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@ RedTailHawk
2025-04-28 20:24:48
Interesting narrative. Have you checked out the video in my NOSTR profile, Episode 074 of the Illegitimate Scholar podcast?
It's long, but hard hitting. If you duplicate my research, you'll have a much clearer view of my perspective, but that 3 hour show is a really big bite.
My current perspective is that Adam and Eve occurred approximately 75,000 years ago and had to do with the first proto-humans to achieve the spiritual accomplishment of "self-awareness".
The serpent is there to symbolize the activation of a chakra. In this case, the spiritual accomplishment of self-awareness is associated with the activation of the solarplexus chakra. On Earth, animals other than humans are born not self-aware but can become self aware while animals at which point, when they die, they reincarnate as "first round humans" with the root, sacral, and solarplexus chakras activated.
Lucifer's role in the Garden was catalyzing this chakra activation because Earth was struggling to develop any species with self-awareness. All animals in "paradise" were essentially NPC bots running instinctual sub-routines. This was not desirable by the very purpose of existence itself: creation. We want creation to arise as it is interesting and entertaining. God diasporated into the universe and occupies each of us with consciousness in order to experience limited, finite perspective, because omniscience is boring after like 2 seconds.
It is common for us to do the same thing to animals today. Often times we remark that a puppy in training has "imprinted" upon his/her trainer. The puppy, as a result of being given a name, and plenty of choices along with a reward system for making the desired choices, develops a sense of self. It also helps that the puppy realizes that it has its own food and water bowls, its own places to sleep, etc. All of this develops a sense that the puppy is a self. When the solarplexus chakra activates, the puppy experiences "spirit" for the first time. I suspect it might be like experiencing pins and needles or chills for the first time but throughout the nervous system and in a pleasant way. The puppy attributes this pleasant feeling to the human who was training them and becomes attached to that human as a result.
It makes sense to me that self-awareness is a prerequisite to making a choice to polarize towards service to others (good) or service to the self (evil). Note that service to others orientation is not exclusive of self-service. Some amount of self-service is baked in as we must all satisfy the demands of our biological vulnerabilities.
My basis for this perspective can be supported by science in a number of ways. I lay a lot of that out in the episode I mentioned.
Like you, I'm appreciative of food for thought and I often glean valuable insights from people with whom I do not agree on many things so I remain pretty open. Thank you for the rec and for reading this wall of text if you got this far lol.