| T3:17.2 | The biblical story of Adam and Eve that has them eating from the tree of knowledge was an illustration of the effects of this observation and the judgment that sprang from it. The Self “fell” from unity through this judgment of what it observed as being other than itself, through this beginning of making distinctions between the Self and all other things in creation that existed with the Self. This is why the story of creation includes the naming of creatures. It was the beginning of perception and of the idea that what was observable was “other than” he who did the observing. Now your science is proving to you the relationship between the observer and the observed, the effect that one cannot help but have upon the other. Science still has a long way to go in determining, through its processes, what this says about the nature of humankind but it is closer every day to understanding the unity and interconnectedness of all things. |