Eve and the snake. The image fascinates me, not because I'm interested in the Fall of Man or sin or temptaion, but because a woman being entranced by a snake into eating an apple from the Tree of Knowledge which her father bid her stay away from, for me is mesmerizing. It's so poetic. She can't help it, the snake made her do it...but how? With it's eyes, with it's mouth? Or with the unseen. That's what gets me, the unseen. She's captivated by what she sees, but she doesn't see a snake, or even an apple...she sees what can't be seen and yet what was shown to her, and the snake bid her to eat of the apple so that she could continue to see.
Did it work? Do we see? Well, we have come a long way from the Garden of Eden. My question to my readers: have you ever seen anything that can't be seen? Heard anything that can't be heard? Experienced something that doesn't fit into the world as we know it? I'd like to hear about it.
Did it work? Do we see? Well, we have come a long way from the Garden of Eden. My question to my readers: have you ever seen anything that can't be seen? Heard anything that can't be heard? Experienced something that doesn't fit into the world as we know it? I'd like to hear about it.
posted by TK at 11:01 AM
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The snake made her do it? You ever notice how when you learn a new word, you suddenly hear it used two or three times in the course of a day? Or you watch a movie with a particular actor/actress, and then you start saying another person looks like that actress? What child doesn't want to test the boundaries or his/her parent or maker? It happened to be a snake, but I bet it could just as well have been a walrus. The trouble was laid with the initial "stay away from this tree."
I experience that which can't be seen often, about as much as that which can be seen. I find that navigating through life involves climbing across a net made of strings of the seen crossed by strings of the unseen...together they are very supportive! When they're not woven together, I think we tend to fall through.
The lead character in Umberto Eco's "the name of the rose" talks about the value of reason when one leaves reason for the illogical and then returns to reason.
Wow, for a second I thought I'd managed to attract an esoteric thinker from Italy until I put 2 and 2 together...are you my long lost sister??? Anyway, sister or mysterious Italian, or both- I see your point. "Unseen, dangerous can be, if not reflected in seen, is" -Jedi master Yoda, Star Wars Chapter VII
Hi Hobo! Well, if it had been a walrus and the walrus had convinced her to eat some seaweed which her father had forbidden her to eat, where do you think we would have ended up then?
Here?
nah...I don't think so,- I think symbols do have inherent values, archetypes. I think it had to be a snake!
I figured you'd put two and two together! This is fun :)
Love,
Me
And that is a cool Yoda quote :)
This is all well and good, but when do we get a new post?
Your secret admirer.
Awwwwwwwww!
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