Kicked into the Garden

That's a point I like from Jetha and Ryan. In essence, the garden is an ordered place where weeds are killed and only the prettiest and only the most desirable plants grow in neat rows. So it makes more sense to say that Adam and Eve were kicked into the garden, where "the curse suffered by Adam and Eve centers around the exchange of the arguable low-stress, high-pleasure life of foragers (or bonobos) for the dawn-to-dusk toil of a farmer in his garden" (page 82).

As sex became shameful and food became something that must be worked for, I'm seeing that the standard food, water and shelter argument as the basic human needs actually could be fixed a little. It seems what we really need are food and sex. Water comes naturally, shelter grows on trees. We've been domesticated by our own designed society, "agriculture, one might say, has involved the domestication of the human being as much as of any plant or other animal" (page 83).

We've been told that this move to agriculture is best for the common good, but it's also the worst for the individual. We've got these behemoth manifested gestalt phenomena, from religious groups to corporations, that don't benefit the human but are sustained by it though misinformation and simply taking advantage of people who don't or can't understand.

One thing I've been thinking on recently is the an idea of Gerald O'Donnell's in which he mentions that the earth has a specific shape that is in resonance with the grand vibration of the universe. Every plant, puddle and rock is placed somewhere specific to raise the vibration of the earth to higher planes. So when we human clear a spot and plant monoculture, it's like sticking some gum on a cymbal- it messes up the whole vibration. The earth is self-directing and self-healing, though, so weeds inevitably sprout in all monocultures as the earth's vibration starts to overcome the dissonant spots.

This is relatable to our suppression of the human's natural state. Our bodies have the highest frequencies when they are tuned to certain resonant states. These states not only involve physical structure, but also the mental and emotional. So betraying our base needs is not unlike monoculture, the weeds will always grow because it's well beyond our abilities to suppress them.