God created humans in God’s image: male and female
God is both masculine and feminine energy
but once the male and female separated into separate forms
the fall began from perfection into duality
which was further exasperated by the discovery of good and evil
and the subsequent banishment from Paradise
where God walked with humans in the Garden
the disconnection of humans from the Cosmos
continued with Martin Luther the Protestant reformer
whose doctrine of “sola scriptura” – “only scripture”
as the revelation of God – banished Nature as the first Bible
and resulted in extreme anthropocentrism –
humans as the center of everything
thus divorcing salvation from anything to do with Nature
modern society has further exasperated things
by teaching individualism: your body belongs only to you
not also to God and others
so you can do whatever you want with your body –
“George W. Bush get off my bush” –
but according to Buddhist emptiness/no-self/interbeing theory
your body belongs to your parents/ancestors/every living being –
your body is not only your own – you belong to the human race
and belonging to a group is essential to our inner growth and maturity –
it breaks us out of individualism/self-centeredness
but this requires true humility: journeying into the darkness
of oneself/others/divinity
and always a strain remains between the “Via Positiva” –
the Cosmos as glorious – and the “Via Negativa” – life as hard/suffering
always conflict remains between love and sacrifice
the Caduceus – the Staff of Hermes
in Greek/Roman/Egyptian mythology –
the staff born by heralds/messengers/gods
with two serpents twined around it and topped by wings
symbolizes healing by the medical/pharmaceutical professions –
the rod represents the spinal cord
where the serpents cross represents the seven chakras
the serpents represent the solar and lunar/
masculine and feminine energies
that come together in each chakra
and heal all our divisions.
Intelligent Christian Spirituality 
Mr. Tallman, there are several critical errors with your post, which further undermines whatever Christian message you claim to convey. From your butchering of Genesis 1-2, to a false salvation, this entire article is not Christian.
Starting with Genesis, we see in Genesis 1:27-31 that God made male and female, and “it was very good.” Similarly, in Genesis 2:18, God says it is not good for man to be alone. To remedy this, God creates woman in Genesis 2:21-22, gives her to Adam, Adam names her, and the institute of marriage is created as the chapter ends.
You have previously argued that dualism is sin, and that dividing things is the root of evil. Does that mean that God sinned when He created a man, and then a woman? Did God create dualism just to sate the loneliness of His creation? Does that suggest God will do sinful things, or things contrary to His will, just to make people happy?
These are critical questions, since on one hand, you say that the Fall started when man and woman were separated into unique forms, with other things merely exasperating this sin, while the Bible says that it is good that men and women were made as distinct, complementary creatures, and that human sin entered the world through the eating of the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge.
Again, on the topic of Scripture, I noticed you made a jab at Sola Scriptura and Luther. Putting aside the political nature of the Reformation, let’s hone in on the importance of Scripture. Is Scripture the inerrant word of God, able to complete the man of God for all good works, as 2 Timothy 3:16-17 says? I can appreciate still valuing church tradition, or experience, or observation of nature, but the written Bible is the best way to understand what God has spoken to us.
If the written Word is indeed enough to be saved and to know God’s plan, is it wrong that some people hold to it as truth and process everything else through it? Truly, looking out at nature can tell you there is a Creator, but only the Bible can tell you who that Creator is, and what He has ordained. The Athenians knew about an unknown God, and there was a saying by a poet that men were the offspring of the gods, but it took Paul’s faithful preaching of the Word to those in the Areopagus to reveal God and remove their ignorance (Acts 17). Thus, Scripture must be used to understand God and His nature, and His relationship with us, lest we fall into untruths and delusions.
When we don’t follow Scripture, we run the risk of tarnishing or abandoning the Gospel and we lose what it means to be Christian. This brings us to the salvation issue. You use Genesis 1-3 to diagnose what is wrong with the world (creation of man and woman, the fall into sin, and the expulsion from the garden), but you do not talk about any biblical salvation. What do you reference in turn? Buddha, chakras, the skies, energies, and pagan iconography.
The Bible is very clear that only one thing will save us from our sin (sin is not division, it is anything that is in contradiction to the total holiness and purity of God), bring wholeness, and heal our divisions. That salvation is through Jesus Christ, the second Adam, who died to atone for our sins, rose to defeat death, and was triumphant to reunite us with God. How are we united with Christ?
“But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God, who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.” – John 1:12-13, ESV.
When we receive Christ, confess our sins, believe with our hearts and confess with our mouths, we are saved. Not by our own will, not by works, not by heritage or any other human merit, but by the grace of God.
Your false gospel centres on a confusing admixture of eastern theology and western paganism, with a thin Christian veneer. It is very much a works-based salvation in which you must do all these things to appreciate the divinity in others and so forth. You fail to address sin, or Christ alone as salvation. You run a spirituality blog, but it is not Christian, and certainly not intelligent Christian discourse, when it fails even the Genesis 1 test. You should repent, and if you do not, stop marketing this blog as a Christian one.
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