The Eden Experiment: Aliens, Archons & the Associative Universe
Reprint of an article originally published in New Dawn Magazine #110, expanded and revised with original illustrations. A fascinating survey of alternative human origins theories and their links to Gnostic mythology!
The Lord of the Garden
“CAMPBELL: The serpent, who dies and is resurrected, shedding its skin and renewing its life, is the lord of the central tree, where time and etemity come together. He is the primary god, actually, in the Garden of Eden. Yahweh, the one who walks there in the cool of the evening, is just a visitor. [...]
Key Concepts
Cognitive frames of reference informing the design and purpose of this web site:
Antinomianism – taboo-breaking as a means to wisdom, e.g., the “transgression” of Georges Bataille, Ikkyu , the “left hand” or “short path” of Tantra and Vamamarga.
Animism – the underlying assumption of indigenous shamanism is that everything is alive and capable of communication: rocks, [...]
How God created evil
God created Adam 6th day. He took a day off and looked at Eden, and found Adam was jerking off all day. Since God was not wise enough to create Evil yet, he couldn't kick him out of Eden. Instead he decided to give him a mate. He ripped off Adam's limb and Created [...]
Consciousness
"The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness." – Max Eastman
"…Lucifer the bringer of light in the shape of the serpent of paradise, and Adam, the symbolic first man, [both] suffer for the sake of consciousness." – Edward Whitmont, The Alchemy of Healing, quoted by Larry Dossey M.D. in Be [...]
Monkeys
"Taken in its deepest sense, the shadow is the invisible saurian tail that man still drags behind him. Carefully amputated, it becomes the healing serpent of the mysteries. Only monkeys parade with it." – Carl Jung, Psychological Reflections, 243, 1953
"He who undertakes to guide men must never lose sight of the fact [...]
Laughter of God
"He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh." – The Koran
"Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God." – Karl Barth
"I have never made but one prayer to God , a very short one: "O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous." And God granted it." – Voltaire
"I [...]
Paradise
"Paradise is not a place, but a state of consciousness." – Sri Chimnoy
"Paradise is exactly like where you are right now… only much, much better." – Laurie Anderson
"Where the tree of knowledge stands, there is always Paradise' : thus speak the oldest and the youngest serpents." – Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and [...]
Recycling
"… the Great Serpent holding its own tail in its mouth, the dreaming Serpent which surrounds the World… the Serpent that announces, 'The World is a closed thing, cyclical, resonant, eternally-returning'…" – Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow, 412
"EDIBLE, adj. Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as worm to a toad, a toad [...]
Science
"There is reality behind the world as it appears to us, possibly a many-layered reality, of which the appearances are the outermost layers. What the great scientist does is boldly to guess, daringly to conjecture, what these inner realities are like. This is akin to myth making." – Karl Popper
"I would not [...]
