isn't reason for continuing... Imagine: around 1,700 years of a religious movement that is built upon a lack of respect for women and the mother and wife... That removes respect and trust from 50% of the community... meaning that the community and the 1,700 years of Christian Religious hegemony is 1,700 years of removing true love from the equation of procreation... Imagine that... But, the problem began well before even Judaism and cercainly before the developement of Hinduism and Bhuddism...

Did you know that some indigenous tribes in either South America or the South Pacific created a puberty ritual where the male elders or the fathers and uncles of pubescent boys cut their penises in order for bleeding them... Why? To show that not only vaginas bleed... And that during the menstruation week, just as is found in with Orthodox Jews and Orthodox Protestants such as the Amish/Mennonites, the women are considered dirty and must be kept at a great distance from the men... So, why bleed the boys... if menstruation is considered dirty or contaminating? Because at first the men are in awe of what occurs with and within the woman's body... But then, when it becomes convenient for the man, he turns that same power and amazing process and difference of the woman against her...

In Margarita's ranch I've frequently heard men call their wives "breeders", "cows", "hens"... And what does that make the men? The comments are for learning... for everyone to learn their positions...

The puberty rites penis bleeding is performed by Muslims when the men become 21-years-old if I'm correct... It's called circumcision... Supposedly 90% of Africa performs Female Circumcision to remove the woman's clitoris, so that she will not desire sex... with others... Absolutely NOT related to the Judeo/Christian "Garden of Eden" and the "Fall from Grace"... Not related to Muslim male circumcisions (the Jews circumcize their sons a few days or weeks after birth: not a puberty ritual)... The case is that the "Garden of Eden" predates Judeo/Christianity and the bibles... But the Old Testament was one of the first written and "published" documents... Oral Histories passed down within the tribes finally placed together as a "Testament"... It seems to me that the Fall from Grace is a socio-political watershed in human history of civilization.... An anti-female movement to give men the first and last word in EVERYTHING... Turning human society on its head and beginning EVERYTHING with a negative, The Original Sin... And "they" believe that a symbolic ritual (Baptism) that predates Christianity can cleanse the society of its "impurities" and sins... You can't right a society that blatantly disrespects women at the deepest levels and maintains them in "subjectivity" and "silence"... In order for the human communities to be healthy, they must stop blatantly lying about women... and stop teaching all of the children that males are more important than females... This is about communication, respect and love... The original sin is that all humans are born through the birth canal of a person profoundly and historically disrespected and disparaged... The babies grow up to learn to no longer love their mothers... And the babies grow up to become women who learn to not truly love or respect themselves... meaning that they will not truly know how to respect or love others... Which leaves us constantly battling against someone who shouldn't be our enemy... And that battles are based upon misunderstandings caused by poor communication "skills" and lack of respect or the lack of the desire for respecting the other... The Fall from Grace of the fall from The Garden of Eden or the original sin...

But, with all of this we still continue continuing...