The story of the forbidden fruit is known far beyond Sunday church sermons. Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden, tempted by the serpent to eat the forbidden fruit, has been immortalised in art and music, referenced in literature, and used as a trope in mass media and mainstream culture in the Western Christian world that I know -- and surely far beyond that. What I have learned as an adult of the historic significance of this story and the profound impact it has had on the psyche shine a different light on the scenes and the dramatic "moral" of the story taught to me as a child. There are several ways to interpret the story that can help us to re-position the messages in our collective understanding: the literal meaning, taken as the word of God and religious doctrine; the symbolic meaning of the images; and the historic-mythological meaning of what the story represents in the evolution of human consciousness. * Interpretation 1: Literal The first chapters of the b
Documenting a thought experiment. Reflections and reviews where inspiration and insight strike. With an inclination towards food systems, ecology, spirituality - and their interconnections. The author is Alexandra Toledo, food systems activist and thinker with roots in the US Midwest, heart in Peru and feet touching the ground in Valencia, Spain.