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.
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