A Metaphorical Interpretation of the Tree of Good and Evil

I originally posted this in Palmtreegarden ages ago, and think it's worth posting here
http://www.palmtreegarden.org/forum/viewtopic.php?id=672


One interpretation, which can co-exist with many others and even relate dynamically

The Tree is the Human Brain, which looks like a tree is you imagine a trunk underneath it. The Fruit is the fruit of evolution of the human mind, and obviously perhaps the fruit of psychopharmacological transformation.

Adam and Eve are the Left Brain and the Right Brain. The Intellect and the Emotive. The Apollinian and the Dionysian (Friedrich Nietzsche, "The Birth of Tragedy", Camille Paglia "Sexual Personae"). When Hominids ate the fruit of the Tree, when they gained real consciousness, they were no longer "immortal" like the animals, who to varying degrees had no conception of 'death'.

Yaldabaoth is the rebuke of (blind and dark) biological nature, of the Will to Power itself against the human mind, besieging it and demanding that order be returned, that blindness be acheived once more.

The trunk of the Tree is the Reptilian Brain, and the branches, the leaves- all of this is the evolving mammalian parts of the homo sapien brain.

The female principle reaches out in the spirit inside of it which is to reach out to all, to embrace, and this spirit becomes most free and aware of itself in the homo sapien female.

The Archons of the Male Principle are true to the Male Specialty-Order. Autism is called the "Male Illness" and it is not an exaggeration. The "Sin" of Eve is to be what she is, and the Male Archons seek to restore a sense of Apollonian Order. The potential for women to be (possibly dangerous) violent upwellings of the Dionysian can be seen in activities of the ancient Greek Bacchantes.


That which is most noble in our Reptile Brain, and which is most noble in our pre-mammalian ancestors (perhaps even from beyond the grave) encourages us onward. Hence, the Snake.

In this sense, there have been many Edens- stretching back millions of years