Self image, before the fateful chomp, Adam had one and afterwards he had a different one. His self image changed drastically that day.

Before, Adam’s self image was based on unity, connection to what existed - truth. Adam knew who he was and his self image reflected reality. The Adam that Adam knew in his mind was the real Adam.

After, there was a different Adam, an impostor. The impostor Adam was a fantasy that existed only in Adam’s mind. The impostor Adam’s self image was based on duality, separation, and evil (what is NOT). The impostor Adam was the NOT-Adam. The impostor Adam didn’t really exist, he was only an illusion (NON-EXISTANT).

There’s something else that doesn’t exist - death. Death is NOT life. Death is NON-EXISTANCE. The day he ate the fruit Adam became NON-EXISTANCE. Adam died just as God said.

 

Genesis 2:17 (ESV)
¹⁷ but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.”

 

This my friend has to be one of the most missed and misunderstood concepts in the whole entire Bible.

The spiritual pathway, the narrow road, the way, the truth, and the life, is moving in our minds from WHAT IS NOT (death) to WHAT IS (life). It’s moving from our fantasy self image, from the impostor to the real one. It’s moving from duality and separation back to unity and connection.

We can spend our lives feeding the fantasy, desiring to make our fantasy reality, walking the dead man. This of course ends in death. It has to because it begins in death and it leaves a trail of destruction, pain, misery, and ugliness.

The Bible speaks of being born again. This is the point when somehow God reignites the spark. He causes in us a desire to stop walking the dead man and start being the man that is real. Please notice that this can be stated as a double negative: NOT being the NOT-man. It’s a process though and it doesn’t come easy. The dead man doesn’t give up without a fight but the fight is worth it because it ends in life, in reality, in connection, in oneness with God and all things.

Think deeply about these things.

 

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